Cu,Fe)Cu14pbbi17s35, a NEW SULFOSALT from the SWISS ALPS: DESCRIPTION, CRYSTAL STRUCTURE and OCCURRENCE
1229 The Canadian Mineralogist Vol. 45, pp. 1229-1245 (2007) DOI : 10.2113/gscanmin.45.5.1229 PIZGRISCHITE, (Cu,Fe)Cu14PbBi17S35, A NEW SULFOSALT FROM THE SWISS ALPS: DESCRIPTION, CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND OCCURRENCE NICOLAS MEISSER§ Musée Cantonal de Géologie and Institut de Minéralogie et Géochimie, Université-Dorigny, CH–1015 Lausanne, Switzerland KURT SCHENK Laboratoire de Cristallographie 1, EPFL, Dorigny, CH–1015 Lausanne, Switzerland PETER BERLEPSCH Heinrichsgasse 8, CH–4055 Basel, Switzerland JOËL BRUGGER School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, 5005 Adelaide, South Australia, and Division of Mineralogy, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, 5000 Adelaide, South Australia MICHEL BONIN Laboratoire de Cristallographie 1, EPFL, Dorigny, CH–1015 Lausanne, Switzerland ALAN J. CRIDDLE† Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 580, U.K, PHILIPPE THÉLIN AND FRANÇOIS BUSSY Institut de Minéralogie et Géochimie, Université-Dorigny, CH–1015 Lausanne, Switzerland ABSTRACT Pizgrischite, (Cu,Fe)Cu14PbBi17S35, is a new mineral species named after the type locality, Piz Grisch Mountain, Val Ferrera, Graubünden, Switzerland. This sulfosalt occurs as thin, striated, metallic lead-grey blades measuring up to 1 cm in length, embedded in quartz and associated with tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, emplectite and derivatives of the aikinite– bismuthinite series. In plane-polarized light, the new species is brownish grey with no perceptible pleochroism; under crossed nicols in oil immersion, it presents a weak anisotropy with dark brown tints. Minimum and maximum reß ectance values (in %) in air are: 40.7–42.15 (470 nm), 41.2–43.1 (546 nm), 41.2–43.35 (589 nm) and 40.7–43.3 (650 nm).
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