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Mineralogical ClassificationNew minerals approved by IMA CNMNC in October 2014-January 2015

26th Mar 2015 12:48 UTCMarco E. Ciriotti Manager

New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2014 and 2015


Mineralogical Magazine, February 2015, Vol. 79(1), pp. 51-58

CNMNC Newsletter

DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2015.079.1.05


NEW MINERAL PROPOSALS APPROVED IN OCTOBER 2014


IMA No. 2014-039

Meierite

Ba44Si66Al30O192Cl25(OH)33

Gun Claim, approximately 5 km SE of Itsi

Lakes, Yukon, Canada (130º0’51’’W,

62º50’50’’N)

R.C. Peterson*, Gunnar Fa¨rber, Lee Groat,

Laura MacNeil, Jim Evans, Brian Joy and

Thomas Witzke

*E-mail: Peterson@queensu.ca

Zeolite supergroup

Cubic: Im3m; structure determined

a = 18.5502(4) A ˚

4.388(70), 3.288(34), 3.189(100), 3.016(72),

2.803(42), 2.629(31), 2.323(46), 2.287(59)

Type material is deposited in the collections of

the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario,

Canada, specimen number M56744

How to cite: Peterson, R.C., Fa¨rber, G., Groat,

L., MacNeil, L., Evans, J., Joy, B. and Witzke,

T. (2015) Meierite, IMA 2014-039. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 52;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-061

Erazoite

Cu4SnS6

Soledad mine, El Guanaco ore deposit,

Antofagasta Province, Chile (25º06’22’’S,

69º32’10’’W)

Jochen Schlu¨ ter*, Thomas Malcherek, Chris

Stanley, Maurizio Dini and Arturo A. Molina

Donoso

*E-mail: Jochen.Schlueter@uni-hamburg.de..

Known synthetic analogue

Trigonal: R3¯m

a = 3.756(8), c = 32.91(4) A ˚

3.664(8), 3.265(8), 3.022(100), 2.313(7),

1.999(10), 1.877(47), 1.667(13), 1.592(12)

Type material is deposited in the collections of

the Mineralogical Museum of the University of

Hamburg, Grindelallee 48, D-20146 Hamburg,

Germany, specimen number MD 717

How to cite: Schlu¨ ter, J., Malcherek, T., Stanley,

C., Dini, M. and Molina Donoso, A.A. (2015)

Erazoite, IMA 2014-061. CNMNC Newsletter

No. 23, February 2015, page 52; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-062

Ziminaite

Fe3+

6 (VO4)6

Bezymyannyi volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula,

Kamchatka Oblast’, Far-Eastern Region, Russia

(55º58’N, 160º36’E)

Igor V. Pekov*, Oleg I. Siidra, Vasiliy O.

Yapaskurt, Yury S. Polekhovsky and Pavel M.

Kartashov

*E-mail: igorpekov@mail.ru

Howardevansite group

Triclinic: P1¯ ; structure determined

a = 8.012(4), b = 9.345(5), c = 6.678(3) A ˚ , a =

106.992(10), b = 101.547(8), g = 96.594(11)º

3.751(17), 3.539(86), 3.270(67), 3.209(100),

3.090(20), 3.041(18), 2.934(14), 1.665(24)

Type material is deposited in the collections of

the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia,

registration number 4603/1

How to cite: Pekov, I.V., Siidra, O.I., Yapaskurt,

V.O., Polekhovsky, Y.S. and Kartashov, P.M.

(2015) Ziminaite, IMA 2014-062. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 52;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-063

Eckerite

Ag2CuAsS3

Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley,

Canton Valais, Switzerland (46º21’54’’N,

8º13’15’’E)

Luca Bindi*, Fabrizio Nestola, Stefan Graeser,

Peter Tropper and Thomas Raber

*E-mail: luca.bindi@unifi.it..

