Vinciennite

Henri Vincienne

Formula:

Cu⁺₇Cu²⁺₃Fe²⁺₂Fe³⁺₂Sn(As,Sb)S₁₆

Colour:

Orange

Lustre:

Metallic

Hardness:

4½

Crystal System:

Tetragonal

Name:

Named in honor of Henri Vincienne (13 January 1898, Lizy sur Ourcq, Seine et Marne, France - 30 June 1965), professor of mineralogy, ENSMP, France.

Type Locality:

ⓘ Chizeuil Mine, Chalmoux, Bourbon-Lancy, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

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Argentina
Catamarca Province Andalgalá Department ⓘ Capillitas mining district	Hubert, P., Werner, H., & Dan, T. (2009). A contribution to the knowledge of the mineralization at Mina Capillitas, Catamarca. Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina, 64(3), 514-524.
Salta Province Los Andes department San Antonio de los Cobres Organullo mining district ⓘ Julio Verne mine	Milka K. de Brodtkorb (2002) Las Especies Minerales de la Republica Argentina. Vol. 1 (elements, sulphides and sulphosalts). (Asociacion Mineralogica Argentina); DE BRODTKORB, Milka K. Precious metaltellurides and other Te-bearing minerals in different paragenesis of Argentina: A review. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent. [online]. 2009, vol.64, n.3, pp. 365-372.; Paar, W. H., Putz, H., Topa, D., de Brodtkorb, M. K., & Sureda, R. J. (2005, January). Occurrence and paragenesis of tellurium in mineral deposits of Argentina. In Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge (pp. 1419-1422). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Bulgaria
Pazardzhik Province Panagyurishte (Panagurishte) Obshtina Elshitsa ⓘ Elshitsa Mine (Elshica Mine)	Cook, N. J., Ciobanu, C. L., & Bogdanov, K. (2002) Trace mineralogy of the Upper Cretaceous banatitic Magmatic and metallogenetic Belt, SE Europe. In 11th Quadrennial IAGOD symposium–Geocongress 2002, Windhoek, Namibia, July 2002. CD Volume of extended abstracts.
Levski ⓘ Radka Mine	Bogdanov, K., Tsonev, D., & Popov, K. (2004). Mineral Assemblages And Genesis Of The Cu-Au Epithermal Deposits In The Southern Part Of The Panaguyrishte Ore District, Bulgaria. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 36:406-415; KOUZMANOV, K., RAMBOZ, C., BAILLY, L. & BOGDANOV, K. (2004): Genesis of high sulfidation vinciennite-bearing Cu-As-Sn (±Au) assemblage from the Radka epithermal copper deposit, Bulgaria: Evidence from mineralogy and infrared microthermometry of enargite. Can. Mineral. 42, 1501-1521.; Kouzmanov, K. (2004). Galena-bearing myrmekitic intergrowths from the Radka deposit, Bulgaria: Origin and mechanisms of formation. Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, 41, 17-30.; Cook, N. J., Ciobanu, C. L., & Bogdanov, K. (2002) Trace mineralogy of the Upper Cretaceous banatitic Magmatic and metallogenetic Belt, SE Europe. In 11th Quadrennial IAGOD symposium–Geocongress 2002, Windhoek, Namibia, July 2002. CD Volume of extended abstracts.
Canada
British Columbia Kamloops Mining Division Cache Creek ⓘ Maggie Mine	Jambor, J.L., Owens, D.R. (1987): Vinciennite in the Maggie porphyry copper deposit, British Columbia. Canadian Mineralogist 25, 227-228; Anthony, Bideaux, Bladh, Nichols: "Handbook of Mineralogy", Vol. 1, 1990
Ontario Cochrane District Timmins area Kidd Township ⓘ Kidd Mine (Kidd Creek Mine)	Hannington M.D., Bleeker W. and Kjarsgaard I (1999). Sulfide Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Ore Genesis of the Kidd Creek Deposit: Part II. The Bornite Zone: Economic Geology, Monograph 10, 225-266.
China
Fujian Longyan Shanghang Co. ⓘ Zijinshan ore field	Liu Wenyuan, Dong Cheng, Gu Xiangping, Liu Yu, Qiu Xiaoping, and Chen Yuchuan (2014): The crystal structure of kiddcreekite solved using micro X-ray diffraction and the EPCryst program. Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 1517-1525
ⓘ Zijinshan Mine	Liu Wenyuan, Dong Cheng, Gu Xiangping, Liu Yu, Qiu Xiaoping, and Chen Yuchuan (2014): The crystal structure of kiddcreekite solved using micro X-ray diffraction and the EPCryst program. Mineralogical Magazine, 78, 1517-1525.
France (TL)
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Saône-et-Loire Bourbon-Lancy Chalmoux ⓘ Chizeuil Mine (TL)	CESBRON, F., GIRAUD, R., PICOT, P. & PILLARD, F. (1985): La vinciennite, Cu10Fe4Sn(As,Sb)S16, une nouvelle espèce minéral. Etude paragénétique du gîte type Chizeuil, Saône-et-Loire. Bull. Minéral. 108, 447-456.
Peru
Arequipa Castilla Province ⓘ Layo deposit	Marcoux, E., Moëlo, Y. & Milési, J.P. (1994): Vinciennite and Cu-excess tennantite from Layo (Cu, Sn, As, Au) epithermal deposits (Southern Peru). Mineral. Petrol. 51, 21-36.
Junín Yauli Province ⓘ Morococha District	Catchpole, H., Kouzmanov, K. & Fontboté, L. (2012): Copper-excess stannoidite and tennantite-tetrahedrite as proxies for hydrothermal fluid evolution in a zoned Cordillerian base metal district, Morococha, Central Peru. Can. Mineral. 50, 719-743.
Pasco Pasco province Huayllay district Huaron mining district ⓘ Huaron mines	Anthony, Bideaux, Bladh, Nichols: "Handbook of Mineralogy", Vol. 1, 1990
Portugal
Beja Castro Verde Santa Bárbara de Padrões ⓘ Neves-Corvo Mine	Cabri, L. J., Gaspar, O. C., Lastra, R., & McMahon, G. (1998). Distribution of gold in tin-rich samples from the Corvo orebody, Portugal. The Canadian Mineralogist, 36(5), 1347-1360.
Russia
Chelyabinsk Oblast Sosnovsky District ⓘ Bereznyakovskoe ore field	Plotinskaya, O. Y., Grabezhev, A. I., Groznova, E. O., Seltmann, R., & Lehmann, B. (2014). The Late Paleozoic porphyry–epithermal spectrum of the Birgilda–Tomino ore cluster in the South Urals, Russia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 79, 910-931.
ⓘ Bereznyakovskoe Au deposit (Central Bereznyakovskoe)	O.Yu. Plotinskaya data