ALLARGENTUM   Ag1-xSbx

Cobalt, Ontario

Minute grains observed in polished sections.

- Consols Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
- Junction Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
- North Arm, Queensland, Australia
- Wasserfall, southern Vosges, France
- Rejska, near Kutna Hora, Czechoslovakia
- Hartenstein, Saxony, Germany
- Hallefors, Bergslagen, Sweden

RAMDOHR, P. (1949): Neue Erzmineralien. Fortschr.Mineral. 28, 69-70 (abstr.).

RAMDOHR, P. (1950): Die Erzmineralien und ihre Verwachsungen. Akademie Verlag, Berlin.

RAMDOHR, P. (1960): Die Erzmineralien und ihre Verwachsungen. (3^rd ed.) Akademie Verlag, Berlin.

1) Patricia and Cadesky veins, Hi-Ho Mine, Claim A25, N shore of Giroux Lake, Gillies Limit Twp., Timiskaming Dist., Ontario

Vermilion Mine, Lot 6, Con. IV, Denison Twp., Sudbury Dist., Ontario

Irregular masses to 10 mm, tabular crystals to 2 x 20 mm, with bright brassy metallic luster, in chalcopyrite.

GAIT, R.I., HARRIS, D.C., (1972): Hauchecornite - antimonian, arsenian, and tellurian varieties. Can. Mineral., 11, 819-825.

PABST, A. (1981): Am. Mineral. 66, 436.

GRICE, J.D. & FERGUSON, R.B. (1989): The crystal structure of arsenohauchecornite. Can. Mineral. 27, 137.

1) Chesterville Mine, about 1.25 km NE of Virginiatown, McGarry Twp., Timiskaming Dist., Ontario

2) Giant Yellowknife Mine, W side of Yellowknife Bay, N shore of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories

Found as grey masses with a bornite-like tarnish.

CERIANITE-(Ce)   (Ce4+,Th)O2

Firetower area, about 11 km NE of Nemegos, Lackner Lake , Lackner Twp., Sudbury Dist., Ontario

Greenish amber in color, occurs: "Sparingly, in partially adsorbed inclusions of wall-rock in a dikelike zone of carbonate rock cutting nepheline syenite..." Handbook of Mineralogy, 1997

GRAHAM, A.R. (1955b): Cerianite CeO2: a new rare earth oxide mineral. Contr. Can. Mineral. 5, 560-564.

MORRIS, M.C. et al. (1983): Nat.Bur. Standards, Monogr. 20, 38.

Keeley Mine, Claims HR19 and HR21, South Lorrain Twp., Timiskaming Dist., Ontario

WALKER, T.L. (1924b): Chapmanite: a new mineral from South Lorrain, Ontario. Proc. 4^th Ann. Meeting Mineral. Soc. Amer. (1923), Amer. Mineral. 9, 66 (abstr.).

CECH, F. (1964): Am. Mineral. 49, 1499.

ZHUKHLISTOV, A.P. & ZVYAGIN, B.B. (1977): Sov. Phys. Crystalogr. 22, 419.

Cobalt, Ontario

Massive, tin-white metallic.

Hemlo deposit, Hemlo, Ontario

Microscopic black metallic grains, anhedral to lathlike.

Named after Alan John Criddle, born 1944, mineralogist, British Museum, London, England; coauthor of Quantitative Data File for Ore Minerals (1986).

Other localities: Viges, Creuse, France (New Dana, p.203)

HARRIS, D.C. et al. (1988): Mineral. Mag. 52, 691.

DADSONITE   Pb10+xSb14-xS31-xClx

1) Taylor pit, Lot 13, Con. XIV, Huntingdon Township, Hastings County, Madoc, ON

2) Brock zone, Giant Property, Yellowknife, NWT

3) Pershing Co, Nevada, USA

4) Wolfsberg, Harz Mtns., Germany

Microscopic veinlet, visible only in polished section.

Named after Alexander Stewart Dadson, 1906-1958, who was active in developing the gold deposits of Yellowknife, NWT.

JAMBOR, J.L (1967): New lead sulfantimonides from Madoc, Ontario. 2. Mineral descriptions. Can. Mineral. 9, 191-213.

