IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 71

Bosi, Ferdinando; Miyawaki, Ritsuro; Hatert, Frédéric; Pasero, Marco; Mills, Stuart J.

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IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 71

Ferdinando Bosi, Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

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Received: 25 Jan 2023 – Published: 06 Feb 2023

The information given here is provided by the IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification for comparative purposes and as a service to mineralogists working on new species.

Each mineral is described in the following format:

Mineral name, if the authors agree on its release prior to the full description appearing in press
Chemical formula (ideal formula)
Mineral symbol
Type locality
Full authorship of proposal
E-mail address of corresponding author
Relationship to other minerals
Crystal system, Space group; Structure determined, yes or no
Unit-cell parameters
Strongest lines in the X-ray powder diffraction pattern
Type specimen repository and specimen number
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No other information will be released by the commission.

1 New mineral proposals approved in December 2022

IMA no. 2020-040

Fabritzite
Zn₉(SO₄)₂(OH)₁₂Cl₂ • 6H₂O
Fbz
Hilarion mine (between third and fourth level), Kamariza area, Agios Konstantinos, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Greece
Uwe Kolitsch^*, Branko Rieck, Dan Topa, Gerald Giester, and Manuela Zeug
^* E-mail: uwe.kolitsch@nhm-wien.ac.at
Closely related to gordaite
Trigonal: $R \overline{3}$ ; structure determined
a = 8.275(1), c = 32.000(6) Å
10.667(100), 5.333(13), 4.138(10), 3.854(10), 2.699(10), 2.566(19), 2.330(8), 1.564(8)
Cotype material is deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria, catalogue number O 356 (three specimens)
How to cite: Kolitsch, U., Rieck, B., Topa, D., Giester, G., and Zeug, M.: Fabritzite, IMA 2020-040, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2021-002a

Nioboixiolite-(□)
(Nb_0.8□_0.2)⁴⁺O₂
Nbix-□
Bayan Obo Mine, Inner Mongolia region, China (41^∘47^′25^′′ N, 109^∘50^′00^′′ E)
Yike Li^*, Changhui Ke, Denghong Wang, Zhenyu Chen, Guowu Li, Anjian Wang, Ruiping Li, Le Hu, Hong Yu, and Yonggang Zhao
^* E-mail: like430@cags.ac.cn
Columbite supergroup
Orthorhombic: Pbcn; structure determined
a = 4.7071(5), b = 5.7097(7), c = 5.1111(6) Å
3.662(20), 2.975(100), 2.566(10), 2.501(20), 2.096(10), 1.770(20), 1.718(15), 1.458(20)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Geological Museum of China, Yangrou Hutong No. 15, Xisi, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China, catalogue number M16118
How to cite: Li, Y., Ke, C., Wang, D., Chen, Z., Li, G., Wang, A., Li, R., Hu, L., Yu, H., and Zhao, Y.: Nioboixiolite-(□), IMA 2021-002a, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-076

Andrieslombaardite
RhSbS
Alo
Onverwacht platinum pipe, Limpopo Province, South Africa (24^∘39^′9.04^′′ S, 30^∘09^′59.57^′′ E)
Louis J. Cabri^*, Andrew M. McDonald, Thomas Oberthür, Nobumichi Tamura, Anna Vymazalová, Kirk C. Ross, and Frank Melcher
^* E-mail: lcabri@outlook.com
Cobaltite group
Cubic: P2₁3
a = 6.0278(4) Å
4.262(40), 3.014(63), 2.695(96), 2.461(59), 2.131(39), 1.817(100), 1.672(29), 1.611(32)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St, Ottawa, ON K2P 2R1, Canada, catalogue number CMNMC 90353
How to cite: Cabri, L. J., McDonald, A. M., Oberthür, T., Tamura, N., Vymazalová, A., Ross, K. C., and Melcher, F.: Andrieslombaardite, IMA 2022-076, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-093

Fluoralforsite
Ba₅(PO₄)₃F
Fafr
Hatrurim Basin (Negev Desert), Hatrurim Complex, Israel
Arkadiusz Krzątała^*, Katarzyna Nowak, Georgia Cametti, Irina Galuskina, Yevgeny Vapnik, and Evgeny Galuskin
^* E-mail: arkadiusz.krzatala@us.edu.pl
Apatite supergroup
Hexagonal: P6₃/m; structure determined
a = 9.9981(1), c = 7.5323(1) Å
3.776(20), 3.454(32), 3.273(35), 3.008(76), 3.002(100), 2.886(47), 2.083(29), 1.992(29)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum, Bernastrasse 15, 3005 Bern, Switzerland, catalogue number 44951
How to cite: Krzątała, A., Nowak, K., Cametti, G., Galuskina, I., Vapnik, Y., and Galuskin, E.: Fluoralforsite, IMA 2022-093, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-094