New structure type

Monoclinic: C2/c; structure determined

a = 11.8643(3), b = 6.2338(1), c = 16.6785(4) A ˚ ,

b = 110.842(3)º

3.446(70), 3.246(50), 2.941(100), 2.776(40),

2.134(50), 2.084(18), 2.076(40), 1.738(40)

Type material is deposited in the collections of

the Museo di Storia Naturale, Universita` di

Firenze, Via La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy,

catalogue number 3144/I

How to cite: Bindi, L., Nestola, F., Graeser, S.,

Tropper, P. and Raber, T. (2015) Eckerite, IMA

2014-063. CNMNC Newsletter No. 23,

February 2015, page 52; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-064

Flurlite

Zn3Mn2+Fe3+(PO4)3(OH)2·9H2O

Cornelia mine, Hagendorf-Su¨d pegmatite,

Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany

(49º39’1’’N, 12º27’35’’E)

Ian E. Grey*, Erich Keck, W. Gus Mumme,

Allan Pring and Colin M. MacRae

*E-mail: Ian.Grey@csiro.au..

Related to schoonerite

Monoclinic: P21/m; structure determined

a = 6.3894(8), b = 11.037(1), c = 13.063(2) A ˚ ,

b = 99.37(2)º

12.900(100), 8.375(10), 6.072(14), 5.567(8),

5.080(7), 4.297(21), 3.221(7), 2.763(35)

Type material is deposited in the mineralogical

collections of Museum Victoria, Melbourne,

Victoria, Australia, registration number M53238

How to cite: Grey, I.E., Keck, E., Mumme,

W.G., Pring, A. and MacRae, C.M. (2015)

Flurlite, IMA 2014-064. CNMNC Newsletter

No. 23, February 2015, page 53; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-065

Tululite

Ca14(Fe3+,Al)(Al,Zn,Fe3+,Si,P,Mn,Mg)15O36

Tulul al Hammam, Siwaqa area, Jordan

(31º32’N, 36º12’E)

Hani N. Khoury*, Ella V. Sokol, Svetlana N.

Kokh, Yurii V. Seryotkin, Elena N.

Nigmatulina, Sergey V. Goryainov, Elena V.

Belogub and Ian D. Clark

*E-mail: khouryhn@yahoo.com

New structure type

Cubic: F23; structure determined

a = 14.9346(4) A ˚

2.874(44), 2.874(33), 2.640(100), 2.524(31),

2.524(23), 2.278(30), 1.760(16), 1.524(25)

Type materialis deposited in the collections of

the Central Siberian Geological Museum of the

V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and

Mineralogy, 3 Ac. Koptyuga Avenue,

Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, catalogue number

VII-91/1

How to cite: Khoury, H.N., Sokol, E.V., Kokh,

S.N., Seryotkin, Y.V., Nigmatulina, E.N.,

Goryainov, S.V., Belogub, E.V. and Clark, I.D.

(2015) Tululite, IMA 2014-065. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 53;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-066

Esquireite

BaSi6O13·7H2O

Esquire #1 claim, Rush Creek, Fresno Co.,

California, USA (36º58’25’’N, 119º15’01’’W)

and Trumbull Peak, Mariposa Co., California,

USA (37º41’31’’N, 119º51’51’’W)

Anthony R. Kampf*, Robert M. Housley, Gail

E. Dunning and Robert E. Walstrom

*E-mail: akampf@nhm.org

New structure type

Monoclinic: C2; structure determined

a = 13.601(4), b = 4.922(1), c = 15.092(5) A ˚ ,

b = 111.58(2)º

7.02(38), 5.11(33), 4.649(66), 4.191(100),

3.339(65), 2.967(32), 2.343(33), 2.261(35)

Cotype material is deposited in the collections

of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los

Angeles, California 90007, USA, catalogue

numbers 64540, 64541, 64542, 64543 and

64544

How to cite: Kampf, A.R., Housley, R.M.,

Dunning, G.E. and Walstrom, R.E. (2015)

Esquireite, IMA 2014-066. CNMNC Newsletter

No. 23, February 2015, page 53; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-067

Carlsonite

(NH4)5Fe3+

3 O(SO4)6·7H2O

Huron River, approximately 1.5 km west of

Milan, Ohio, USA (41º17’42’’N, 82º37’30’’W)

