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Bornite from
Rainbow hydrothermal field, Rainbow Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge complex, Atlantic Ocean


Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rainbow hydrothermal field, Rainbow Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge complex, Atlantic Ocean
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:710867
Long-form Identifier:1:3:710867:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Bortnikov, N. S., Vikentyev, I. V., Apollonov, V. N., Stavrova, O. O., Bogdanov, Y. A., Lein, A. Y., ... & Ikorskii, S. V. (2001). The Rainbow serpentinite-related hydrothermal field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 36 14′ N: mineralogical and geochemical features. In Proc. Joint Sixth Meeting. Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Krakow, 26–29 August (pp. 265-268).
Lee, Su Young, Watanabe, Makoto, Hoshino, Kenichi, Oomori, Tamotsu, Fujioka, Kantaro, Rona, Peter A. (2002) First report of linnaeite (Co3S4) and millerite (NiS) from active submarine hydrothermal deposits: Rainbow hydrothermal field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 36˚14'N. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Monatshefte, 2002 (1) 1-21 doi:10.1127/0028-3649/2002/2002-0001
Gablina, Irina F., Borodaev, Yury S., Mozgova, Nadezhda N., Bogdanov, Yu. A., Kuznetzova, Oksana Yu., Starostin, Viktor I., Fardust, Farajalla (2004) Tetragonal Cu2S in recent hydrothermal ores of Rainbow (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 36° 14'N) New Data on Minerals, 39. 99-105
Fardoost et al. (2005) New Data on Minerals, 40, 44-50.
 
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