JAMBOR, J.L. (1969): Dadsonite (minerals Q and QM), a new lead sulphantimonide. Mineral. Mag. 37, 437-441.

CERVELLE, B.D. et al. (1979): Can. Mineral. 17, 601.

Hudson Bay Mine, NE1/4, N1/2, Lot 6, Con. VI, Coleman Twp., Timiskaming Dist., Ontario

Small irregular masses, amber brown, resinous, fibrous structure, intermixed with erythrite and annabergite. Inadequately described.

Named as the oxidized equivalent of symplesite.

Frood Mine, Lots 6&7, Con. VI, McKim Twp., Sudbury Dist., Ontario

Minute grey metallic cleavage fragments.

Taylor pit, Lot 13, Con.XIV, Huntingdon Twp., Hastings Co., Madoc, Ontario

Minute metallic black grains.

BRACCI, G. et al. (1980): Can. Mineral. 18, 13.

Dungannon Township, Hastings County, Ontario

Shades of black, green, prismatic xln.

HAWTHORNE, F.C. & GRUNDY, H.D. (1977): Mineral. Mag. 41, 43.

HAWTHORNE, F.C. (1983): Can.Mineral. 21, 173

LEAKE, B.E. et al. (1997): Can. Mineral. 35, 219

Hemlo gold deposit, 35 km east of Marathon, Ontario

Submicroscopic grains to 600 microns in matrix.

Named after the locality it was first discovered at.

Boundary Falls, Winnipeg River, Kenora district, Ontario

White crystals in a thin crust on tin pannikins lost from a voyageur’s overturned canoe between 1801 and 1821, found 4.5 meters below the surface of the water.

Named for its relation to romarchite.

ORGAN, R.M. & MANDARINO, J.A. (1971): Romarchite and hydroromarchite, two new stannous minerals. Can. Mineral. 10, 916

HOWIE, R.A. & MOSER, W. (1973): Am.Mineral. 58, 552.

1200 level, Kidd Creek Mine, Timmins, Ontario, & the Campbell orebody, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona

Known as a few grains to 100 microns, discovered in polished sections from mineralogically complex bornite-rich zone.

Named after the locality it was first discovered at.

HARRIS, D.C, ROBERTS, A.C., THORPE, R.I., CRIDDLE, A.J., STANLEY, C.J. (1984): Kiddcreekite, a new mineral species fromthe Kidd Creek Mine, Timmins, Ontario and from the Campbell Orebody, Bisbee, Arizona. Can.Mineral. 22, 227-232.

Vein 30, 235 foot level, Langis Mine, NW1/4, N1/2, Lot 5, Con.VI, Casey Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario

Submicroscopic grains in an interesting arsenide-sulfide assemblage.

Named after the locality it was first discovered at.

PETRUK, W., HARRIS, D.C., STEWART, J.M. (1969): Langisite, a new mineral, and the rare minerals cobalt pentlandite, siegenite, parkerite and bravoite from the Langis Mine, Cobalt-Gowganda area, Ontario. Can. Mineral. 9, 597-616

Foster Mine, Lot 4, Con. IV, Coleman Twp., Timiskaming Dist., Ontario

Acicular and flame-like crystals to 300 microns, in an inch wide sulfide vein.

Named for Frederick LaRose, one of the discoverers of silver at Cobalt, Ontario

PETRUK, W. (1972): Larosite, a new copper-lead-bismuth sulphide. Can. Mineral. 11, 886-891.

Taylor pit, Lot 13, Con. XIV, Huntingdon Twp., Hastings Co., Madoc, Ontario

Minute metallic grains observed only in polished section.

Taylor pit, Lot 13, Con. XIV, Huntingdon Twp., Hastings Co., Madoc, Ontario

Minute metallic grains visible only in polished sections.

Named after the locality where it was first discovered.

Other localities:

- Jas Roux, Hautes-Alpes, France
- Novoye, Khaidarkan, Kirgizia, former USSR
- Boliden, Vasterbotten, Sweden

JAMBOR, J.L.(1967): New Lead Sulfantimonides from Madoc, Ontario - Part 1. Can Mineral. 9, 7-24

Foster Mine, SE1/4, N1/2, Lot 4, Con. IV, 2 km SE of Cobalt, Coleman Twp., Timiskaming Dist., Ontario

Interlocked granular aggregates of 0.2-3 mm crystals, associated with silver, arsenopyrite, stromeyerite, actinolite, calcite.

