Lithium tourmalines from the Meldon aplite, Devonshire, England

1976 ◽  
Vol 40 (315) ◽  
pp. 747-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Chaudhry ◽  
R. A. Howie

SummarySeven chemical analyses of pink or green tourmalines belonging to the elbalte-schorl series, along with their physical, optical, and X-ray data are presented. Linear variation diagrams showing the relationship between composition and refractive indices, specific gravities, and cell parameters are constructed. Relationship between colour and chemical composition is also discussed.

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Hrazdil ◽  
Stanislav Houzar ◽  
Jiří Sejkora ◽  
Šárka Koníčková ◽  
Lenka Jarošová

Abstract Linarite, PbCu2+(SO4)(OH)2, and associated minerals were studied at new locality near Kletné, where they occur in dump material of historic Ag-Pb mines exploited during the 16th century. Linarite forms thin blue coatings and tiny dark blue crystals (<1 mm in size) in small cavities, in assemblage with cerussite, brochantite and supergene copper sulfides. Mineral was identified by chemical analyses (electron microprobe), Raman spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction analysis. Chemical composition of the studied linarite can be expressed by empirical formula Pb0.98Cu1.06(SO4)Σ0.96(OH)2.15 and its refined unit-cell parameters are: a = 9.6944(3), b = 5.6499(2), c = 4.6846(1) Å, ß = 102.669(3)° and V = 250.50(1) Å3. Linarite formed together with other supergene minerals in the oxidation zone of the deposit by weathering of Pb- and Cu-sulphides.


1973 ◽  
Vol 39 (303) ◽  
pp. 289-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Nawaz Chaudhry ◽  
R. A. Howie

SummaryChemical analyses of sixteen lithium-aluminium micas are presented along with their optical, physical, and X-ray data. Compositional variation, substitution relations in structural positions, and octahedral occupancy are discussed. The 2M2 structural types are found to crystallize in volatilerich low-temperature environments whereas the 1M polytypes occur in comparatively volatile-poor and higher-temperature environments. Variation diagrams have been constructed to show the relationship between octahedral sites occupied by and refractive indices and specific gravities.


2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-280
Author(s):  
Pavel Škácha ◽  
Jiří Sejkora

The Pb-Sb mineralization with dominant stibnite and plagionite and associated semseyite and zinkenite was found in an archive material collected at the Antimonitová vein, Bohutín, Březové Hory ore district (Czech Republic). Plagionite forms subhedral aggregates up to 1 mm in size. The unit-cell parameters of plagionite for monoclinic space group C2/c refined from the X-ray powder data are: a 13.4890(17), b 11.8670(14), c 19.997(2) Å, β 107.199(8)° and V 3057.9(6) Å3. Its chemical composition (average of 26 analyses, based on 30 apfu) corresponds to the empirical formula Pb5.02Sb8.15S16.82. Associated zinkenite is forming subhedral crystals up to 1 mm in size. Its empirical formula can be expressed as (Cu0.25Ag0.02Fe0.01)Σ0.28Pb9.22Sb22.19S41.31 (average of 26 analyses, based on 73 apfu). Semseyite aggregates have the empirical formula (Pb8.72Fe0.14)8.86Sb8.42S20.73 (average of 11 analyses, based on 38 apfu).


1969 ◽  
Vol 37 (285) ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Edgar ◽  
A. Mottana ◽  
N. D. Macrae

SummaryIn an attempt to correlate the chemical compositions and cell sizes of omphacites and related pyroxenes, the cell dimensions of fifty-five analysed pyroxenes have been determined, or taken from the literature. Twenty-two of the chemical analyses are new, nineteen of them being done by electron microprobe. Approximately two-thirds of the total number of analyses may be considered first class, the remainder are of doubtful or unknown quality. Cell parameters, determined by X-ray powder diffraction methods, have errors of 0·1 % for the majority of samples, although for some samples taken from the literature errors are unknown.The majority of methods of recalculating omphacite analyses into their end-member molecules are unsuitable for correlation of cell constants with chemistry, mainly due to the impossibility of graphical representation of more than three end-member molecules, and to the non-stoichiometry of these molecules. Using a modification of Tröger's (1962) method of recalculating chloromelanite analyses the present analyses have been recalculated into the diopside-jadeite-acmite and diopside-jadeite-hedenbergite molecules and compared with their determined cell parameters. Because of the gradations in all parameters between these end-member molecules, determination of compositions based on the cell parameters (a, b, c, vol, or β) can only be made within wide limits. However, using a method of projection of compositions from the acmite and hedenbergite apices to the diopside-jadeite join the ratios of diopside to jadeite can be determined for most samples to within ±5 mol%. As there are the most important constituents of most omphacites, this method permits an approximate estimation of omphacite compositions. From a knowledge of the cell sizes of the omphacite a rough indication of the conditions of formation of its host rock may also be obtained.


