A mineral assemblage including sulfosalts of the bismuthinite-aikinite (aikinite, bismuthinite, gladite, salzburgite, krupkaite, lindströmite, pekoite, friedrichite, hammarite), pavonite (makovickyite, cupromakovickyite, pavonite, dantopaite, mummeite), cupropavonite (cupromakopavonite, cupropavonite) and lillianite (lillianite s.s.) homologous series, as well as ángelaite, berryite, matildite, baksanite, ikunolite, tetradymite, hedleyite and native bismuth is identified in veinlet ores of the Yugo-Konevo and Porokhovskoe tungsten deposits (Chelyabinsk oblast, South Urals). The Bi minerals occur as individual grains or intergrowths in fluorite-muscovite-quartz veins with hübnerite and scheelite , inclusions in quartz and intersticial aggregates between pyrite, sphalerite and galena. Ángelaite, dantopaite, cupromakovickyite and cupromakopavonite are first found at the territory of Russian Federation and salzburgite, cupropavonite, makovickyite and mummeite are found for the first time in the South Urals.
Keywords: Yugo-Konevo and Porokhovskoe tungsten deposits, South Urals, Bi sulfosalts, bismuthinite-aikinite, pavonite and cupropavonite homologous series, Bi tellurides, native bismuth.

Received 31.08.2023, accepted 11.09.2023

A.V. Kasatkin, Fersman Mineralogical Museum RAS, Moscow, Russia; anatoly.kasatkin@gmail.com

E.V. Belogub, Institute of Mineralogy, South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region;

A.M. Kuznetsov, Chelyabinsk,  Russia;

K.A.Novoselov, Institute of Mineralogy, South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region;

R. Škoda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic;

F. Nestola, University of Padova, Padova, Italy;

D.A. Rogov, nstitute of Mineralogy, South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS, Miass, Chelyabinsk Region

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