Named after a Harvard geology professor, Hugh Exton McKinstry, 1896-1961

Other localities:

- Echo Bay Mine, Great Bear Lake, NWT
- Colorado Central Mine, near Georgetown, Clear Creek County, Colorado
- Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede district, Mineral County, Colorado
- Mogollon, Catron County, New Mexico
- Jalpa, Zacatecas, Mexico
- Godejord, Grong area, Norway
- Pribram, Czechoslovakia
- Sedmochislenitsi Mine, Wratsa district, Stara Planina, Bulgaria
- Tort Kudak Au-Ag deposit, Kazakhstan
- Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
- Sado Mine, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

SKINNER, B.J., JAMBOR, J.L., ROSS, M. (1966) Mckinstryite, a new copper-silver sulfide. Econ.Geol. 61, 1383-1389.

Fleischer, M. (1967): Am. Mineral. 52, 1253.

Frood Mine, Lots 6&7, Con. VI, McKim Twp., Sudbury Dist., Ontario

Found as minute grains in concentrates from the mill, associated with cubanite, chalcopyrite, hessite, altaite, bismuth, galena, and sperrylite.

Named after the geologist/consultant who first studied the mineral, Charles Edward Michener.

Other localities:

- numerous Sudbury mines, including the Vermilion Mine, Kanichee deposit, Levak Mine
- Pipe Mine, Manitoba
- New Rambler Mine, Medicine Bow Mtns., Albany County, Wyoming
- Stillwater Complex, Montana
- Oktyabr Mine, Noril'sk region, western Siberia, Russia
- Monchegorsk deposit, Kola Peninsula, Russia
- Bissersk placers, Ural Mountains, Russia
- Hitura, Finland
- Kambalda, Western Australia, Australia
- Rustenburg Mine, Merensky Reef, Transvaal, South Africa
- Danba, Sichuan Province, China

HAWLEY, J.E., BERRY, L.G. (1958): Michenerite and Froodite, Palladium Bismuthide Minerals. Can.Mineral. 6, 200.

FLEISCHER, M. (1963): Am.Mineral. 48, 1184.

CABRI, L.J., HARRIS, D.C. (1973): Can.Mineral. 11, 903.

CHILDS, J.D., HALL, S.R. (1974): Can.Mineral. 12, 61.

Vermilion Mine, Lot 6, Con. IV, Denison Twp., Sudbury Dist., Ontario

CABRI, L.J., HARRIS, D.C., GAIT, R.I. (1973): Michenerite (PdBiTe) redefined and froodite (PdBi2) confirmed from the Sudbury area. Can. Mineral. 11, 903-912.

NISBITE   NiSb2

Trout Bay, Red Lake area, Mulcahy Twp., Kenora Dist. (Patricia portion) Ontario

Irregular grains to 20 microns in polished sections of drill core, associated with chalcopyrite, breighauptite, pyrargyrite, galena, pyrrhotite, tetrahedrite.

Named for its composition.

Other localities:

- Festivalnoe Cu-Sn Mine, Magadan region, Yakutia, Russia
- Gruvasen deposit, Bergslagen, Sweden
- Geton deposit, Bergslagen, Sweden

CABRI, L.J., HARRIS, D.C., STEWART, J.M. (1970): Paracostibite (CoSbS) and nisbite (NiSb2), new minerals from the Red Lake area, Ontario, Canada. Can.Mineral. 10, 232-246.

Trout Bay, Red Lake area, Mulcahy Twp., Kenora Dist. (Patricia portion), Ontario

Subhedral grains to 130 microns in size, from polished sections of drill core, associated with sphalerite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrargyrite, pyrite, antimonial silver.

Named for its close relationship to costibite. Para is Greek for near.

Other localities:

- Wheal Cock, Botallack, St.Just, Cornwall, England
- Gruvasen deposit, Bergslagen, Sweden
- Geton deposit, Bergslagen, Sweden

CABRI, L.J., HARRIS, D.C., STEWART, J.M. (1970): Paracostibite (CoSbS) and nisbite (NiSb2), new minerals from the Red Lake area, Ontario, Canada. Can.Mineral. 10, 232-246.