Tzeferisite
CaZn₈(SO₄)₂(OH)₁₂Cl₂(H₂O)₉
Tze
Ary Mine, Dimoliaki mines, Dimoliaki, Lavrion Mining District, Lavreotiki, Attica, Greece
Branko Rieck^*, Irene Liebhart, Gerald Giester, Eugen Libowitzky, N. Chutimun Chanmuang, and Uwe Kolitsch
^* E-mail: rieckb49@univie.ac.at
Known synthetic (anthropogenic) analogue
Trigonal: $R \overline{3} c$ ; structure determined
a = 8.3693(12), c = 67.7943(1) Å
11.31(100), 5.655(40), 4.186(20), 4.030(20), 3.365(30), 3.073(20), 2.732(30), 2.504(35)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria, catalogue number O2549
How to cite: Rieck, B., Liebhart, I., Giester, G., Libowitzky, E., Chanmuang, N. C., and Kolitsch, U.: Tzeferisite, IMA 2022-094, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-095

Plumbogaidonnayite
PbZrSi₃O₉ • 2H₂O
Pgdn
Saima peralkaline complex, about 50 km northeast of Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province, China (40^∘58^′20.6^′′ N, 124^∘16^′27.8^′′ E)
Bin Wu, Xiang-ping Gu^*, Can Rao, Rucheng Wang, Xing-qing Xing, Jian-jun Wan, and Fu-jun Zhong
^* E-mail: guxp2004@163.com
Gaidonnayite group
Orthorhombic: P2₁nb; structure determined
a = 11.7690(4), b = 12.9867(3), c = 6.6616(2) Å
6.489(36), 5.803(100), 4.661(27), 4.336(29), 3.640(30), 3.114(79), 2,947(27), 2.622(27)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Geological Museum of China, No. 16 Yangrou Hutong, Xisi, Beijing 100031, People's Republic of China, catalogue number M16139
How to cite: Wu, B., Gu, X., Rao, C., Wang, R., Xing, X., Wan, J., and Zhong, F.: Plumbogaidonnayite, IMA 2022-095, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-096

Okruginite
Cu₂SnSe₃
Okg
Ozernovskoe Au deposit, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia (57^∘35^′36^′′ N, 160^∘50^′60^′′ E)
Anna Vymazalová^*, Vladimir V. Kozlov, František Laufek, Chris J. Stanley, and Ilya A. Shkilev
^* E-mail: anna.vymazalova@geology.cz
Chemically, the Se analogue of mohite
Monoclinic: Cc; structure determined
a = 6.9906(2), b = 12.0712(3), c = 6.9723(2) Å, β = 109.353(10)^∘
3.298(54), 3.289(53), 3.286(100), 2.018(23), 2.016(46), 2.013(50), 2.012(24), 1.717(15)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom, catalogue number BM 2021,02
How to cite: Vymazalová, A., Kozlov, V. V., Laufek, F., Stanley, C. J., and Shkilev, I. A.: Okruginite, IMA 2022-096, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-097

Manuelarossiite
PbCaAlF₇
Mnrs
From a fumarole after the 1944 eruption of the Vesuvius volcano, Naples province, Campania, Italy
Fabrizio Nestola, Anatoly V. Kasatkin^*, Cristian Biagioni, Radek Škoda, Lisa Santello, and Atali A. Agakhanov
^* E-mail: anatoly.kasatkin@gmail.com
Chemically and structurally related to calcioaravaipaite
Monoclinic: C2/m; structure determined
a = 7.6754(3), b = 7.4443(4), c = 9.2870(5) Å, β = 93.928(5)^∘
9.265(78), 4.532(79), 3.722(74), 3.627(100), 3.584(81), 3.454(83), 3.419(96), 2.669(55)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt 18-2, Moscow 119071, Russia, registration number 5920/1
How to cite: Nestola, F., Kasatkin, A. V., Biagioni, C., Škoda, R., Santello, L., and Agakhanov, A. A.: Manuelarossiite, IMA 2022-097, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-100

