Journal of

GEOsciences

  (Formerly Journal of the Czech Geological Society)

Original Paper

Jiří Sejkora, Jiří Litochleb, Jakub Plášil, Bohuslav Bureš

Tsumoite and associated tellurides from the Au deposit Libčice near Nový Knín, Czech Republic: mineralogy and genetic significance

Journal of Geosciences, volume 54 (2009), issue 1, 73 - 82

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.040


  Abstract References Map

Afifi AM, Kelly WC, Essene EJ (1988) Phase relation among tellurides, sulfides, and oxides: I. Thermochemical data and calculated equilibria; II. Applications to telluride-bearing ore deposits. Econ Geol 83: 377-394, 395-404
http://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.83.2.377

Amort Č (1942) ”Kamlová“ gold mine near Nový Knín. Zpr Geol Úst pro Čechy a Moravu 12: 75-106 (in Czech)

Anthony JW, Bideaux RA, Bladh KW, Nichols MC (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy. Volume I. Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts. Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson, pp 1-588

Bayliss P (1991) Crystal chemistry and crystallography of some minerals in the tetradymite group. Amer Miner 76: 257-265

Burnham ChW (1962) Lattice constant refinement. Carnegie Inst Washington Year Book 61: 132-135

Cabri LJ, Laflamme JHG (1976) The mineralogy of the platinum-group elements from some copper-nickel deposits of the Sudbury area. Econ Geol 71: 1159-1195
http://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.71.7.1159

Ciobanu CL, Cook NJ, Damian F, Damian G (2006) Gold scavenged by bismuth melts: an example from Alpine shear-remobilizates in the Highiş Massif, Romania. Mineral Petrol 87: 351-384.
http://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-006-0125-9

Ciobanu CL, Cook NJ, Pring A, Brugger J, Danyushevsky LV, Shimizu M (2009a) ”Invisible gold“ in bismuth chalcogenides. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 73: 1970-1999
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2009.01.006

Ciobanu CL, Pring A, Cook NJ, Self P, Jefferson D, Dima GI, Melnikov V (2009b) Chemical-structural modularity in the tetradymite group: a HRTEM study. Amer Miner 94: 517-534
http://doi.org/10.2138/am.2009.2906

Cook NJ, Ciobanu CL (2004) Bismuth tellurides and sulphosalts from the Larga hydrothermal system, Metaliferi Mts., Romania: paragenesis and genetic significance. Mineral Mag 68: 303-321
http://doi.org/10.1180/0026461046820188

Cook NJ, Ciobanu CL, Stanley CJ, Paar WH, Sundblad K (2007a) Compositional data for Bi-Pb tellurosulfides. Can Mineral 45: 417-435
http://doi.org/10.2113/gscanmin.45.3.417

Cook NJ, Ciobanu CL, Wagner T, Stanley ChJ (2007b) Minerals of the system Bi-Te-Se-S related to the tetradymite archetype: review of classification and compositional variation. Can Mineral 45: 665-708
http://doi.org/10.2113/gscanmin.45.4.665

Dobbe RTM (1991) Tellurides, selenides and associated minerals in the Tunaberg copper deposits, SE Bergslagen, central Sweden. Mineral Petrol 44: 89-106
http://doi.org/10.1007/BF01167102

Ferenc Š (2004) New occurrences of tellurium minerals in western part of the Slovenské Rudohorie Mts. Miner Slov 36: 317-322 (in Slovak)

Gamjanin GN, Leskova NV, Vjal´sov LN, Laputina IP (1980) Bismuth tellurides - Bi2Te and BiTe - at occurrences of North-Eastern USSR. Zap Vsesojuz mineral Obšč 109: 230-235 (in Russian)

Gu X, Watanabe M, Hoshino K, Shibata Y (2001) Mineral chemistry and associations of Bi-Te(S, Se) minerals from China. Neu Jb Mineral, Mh 289-309

Havlíček J (1959) Final report Libčice near Nový Knín. Unpublished manuscript, Geofond Prague, pp 1-XX (in Czech)

