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Mineralogical ClassificationOn the crystal-chemistry of rosasite and parádsasvárite

11th Dec 2017 08:51 UTCMarco E. Ciriotti Manager

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▪ Perchiazzi, N., Demitri, N., Fehér, B., Vignola, P. (2017): On the Crystal-chemistry of Rosasite and Parádsasvárite. Canadian Mineralogist, 55, 1027-1040.


Abstract:

We report the results of mineralogical and structural studies of parádsasvárite from Rudabánya, Hungary, and rosasite from Hayden, Arizona (USA). A preliminary investigation of the two minerals, which belong to the rosasite–malachite group, was conducted using Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and EPMA. Parádsasvárite has the chemical formula (Zn1.91Cu0.06Mg0.02)Σ1.99(CO3)(OH)2, ideally Zn2(CO3)(OH)2, and rosasite has the formula (Cu1.14Zn0.84Mg0.02)Σ2(CO)3(OH)2, matching the general formula CuZn(CO3)(OH)2.

The first single-crystal full structural study of rosasite from Hayden, based on synchrotron X-ray data, is reported here and fully confirms the results obtained by Perchiazzi (2006) on the basis of X-ray powder data. The presence of structural disorder in Cu-Zn distribution in these minerals is indicated by the streaking of reflections along c*. Rosasite is monoclinic, P21/a, a 12.2436(29) Å, b 9.3555(19) Å, c 3.1535(6) Å, β = 98.69(3)°, and its crystal structure was refined to R1 = 12.4%, wR2 = 35.5%. The presence of Cu2+ causes a Jahn-Teller distortion of coordination polyhedra, a major feature of the rosasite crystal structure, particularly evident in the Me1 coordination polyhedron, which is fully occupied by Cu.

A Rietveld study of parádsasvárite, based on synchrotron radiation data, shows it is isostructural with rosasite, monoclinic P21/a, a 12.253(4) Å, b 9.348(3) Å, c 3.167(1) Å, β = 97.700(4)°, and its crystal structure was refined to R1 = 1.45%, wR2 = 2.45%. The Me1 and Me2 coordination polyhedra in parádsasvárite, the former hosting Zn with a minor presence of Cu, the latter fully occupied by Zn, are as expected both more regular than the corresponding polyhedra in rosasite.

Crystal-chemical considerations, based on literature chemical data for rosasite and Zn-rich malachite, indicate that a minimum Cu content of 0.4–0.5 apfu is necessary to stabilize the malachite-type structure.

11th Dec 2017 10:26 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

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