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Sulfides

ACANTHITE

ARSENOPYRITE

BORNITE

CARROLLITE

CHALCOCITE

CHALCOPYRITE

COVELLITE

DIGENITE

DJURLEITE

GALENA

GERSDORFFITE

GREENOCKITE

HAWLEYITE

MARCASITE

MOLYBDENITE-2H

PYRITE

PYRRHOTITE

SPHALERITE

STIBNITE

WURTZITE


Arsenides and antimonides

BREITHAUPTITE

CUPROSTIBITE

DOMEYKITE

LOELLINGITE

NICKELINE

PARARAMMELSBERGITE

RAMMELSBERGITE

REALGAR

SAFFLORITE

SKUTTERUDITE


Sulfosalts

BAUMHAUERITE

BERTHIERITE

SELIGMANNITE

TENNANTITE

TETRAHEDRITE

ZINKENITE

SKUTTERUDITE

CoAs2-3 
Cubic

Skutterudite, a cobalt arsenide mineral, was first verified from Franklin by Holmes (1945, 1947). The drawings of isometric crystals by Koenig (1890) and Palache (1935) are possibly of skutterudite. Oen et al. (1984) reported skutterudite as modified euhedral crystals isolated from the other arsenides in the calcite and fluorite gangue. Some such crystals have cores of highly twinned rammelsbergite. Such isolated crystals are in the section, shown in figure 21-30, of a specimen in the Harvard collection (HU # 117576). An analysis is given in Table 18. Skutterudite is among the rarest of the Franklin arsenides and is not known from Sterling Hill.

 

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CHAPTER 21. SULFIDES, ARSENIDES, ANTIMONIDES, AND SULFOSALTS