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Pb-bearing hollandite-type titanates: A first natural occurrence and reconnaissance synthesis study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

E. P. Reguir ,
A. R. Chakhmouradian  and
R. H. Mitchell
E. P. Reguir
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada
A. R. Chakhmouradian*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada
R. H. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 5E1, Canada
*
* E-mail: chakhmou@ms.umanitoba.ca
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Abstract

Some samples of hollandite-type titanates from the Murun alkaline complex (Yakutia, Russia) contain appreciable amounts of Pb (up to 12.5 wt.% PbO). These titanates occur in a pegmatitic K-feldsparaegirine rock containing subordinate K-rich batisite, titanite, wadeite and other minerals. The Pb-bearing crystals coexist with hollandite-type phases devoid of detectable Pb and zoned from a Kdominant (priderite) core to a Ba-dominant (henrymeyerite) rim. Recalculation of the microprobe analyses on the stoichiometric basis indicates that most of the Fe occurs in this mineral in trivalent form, suggesting the existence of a solid solution between the Ba(Ti6Fe)O16, K2(Ti6Fe)O16 and Pb(Ti6Fe)O16 end-members. The maximum proportion of the latter end-member in the Murun titanates is ∽45 mol.%. The Ba-free compositions [Pb1.0–1.3(Ti,Fe)8O16] and intermediate members of the (Ba1–xPbx)(Ti6Fe)O16 series were synthesized at 1050 –1100ºC. The synthesis products comprise tetragonal hollandites of various stoichiometry intermixed with rutile, a pseudobrookite-type phase and (for the Ba-free compositions) minor macedonite. Electron microprobe analyses of the hollandites indicate that there is a continuous series of compositions between the two hexatitanate end-members, Ba(Ti6Fe)O16 and Pb(Ti6Fe)O16. The crystal structure of one intermediate member was refined by the Rietveld method in space group I4/m, and found to differ from the hollandite archetype (i.e. Pb-bearing Ba manganate) in that Pb is preferentially partitioned into the 2b tunnel site at (0,0,½), whereas Ba is partitioned into the larger 4e site at (0,0,∽0.8).

Keywords

hollanditecryptomelane grouptitanatealkaline pegmatiteMurun complexYakutiasynthesisstructure, cation ordering.
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 67 , Issue 5 , October 2003 , pp. 957 - 965
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2003

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