An experimental study of cassiterite solubility in HCl-bearing water vapour at temperatures up to 350 °C. Implications for tin ore formation

Calculations based on this reaction and data for the solubility of tin in aqueous liquids indicate that, under all conditions, tin partitions preferentially into the latter phase. However, in high salinity, two-phase aqueous systems, where vapour pressures can be considerably higher than those in our experiments and chlorinity is not controlled by fHCl, but by NaCl content, tin solubility in the vapour phase may be appreciable.