Description and crystal structure of fianelite, Mn2V(V,As)O7·2H2O, a new mineral from Fianel, Val Ferrera, Graubünden, Switzerland
Description and crystal structure of fianelite, Mn2V(V,As)O7·2H2O, a new mineral from Fianel, Val Ferrera, Graubünden, Switzerland
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瑞士格劳宾登州 Val Ferrera 的 Fianel 的新矿物 Mn2V(V,As)O7·2H2O 的描述和晶体结构
DOI:
10.2138/am-1996-9-1025
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发表时间:
1996
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P. Berlepsch
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作者:
J. Brugger;P. Berlepsch
Abstract Fianelite occurs in iron and manganese ores at Fianel, a small mine in Val Ferrera, Graubunden, Switzerland. It is associated with quartz, aegirine, and limonite in thin open fractures crosscutting quartz + rhodonite + kutnohorite + palenzonaite ± aegirine ± parsettensite ± saneroite ± pyrobelonite veinlets. Only a small amount of very minute, tabular, (010)-flattened fianelite crystals have been collected. Fianelite, with ideal formula Mn2V(V,As)O7·2H2O, crystallizes in the P21/n space group with a = 7.809(2), b = 14.554(4), c = 6.705(4) Å and β = 93.27(3)°. The strongest lines in the X-ray powder pattern are d022,230 = 3.039, d120= 5.32, d231= 2.721, and d163,362= 1.593 Å. The orange-red mineral is transparent; its optical sign is unknown, and 2V is small. Fianelite shows a strong pleochroism from yellow to red. Microprobe analyses revealed a partial substitution of As for V, leading to the empirical formula Mn1.98(V1.57As0.44Si0.01)O7·2H2O. The crystal structure of fianelite, refined to R = 0.058, consists of Mn in octahedral chains bound together by pairs of V in tetrahedra. Among the two V positions, only one hosts As. H is present in H2O groups belonging to the octahedra and occupying channels extending through the structure along [001]. No mineral having a chemical formula with the same atomic proportions as fianelite shows similar structural features.