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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1996.060.403.02</article-id>
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<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
<subject>Mineralogy</subject>
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<article-title>Two New Occurrences of Benleonardite, a Rare Silver-Tellurium Sulphosalt, and a Possible New Occurrence of Cervelleite</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Spry</surname>
<given-names>Paul G.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Thieben</surname>
<given-names>Scott E.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, 253 Science I, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3210, USA</aff></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1996</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>60</volume>
<issue>403</issue>
<fpage>871</fpage>
<lpage>876</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="received">
<day>12</day>
<month>3</month>
<year>1996</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>10</day>
<month>5</month>
<year>1996</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1996, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1996</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>Benleonardite, ideally Ag<sub>8</sub>(Sb,As)Te<sub>2</sub>5<sub>3</sub>, occurs in ore specimens from the Mayflower and Gies epithermal gold-silver telluride deposits in Montana commonly spatially associated with hessite and tetrahedrite. In these deposits, it is Cu-bearing (up to 2.7 wt.%) and exhibits a slight deficiency in Ag+Cu coupled with a slight excess in S. A cervelleite-like mineral coexists with benleonardite at Mayflower and is unusual in composition in that it is Se-bearing suggesting the possibility of solid solution with aguilarite (Ag<sub>4</sub>SeS).</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>benleonardite</kwd>
<kwd>cervelleite</kwd>
<kwd>Mayflower mine</kwd>
<kwd>Gies mine, Montana</kwd>
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