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Oxo-mangani-leakeite from the Hoskins mine, New South Wales, Australia: occurrence and mineral description

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Roberta Oberti ,
Massimo Boiocchi ,
Frank C. Hawthorne ,
Neil A. Ball  and
Paul M. Ashley
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:
3 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada
Neil A. Ball
Affiliation:
3 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada
Paul M. Ashley
Affiliation:
Earth Sciences, University of New England Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
*
*E-mail: oberti@crystal.unipv.it
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Abstract

Oxo-mangano-leakeite, a newly approved end-member of the amphibole supergroup (IMA-CNMNC 20150-35), has been found in a rock containing manganese silicate and oxide at the Hoskins Mine, a Mn deposit 3 km west of Grenfell, New South Wales. The end-member formula of oxo-mangani-leakeite is ANaBNa2C(Mn3+4Li)TSi8 O22WO2, which would require SiO2 53.15, Mn2O3 34.91, Li2O 1.66, Na2O 10.28, total 100.00 wt.%. The empirical formula derived for the sample of this work from electron and ion microprobe analysis using constraints resulting from single-crystal structure refinement is A(Na0.65K0.36)∑ = 1.01B(Na1.94Ca0.06)∑ = 2.00C(Mg1.60Zn0.01 Li0.58)∑ = 5.01T(Si7.98Al0.02)∑ = 8.00O22W(O1.34OH0.66)∑ = 2.00. Oxo-mangano-leakeite is biaxial (–), with α = 1.681, β = 1.712, γ = 1.738, all ± 0.002, and 2V (meas.) = 81.0(4)°, 2V (calc.) = 83.5°. The unit-cell dimensions are a = 9.875(5), b = 17.873(9), c = 5.295(2) Å, β = 104.74(3)°, V = 903.8 (7) Å3; the space group is C2/m, with Z = 2. The strongest ten reflections in the powder X-ray pattern [d values (in Å), I, (hkl)] are: 8.423, 100, (110); 3.377, 46, (131); 4.461, 40, (040); 4.451, 40, (021); 3.134, 37, (310); 2.694, 37, (151); 2.282, 27, (); 2.734, 25, (31); 2.575, 24, (061); 2.331, 24, [() ()]. The holotype material is deposited in the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, under the catalogue number CMNMC 86895.

Keywords

oxo-mangani-leakeiteungarettiiteamphiboleoxo componentnew mineralelectron-microprobe analysiscrystal-structure refinementHoskins mineAustralia
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 80 , Issue 6 , October 2016 , pp. 1013 - 1021
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2016

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