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alaskaite, n. Min.|æˈlæskəaɪt|
[f. the name of the Alaska mine in Colorado where the mineral was discovered + -ite1.]
A substance originally identified as a mineral but now recognized as a mixture of sulphosalts of lead, silver, copper, and bismuth.
1881G. A. König in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. XIX. 473 Very prominent among its neighbors is the Alaska vein... The breast of the lower adit showed beautiful ore. Nests of gray copper and Alaskaite in a gangue of quartz and barite. 1927Amer. Mineralogist XII. 21 The alaskaite, which is an argentiferous variety of galeno-bismuthinite, was found in the Saxon mine. 1944C. Palache et al. Dana's Syst. Min. (ed. 7) I. 476 Alaskaite has been variously classed as an argentian galenobismutite..but the mineral is not sufficiently characterized to permit a definite opinion. 1980G. C. Amstutz et al. tr. Ramdohr's Ore Minerals & Intergrowths (ed. 2) II. 716 Over the mineral ‘alaskaite’ hovers an unlucky star. |