1) Moose Horn Mine, Lot 4, Con. V, James Twp., Timiskaming Dist., Ontario

2) Hudson Bay Mine, Lot 6, Con. VI, Coleman Twp., Timiskaming Dist., Ontario

3) Kelley Mine, Claims HR 19 and HR 21, South Lorrain Twp., Timiskaming Dist., Ontario

Tin-white massive metallic.

Named for its trimorphic relationship with rammelsbergite, para being Greek for near.

Other localities:

- D uranium deposit, Saskatchewan
- Camsell River, 6 km S of Conjurer Bay, NWT
- Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey
- Dobsina, Krkonose, Czechoslovakia
- Ceryny Dul, Krkonose, Czechoslovakia
- Shorbulaksk mercury deposit, Azerbaijan, former USSR
- Bou Azzer, Morocco
- Talmessi Mine, Anarak district, Iran
- Meskani Mine, Anarak district, Iran

PEACOCK, M.A. (1939): Am.Mineral. 25, 561

FLEET, M.E. (1972): Am.Mineral. 57, 1.

Taylor pit, Lot 13, Con. XIV, Huntingdon Twp., Hastings Co., Ontario

Minute rims and grains observed in polished section; one loose, striated multiple crystal found.

Named for Scottish mathematician and geologist John Playfair, 1748-1819, author of "Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth".

Other localities: Novoye, Khaidarkan, Kirgizia, former USSR

JAMBOR, J.L. (1967): New Lead Sulfantimonides from Madoc, Ontario. Part 2-Mineral Descriptions. Can.Mineral. 9, 191-213

Boundary Falls, Winnipeg River, Kenora Dist., Ontario

Black crystals in a thin crust on tin pannikins lost from a voyageur’s overturned canoe between 1801 and 1821, found 4.5 meters below the surface of the water.

Named for the acronym of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, where romachite was first studied.

ORGAN, R.M. & MANDARINO, J.A. (1971): Romarchite and hydroromarchite, two new stannous minerals. Can. Mineral. 10, 916

Taylor pit, Lot 13, Con. XIV, Huntingdon Twp., Hastings Co., Ontario

Found as minute loose striated metallic black crystal fragments and grains.

Named for Henry Clifton Sorby, 1826-1908, an English chemist and geologist, the founder of metallography.

Other localities:

- near Candelaria, Mineral County, Nevada
- Novoye, Khaidarkan, Kirgizia, former USSR

JAMBOR, J.L. (1967): New Lead Sulfantimonides from Madoc, Ontario. Part 2-Mineral Descriptions. Can.Mineral. 9, 191-213

Vermilion Mine, Lot 6, Con. IV, Denison Twp., 28 km west of Sudbury, Ontario

Found as superb brilliant silvery metallic modified cubes, from microscopic to12 mm, loose and in chalcopyrite matrix, among the world's finest specimens.

Named for Francis Louis Sperry, a Sudbury chemist, who discovered the mineral.

Some other localities:

- Victoria and Frood Mines, Algoma District, near Sudbury, Ontario
- Bushveld Complex, Transvaal, South Africa
- Antamponbato, Madagascar
- New Rambler Mine, Medicine Bow Mtns., Albany County, Wyoming
- Stillwater Complex, Montana
- Danba, Sichuan Province, China
- Nikolaevsky, Amur, Siberia, Russia
- Konder Massif, Aldan Shield, Yakutia, Russia
- Rometolvas hill, Koillismaa Complex, Finland

WELLS, H.L. (1889): Sperrylite, a new mineral. Am. J. Sci. 37, 67.

GAIT, R.I., (1982): Sperrylite from the type locality. Mineralogical Record, V13#3, pp.159-160

NICHOL and GOLDSCHMIDT, V. (1903) Ueber Sperrylith. Zeitschrift fur Kirstalographie, 38, 1, 2, 58.

SZYMANSKI, J.T. (1979): Can. Mineral. 17, 117.

Taylor pit, Lot 13, Con. XIV, Huntingdon Twp., Hastings Co., Ontario

Found in polished section as laths and grains, as well as loose fragments distinctively composed of bundles of fibres.

