a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
bismuthinite in American English
(bɪzˈmʌθəˌnait, ˈbɪzməθə-)
noun
a mineral, bismuth sulfide, Bi2S3, occurring in lead-gray masses: an ore of bismuth
Also called: bismuth glance
Word origin
[bismuthine + -ite1]-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)
They are suggested to be members of the aikinite-bismuthinite solid solution series and are close to the aikinite end member.
Ömer AKINCI 1978, 'Could a complete solid solution between Aikinite and Bismuthinite exist?', Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Explorationhttp://dergipark.gov.tr/bulletinofmre/issue/3917/52170?publisher=mta. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
They are formed by quartz and arsenopyrite very dominant over pyrite, galena, gold, chalcopyrite, bismuthinite, tetrahedrite and covellite.
Cifuentes, J., Méndez, A. J., Matías, R., Gómez Fernández, F. 2005, 'Estudio preliminar de las mineralizaciones de la mina de oro romana de Llamas de Cabrera(Leon, NO de España)', Estudios Geologicoshttp://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/46/47. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The ore minerals consist mainly of pyrite, molybdenite, kesterite, bismuthinite and galena within both the stockwork and the rock matrix.
Evangelos Galanopoulos, Panagiotis Voudouris, Constantinos Mavrogonatos, Paul G.Spry, Craig Hart, Vasilios Melfos, Federica Zaccarini, Dimitrios Alfieris 2018, 'A New Porphyry Mo Mineralization at Aisymi-Leptokarya, South-Eastern Rhodope, North-EastGreece: Geological and Mineralogical Constraints', Geoscienceshttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/12/435. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)