Anthony R. Kampf*, R. Peter Richards, Barbara

P. Nash and James B. Murowchick

*E-mail: akampf@nhm.org

Structurally related to metavoltine

Triclinic: P1¯ ; structure determined

a = 9.5927(2), b = 9.7679(3), c = 18.3995(13) A ˚ ,

a = 93.250(7), b = 95.258(7), g = 117.993(8)º

9.23(100), 8.26(40), 7.57(43), 4.93(23),

3.328(20), 3.246(15), 3.144(41), 3.035(16)

Type and cotype material is deposited in the

collections of the Natural History Museum of

Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard,

Los Angeles, California 90007, USA, catalogue

numbers 65544 and 65545, respectively

How to cite: Kampf, A.R., Richards, R.P., Nash,

B.P. and Murowchick, J.B. (2015) Carlsonite,

IMA 2014-067. CNMNC Newsletter No. 23,

February 2015, page 53; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-068

Fermiite

Na4(UO2)(SO4)3·3H2O

Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon, White Canyon

District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA (37º33’26’’N,

110º17’44’’W)

Anthony R. Kampf*, Jakub Pla´sˇil, Anatoly V.

Kasatkin, Joe Marty and Jirˇı´ Cˇ ejka

*E-mail: akampf@nhm.org

Structurally related to meisserite

Orthorhombic: Pmn21; structure determined

a = 11.8864(2), b = 7.8861(1), c = 15.3826(11) A ˚

7.71(43), 7.01(100), 6.00(49), 4.70(42),

3.476(85), 3.336(55), 3.131(57), 2.762(46)

Cotype material is deposited in the collections

of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

County 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles,

California 90007, USA, catalogue numbers

65546, 65547 and 65548, and the Fersman

Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy

of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, registration

number 4607/1

How to cite: Kampf, A.R., Pla´sˇil, J., Kasatkin,

A.V., Marty, J. and Cˇ ejka, J. (2015) Fermiite,

IMA 2014-068. CNMNC Newsletter No. 23,

February 2015, page 54; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


NEW MINERAL PROPOSALS APPROVED IN NOVEMBER 2014


IMA No. 2014-069

Hedegaardite

(Ca,Na)9(Ca,Na)Mg(PO4)6(PO3OH)

Punta de Lobos, Rio Seco, 90 km south of

Iquique, Tarapaca´ Region, Chile (21º01’25’’S,

70º10’16’’W) and Cerro Mejillones, Mejillones

Peninsula, Mejillones, Antofagasta Region,

Chile (23º06’02’’S, 70º30’48’’W)

Thomas Witzke*, Brian L. Phillips, William

Woerner, Jose´ M.V. Countinho, Gunnar Fa¨rber

and Reynaldo R. Contreira Filho

*E-mail: thomas.witzke@panalytical.com..

Whitlockite group

Trigonal: R3c; structure determined

a = 10.3519(9), c = 37.064(5) A ˚

5.189 (37), 3.431(35), 3.190(61), 2.862(100),

2.741(21), 2.595(68), 1.922(25), 1.715(33)

Type material is deposited in the mineralogical

collection of the Bergakademie Freiberg,

Freiberg, Germany, catalogue numbers 83808

(Punta de Lobos) and 83809 (Cerro Mejillones)

How to cite: Witzke, T., Phillips, B.L., Woerner,

W., Countinho, J.M.V., Fa¨rber, G. and Contreira

Filho, R.R. (2015) Hedegaardite, IMA 2014-

069. CNMNC Newsletter No. 23, February

2015, page 54; Mineralogical Magazine, 79,

51-58.


IMA No. 2014-070

Dyrnaesite-(La)

Na8Ce4+(La,REE)2(PO4)6

Tasseq slope, Ilı´maussaq alkaline intrusion,

Narsaq, Greenland (60º57’15’’N, 45º56’35’’W)

Jørn G. Rønsbo, Toncˇi Balic´-Zˇ unic´* and Ole V.

