Argentopolybasite, Ag.sub.16./sub.Sb.sub.2./sub.S.sub.11./sub., a new member of the polybasite group

0573855 - FZÚ 2024 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Števko, M. - Mikuš, T. - Sejkora, J. - Plášil, Jakub - Makovicky, E. - Vlasáč, J. - Kasatkin, A.
Argentopolybasite, Ag₁₆Sb₂S₁₁, a new member of the polybasite group.
Mineralogical Magazine. Roč. 87, č. 3 (2023), s. 382-395. ISSN 0026-461X. E-ISSN 1471-8022
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LO1603
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : argentopolybasite * new mineral * polybasite group * sulfosalts * crystal structure * epithermal mineralization * Kremnica, Slovakia
OECD category: Mineralogy
Impact factor: 2.7, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access

The new mineral argentopolybasite, ideally Ag16Sb2S11, was found at the Kremnica Au-Ag epithermal deposit, Žiar nad Hronom Co., Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia, Šibeničný vrch near Nová Baňa, Žarnovica Co., Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia and the Arykevaam epithermal Au-Ag deposit, Anadyr' District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation. At the Kremnica deposit argentopolybasite was found as discrete, well-developed (pseudo)hexagonal tabular crystals up to 4 mm in size or as complex crystalline aggregates and groups up to 5 mm in size in cavities of quartz. It is associated w ith pyrargyrite, polybasite, stephanite, miargyrite, ozhdestvenskayaite-(Zn), argentotetrahedrite-(Zn), naumannite, gold and pyrite. In this work the mineral's structure and its properties were studied and the results are presented.
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