Named for Thomas Sterry Hunt, 1826-1892, first mineralogist with the Geological Survey of Canada, coauthor of Geology of Canada (1863).

JAMBOR, J.L. (1967): New Lead Sulfantimonides from Madoc, Ontario. Part 2-Mineral Descriptions. Can.Mineral. 9, 191-213

Copper Cliff South Mine, Lot 1, Con. I, Snider Twp., Sudbury Dist., Ontario

Found as minute elongated inclusions to 100 microns in other sulfides, visible in polished section only.

Named for the locality where it was first discovered.

Other localities:

- Frood Mine, Sudbury, Ontario
- Danba, Sichuan Province, China
- Witwatersrand, South Africa

CABRI, L.J., LAFLAMME, J.H.G. (1974): Sudburyite, a new palladium-antimony mineral from Sudbury, Ontario. Can Mineral. 12, 275-279.

Strathcona Mine, Lot 4, Con. IV, Levack Twp., Sudbury Dist., Ontario

Found in polished sections as irregular grains to 150 microns across, associated with millerit, chalcopyrite.

Named as the tellurian end-member of the hauchecornite group.

GAIT, R.I., HARRIS, D.C., (1972): Hauchecornite - antimonian, arsenian, and tellurian varieties. Can. Mineral., 11, 819-825.

GAIT, R.I., HARRIS, D.C. (1980): Arsenohauchecornite and tellurohauchecornite: new minerals in the hauchecornite group. Mineral. Mag. 43, 877-888.

Temagami Mine, Temagami Island, Lake Temagami, Phyllis Twp., Nipissing District, Ontario

Found as grains to 115 microns in polished sections of chalcopyrite ore.

Named for the locality where it was first discovered.

Other localities:

- Stillwater Complex, Montana
- New Rambler Mine, Medicine Bow Mtns., Albany County, Wyoming

CABRI, L.J., LAFLAMME, J.H.G., STEWART, J.M. (1973): Temagamite, a new palladium-mercury telluride from the Temagami copper deposit, Ontario, Canada. Can. Mineral. 12, 193-198.

Lot 7, Con. XX, Cardiff Twp., Haliburton Co., Ontario

Found in dark reddish brown to brownish black masses to eight pounds. First described as "spencite", name changed in 1966. Associated with calcite, apatite, diopside, fluorite, scapolite.

Named for its relation to tritomite-(Ce) and its yttrium-dominant composition.

Other localities:

- Faraday Mine, Bancroft, Ontario
- Cranberry Lake, Sussex County, New Jersey

Taylor pit, Lot 13, Con. XIV, Huntingdon Twp., Hastings Co., Ontario

Found as metallic black grains to a whopping 1.5 mm.

Named for a University of BC mineralogy professor, Robert Mitchell Thompson, 1918-1967.   "Thompson" means son of Thomas, and "thomas" is Aramaic for twin, hence twinnite, which is conveniently also an allusion to the  polysynthetic twinning of the mineral.

Other localities:

- Hemlo gold deposit, Thunder Bay district, Ontario
- Jas Roux, Hautes-Alpes, France
- Rujevac, Yugoslavia
- Novoye, Khaidarkan, Kirgizia, former USSR

JAMBOR, J.L. (1967): New Lead Sulfantimonides from Madoc, Ontario. Part 2-Mineral Descriptions. Can.Mineral. 9, 191-213

Golden Giant orebody, Hemlo gold deposit, 35 km east of Marathon, Ontario

Found as microscopic black metallic anhedral grains.

Named for David J. Vaughan, English mineralogist.

HARRIS, D.C. et al. (1989): Mineral. Mag. 53, 79.

Taylor pit, Lot 13, Con. XIV, Huntingdon Twp., Hastings Co., Ontario

Steel-grey masses to 19 mm, a single crude crystal of about 0.5 mm is also known.

Named in honor of R.W. van der Veen, eminent metallographer.

Other localities: Huachocolpa, Huancavelica, Peru

JAMBOR, J.L.(1967): New Lead Sulfantimonides from Madoc, Ontario - Part 1. Can Mineral. 9, 7-24