Petersen

*E-mail: toncib@snm.ku.dk

Related to vitusite-(Ce)

Orthorhombic: Pnma; structure determined

a = 18.4662(7), b = 16.0106(5), c = 7.0274(2) A ˚

6.57(100), 4.62(40), 4.14(28), 3.86(38),

3.50(40), 2.80(86), 2.67(54), 1.930(34)

Type material is deposited in the mineralogical

collections of the Natural History Museum,

University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen,

Denmark, specimen number 2014.1

How to cite: Rønsbo, J.G., Balic´-Zˇ unic´, T. and

Petersen, O.V. (2015) Dyrnaesite-(La), IMA

2014-070. CNMNC Newsletter No. 23,

February 2015, page 54; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-072

Mianningite

(&,Pb,Ce,Na)(U4+,Mn,U6+)Fe3+

2 (Ti,Fe3+)18O38

Baozi Hill, near to the Maoniuping REE mine,

Mianning county, Sichuan Province, China

(28º24’20’’N, 101º59’3’’E)

Xiangkun Ge*, Guang Fan, Guowu Li, Ganfu

Shen, Zhangru Chen and Yujie Ai

*E-mail: gxk0621@163.com

Crichtonite group

Trigonal: R3¯ ; structure determined

a = 10.3462(5), c = 20.837(2) A ˚

3.065(75), 2.883(55), 2.627(100), 2.476(55),

2.254(70), 2.144(100), 1.704(55), 1.545(60)

Type material is deposited in the collections of

the Geological Museum of China, Beijing,

China, registration number M12189

How to cite: Ge, X., Fan, G., Li, G., Shen, G.,

Chen, Z. and Ai, Y. (2015) Mianningite, IMA

2014-072. CNMNC Newsletter No. 23,

February 2015, page 54; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-073

Oppenheimerite

Na2(UO2)(SO4)2·3H2O

Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon, White Canyon

District, San Juan County, Utah, USA

(37º33’26’’N, 110º17’44’’W)

Anthony R. Kampf*, Jakub Pla´sˇil, Anatoly V.

Kasatkin, Joe Marty and Jirˇı´ Cˇ ejka

*E-mail: akampf@nhm.org

New structure type

Triclinic: P1¯ ; structure determined

a = 7.9576(6), b = 8.1952(6), c = 9.8051(7) A ˚ ,

a = 65.967(5), b = 70.281(5), g = 84.516(6)º

7.29(31), 6.85(73), 5.39(47), 4.253(29),

3.700(47), 3.257(100), 2.669(33), 2.346(28)

Cotype material is deposited in the collections

of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los

Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue numbers

65549, 65550 and 65551, and of the Fersman

Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy

of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, registration

number 4608/1

How to cite: Kampf, A.R., Pla´sˇil, J., Kasatkin,

A.V., Marty, J. and Cˇ ejka, J. (2015)

Oppenheimerite, IMA 2014-073. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 55;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-074

Bettertonite

Al6(AsO4)3(OH)9·16H2O

Penberthy Croft mine, 8 km east of Penzance,

St Hilary Parish, Cornwall, UK (50º8’25’’N,

5º25’20’’W)

Ian E. Grey*, Anthony R. Kampf, Jason R. Price

and Colin M. MacRae

*E-mail: Ian.Grey@csiro.au..

New structure type

Monoclinic: C2/c; structure determined

a = 7.773(2), b = 26.991(5), c = 15.867(3) A ˚ ,

b = 94.22(3)º

13.648(100), 13.505(50), 7.805(50), 7.461(30),

5.880(20), 5.622(12), 3.589(20), 2.857(14)

Cotype material is deposited in the mineralogical

collections of Museum Victoria,

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, registration

number M53274, and the Natural History

Museum, London, UK, registration number

BM2014,100

How to cite: Grey, I.E., Kampf, A.R., Price, J.R.

and MacRae, C.M. (2015) Bettertonite, IMA

2014-074. CNMNC Newsletter No. 23,

February 2015, page 55; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-075

Lefontite

Fe2Al2Be(PO4)2(OH)6

Joa˜o Teodoro mine, Lino´ polis district, Divino

das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil (18º46’S,

41º28’W)

Hexiong Yang*, Robert T. Downs, Stanley H.

Evans, Shaunna M. Morrison and Benjamin N.

