Copper-Containing Magnesioferrite in Vesicular Trachyandesite in a Lava Tube from the 2012–2013 Eruption of the Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia

• Published in: Minerals
• Main Authors: Victor V. Sharygin, Vadim S. Kamenetsky, Liudmila M. Zhitova, Alexander B. Belousov, Adam Abersteiner
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: magnesioferrite; cuprospinel; hematite; tenorite; trachyandesite; lava tube; Tolbachik volcano; Kamchatka; Tolbachik
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/min8110514

Cu-rich magnesioferrite was found in vesicular basaltic trachyandesite in one of lava tubes (Duplex) that formed during the 2012–2013 eruption of the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka. This mineral is commonly associated with hematite, tenorite, halite, sylvite, and Ca-rich silicates (mainly, esseneite a...