2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (7) ◽  
pp. 2773-2783 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Demartin ◽  
I. Campostrini ◽  
C. Castellano ◽  
C. M. Gramaccioli ◽  
M. Russo

AbstractThe new minerals d'ansite-(Mn), Na21Mn2+(SO4)10Cl3, and d'ansite-(Fe), Na21Fe2+(SO4)10Cl3, occur as encrustations in fumaroles at Vesuvius, Naples, Italy and La Fossa crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy, respectively. Both minerals are cubic and crystallize in space group I3d. D'ansite-(Mn) forms colourless translucent tristetrahedral crystals up to 0.2 mm on edge; d'ansite-(Fe) forms aggregates of colourless to white complex isometric crystals of about the same size. Chemical analyses obtained by energy-dispersive spectrometry on an electron microprobe gave the following mean compositions: d'ansite-(Mn), Na2O 39.37, MnO 3.46, MgO 0.13, SO3 49.99, Cl 6.36, O=Cl–1.44, total 97.87 wt.%, corresponding to an empirical formula, on the basis of 43 anions, of Na20.61 (Mn2+0.79Mg0.05)Σ0.84S10.13O40.09Cl2.91; and d'ansite-(Fe), Na2O 39.12, FeO 4.18, MgO 0.12, SO3 49.91, Cl 6.81, O=Cl –1.54, total 98.60 wt.%, corresponding to an empirical formula of Na20.42(Fe2+0.94Mg0.05)Σ0.99S10.08O39.89Cl3.11. The six strongest reflections in the X-ray powder diffraction pattern of d'ansite-(Fe) [listed as dobs(Å) (I) (hkl)] are as follows: 2.807(100)(044), 2.570(37)(235), 1.714(29)(129), 3.384(27)(233), 3.113(26)(134), 2.108(15)(237). The unit-cell parameters obtained from single-crystal data are 15.9291(9) and 15.882(3) Å for d'ansite-(Mn) and d'ansite-(Fe), respectively. The structure of both minerals was refined, using single-crystal diffraction data, to final R parameters of 0.0309 and 0.0336 on reflections with I > 2σ(I). The structure contains three independent Na sites, one of which is partially occupied by Mn2+ or Fe2+, two independent sulfate anions and one chlorine site.


2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-229
Author(s):  
Petr Pauliš ◽  
Libor Hrůzek ◽  
Oldřich Janeček ◽  
Zdeněk Dolníček ◽  
Volker Betz ◽  
...  

A new locality of zeolite minerals occurs on the NE edge of the Jedlka village, at the SE slope of the Hlídka hill, 2 km to W of Benešov nad Ploučnicí (northern Bohemia, Czech Republic). The mineralization is developed in Cenozoic analcime-nepheline tephrite. Ten zeolite mineral species (gmelinite-K, analcime, harmotome, chabazite-Ca, lévyne-Ca, mezolite, natrolite, offretite, phillipsite-K, thomsonite-Ca) were found in small amygdule cavities of tephrite. The most interesting is gmelinite-K, a rare zeolite worldwide, which forms clear, white or slightly yellowish, hexagonal lenticular crystals up to 7 mm, always intergrown with the chabazite-Ca. The unit-cell parameters of gmelinite-K, refined from the powder X-ray data, are a = 13.795 (19), c = 9.811(6) Å and V = 1616.8(3) Å3; its quantitative chemical analyses correspond to the empirical formula (K2.32Ca1.86Sr0.53Na0.20Ba0.19)Σ5.10(Al8.14Si16.01O48)·22H2O.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-160
Author(s):  
Petr Pauliš ◽  
Jiří Svejkovský ◽  
Zdeněk Dolníček ◽  
Petr Matys ◽  
Luboš Vrtiška ◽  
...  