Schumer

*E-mail: hyang@u.arizona.edu

Related to childrenite and eosphorite

Orthorhombic: Cmca; structure determined

a = 7.0087(3), b = 10.5082(4), c = 13.1179(5) A ˚

6.600(97), 5.245(100), 4.872(42), 4.360(73),

4.105(61), 3.369(54), 2.622(38), 2.357(36)

Cotype material is deposited in the collections

of the Mineral Museum of the University of

Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, catalogue

number 19802, and the RRUFF Project,

deposition number R140428

How to cite: Yang, H., Downs, R.T., Evans,

S.H., Morrison, S.M. and Schumer, B.N. (2015)

Lefontite, IMA 2014-075. CNMNC Newsletter

No. 23, February 2015, page 55; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


NEW MINERAL PROPOSALS APPROVED IN DECEMBER 2014


IMA No. 2014-071

Arrojadite-(BaNa)

BaNa3(NaCa)Fe2+13Al(PO4)11(PO3OH)(OH)

Luna pegmatitic dyke, Dorio (LC), Lombardy,

Italy (46º06’36’’N, 9º19’59’’E)

Pietro Vignola, Fre´de´ric Hatert*, Maxime

Baijot, Fabrice Dal Bo, Sergio Ando` , Danilo

Bersani, Andrea Risplendente and Francesco

Vanini

*E-mail: fhatert@ulg.ac.be

Arrojadite group

Monoclinic: C2/c; structure determined

a = 16.4984(6), b = 10.0228(3), c = 24.648(1) A ˚ ,

b = 105.850(4)º

4.621(22), 3.488(28), 3.303(46), 3.137(100),

2.936(22), 2.878(32), 2.818(61), 2.667(35)

Type material is deposited in the mineralogical

collections of the Museo Civico di Storia

Naturale, Milano, Italy, sample number 38718,

and the Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of

Lie`ge, Lie`ge, Belgium, sample number 20391

How to cite: Vignola, P., Hatert, F., Baijot, M.,

Dal Bo, F., Ando` , S., Bersani, D., Risplendente,

A. and Vanini, F. (2015) Arrojadite-(BaNa),

IMA 2014-071. CNMNC Newsletter No. 23,

February 2015, page 55; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-076

Vanderheydenite

Zn6(PO4)2(SO4)(OH)4·7H2O

Block 14 opencut, Broken Hill, New South

Wales, Australia

Peter Elliott* and Uwe Kolitsch

*E-mail: peter.elliott@adelaide.edu.au..

New structure type

Monoclinic: P21/n; structure determined

a = 6.2040(12), b = 19.619(4), c = 7.7821(16) A ˚ ,

b = 90.67(3)o

9.826(66), 7.296(14), 6.134(100), 4.368(10),

3.368(15), 3.069(15), 2.778(10), 2.648(10)

Type material is deposited in the mineralogical

collections of the South Australian Museum,

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, registration

number G32512

How to cite: Elliott, P. and Kolitsch, U. (2015)

Vanderheydenite, IMA 2014-076. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 56;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-077

Ralphcannonite

AgZn2TlAs2S6

Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley,

Canton Valais, Switzerland (46º21’54’’N,

8º13’15’’E)

Luca Bindi*, Cristian Biagioni, Thomas Raber,

Philippe Roth and Fabrizio Nestola

*E-mail: luca.bindi@unifi.it..

Routhierite isotypic series

Tetragonal: I4¯ 2m; structure determined

a = 9.861(2), c = 11.125(3) A ˚

4.100(85), 3.471(40), 3.118(17), 2.954(100),

2.656(20), 2.583(17), 2.465(24), 2.460(39)

Type material is deposited in the mineralogical

collections of the Museo di Storia Naturale,

Universita` di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, Firenze,

Italy, catalogue number 3145/I

How to cite: Bindi, L., Biagioni, C., Raber, T.,

Roth, P. and Nestola, F. (2015) Ralphcannonite,

IMA 2014-077. CNMNC Newsletter No. 23,

February 2015, page 56; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-078

Svornostite

K2Mg[(UO2)(SO4)2]2·8H2O

Geschieber vein, 5th level of the Svornost mine,

Ja´chymov ore district, Western Bohemia, Czech

Republic (50º22’21’’N, 12º54’42’’E)

