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Yarzhemskiite, K[B5O7(OH)2]⋅H2O, a new mineral from the Chelkar salt dome, Western Kazakhstan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2019

Igor V. Pekov ,
Natalia V. Zubkova ,
Oksana V. Korotchenkova ,
Ilya I. Chaikovskiy ,
Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt ,
Nikita V. Chukanov ,
Dmitry I. Belakovskiy ,
Inna S. Lykova ,
Sergey N. Britvin  and
Dmitry Yu. Pushcharovsky
Igor V. Pekov*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
Natalia V. Zubkova
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
Oksana V. Korotchenkova
Affiliation:
Mining Institute, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sibirskaya str., 78a, 614007Perm, Russia
Ilya I. Chaikovskiy
Affiliation:
Mining Institute, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sibirskaya str., 78a, 614007Perm, Russia
Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
Nikita V. Chukanov
Affiliation:
Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia
Dmitry I. Belakovskiy
Affiliation:
Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt 18-2, 119071Moscow, Russia
Inna S. Lykova
Affiliation:
Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Sergey N. Britvin
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, St Petersburg State University, University Embankment 7/9, 199034St Petersburg, Russia Kola Science Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Fersman Str. 14, 184200Apatity, Russia
Dmitry Yu. Pushcharovsky
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
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*Author for correspondence: Igor V. Pekov, Email: igorpekov@mail.ru
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Abstract

The new mineral yarzhemskiite, K[B5O7(OH)2]⋅H2O, was found in a halite–sylvite evaporite rock at the Chelkar salt dome, Western Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan. It is also associated with carnallite, polyhalite, gypsum, strontioginorite, satimolite and quartz. Yarzhemskiite occurs as separate thick tabular, short prismatic or equant crystals up to 0.5 mm × 0.7 mm × 1 mm and grains having irregular outlines up to 1 mm × 1.5 mm × 2 mm. The mineral is transparent, colourless, with vitreous lustre. It is brittle, the Mohs’ hardness is ca 2½. Cleavage is perfect on {100}. Dmeas is 2.13(1) and Dcalc is 2.112 g cm–3. Yarzhemskiite is optically biaxial (+), α = 1.484(2), β = 1.508(2), γ = 1.546(2), 2Vmeas = 75(10)° and 2Vcalc = 80°. Chemical composition (wt.%, electron microprobe, H2O was calculated by stoichiometry) is: Na2O 0.01, K2O 17.84, CaO 0.07, B2O3 67.21, H2Ocalc 13.91, total 99.04. The empirical formula based on 10 O atoms per formula unit is K0.98B5.005O7(OH)2⋅H2O. Yarzhemskiite is monoclinic, P21/c, a = 9.47340(18), b = 7.52030(16), c = 11.4205(2) Å, β = 97.3002(17)°, V = 807.03(3) Å3 and Z = 4. The strongest reflections of the powder XRD pattern [d,Å(I,%)(hkl)] are: 9.39(86)(100), 4.696(41)(200), 3.296(18)($\bar{1}$13), 3.130(19)(022, 300), 2.935(42)(220), 2.898(100)($\bar{3}$02, $\bar{2}$21, 310), 2.832(56)(004) and 1.867(18)($\bar{2}$25). The crystal structure was solved based on single-crystal X-ray diffraction data, R1 = 3.36%. The structure contains infinite chains built by boron-centred polyhedra. The basic structural unit of the chain is a double ring B5O7(OH)2 consisting of one BO4 tetrahedron and four BO3 triangles. K+ cations centre ten-fold polyhedra which form, together with the borate chains [B5O7(OH)2]–∝, layers linked with each other only via H bonds. The mineral is named in honour of the Russian geologist, petrologist and mineralogist Yakov Yakovlevich Yarzhemskii (1901–?), a specialist in petrology of evaporite rocks and mineralogy and genesis of boron deposits related to evaporites.

Keywords

yarzhemskiitenew mineralhydrous potassium boratelarderellitecrystal structureevaporite depositChelkar salt domeWestern Kazakhstan
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 84 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 335 - 342
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2019

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Associate Editor: Sergey V Krivovichev

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