The Hiendelaencina mining district (Guadalajara, Spain), includes the ore deposits of the Hiendelaencina, La Bodera and Congostrina
areas. In this paper a general overview of this district is given, with special emphasis on the parageneses, mineralizing
stages and chemical characteristics of the sulphides and sulphosalts. These deposits contain silver in Sb-rich sulphosalts
such as freibergite, pyrargyrite, polybasite, stephanite, freieslebenite and the Bi-rich sulphosalt, aramayoite. Three mineralizing
stages have been detected in Hiendelaencina and Congostrina: (1) As-Fe; (2) Cu-Zn-Fe-Sb-Ag; and (3) Pb-Sb-Ag (±Bi) but only
two in La Bodera (stages 2 and 3). The average sulphosalt formulas are: freibergite (Cu
0.5 Ag
5.9) (Fe
1.42 Zn
0.66) (Sb
4.49 As
0.02) S
13; pyrargyrite Ag
3.38 Sb
1.0 S
3; polybasite (Ag
16.3Cu
0.15) (Sb
2.8 As
0.15) S
11; stephanite Ag
6.7 Sb
1.38 S
4; freieslebenite Ag
1.1 Sb
0.83 Pb
1.05 S
3 and aramayoite Ag
1.06 Bi
0. 35 Sb
0.7 Pb
0.03 S
2. The compositional patterns of these sulphosalts (mainly based on the Sb/(Sb + Ag), Ag/ (Ag + Cu), Sb(Ag + As) and Ag/(Ag
+ Cu) ratios) are outlined, pointing broadly to similar tendencies in their chemistry and genetic conditions.