Olsenite
KFe₄(PO₄)₃
Ose
El Ali meteorite, found in 2020 close to Hiiraan, Somalia
Chi Ma^*, Christopher D. K. Herd, and Andrew J. Locock
^* E-mail: chima@caltech.edu
New structure type
Orthorhombic: Pnnm
a = 9.81(1), b = 16.51(1), c = 6.27(1) Å
8.255(100), 5.861(69), 3.804(32), 3.158(69), 3.040(64), 2.922(30), 2.642(59), 2.516(71)
Type material is deposited in the meteorite collections of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1-26 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3, Canada, accession number MET11814
How to cite: Ma, C., Herd, C. D. K., and Locock, A. J.: Olsenite, IMA 2022-100, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-101

Ezochiite
Cu⁺(Rh³⁺Pt⁴⁺)S₄
Ezo
Near the sea shore, Tomamae town, Hokkaido, Japan (44^∘17^′09^′′ N, 141^∘38^′58^′′ E)
Daisuke Nishio-Hamane^* and Katsuyuki Saito
^* E-mail: hamane@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Thiospinel group
Cubic: Fd $\overline{3} m$
a = 9.865(4) Å
2.96(98), 2.45(76), 2.25(44), 1.897(100), 1.505(22), 1.487(20), 1.382(25), 1.284(37)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba 305-0005, Japan, specimen number NSM-M49764
How to cite: Nishio-Hamane, D. and Saito, K.: Ezochiite, IMA 2022-101, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-102

Mikenewite
Mn²⁺(S⁴⁺O₃) • 3H₂O
Mnw
San Judas Chimney, Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico (25^∘47^′36^′′ N, 103^∘47^′27^′′ W)
Hexiong Yang^*, Robert A. Jenkins, James A. McGlasson, Ronald B. Gibbs, and Robert T. Downs
^* E-mail: hyang@arizona.edu
A dimorph of gravegliaite, and the Mn²⁺ analogue of albertiniite
Monoclinic: P2₁/n; structure determined
a = 6.6390(3), b = 8.8895(4), c = 8.7900(4) Å, β = 96.095(2)^∘
5.547(42), 4.707(100), 4.367(38), 3.947(49), 3.924(49), 3.327(60), 3.097(45), 2.774(57)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the University of Arizona Alfie Norville Gem and Mineral Museum, 115 N Church Ave Ste 121, Tucson, AZ 85701, USA, catalogue no. 22724 (holotype), and the RRUFF Project, deposition no. R210021 (cotype)
How to cite: Yang, H., Jenkins, R. A., McGlasson, J. A., Gibbs, R. B., and Downs, R. T.: Mikenewite, IMA 2022-102, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

2 New mineral proposals approved in January 2023

IMA no. 2022-104

Hokkaidoite
C₂₂H₁₂
Hkd
Shikaribetsu area, Kita-urimaku, Shikaoi-cho, Kato-gun, Hokkaido, Japan (43^∘16^′ N, 143^∘05^′ E – type locality); Aibetsu mercury mine, Asahiyama, Aibetsu-cho, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido, Japan (43^∘56^′00^′′ N, 142^∘44^′00^′′ E – cotype locality)
Ryoji Tanaka^*, Akihito Hagiwara, Takashi Ishibashi, and Yuki Inoue
^* E-mail: polysilane@gmail.com
Known synthetic analogue
Monoclinic: P2₁/c; structure determined
a = 9.8422(9), b = 11.866(5), c = 11.722(2) Å, β = 98.76(1)^∘
9.855(100), 8.348(34), 6.710(11), 5.346(15), 4.156(24), 3.978(13), 3.608(11), 3.191(11)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba 305-0005, Japan, registration number NMS-M49763 (holotype) and NMS-M49765 (cotype)
How to cite: Tanaka, R., Hagiwara, A., Ishibashi, T., and Inoue, Y.: Hokkaidoite, IMA 2022-104, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-105

Nacareniobsite-(Y)
Na₃Ca₃YNb(Si₂O₇)₂OF₃
Nns-Y
Darai-Pioz alkaline massif, upper reaches of the Darai-Pioz River, Tajikistan (39^∘30^′ N, 70^∘40^′ E)
Atali A. Agakhanov^*, Maxwell C. Day, Elena Sokolova, Vladimir Y. Karpenko, Frank C. Hawthorne, Leonid A. Pautov, Igor V. Pekov, Ànatoly V. Kasatkin, and Vitaliya A. Agakhanova
^* E-mail: atali99@mail.ru
Seidozerite supergroup
Monoclinic: P2₁/c; structure determined
a = 7.408(3), b = 5.665(2), c = 18.82(2) Å, β = 101.37(5)^∘
5.44(31), 3.591(26), 3.068(100), 2.944(45), 2.801(23), 2.707(32), 2.023(25), 1.853(29)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt 18-2, Moscow 119071, Russia, registration number 5488/1
How to cite: Agakhanov, A. A., Day, M. C., Sokolova, E., Karpenko, V. Y., Hawthorne, F. C., Pautov, L. A., Pekov, I. V., Kasatkin, A. V., and Agakhanova, V. A.: Nacareniobsite-(Y), IMA 2022-105, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-107

