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Clino-suenoite, a newly approved magnesium-iron-manganese amphibole from Valmalenco, Sondrio, Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2018

Roberta Oberti ,
Massimo Boiocchi ,
Frank C. Hawthorne ,
Marco E. Ciriotti ,
Olav Revheim  and
Roberto Bracco
Roberta Oberti*
Affiliation:
CNR-Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Sede secondaria di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
Massimo Boiocchi
Affiliation:
Centro Grandi Strumenti, Università di Pavia, via Bassi 21, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
Frank C. Hawthorne
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada
Marco E. Ciriotti
Affiliation:
Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, via San Pietro 55, I-10073 Devesi-Cirié, Italy
Olav Revheim
Affiliation:
Veddertoppen 48a, N-4640 Søgne, Norway
Roberto Bracco
Affiliation:
Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, via Montenotte 18/6, I-17100 Savona, Italy
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*E-mail: oberti@crystal.unipv.it
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Abstract

Clino-suenoite, ideally □${\rm Mn}_{2}^{2 +} $Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 is a new amphibole of the magnesium-iron-manganese subgroup of the amphibole supergroup. The type specimen was found at the Lower Scerscen Glacier, Valmalenco, Sondrio, Italy, where it occurs in Mn-rich quartzite erratics containing braunite, rhodonite, spessartine, carbonates and various accessory minerals. The empirical formula derived from electron microprobe analysis and single-crystal structure refinement is: ANa0.04B(${\rm Mn}_{1.58}^{2 +} $Ca0.26Na0.16)Σ2.00C(Mg4.21${\rm Mn}_{0. 61}^{2 +} {\rm Fe}_{0.04}^{2 +} $Zn0.01Ni0.01${\rm Fe}_{0.08}^{3 +} $Al0.04)Σ5.00TSi8.00O22W[(OH1.94F0.06)]Σ=2.00. Clino-suenoite is biaxial (+), with α = 1.632(2), β = 1.644(2), γ = 1.664(2) and 2Vmeas. = 78(2)° and 2Vcalc. = 76.3°. The unit-cell parameters in the C2/m space group are a = 9.6128(11), b = 18.073(2), c = 5.3073(6) Å, β = 102.825(2)° and V = 899.1(2) Å3 with Z = 2. The strongest ten reflections in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern [d (in Å), I, (hkl)] are: 2.728, 100, (151); 2.513, 77, ($\bar 2$02); 3.079, 62, (310); 8.321, 60, (110); 3.421, 54, (131); 2.603, 42, (061); 2.175, 42, (261); 3.253, 41, (240); 2.969, 40, (221); 9.036, 40, (020).

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clino-suenoiteamphiboleelectron-microprobe analysisoptical propertiespowder-diffraction patterncrystal-structure refinementLower Scerscen GlacierItaly
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 189 - 198
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2018 

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Associate Editor: Andrew Christy

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