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The mineralogy of the historical Mochalin Log REE deposit, South Urals, Russia. Part IV. Alexkuznetsovite-(La), La2Mn(CO3)(Si2O7), alexkuznetsovite-(Ce), Ce2Mn(CO3)(Si2O7) and biraite-(La), La2Fe2+(CO3)(Si2O7), three new isostructural minerals and a definition of the biraite group

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Anatoly V. Kasatkin Open the ORCID record for Anatoly V. Kasatkin [Opens in a new window] ,
Natalia V. Zubkova ,
Igor V. Pekov ,
Nikita V. Chukanov ,
Radek Škoda ,
Atali A. Agakhanov ,
Dmitriy I. Belakovskiy ,
Sergey N. Britvin  and
Dmitry Yu. Pushcharovsky
Anatoly V. Kasatkin*
Affiliation:
Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt 18-2, 119071Moscow, Russia
Natalia V. Zubkova
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
Igor V. Pekov
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygina str. 19, 119991Moscow, Russia
Nikita V. Chukanov
Affiliation:
Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia
Radek Škoda
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic
Atali A. Agakhanov
Affiliation:
Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt 18-2, 119071Moscow, Russia
Dmitriy I. Belakovskiy
Affiliation:
Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt 18-2, 119071Moscow, Russia
Sergey N. Britvin
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, St Petersburg State University, University Embankment 7/9, 199034 St Petersburg, Russia
Dmitry Yu. Pushcharovsky
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
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*Author for correspondence: Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Email: anatoly.kasatkin@gmail.com
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Abstract

Three new isostructural minerals, alexkuznetsovite-(La), ideally La2Mn(CO3)(Si2O7), alexkuznetsovite-(Ce) Ce2Mn(CO3)(Si2O7) and biraite-(La) La2Fe2+(CO3)(Si2O7), were discovered in polymineralic nodules from the Mochalin Log REE deposit, South Urals, Russia. The new minerals form anhedral grains up to 0.3 mm × 0.4 mm [alexkuznetsovite-(La)], 0.5 mm × 0.9 mm [alexkuznetsovite-(Ce)] and 0.2 mm × 1.2 mm [biraite-(La)] embedded in granular aggregates consisting of different REE minerals [allanite-(Ce)/-(La), bastnäsite-(Ce)/-(La), fluorbritholite-(Ce), perbøeite-(Ce)/-(La), percleveite-(Ce)/-(La) and törnebohmite-(Ce)/-(La)]. All three new species are brown to dark brown, translucent in thin fragments, with white streak, vitreous lustre and Mohs’ hardness of ~5. Dcalc = 4.713 [alexkuznetsovite-(La)], 4.687 [alexkuznetsovite-(Ce)] and 4.682 [biraite-La)] g⋅cm–3. Their empirical formulae, calculated on the basis of 2 Si and 10 O apfu, are: alexkuznetsovite-(La): (La0.98Ce0.89Nd0.10Pr0.05)Σ2.02Mn2+0.50Fe2+0.29Ca0.12Mg0.03(CO3)0.94(HCO3)0.06 (Si2O7); alexkuznetsovite-(Ce): (Ce0.96La0.78Nd0.16Pr0.07)Σ1.97Th0.01Mn2+0.50Fe2+0.33Ca0.14Mg0.02(CO3)0.93(HCO3)0.07(Si2O7); and biraite-(La): (La0.95Ce0.87Nd0.08Pr0.04)Σ1.94Th0.01Ca0.12Fe2+0.44Mn2+0.38Mg0.07(CO3)0.88(HCO3)0.12(Si2O7). The new minerals are monoclinic, P21/c and Z = 4. The unit-cell parameters of alexkuznetsovite-(La)/alexkuznetsovite-(Ce)/biraite-(La) are: a = 6.5642(3)/6.5764(4)/6.5660(10), b = 6.7689(3)/6.7685(4)/6.7666(11), c = 18.7213(10)/18.7493(15)/18.698(3) Å, β = 108.684(6)/108.672(8)/108.952(16)° and V = 788.00(7)/790.66(10)/785.7(2) Å3. The crystal structures are solved from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data; R = 0.0628 [alexkuznetsovite-(La)], 0.0589 [alexkuznetsovite-(Ce)] and 0.1193 [biraite-(La)]. A new biraite group is defined; it includes isostructural biraite-(Ce) and the three new minerals described herein. The rootname alexkuznetsovite is given in honour of the Russian mineral collector Alexey M. Kuznetsov (born 1962) who provided samples in which all three new minerals were found. The Levinson's suffix-modifier -(La) or -(Ce) indicates the predominance of La or Ce among REE in the mineral. Biraite-(La) is named as an analogue of biraite-(Ce) with La prevailing among REE.

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alexkuznetsovite-(La)alexkuznetsovite-(Ce)biraite-(La)new mineralrare-earth carbonate-silicatecrystal structurebiraite groupMochalin LogSouth Urals
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 85 , Issue 5 , October 2021 , pp. 772 - 783
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

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Associate Editor: Mihoko Hoshino

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