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Fassinaite, Pb22+(S2O3)(CO3), the first mineral with coexisting thiosulphate and carbonate groups:d escription and crystal structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

L. Bindi ,
F. Nestola ,
U. Kolitsch ,
A. Guastoni  and
F. Zorzi
L. Bindi*
Affiliation:
Museo di Storia Naturale, Sezione Mineralogia e Litologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy CNR – Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Sezione di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy
F. Nestola
Affiliation:
Dipartimentodi Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy
U. Kolitsch
Affiliation:
Naturhistorisches Museum, Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abt., Burgring 7, A-1010 Wien, Austria Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie, Geozentrum, Universität Wien, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Wien, Austria
A. Guastoni
Affiliation:
Museodi Mineralogia, Università degli Studi di Padova, Palazzo Cavalli, Via Matteotti 30, I-35121, Padova, Italy
F. Zorzi
Affiliation:
Dipartimentodi Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy
*
*E-mail: luca.bindi@unifi.it
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Abstract

Fassinaite, ideally Pb22+(S2O3)(CO3), is a new mineral from the Trentini mine, Mount Naro, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy (holotype locality). It is also reported from the Erasmus adit, Schwarzleo District, Leogang, Salzburg, Austria and the Friedrich-Christian mine, Schapbach, Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany (cotype localities). At the Italian type locality it occurs as acicular [010]. colourless crystals up to 200 μn long, closely associated with galena, quartz and anglesite. At the Austrian cotype locality it is associated with cerussite, rare sulphur and very rare phosgenite. At the German cotype locality anglesite is the only associated phase. Fassinaite crystals commonly have flat chisel-shaped terminations. They are transparent with vitreous to adamantine lustre and a white streak. Fassinaite is brittle with an irregular fracture and no discernible cleavage; the estimated Mohs hardness is 11/2—2. The calculated density for the type material is 6.084 g cm–3 (on the basis of the empirical formula), whereas the X-ray density is 5.947 g cm–3. In common with other natural lead thiosulphates (i.e. sidpietersite and steverustite) fassinaite has intense internal reflections, which do not allow satisfactory optical data to be collected; the crystals are length-slow and have very high birefringence. The mineral is not fluorescent.

Fassinaite is orthorhombic, space group Pnma, with unit-cell parameters (for the holotype material) a = 16.320(2), b = 8.7616(6), c = 4.5809(7) Å, V = 655.0(1) Å3, a:b:c = 1.863:1:0.523, Z = 4. Single-crystal structural studies were carried out on crystals from all three localities: R1(F) values range between 0.0353 and 0.0596. The structure consists of rod-like arrangements of Pb-centred polyhedra that extend along the [010] direction. These ‘rods’ are linked, alternately, by (CO3)2– and (S2O3)2– groups. The (S2O3)2– groups point alternately left and right (in a projection on [001] with [010] set vertical) if the apex occupied by the S2– in the thiosulphate group is defined to be the atom giving the direction. The lead atoms are nine-coordinated by seven oxygen atoms and two sulphur (S2–) atoms. The eight strongest X-ray powder-diffraction lines [d in Å (I/I0) (hkl)] are: 4.410 (39) (101), 4.381 (59) (020), 4.080 (62) (400), 3.504 (75) (301), 3.108 (100) (121), 2.986 (82) (420), 2.952 (49) (221) and 2.736 (60) (321). Electron-microprobe analyses produce an empirical formula Pb2.01(1)(S1.82(2)O3)CO3 (on the basis of six oxygen atoms). The presence of both carbonate and thiosulphate groups was corroborated by Raman spectra, which are discussed in detail. Fassinaite is named after Bruno Fassina (b. 1943), an Italian mineral collector who discovered the mineral in 2009.

Keywords

fassinaitenew mineralcrystal structureRaman spectroscopythiosulphateTrentini mineErasmus aditFriedrich-Christian mine
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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 75 , Issue 6 , December 2011 , pp. 2721 - 2732
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2011

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