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Science 5 August 1977:
Vol. 197. no. 4303, pp. 561 - 562
DOI: 10.1126/science.197.4303.561
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Cubanite: A New Sulfide Phase in CI Meteorites

J. D. MACDOUGALL 1 and J. F. KERRIDGE 2

1 Geological Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
2 Institute of Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles 90024

Cubanite (CuFe2S3), previously unobserved in meteorites, has been discovered in two carbonaceous chondrites, Orgueil and Alais. The association of this mineral with low-copper pyrrhotite suggests that it formed in a low-temperature environment on the meteorite parent body.

Submitted on February 1, 1977
Revised on April 26, 1977

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