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digenite

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digenite [′dī·jə‚nīt]
(mineralogy)
Cu9S5A blue to black mineral consisting of an isometric copper sulfide having a variable deficiency in copper. Also known as alpha chalcocite; blue chalcocite.


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The uranium minerals are accompanied by chalcopyrite, digenite and malachite, all copper minerals and some gold.
Mineralization in the enrichment blanket is dominated by black sooty chalcocite, with lesser digenite and covellite.
COPPER ZONE More than 90 percent of the copper mineralization, all of which occurs below the gold cap, is chalcocite, digenite and minor chalcopyrite and cuprite.
 
 
 
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