A new occurrence of zeolite mineralization with phillipsite-K, phillipsite-Ca, thomsonite-Ca, natrolite and gonnardite has been discovered in an active basalt quarry in the Libá village near Cheb (Czech Republic). Phillipsites in small cavities form druses of white or colourless crystals up to 1 mm in size. Chemical analyses of phillipsite-K correspond to the empirical formula (K1.85Na1.24Ca0.83Ba0.27Sr0.01)Σ4.20(Al6.28Si10.33O32)·12H2O and phillipsite-Ca to (Ca1.84K1.33Na0.14Ba0.06)Σ3.37(Al5.97Si10.20O32)·12H2O. The unit-cell parameters were refined from the powder X-ray data for phillipsite-Ca as: a 9.924(2), b 14.309(3), c 8.7414(14) Å, β 124.92(2)° and V 1017.8(5) Å3. Thomsonite-Ca forms transparent hemispheric radial aggregates up to 1 cm in size. Its unit-cell parameters refined from the powder X-ray data are a 13.105(5), b 13.857(5), c 13.247(6) Å and V 2266.7(6) Å3 and its chemical analyses correspond to the empirical formula Ca1.79Sr0.18Na1.05(Al4.81 Si5.15)O20·6H2O. Natrolite occurs as snow white hemispheric radial clusters. Its unit-cell parameters refined from the powder X-ray data are a 18.326(7), b 18.569(7), c 6.594(3) Å and V 2243.8(9) Å3 and empirical formula is Na1.60Ca0.05(Al2.08 Si3.02)O10·2H2O. Gonnardite forms colourless or white aggregates of flat acicular crystals up to 2 mm in size. Its unit-cell parameters refined from the powder X-ray data are a 13.221(8), c 6.6233(4) Å and V 1156.9 Å3 and empirical formula is (Na3.14Ca2.21Sr0.02)Σ5.37(Al8.92Si11.41)Σ20.33O40·12H2O.


1989 ◽  
Vol 53 (369) ◽  
pp. 85-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Matsubara ◽  
A. Kato

AbstractChemical analyses of bannisterite from the Kamo mine, Toba City, Mie Prefecture, Japan, give Ba : Ca = 69:31–55:45, yielding the ideal formula with Ba > Ca, i.e. (Ba,Ca)(K,H3O)(Mn2+ · Mg,Fe2+)21 (Si,Al)32(O,OH)92 · nH2O, where Ba > Ca, Mn2+ > Mg, Fe2+,Si ≫ Al, and O > OH. The unit cell parameters calculated after the indexing of the X-ray powder pattern are: a = 22.95, b = 16.52, c = 25.66 Å, β = 94.2°. It occurs as dark brown veinlets cutting massive caryopilite-rhodochrosite ore, which is also cut by veinlets of manganoan chlorite (Mn/(Mg + Mn + Fe) = c. 0.30–0.39) with minor barian orthoclase (Ba/(K+ Ba) = 0.05 ∼ 0.06).


2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-177
Author(s):  
Petr Pauliš ◽  
Libor Hrůzek ◽  
Oldřich Janeček ◽  
Zdeněk Dolníček ◽  
Luboš Vrtiška ◽  
...  

A new locality of böhmite and zeolite minerals, called „Soutěsky above the quarry“, occurs near the quarry „Soutěsky“ on the SW slope of the Hlídka hill, eastward of the Soutěsky village, about 5 km SW od the town of Děčín (Czech Republic). The mineralization is bound to vugs of Cenozoic volcanics. Böhmite forms mostly whitish to brownish hemispherical to spherical clusters up to 5 mm in size. The unit-cell parameters of böhmite, refined from the X-ray powder data, are a 2.871 (3), b 12.216(9), c 3.699(4) Å and V 129.7(2) Å3. Chemical analyses correspond to the empirical formula (Al0.92 Si0.06)Σ0.98O(OH). The following zeolites have been found in association with böhmite: thomsonite-Ca, phillipsite-K, gismondine, chabazite-Ca and analcime, as well as calcite. Minerals crystallized in following succession: calcite I → phillipsite-K → böhmite → calcite II → thomsonite-Ca → gismondine → calcite III. Independently, (older) analcime and (younger) chabazite-Ca occur. These minerals probably crystallized from low tempered solutions, enriched in Al ions and alkalies, the source of which can be found in altered rock-forming alumosilicates (analcime, nepheline).


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-363
Author(s):  
Luboš Vrtiška ◽  
Petr Pauliš ◽  
Jiří Čejka ◽  
Radana Malíková ◽  
Zdeněk Dolníček ◽  
...  

A very rare bismuth sulphate, riomarinaite, was found in an old abandoned shaft on a Sn-W deposit Cínovec near Teplice, Northern Bohemia. This is first occurrence of this generally very rare mineral in the Czech Republic. Riomarinaite forms grey and blue acicular and columnar crystals up to 30 μm in size in association with native bismuth and bismuthinite. Riomarinaite is monoclinic, space group P21/n, the unit-cell parameters refined from X-ray powder diffraction data are: a 6.0091(19), b 13.328(5), c 6.483(3) Å, β 112.91(5)˚ and V 478.3(3) Å3. Chemical analyses of riomarinaite correspond to the empirical formula (Bi1.10Ca0.02)Σ1.12[(SO4)0.92(MoO4)0.08]Σ1.00(OH)1.33·H2O on the basis of S + Mo = 1 apfu. Raman bands connected with vibrations of (OH)-, H2O, (SO4)2- groups, Bi-O bonds and lattice modes were observed in the Raman spectrum of riomarinaite.


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