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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">10.1180/002646199548493</article-id>
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<article-title>Ag-Cu Exchange Equilibria Between &#x03B1;-Miargyrite, Chalcostibite, Pyrargyrite, and High-Skinnerite: Constraints on Ag-Cu Mixing in &#x03B1;-Miargyrite and Chalcostibite</article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Harlov</surname>
<given-names>D. E.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Projektbereich 4.1, GeoForschungsZentrum, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>6</month>
<year>1999</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>63</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<fpage>399</fpage>
<lpage>411</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>22</day>
<month>4</month>
<year>1998</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>20</day>
<month>7</month>
<year>1998</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1999, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>Ag-Cu exchange equilibria between &#x03B1;-miargyrite AgSbS<sub>2</sub> and pyrargyrite Ag<sub>3</sub>SbS<sub>3</sub> and between chalcostibite CuSbS<sub>2</sub> and both pyrargyrite and high-skinnerite Cu<sub>3</sub>SbS<sub>3</sub> are reported for the temperature range 150&#x2013;350&#x00B0;C. All of these features are constrained by Ag-Cu exchange experiments (evacuated silica tubes; variable mass ratio) over the temperature range 120&#x2013;400&#x00B0;C. Chalcostibite is found to take very little Ag into its structure. Utilizing Ag-Cu data from this study as well as the Ag-Cu solution models for pyrargyrite and high-skinnerite, a two-site Ag-Cu non-convergent ordered solution model for &#x03B1;-miargyrite (<inline-formula><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mo>W</mml:mo><mml:mo>AgCu</mml:mo><mml:mo>A Mrg</mml:mo></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>&#x003D;</mml:mo><mml:mn>15.0</mml:mn><mml:mo>;</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mo>W</mml:mo><mml:mo>AgCu</mml:mo><mml:mo>A Mrg</mml:mo></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>&#x003D;</mml:mo><mml:mn>10.0</mml:mn><mml:mo>;</mml:mo><mml:mo>&#x0394;</mml:mo><mml:msubsup><mml:mrow><mml:mover><mml:mo>G</mml:mo><mml:mo>&#x00AF;</mml:mo></mml:mover></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>s</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>*</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>&#x003D;</mml:mo><mml:mn>10.0</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math></inline-formula>; and <inline-formula><mml:math><mml:mrow>
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 = 14.0 &#x00B1; 5 kJ/gfw) and a one-site Ag-Cu mixing model for chalcostibite (<inline-formula><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:msubsup><mml:mo>W</mml:mo><mml:mo>AgCu</mml:mo><mml:mo>Chst</mml:mo></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>&#x003D;</mml:mo><mml:mn>25.0</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math></inline-formula> kJ/gfw) are formulated. These results are constrained by a miscibility gap between &#x03B1;-miargyrite and chalcostibite from 225 to 325&#x00B0;C. The mixing model for &#x03B1;-miargyrite is expanded to include As for which &#x03B1;-miargyrite has a limited solubility along the Sb-As join with smithite AgAsS<sub>2</sub>.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>Ag-Cu exchange experiments</kwd>
<kwd>miargyrite</kwd>
<kwd>chalcostibite</kwd>
<kwd>pyrargyrite</kwd>
<kwd>skinnerite</kwd>
<kwd>Ag-Cu solution model</kwd>
<kwd>As-Sb solution model</kwd>
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