Jakub Pla´sˇil*, Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Jan

Hlousˇek, Milan Nova´k, Jirˇı´ Cˇ ejka and Ladislav

Lapcˇa´k

*E-mail: plasil@fzu.cz

New structure type

Orthorhombic: Pmn21; structure determined

a = 12.7850(3), b = 8.2683(4), c = 11.2163(3) A ˚

8.279(50), 6.398(100), 5.060(55), 4.645(40),

4.610(38), 3.881(34), 3.318(44), 3.009(44)

Type material is deposited in the collections of

the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia,

registration number 4537/1

How to cite: Pla´sˇil, J., Kasatkin, A.V., Hlousˇek,

J., Nova´k, M., Cˇ ejka, J. and Lapcˇa´k, L. (2015)

Svornostite, IMA 2014-078. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 56;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-079

Jezˇekite

Na8[(UO2)(CO3)3](SO4)2·3H2O

Geschieber vein, 5th level of the Svornost mine,

Ja´chymov ore district, Western Bohemia, Czech

Republic (50º22’21’’N, 12º54’42’’E)

Jakub Pla´sˇil*, Jan Hlousˇek, Anatoly V.

Kasatkin, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, Jirˇı´ Cˇ ejka and

Dmitry Chernishov

*E-mail: plasil@fzu.cz

New structure type

Hexagonal: P6¯ 2m; structure determined

a = 9.0664(11), c = 6.9110(6) A ˚

7.861(59), 6.925(20), 5.193(100), 4.534(44),

3.415(23), 2.751(17), 2.728(20), 2.618(25)

Type material is deposited in the collections of

the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia,

registration number 4606/1

How to cite: Pla´sˇil, J., Hlousˇek, J., Kasatkin,

A.V., Belakovskiy, D.I., Cˇ ejka, J. and

Chernishov, D. (2015) Jezˇekite, IMA 2014-079.

CNMNC Newsletter No. 23, February 2015,

page 56; Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-080

Pd2Si

Kapalagulu Intrusion, Lake Tanganyika,

Tanzania (30º03’51’’E, 5º53’16’’S and

30º05’37’’E, 5º54’26’’S), and the UG-2 chromitite,

Bushveld Complex, South Africa

Louis J. Cabri*, Andrew M. McDonald, Chris J.

Stanley, Nikolay S. Rudashevsky, Glenn Poirier,

Harry R. Wilhelmij, William Zhe and Vladimir

N. Rudashevsky

*E-mail: lcabri@sympatico.ca

Known synthetic analogue

Hexagonal: P6¯ 2m

a = 6.496(5), c = 3.433(4) A ˚

2.35(vs), 2.16(s), 2.12(s), 1.87(m), 1.71(m),

1.41(m), 1.33(m), 1.21(m)

Type material has been deposited in the

collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature,

Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, catalogue number

CMNMC 86891

How to cite: Cabri, L.J., McDonald, A.M.,

Stanley, C.J., Rudashevsky, N.S., Poirier, G.,

Wilhelmij, H.R., Zhe, W. and Rudashevsky,

V.N. (2015) IMA 2014-080. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 56;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-081

Arsmirandite

Na18Cu12Fe3+O8(AsO4)8Cl5

Arsenatnaya fumarole, Second scoria cone of

the Northern Breakthrough of the Great

Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, Tolbachik volcano,

Kamchatka Peninsula, Far-Eastern Region,

Russia (55º41’N, 160º14’E, 1200 m asl).

Igor V. Pekov*, Sergey N. Britvin, Vasiliy O.

Yapaskurt, Yury S. Polekhovsky, Sergey V.

Krivovichev, Marina F. Vigasina and Evgeny G.

Sidorov

*E-mail: igorpekov@mail.ru

New structure type

Monoclinic: C2/m; structure determined

a = 10.742(2), b = 21.019(3), c = 11.787(2) A ˚ ,

b = 117.06(3)º

10.58(79), 8.74(100), 5.381(46), 5.288(80),

3.770(33), 2.693(28), 2.643(30), 2.574(74)

Type material is deposited in the collections of

the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia,

registration number 4613/1

How to cite: Pekov, I.V., Britvin, S.N.,

Yapaskurt, V.O., Polekhovsky, Y.S.,

Krivovichev, S.V., Vigasina, M.F. and Sidorov,

E.G. (2015) Arsmirandite, IMA 2014-081.

