Table T5. Textural terms and abbreviations used to describe sulfide mineralization.

	Abbreviation	Description
Styles of mineralization:
Massive sulfide	MS	Rocks containing >75% sulfide minerals.
Semimassive sulfide	SMS	Rocks containing >25%-75% sulfide minerals, which form aggregates or intergrowths.
Disseminated sulfide	DS	Rocks containing 5%-25% disseminated sulfides.
Void fill	VF	Minerals partially or totally filling a void (vesicle, etc.).
Vein/stringer sulfide	VS	Rocks containing more than 5% sulfide in veins.
General terminology for mineral textures:
Atoll	at	Minerals surrounded and partially replaced by another.
Banded	bnd	Precipitates showing rhythmic compositional or textural layering.
Bladed	bld	Elongate to tabular platy crystals.
Botryoidal	bot	Aggregate of spherical shapes (also termed globular).
Clastic	cl	Fragmental with or without evidence of reworking.
Chalcopyrite disease		Fine inclusions (emulsion) of chalcopyrite in sphalerite.
Cockade	cock	Open-space vein filling in successive comb-like crusts.
Colloform	col	Finely laminated texture formed by rhythmic precipitation.
Dendritic	den	Minerals deposited in a fine branching pattern.
Disseminated	dis	Discrete grains or aggregates of a mineral distributed throughout a rock.
Druse	dr	A mineral surface covered with small projecting crystals.
Felted	fel	Lath-shaped crystals interwoven in an irregular fashion.
Framboidal	frm	Spheroidal aggregates of microscopic grains.
Granular	gran	Aggregates of crystals with a sugary texture.
Intergrown	ig	Minerals with shared grain boundaries and textures.
Interstitial	int	Occupying the space between other mineral phases.
Massive	msv	Uniform, essentially monomineralic material.
Matrix	mat	Minerals occurring as fine material between clasts in fragmental rocks.
Nodular	nod	Discrete subrounded aggregates, commonly colloform or radial mineral growths.
Poikilitic	poi	Mineral grains included as fine inclusions within the crystal of another mineral.
Porous	por	Texture with >10% open pore spaces.
Pseudomorph	pse	Replacement of one mineral by another with retention of the original crystal form.
Radial	rad	Mineral aggregates formed by growth radiating from a single point.
Relict	rel	Remnants of sulfide grains that have been partially dissolved or replaced.
Skeletal	skel	Development of the outline of a crystal without complete infill.
Sooty	soot	Extremely fine grained mineral that is not visible optically but is sufficiently abundant to color its matrix.
Veined	vnd	Mineral crosscut by veins of another material.
Vermicular	vrm	Wormlike intergrowths of one mineral with another.
Vuggy	vug	Rock containing coarse (<2 mm) pore spaces.
Additional textural terms applied to veins:
Anastomosing	ana	Mutually intersecting vein network.
Barren	bar	No sulfide minerals in vein fill.
Branching	bra	Single vein split into two or more veins.
Halo	hal	Alteration extending outside the vein into wallrock (note difference with selvage).
Parallel	par	Two or more veins with the same orientation.
Selvage	sel	Mineral precipitation along edge of vein at contact with wallrock (note difference with halo).