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Polybasite from
Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy


Classification
Species:Polybasite
Formula:[Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Polybasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:407513
Long-form Identifier:1:3:407513:4
GUID (UUID V4):472c378e-63ee-47dc-bffd-f82f054286fa
Nearest other occurrences of Polybasite
2.6km (1.6 miles) Bacu Arrodas Mine (Baccu Arrodas Mine; Bacu Arrodas-S'Arrexini Mine), Muravera, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
6.9km (4.3 miles) Masaloni Mine, San Vito, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
17.4km (10.8 miles) Serra s'Ilixi Mine, Sinnai, Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
21.5km (13.4 miles) Tuviois Mine (Axareddu Mine), Sinnai, Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
86.0km (53.4 miles) Montevecchio Mines, Guspini, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
93.2km (57.9 miles) San Giovanni Mine, Bindua, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy 2 C.N.R., Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Sezione...Sezione di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy 3 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università...Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy 4 Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences...include, but are not restricted to, the pearceite–polybasite {[Ag9 CuS4][(Ag,Cu)6(As,Sb)2S7]–[Ag9CuS4][(Ag...hydrothermal fluorite-barite-base metal veins (e.g., Sarrabus, Italy), epithermal gold-silver deposits (e.g., Judith
Report (issue)
Black Forest, Germany. At Serra S’Ilixi, Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy. In the Barquilla deposit, Salamanca Province...References: (1) Frondel, C. (1963) Isodimorphism of the polybasite and pearceite series. Amer. Mineral., 48, 565–572...Nuffield, and M.H. Frohberg (1965) Studies of polybasite, pearceite, antimonpearceite, and arsenpolybasite...and T. Yoshimoto (1983) Synthesized minerals of polybasite and pearceite series. Synthetic sulfide minerals
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Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu Polybasite Downloaded by [Northeastern University] at 11:57...typically included in this rather informal family is polybasite, a relatively common silver ore mineral that...as fine specimens. Although the most familiar polybasite localities are in Mexico, exceptionally fine...Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice specimen. Polybasite is typically...characteristic. Repeated twinning on {110} is common. Polybasite is essentially a silver antimony sulfide in which
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amounts up to several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite are...acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite, polybasite, silver, calcite, dolomite, and quartz. There...Bastin (1923) reported crystals of pyrargyrite, polybasite, and chalcopyrite in ore from the Emma and Smuggler-Altmont...fine acanthite, polybasite/pearceite, and aguilarite. Pseudomorphs of both polybasite and acanthite after...Joachimsthal and Pribram, Czech Republic; Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy; Garpenberg district, Sweden; and Kongsberg
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Torres mines. Associated minerals are stephanite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, galena, quartz, fluorapophyllite...in brilliant crystals to 5 cm, associated with polybasite, stephanite, pearceite, native silver, silver...Cornwall, England; and at Monte Narba near Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy. Better-known historical Russian localities
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noted. Piepoli3 has described the ores of Sarrabus, Sardinia, where cobalt and nickel arsenides are associatedwith...de quelques minerais des filons argentiIeres du Sarrabus (Sardaigne): Soc.Franc. Miner., Bull. 56, (6-7-8)...consistsof native silver with subordinate amounts of polybasite, argentite, proustite and pyrargyrite. Pyrite...determined. Remnant crystals of the arsenides within polybasite and proustite indicate that the arsenideswere
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volume 92, pages 918–925, 2007 The pearceite-polybasite group of minerals: Crystal chemistry and new...Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy Laboratoire de Chimie des Solides, IMN, UMR C6502...nomenclature for minerals belonging to the pearceite-polybasite group. Thirty-one samples of minerals in this...and for all members to be named pearceite or polybasite. The main reason for doubling the unit-cell parameters...silver. The distinction between pearceite and polybasite is easily done with an electron microprobe analysis
