Two new occurrences of benleonardite, a rare silver - Tellurium sulphosalt, and a possible new occurrence of cervelleite

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 871-876

  Spry, Paul G ^a   Thieben, Scott E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benleonardite; Cervelleite; Gies mine; Mayflower mine; Montana

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GOLD DEPOSITS; SILVER; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

BENLEONARDITE; CERVELLEITE; CU BEARINGS; EPITHERMAL GOLDS; IN COMPOSITIONS; MONTANA; SILVER TELLURIDE;

SILVER DEPOSITS;

BENLEONARDITE; CERVELLEITE; SILVER TELLURIUM SULPHOSALT;

USA, MONTANA, GIES MINE; USA, MONTANA, MAYFLOWER MINE;

EID: 0030427409     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1996.060.403.02     Document Type: Article

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