Bodieite

bodieite

mixite

pyrite

bismuthinite

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Formula: Bi3+2(Te4+O3)2(SO4)
Tellurite, bismuth-bearing mineral, alters to montanite
Crystal System: Monoclinic
Specific gravity: 6.465 calculated for the empirical formula and 6.554 for the ideal formula
Hardness: 2
Streak: White
Colour: Colourless, yellow, or green
Luminescence: Not fluorescent under long wave or short wave UV
Solubility: Readily soluble in dilute hydrochloric acid at room temperature
Environments

Volcanic igneous environments

Localities

There are two co-type localities, the Pittsburg-Liberty Mine, New York Hill, Masonic Mining District, Bodie Hills, Mono County, California, USA and the North Star Mine, Mammoth, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA.

The Pittsburg-Liberty Mine, New York Hill, Masonic Mining District, Bodie Hills, Mono County, California, USA, is a former gold mine that exploited a volcanogenic fault-breccia deposit emplaced in granodiorite. Bodieite has been found on several specimens collected from the lower dump; it occurs in vugs in quartz with embedded crystals of goldfieldite, bismuthinite and famatiniteluzonite. Other closely associated minerals include baryte, mixite and richelsdorfite. A 30 x 20 x 8 cm3 specimen yielded the best crystals of the species; besides bodieite, this specimen has yielded the secondary minerals alunite, antlerite, bariopharmacosiderite, bismutite, cannonite, chalcophyllite, clinoclase, cornwallite, dussertite, juabite, mojaveite, olivenite, pharmacosiderite, rooseveltite and scorodite (CM 56.763-772).

Bodieite from the Pittsburg-Liberty Mine - Image

At the North Star Mine, Mammoth, Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA, bodieite was first recognised as a potentially new species in 2011 on a specimen that had been collected from a small isolated ore dump about 0.2 km west of the North Star mine but not directly associated with it. The ore zone exploited polymetallic vein deposits emplaced in contact-metamorphosed dolostone. The principle ore minerals were generally galena, cerussite and enargite and the prominent gangue minerals were quartz and baryte. Pararaisaite (new in 2018) is from a dump directly associated with the North Star mine. Bodieite is a secondary mineral that occurs in vugs in a quartz - baryte matrix and is associated with mixite, pyrite and bismuthinite (CM 56.763-772).

Bodieite from the North Star Mine - Image

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