Hofmann A (1912) Gold-bearing quartz veins near Libčice near Nový Knín. Rozpr Čes Akad Věd, Tř II 21: 1-12 (in Czech)

Litochleb J (1976) Mining enterprizing near Nový Knín. Sbor Symp Horn Příbram ve vědě a techn, Sekce k problémům vývoje rudného hornictví v dějinách ČSSR, pp 205-222 (in Czech)

Litochleb J (2003) History of gold mining in the Nový Knín area. In: Lhotský P, Morávek P, Štědrá V (eds) Zlato na Novoknínsku. Český klub zlatokopů, Česká geologická služba, Hornické muzeum Příbram, Město Nový Knín, pp 14-23 (in Czech)

Litochleb J, Šrein V (1994) Bismuth and tellurium minerals in gold deposits and occurrences in the Czech Republic. Bull mineral-petrolog Odd Nár Muz (Praha) 2: 89-105 (in Czech)

Litochleb J, Sejkora J, Škácha J (2005) Tsumoite (BiTe) from gold-bearing quartz veins at Bytíz-Staré hory near Příbram (central Bohemia). Bull mineral-petrolog Odd Nár Muz (Praha) 13: 150-153 (in Czech)

Malachov AA (1953) Final report Libčice near Nový Knín. MS, Geofond Praha (in Czech)

Malec J, Novák F, Blüml A, Litochleb J (1985) Mineralogical research of postmagmatic gold deposits in the Bohemian Massif. Progress Report. Unpublished manuscript, Geofond Prague, pp 1-XX (in Czech)

Melnikov VS, Bondarenko S, Grinchenko O (2005) Conditions of Bi-telluride formation in Vyghorlat Huta volcanic ridge, Transcarpathian region, Ukraine. Proceedings of the 2005 Field Workshop IGCP Project 486, Sofia. Geochem, mineral, petrol 43: 124-127

Morávek P (1958) Occurrences of new minerals in gold-bearing veins of Central Bohemia. Čas Min Geol 3: 114 (in Czech)

Morávek P (ed.) (1992) Gold in the Bohemian Massif. Czech Geological Survey, Prague, pp 1-243 (in Czech)

Okamoto K, Tanner LE (1990) Bi-Te (Bismuth-Tellurium). In Massalski TB, Okamoto K (eds) Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams 800-801. ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio

Ondruš P (1993) ZDS - a computer program for analysis of X-ray powder diffraction patterns. Materials Science Forum, 133-136, EPDIC-2, Enchede. pp 297-300
http://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.133-136.297

Ozawa T, Shimazaki H (1982) Pilsenite re-defined and wehrlite discredited. Proc Japan Acad Ser B 58: 291-294
http://doi.org/10.2183/pjab.58.291

Parafiniuk J, Pieczka A, Gołębiowska B (2008) Compositional data for ikunolite from Rędziny, Rudawy Janowickie, Lower Silesia, Poland. Canad Mineral 46: 1305-1315
http://doi.org/10.3749/canmin.46.5.1305

Pašava J, Vavřín I, Frýda J, Janoušek V, Jelínek E (2003) Geochemistry and mineralogy of Platinum-group elements in the Ransko gabbro-peridotite massif, Bohemian Massif (Czech Republic). Mineral Depos 38: 298-311
http://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-002-0343-y

Pavlova ZN, Žukov NM, Levin VL, Kotel´nikov PE, Tasov BM, Abulgazina SD (1988) Growth of decomposition structure type of tsumoite and Bi3S5. Zap Vsesojuz mineral Obšč 117: 691-696. (in Russian)

Pertoldová J, Šulcová V (1994) Mineralogical research at the Vacíkov-Petráčkova hora locality, final report. Unpublished manuscript, appendix C 10 in Studničný et al. (eds) Final report Vacíkov, No. 29 88 2101, raw materials Au (Cu,W). Geofond, Prague (P 68 843) (in Czech)

