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Mawsonite from
Neves-Corvo Mine, Santa Bárbara de Padrões, Castro Verde, Beja, Portugal


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mawsonite
Formula:Cu6Fe2SnS8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mawsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Neves-Corvo Mine, Santa Bárbara de Padrões, Castro Verde, Beja, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:220182
Long-form Identifier:1:3:220182:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Pinto, A., Bowles, J. F. W., & Gaspar, O. C. (1994). The mineral chemistry and textures of wittichenite, miharaite, carrolite, mawsonite and In±Bi±Hg tennantite from Neves-Corvo, Portugal. IMA 94. In XVI General Meeting of IMA, Pisa, ItaÂlia, Abstracts.
Cabri, L. J., Gaspar, O. C., Lastra, R., McMahon, G. (1998) Distribution of gold in tin-rich samples from the Corvo Orebody, Portugal. The Canadian Mineralogist, 36 (5). 1347-1360
Gaspar, O. C. (2002) Mineralogy and sulfide mineral chemistry of the Neves–Corvo Ores, Portugal: insight into their genesis. The Canadian Mineralogist, 40 (2). 611-636 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.40.2.611
Benzaazoua, M., Marion, P., Pinto, A., Migeon, H., Wagner, F.E. (2003) Tin and indium mineralogy within selected samples from the Neves Corvo ore deposit (Portugal): a multidisciplinary study. Minerals Engineering, 16 (11) 1291-1302 doi:10.1016/j.mineng.2003.07.008
Relvas, J. M.R.S., Barriga, F. J.A.S., Ferreira, A., Noiva, P. C., Pacheco, N., Barriga, G. (2006) Hydrothermal Alteration and Mineralization in the Neves-Corvo Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit, Portugal. I. Geology, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry. Economic Geology, 101 (4) 753-790 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.101.4.753
 
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