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Oxides, sulfides, arsenides, native metals, and intermetallic compounds are accessory ore minerals from the rocks of the Mt. Poputnaya ultramafic massif. The Fe–Ni phases containing 55.3–82.3 wt % Ni are the most abundant among them. Magnetite, pyrrhotite, Co–Fe and Fe–Ni phases, and native iron are the comparatively high-temperature minerals, whereas heazlewoodite, orcelite, dienerite, and native copper are formed at low temperatures. The found minerals result from serpentinization at 500°C and below.
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Original Russian Text © E.I. Sandimirova, E.G. Sidorov, V.M. Chubarov, 2015, published in Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 2015, No. 2, pp. 71–82.
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Sandimirova, E.I., Sidorov, E.G. & Chubarov, V.M. Accessory iron and nickel minerals from the Mt. Poputnaya ultramafic massif, eastern Kamchatka, Russia. Geol. Ore Deposits 58, 586–593 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701516070114
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