Wortupaite
MgNi $_{2}^{2 +}$ (Te⁴⁺O₃)₃ • 3H₂O
Wor
Wortupa gold mine, 12 km north-north-east of Balcanoona Station, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia (30^∘26^′06^′′ S, 139^∘14^′29^′′ E)
Owen P. Missen^*, Stuart J. Mills, Joel Brugger, William D. Birch, and Peter Elliott
^* E-mail: omissen@museum.vic.gov.au
Structurally related to zemannite
Hexagonal: P6₃/m; structure determined
a = 9.221(1), c = 7.515(1) Å
8.059(93), 4.034(92), 2.832(43), 2.769(100), 2.332(30), 1.920(45), 1.782(22), 1.718(39)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Museums Victoria, P.O. Box 666, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia, specimen number M2021
How to cite: Missen, O. P., Mills, S. J., Brugger, J., Birch, W. D., and Elliott, P.: Wortupaite, IMA 2022-107, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-110

Ginelfite
Ag₂(Ag_0.5Fe $_{0.5}^{2 +}$ )TlPb_23.5(Sb,As)_33.5S₇₆
Glf
Jas Roux, La Chapelle-en-Valgaudemar, Gap, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (44^∘44^′45^′′ N, 6^∘19^′18^′′ E)
Cristian Biagioni^*, Jiří Sejkora, Yves Moëlo, Georges Favreau, Vincent Bourgoin, Jean-Claude Boulliard, Elena Bonaccorsi, Daniela Mauro, Silvia Musetti, Marco Pasero, Natale Perchiazzi, and Jana Ulmanová
^* E-mail: cristian.biagioni@unipi.it
New structure type
Triclinic: $P \overline{1}$ ; structure determined
a = 8.3692(7), b = 27.540(2), c = 29.177(2) Å, α = 95.455(3), β = 93.852(3), γ = 94.132(3)^∘
4.168(w), 3.413(s), 2.965(s), 2.805(ms), 2.729(ms), 2.091(vs), 1.872(ms), 1.785(ms)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Pisa, Via Roma 79, Calci (PI), Italy, catalogue number 20023, and the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic, catalogue number P1P 31/2022
How to cite: Biagioni, C., Sejkora, J., Moëlo, Y., Favreau, G., Bourgoin, V., Boulliard, J.-C., Bonaccorsi, E., Mauro, D., Musetti, S., Pasero, M., Perchiazzi, N., and Ulmanová, J.: Ginelfite, IMA 2022-110, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

IMA no. 2022-111

Wangpuite
K₃(PO₄)(Mo₁₂O₃₆)
Wpu
Freedom #2 mine, Central Mining Area, about 5.6 km north-northeast of the town of Marysvale, Plute Co., Utah, USA (38^∘29^′43^′′ N, 112^∘12^′55^′′ W)
Xiangping Gu^*, Hexiong Yang, Joe Marty, Ronald B. Gibbs, and Mingyue He
^* E-mail: guxp2004@163.com
Known synthetic analogue
Cubic: Pn $\overline{3} m$ ; structure determined
a=11.6148(1) Å
8.208(34), 4.736(13), 3.348(100), 2.902(30), 2.474(14), 2.277(12), 2.053(13), 1.643(12)
Type material is deposited in the collections of the University of Arizona Alfie Norville Gem and Mineral Museum, 115 N Church Ave Ste 121, Tucson, AZ 85701, USA, catalogue no. 22726 (holotype), and the RRUFF Project, deposition no. R220030 (cotype)
How to cite: Gu, X., Yang, H., Marty, J., Gibbs, R. B., and He, M.: Wangpuite, IMA 2022-111, in: CNMNC Newsletter 71, Eur. J. Mineral., 35, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023.

3 Symbol for asagiite

The correct symbol for the new mineral asagiite (IMA no. 2022-065) is Asa, and not Asg, as given in CNMNC Newsletter 70.

4 Nomenclature/classification proposals approved in December 2022

Akrochordite group

The akrochordite group is established. It consists of three mineral species: akrochordite, MnMn₂Mn₂(AsO₄)₂(OH)₄(H₂O)₄, guanacoite, MgCu₂Mg₂(AsO₄)₂(OH)₄(H₂O)₄, and vargite, MnCu₂Mn₂(AsO₄)₂(OH)₄(H₂O)₄.