Pivec E, Šrein V (1987) Petrological-geochemical study of the gold-bearing deposit Libčice. Unpublished manuscript, Ústav geologie a geotechniky ČSAV, Prague, pp 1-XX (in Czech)

Pouchou J L, Pichoir F (1985) “PAP” φ (ρZ) procedure for improved quantitative microanalysis. Microbeam Analysis 20: 104-106

Shimazaki H, Ozawa T (1978) Tsumoite, BiTe, a new mineral from the Tsumo mine, Japan. Amer Miner 63: 1162-1165

Scharmová M (1998) New selenide and telluride finds in the uranium deposits Zadní Chodov and Vítkov II (western Bohemia). Bull mineral-petrolog Odd Nár Muz (Praha) 6: 212-216 (in Czech)

Scharmová M, Pertoldová J (1990) Contribution to gold and bismuth mineralogy in the Kašperské Hory deposit. MEGA 14 (Zippe Vol): 146-164 (in Czech)

Slavík F (1918) New finds of minerals in Bohemia. Čas Nár Muz 92: 38-42 (in Czech)

Sobotka J (1959) Preliminary report on occurrence of wehrlite, Bi2+xTe3+x, in Libčice near Nový Knín. Čas Min Geol 4: 99 (in Czech)

Šrein V, Pivec E, Langrová A (1995) Petrology and mineralogy of the gold-bearing deposit Libčice near Nový Knín. Bull mineral-petrolog Odd Nár Muz (Praha) 3: 188-195 (in Czech)

Tooth B, Brugger J, Ciobanu C, Liu W (2008) Modelling of gold-scavenging by bismuth melts coexisting with hydrothermal fluids. Geology 36: 815-818
http://doi.org/10.1130/G25093A.1

Vavřín I, Frýda J (1998) Michenerite PdBiTe and froodite PdBi2 from the Cu-Ni mineralization in the Ransko Massif, Czech Republic. Mineral Petrol 63: 141-146
http://doi.org/10.1007/BF01162772

Vavřín I, Frýda J, Jelínek E (1997) Pd-Bi-Te mineralization occurrence at the deposit of copper-nickel ores in Staré Ransko. Zpr geol Výzk v R 1996: 187-188 (in Czech)

Yamana K, Kihara K, Matsumoto T (1979) Bismuth tellurides: BiTe and Bi4Te3. Acta Cryst B35: 147-149
http://doi.org/10.1107/S0567740879002788

Yvon K, Jeitschko W, Parthé E (1977) Lazy Pulverix, a computer program for calculating X-ray and neutron diffraction powder patterns. J Appl Cryst 10: 73-74
http://doi.org/10.1107/S0021889877012898

Zachariáš J, Pudilová M, Žák K, Morávek P, Litochleb J, Váňa T, Pertold Z (1997) P-T conditions, fluid inclusions and O, C, S isotope characteristics of gold-bearing mineralizations within the Central Bohemian Metallogenic Zone. Acta Univ Carol, Geol 41: 167-178

Zachariáš J, Pertold Z, Pudilová M, Žák K, Pertoldová J, Stein M, Markey R (2001) Geology and genesis of Variscan porphyry-style gold mineralization, Petráčkova hora deposit, Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic. Miner Depos 36: 517-541
http://doi.org/10.1007/s001260100187

Zavjalov EN, Begizov VD, Stepanov VI (1978) Redetermination of wehrlite, the first occurrence of tsumoite in USSR. Zap Vsesojuz mineral Obšč 107: 544-553 (in Russian)

Journal of Geosciences, Published by © Czech Geological Society, with support from the Czech Geological Survey.
Webdesign inspired by aTeo. Hosted at the server of the Institute of Petrology and Structural Geology, Charles University, Prague.
ISSN: 1803-1943 (online), 1802-6222 (print)
email: jgeosci(at)jgeosci.org
cover_rotated.gif, 15kB

SNIP (Scopus, 2022): 0.826

IF (WoS, 2022): 1.4

5 YEAR IF (WoS, 2022): 1.8

Policy: Open Access

ISSN: 1802-6222

E-ISSN: 1803-1943