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Permo-Triassic vein and paleokarst ores in southwest Sardinia: Contribution of fluid inclusion studies to their...di Napoli, Largo S. Marcellino, 10 80138 Napoli, Italy Abstract. This paper presents and discusses new...in the Iglesiente and Sulcis areas of southwest Sardinia. The results suggest that the fluids associated...lglesiente and Sulcis mining districts (southwest Sardinia) (Fig. l a) numerous lead, zinc, barite and minor...e ? Sa8agattu Porto Pino Fig. I. h Sketch of Sardinia with the location of the study areas. B Hypothetical
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(Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...Romania Grube Georg, Horhausen, FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5...5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Rheinbreitbach, Bonn, FRG Wurlitz, Fichtelgebirge, FRG Niedermendig...University of Bonn. 26 11 Left: Tabular crystals of polybasite, 7mm high, from the Grube Himmelsfiirst, Freiberg
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ROCKS&MlNERALs sulfosalts: (1) ruby silver, (2) polybasite, (3) argyrodite, and (4) andorite groups. The...hemimorphic habit. The polybmife group minerals (polybasite, pearceite, and xanthoconite) are pseudohexagonal...performed the first analysis of the mineral. Polybasite, (Ag,Cu)$b2SII, and its arsenic analog, pearceite...important ores of silver in a number of deposits. Polybasite is in the monoclinic crystal system, but crystals...and arsenpolybasite. Outstanding specimens of polybasite are known from Freiberg, St. Andreasburg, Pribram
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diameter have been found. transparent sphalerite, polybasite, The best-known specimen producers stephanite...localities, including Wheal associated with acanthite, polybasite, men, Jeff Scovil photo. Vincent, Herland, Basset... at Monte Narba, Sarrabus, SarKing, V. T., and E. E. Foord. 1994. Minerdinia, Italy, and Schemnitz, alogy
Journal (issue)
PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection Jeff Scovil photo... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of
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is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...Brunswick (Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metallic;...(Czech Republic), Joplin (Missouri, USA) and Sardinia (Italy). CdS Colour: yellow, orange, red Lustre;...Pribram (Czech Republic), Isle of Man (UK) and Sardinia (Italy). PbS Colour: light lead grey, dark lead
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is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...Brunswick (Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metall...(Czech Republic), Joplin (Missouri, USA) and Sardinia (Italy). CdS Colour: yellow, orange, red Lustre;...Pribram (Czech Republic), Isle of Man (UK) and Sardinia (Italy). PbS Colour: light lead grey, dark lead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Other vein typesare alsopresent. In the Sarrabus •district of Sardinia 27 Silurian schists are traversedby...quelques minerals des filons argenti- œeresdu Sarrabus. Soc. Francaisc de Mineral., Bull., 56: 277-3og... downwardenrichment in the ores of Sarrabusin Sardinia. He concludes that a large part of the macroscopic...silver minerals such as argentite, stephanite,polybasite,etc. At the sametime it is possibleto affirm...nearly half of them. In Cornwall,the Erzgebirge,Sardinia, Great Bear Lake in Canada, Sabinal and Batopilas
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through volcanic activity in Vulcano. Lipari Islands, Italy. Tellurium Te TRIGONAL • • ceiestite and halite...come from many localities near Girgetui, Sicily, Italy (Caltanisseta. Cianciana) where they reached up...volcanically active places, like Solfatara near Pozzuoli, Italy or in sulfur lava near Shiretoku. Japan. Sulfur...association with silver, proustite, pyrargyrite, polybasite, stephanite. galena and other minerals in Mexico...Crystals up to 30 mm (1Y» in) occur in Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy. Maybe the best argentite crystals occurred
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aragonite. calcite, Sulphur, 66 mm, Sicily, Italy Selenium Se TRIGONAL e e Properties: C - gray...through volcanic activity in Vulcano, Lipari Islands, Italy. Tellurium Te T R IGONAL e e celestitc and halite...come from many localities near Girgenti, Sicily, Italy (Caltanisseta, Cianciana) where they reached up...volcanically active places, like Solfatara near Pozzuoli, Italy or in sulf11r lava near Shiretoku, Japan. Sulfur...association with silver, proustite, pyrargyrite, polybasite, stephanite, galena and other minerals in Mexico
