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CANADIAN MINERALOGIST
Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 441-466Publisher
MINERALOGICAL ASSOC CANADA
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.48.3.441
Keywords
matildite; schapbachite; ourayite; eskimoite; miharaite; Schwarzwald ore district; Black Forest; Germany
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- Krupp Foundation
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Several examples of hydrothermal vein-type mineralization with matildite, schapbachite, ourayite, eskimoite, berryite, benjaminite, miharaite, and gustavite occur along the Northern Kinzigtal Fault (NKF) in the Schwarzwald ore district, in southwestern Germany. The complex history of naming of the sulfosalts schapbachite and matildite is shortly revisited here. The sequence of mineralization starts with gustavite, ourayite and eskimoite, followed by native bismuth and bismuthinite. These assemblages are overgrown or replaced by a cubic solid-solution of the Ag-Bi-Pb sulfosalt, schapbachite, which later exsolved into galena and matildite. Subsequently, this intergrowth was again overgrown by berryite, benjaminite, chalcopyrite and tennantite. The temperature of formation of the sulfosalt assemblages straddles the conversion of schapbachite (cubic AgBiS2) to matildite (hexagonal AgBiS2). The upper limit based on untwinned acanthite is 179 degrees C, whereas recalculated compositions of schapbachite-galena intergrowths from various localities indicate a formation temperature above 144 degrees C. Calculated fields of stability of matildite show that it is stabilized by higher temperatures or by its solid solution with PbS in favor of an assemblage of Bi- and Ag-sulfide, and by a high sulfur activity, low pH and an f(O-2) around the hematite-magnetite buffer in favor of the more common assemblage of native bismuth and native silver.
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