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Scroll-like and platy molybdenite-3R from the Ufaley metamorphic block, South Urals: EBSD, XRD, SEM, EPMA and ICP-MS study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2022

Elena V. Belogub*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mineralogy of South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Ilmeny State Reserve, 456317, Russia
Vladimir V. Shilovskikh
Affiliation:
St. Petersburg State University, Resource Center of Geoenvironmental Research & Modelling GEOMODEL, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia
Michail A. Rassomakhin
Affiliation:
Institute of Mineralogy of South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Ilmeny State Reserve, 456317, Russia
Olga Yu. Plotinskaya
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119017, Russia
Alexandr N. Savichev
Affiliation:
Institute of Mineralogy of South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Ilmeny State Reserve, 456317, Russia
Ksenia A. Filippova
Affiliation:
Institute of Mineralogy of South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Ilmeny State Reserve, 456317, Russia
Sergey Kirichenko
Affiliation:
St. Petersburg State University, Resource Center of Geoenvironmental Research & Modelling GEOMODEL, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia
John Spratt
Affiliation:
Natural History Museum, Department of Earth Science, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 5BD, England
Reimar Seltmann
Affiliation:
Natural History Museum, Department of Earth Science, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 5BD, England
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*Author for correspondence: Elena V. Belogub, Email: belogub_e@yahoo.com

Abstract

Scroll-like crystals of molybdenite, 2–5 mm in size, were found in phengite rock from the outer contact of the granular quartz vein of the Kyshtym quartz deposit. Platy and partly scrolled molybdenite occur in the same phengite rock from the outer contact of the quartz–feldspar pegmatite of the Slyudyanogorsk mica deposit. Both occurrences are located in the Ufaley metamorphic block in the South Urals. Scroll-like molybdenite crystals can associate with platy and partly twisted crystals in the same samples. The chemical composition of molybdenite was studied by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and electron probe microanalysis (EPMA). Polytypes of molybdenite were identified with electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Both scroll-like and platy molybdenite crystals are only represented by the 3R polytype, are enriched in Re up to 1 wt.% and contain no other significant impurities. Scroll-like molybdenite is twisted mainly around the crystallographic axis X. Twinning with a rotation of 60 degrees around the Z crystallographic axis is fixed in the plane (ab). The most probable origin of scroll molybdenites is the consequent growth of molybdenite around nucleation centres, which are commonly represented by mica crystals. The formation of the 3R polytype is caused by the difference in dimension of the layers enriched and depleted in rhenium.

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Associate Editor: František Laufek

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