CNMNC Newsletter No. 23, February 2015,

page 57; Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 5158.

IMA No. 2014-082

Tvrdy´ ite

Fe2+Fe3+

2 Al3(PO4)4(OH)5(H2O)4·2H2O

Huber open pit, Kra´sno ore district, Slavkovsky´

Les Mountains, Czech Republic (50º07’22’’N,

12º48’2’’E)

Jiri Sejkora*, Ian E. Grey, Anthony R. Kampf

and Jason R. Price

*E-mail: jiri_sejkora@nm.cz

Isostructural with beraunite

Monoclinic: C2/c; structure determined

a = 20.564(4), b = 5.101(1), c = 18.883(4) A ˚ ,

b = 93.68(3)º

10.227(100), 9.400(6), 7.156(14), 5.120(7),

3.416(11), 3.278(6), 2.562(5), 2.051(3)

Type material is housed in the collections of the

Department of Mineralogy and Petrology,

National Museum Prague, Cirkusova´ 1740, CZ-

193 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic, catalogue

number P1P 11/2014

How to cite: Sejkora, J., Grey, I.E., Kampf, A.R.

and Price, J.R. (2015) Tvrdy´ ite, IMA 2014-082.

CNMNC Newsletter No. 23, February 2015,

page 57; Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-083

Agmantinite

Ag2MnSnS4

Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon

district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru

(10º37’15’’S, 76º48’0’’W)

Frank N. Keutsch*, Dan Topa, Rie Takagi

Fredrickson, Emil Makovicky and Werner Paar

*E-mail: keutsch@chem.wisc.edu

Structurally related to wurtzite

Orthorhombic: P21nm; structure determined

a = 6.632(2), b = 6.922(2), c = 8.156(2) A ˚

3.51(s), 3.32(w), 3.11(vs), 2.42(w), 2.04(m),

1.88(m), 1.73(m)

Type material is deposited in the reference

collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum

Wien, Wien, Austria, specimen number N 9736

How to cite: Keutsch, F.N., Topa, D., Takagi

Fredrickson, R., Makovicky, E. and Paar, W.

(2015) Agmantinite, IMA 2014-083. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 57;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


NEW MINERAL PROPOSALS APPROVED IN JANUARY 2015


IMA No. 2014-084

Abuite

CaAl2(PO4)2F2

Hinomaru-Nago mine, Kiyo area, Abu, Abu

County, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan (34º53’N

131º52’E)

Satomi Enju and Seiichiro Uehara*

*E-mail: uehara@geo.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Known synthetic analogue (with Sr in the place

of Ca)

Orthorhombic: P212121

a = 11.818(2), b = 11.993(3), c = 4.6872(8) A ˚

4.362(25), 3.683(32), 3.529(43), 3.139(86),

2.951(100), 2.928(80), 2.183(24), 2.046(21)

Type material is deposited in the collections of

the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and

Human History, Kitakyushu, Japan, registered

number KMNHM000003

How to cite: Enju, S. and Uehara, S. (2015)

Abuite, IMA 2014-084. CNMNC Newsletter

No. 23, February 2015, page 58; Mineralogical

Magazine, 79, 51-58.


IMA No. 2014-085

Lipuite

KNa8Mn3+

5 Mg0.5[Si12O30(OH)4](PO4)O2(OH)2·4H2O

N’Chwaning III mine, Kalahari Manganese

Fields, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

(27º7’50.81’’S, 22º50’28.83’’E)

Hexiong Yang*, Xiangping Gu, Xiande Xie,

Jaco J. van Nieuwenhuizen, Stanley H. Evans

and Robert T. Downs

*E-mail: hyang@u.arizona.edu

New structure type

Orthorhombic: Pnnm; structure determined

a = 9.080(3), b = 12.222(3), c = 17.093(5) A ˚

9.955(52), 4.853(68), 3.965(52), 2.889(100),

2.772(49), 2.617(57), 2.477(68), 2.084(65)

Cotype material is deposited in the collections

of the Mineral Museum of the University of

Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, catalogue

number 20010, and the RRUFF Project,

deposition number R140496

How to cite: Yang, H., Gu, X., Xie, X., van

Nieuwenhuizen, J.J., Evans, S.H. and Downs,

R.T. (2015) Lipuite, IMA 2014-085. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 58;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.


