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Arsenopyrite: FeAsS

Comments: Polished section (PPL) showing crystalline aggregate of arsenopyrite (asp) in massive sphalerite (sp), typical of the main sphalerite lens.
Location: Giant Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: F.V. = 0.25 mm.
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Bohdanowiczite: AgBiSe2

Comments: PPL polished section with Se-rich digenite (Se-dig) exsolved from massive bornite (Bn). Note the disseminated grains of bohdanowiczite (Bo) and naumannite surrounding the exsolved digenite.
Location: Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: Picture Size.
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Carrollite: Cu(Co,Ni)2S4

Comments: Polished Section (PPL) image of corroded remnants of early, Ni-carrollite (grey-carr) in the core of a large pyrite (py) atoll structure wtth brown bornite and golden chalcopyrite.
Location: Giant Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: F.V.= 2 mm.
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Colusite: Cu12-13V(As,Sb,Sn,Ge)3S16  
Vinciennite: Cu10Fe4Sn(As,Sb)S16

Comments: Polished section (PPL) of a Fe-rich rim of vinciennite (vinc) on earlier colusite (col). Matrix is bornite (bn).
Location: Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: Picture Size 0.5 mm.
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Gold: Au  
Rucklidgeite: (Bi,Pb)3Te4

Comments: Polished section (PPL) image of sphalerite(sph)-chalcopyrite ore associated with hessite (he), rucklidgeite (rk), pyrite (py) and native gold (Au).
Location: Level 1070 m., Massive sulphide deposits of the Hanson-Flin Flon-Snow Lake, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Canada. Scale: Picture Size 0,12 mm.
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Isochalcopyrite: Cu8Fe9S16  
Isocubanite: CuFe2S3

Comments: Polished section showing isocubanite (formerly isochalcopyrite) with exsolved chalcopyrite infilling and replacing cross-bedded turbiditic hydrothermally altered sandstone.
Location: Unit VI, Deep Copper Zone, Bent Hill Massive Sulfide Deposit, Middle Valley, Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge. Scale: See Image.
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Isocubanite: CuFe2S3  
Isochalcopyrite: Cu8Fe9S16

Comments: Polished section showing isocubanite (formerly isochalcopyrite) with exsolved chalcopyrite infilling and replacing cross-bedded turbiditic hydrothermally altered sandstone.
Location: Unit VI, Deep Copper Zone, Bent Hill Massive Sulfide Deposit, Middle Valley, Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge. Scale: See Image.
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Laitakarite: Bi4(Se,S)3

Comments: Polished section (PPL) image of fine grains of laitakarite (bladed-lait)) disseminated through massive chalcopyrite (cp) and pyrrhotite (po) at the top of the chalcopyrite stringer zone.
Location: Giant Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: F.V. = 0.5 mm.
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Mawsonite: Cu+6Fe+++2Sn++++S8

Comments: Polished Secton (PPL) showing traces of digenite (dig) throughout massive bornite (bn). A large grain of mawsonite (mw) is present at the bottom right.
Location: Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: Picture Size 0.5 mm.
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Michenerite: (Pd,Pt)BiTe

Comments: BSE image of pentlandite with inclusions of nickeliferous pyrite. Pentlandite hosts discrete grains of cobaltite/gersdorffite with michenerite (PdBiTe) crystals as overgrowths and replacement of the arsenide.
Location: Worthington mine, Worthington offset, Supergiant Ni-Cu-PGE Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See Image.
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Potarite: PdHg

Comments: BSE probe image showing a composite grain of potarite (PdHg), and a PtNiFeCu alloy in an intertitial site and filling a fracture in a chromite grain (Chr).
Location: Southern Quebec Ophiolite Belt, Thetford Mines ophiolitic complex, Canada. Scale: See Image.
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Rucklidgeite: (Bi,Pb)3Te4  
Gold: Au

Comments: Polished section (PPL) image of sphalerite(sph)-chalcopyrite ore associated with hessite (he), rucklidgeite (rk), pyrite (py) and native gold (Au).
Location: Level 1070 m., Massive sulphide deposits of the Hanson-Flin Flon-Snow Lake, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Canada. Scale: Picture Size 0,12 mm.
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Stannoidite: Cu8Fe3Sn2S12

Comments: Polished section (PPL) image showing a rim of V-stannoidite on colusite (co) grain in massive bornite (bn).
Location: Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: Picture Size 0.25 mm.
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Tsumoite: BiTe  
Volynskite: AgBiTe2

Comments: BSE image of composite grain of volynskite (AgBiTe) and tsumoite (BiTe) associated with sphalerite in chalcopyrite.
Location: Stobie deposit, South Range breccia belt, Supergiant Ni-Cu-PGE Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See Image.
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Vinciennite: Cu10Fe4Sn(As,Sb)S16  
Colusite: Cu12-13V(As,Sb,Sn,Ge)3S16

Comments: Polished section (PPL) of a Fe-rich rim of vinciennite (vinc) on earlier colusite (col). Matrix is bornite (bn).
Location: Kidd Creek Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposit, Western Abitibi Subprovince, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Scale: Picture Size 0.5 mm.
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Volynskite: AgBiTe2  
Tsumoite: BiTe

Comments: BSE image of composite grain of volynskite (AgBiTe) and tsumoite (BiTe) associated with sphalerite in chalcopyrite.
Location: Stobie deposit, South Range breccia belt, Supergiant Ni-Cu-PGE Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. Scale: See Image.
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