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sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed Other...small deposits are found near Pisa and Florence (Italy). Uses Native copper rarely occurs in large enough...day. Found in southern Europe on the island of Sardinia. Uses An excellent ore of the metal silver, but...Formerly mined in a small district near Monte Rosa (Italy). The main source of the commercial metal, used...Found in quartzite lenses near Serravezza (Lucca, Italy) in deposits of commercial importance. Uses In amalgams
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Sprie, Romania; Kongsberg,Norway; Borgofranco, Italy; Huelva, Spain; Copiapoo, Chile; Hidalgo, Mexico;...as part of volcanic activity, e.g. on Vesuvius, Italy; large deposits are also found near the volcano...Bukov, Czechoslovakia; Linares, Spain; Toscana, Italy; the Urals and Altai, USSR; and Butte, Montana and...Romania; Leoben, Styria, Austria; and Bottino, Italy. Exceptionally it is transformed from pyrite at...and Banska Stiavnica, Czechoslovakia; Iglesias, Sardinia; Linares, Spain; and in South America and Africa
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Sprie, Romania; Kongsberg,Norway; Borgofranco, Italy; Huelva, Spain; Copiapo6, Chile; Hidalgo, Mexico;...as part of volcanic activity, e.g. on Vesuvius, Italy; large deposits are also found near the volcano...Bukov, Czechoslovakia; Linares, Spain; Toscana, Italy; the Urals and Altai, USSR; and Butte, Montana and...Romania; Leoben, Styria, Austria; and Bottino, Italy. Exceptionally it is transformed from pyrite at...and Banska Stiavnica, Czechoslovakia; Iglesias, Sardinia; Linares, Spain; and in South America and Africa
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Sprie, Romania; Kongsberg,Norway; Borgofranco, Italy; Huelva, Spain; Copiapo6, Chile; Hidalgo, Mexico;...as part of volcanic activity, e.g. on Vesuvius, Italy; large deposits are also found near the volcano...Bukov, Czechoslovakia ; Linares, Spain; Toscana, Italy; the Urals and Altai, USSR; and Butte, Montana and...Romania; Leoben, Styria, Austria; and Bottino, Italy. Exceptionally it is transformed from pyrite at...and Banska Stiavnica, Czechoslovakia ; Iglesias, Sardinia; Linares, Spain; and in South America and Africa
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Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part of the U.S.S.R. by...Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter of the...Cordillera Pyreneo-Proven!yal chain Corsica and Sardinia . Mineralization in relation to tectonic evolution...Baixo Tejo and Sado Basins Silica sand deposits Italy by P. Zuffardi Introduction Geological setting Stratigraphy...Southern Alpine chain Calabrian-Peloritanian arc Sardinia The (mainly) Alpidic province Alpidic plutonic
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Bologna, 1873-75. Born (1773). Briefe von Wdlschland (Italy), by Ignatius von Born. 8vo, Prague, 1773. (1772-75)...South Wales dinia in the mines of Monte Narba near Sarrabus. In Chile at Copiapo and Chafiarcillo, Atacama...at Friedrichssegen, near Ems, Hesse-Nassau. In Italy at Montecatini near Volterra, Tuscany, in basic...with hot springs. at Mount Avala near BelGorizia, Italy (formerly in Carniola, Austria) grad, Yugoslavia;...in the platinum-bearing sands of the Bobrovka In Italy, on the river Elvo, in the PiedRiver, Nizhne Tagilsk
Journal (issue)
256-272 I minerali delle miniere d'argento del Sarrabus 274-281 Ferru e Conca : massiccio granitico del...Selenopolybasite, a new member of the pearceite-polybasite group from the De Lamar mine, Owyhee County,...the Sondalo granulites (central Alps, northern Italy)", European Journal of Mineralogy, 15(2), 2003,
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galenobismuthite and bismuthinite in Vulcano, Italy, described by B E R NAUER (1939). I n the hydrothermal...described especially by B E R N A U E R from Vulcano, Italy (1939). A late Tertiary deposit of this type is...ORE T E X T U R E S F I G . 73 100 x Vicenza, Italy- RAMDOHR Skeletal augite in a vitrophyre. The...photo) F I G . 84 30 x Miggiandone, Northern Italy EHRENBERG Pentlandite oriented with (111) on (0001)...pearceite. W H I T E H E A D (1916). 66. Galena + polybasite. W H I T E H E A D (1916), R. 67. Galena + (
 
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