REVISION OF CHEMICAL FORMULA APPROVED IN JANUARY 2015


IMA 14-I: Aradite

In the original submission of the mineral aradite

(IMA 2013-047) the authors erroneously used

EPMA results of another grain; therefore aradite

was approved with an incorrect chemical

formula (see CNMNC Newsletter 17). The

correct end-member formula of aradite is

BaCa6[(SiO4)(VO4)](VO4)2F.


REVISED CHEMICAL FORMULA


A paper on the mineral camerolaite has been

published recently [Mineralogical Magazine,

78, 15271552 (2014)] in which the ideal

chemical formula of the mineral is given as

Cu6Al3(OH)18(H2O)2[Sb(OH)6](SO4). In this

formula (CO3) is lacking, while it was present as

an essential component in the previously

accepted formula of camerolaite. These data

were examined carefully by the CNMNC

officers and were considered reliable.

Accordingly it was agreed to modify the

formula of camerolaite in the official IMA List

of Minerals.


ERRATUM


IMA No. 2014-044 Wetherillite

In CNMNC Newsletter 22, the mineral name

was typed incorrectly as whetherillite. The

correct name is wetherillite.

26th Mar 2015 21:03 UTCMartin Rich Expert

Thank you Marco for your great work!

Question: Has IMA No. 2014-080 (Pd2Si) no name so far?

27th Mar 2015 05:36 UTCMarco E. Ciriotti Manager

Here the complete information on IMA 2014-080:


IMA No. 2014-080

Palladosilicide

Pd2Si

Kapalagulu Intrusion, Lake Tanganyika,

Tanzania (30º03’51’’E, 5º53’16’’S and

30º05’37’’E, 5º54’26’’S), and the UG-2 chromitite,

Bushveld Complex, South Africa

Louis J. Cabri*, Andrew M. McDonald, Chris J.

Stanley, Nikolay S. Rudashevsky, Glenn Poirier,

Harry R. Wilhelmij, William Zhe and Vladimir

N. Rudashevsky

*E-mail: lcabri@sympatico.ca

Known synthetic analogue

Hexagonal: P6¯ 2m

a = 6.496(5), c = 3.433(4) A ˚

2.35(vs), 2.16(s), 2.12(s), 1.87(m), 1.71(m),

1.41(m), 1.33(m), 1.21(m)

Type material has been deposited in the

collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature,

Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, catalogue number

CMNMC 86891

How to cite: Cabri, L.J., McDonald, A.M.,

Stanley, C.J., Rudashevsky, N.S., Poirier, G.,

Wilhelmij, H.R., Zhe, W. and Rudashevsky,

V.N. (2015) IMA 2014-080. CNMNC

Newsletter No. 23, February 2015, page 56;

Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 51-58.

30th Mar 2015 12:53 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager

Abuite added.

1st Apr 2015 19:28 UTCKnut Edvard Larsen 🌟 Manager

08816710016022874472100.jpg
The name Ježekite (IMA2014-079) has already been used by Slavik (1914) for a mineral from Greifenstein, Saxony, Germany.

Slavik F. (1914): Sur les phosphates ternaires de Al2O3 etc.. Bulletin de la Société française de minéralogie 37, 152-162.


The mineral was later descredited = Morinite http://www.mindat.org/min-2785.html,

Fisher, D. J. (1962): Ježekite is morinite. American Mineralogist, 47, 398-400

This crystal drawing is from Fisher (1962)





The old entry Ježekite has been changed to Ježekite (of Slavik), and Ježekite (IMA2014-079) has been entered.

1st Apr 2015 20:18 UTCKnut Edvard Larsen 🌟 Manager

All new minerals added to the database.
 
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