European Journal of Mineralogy
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Articles | Volume 35, issue 1
Articles | Volume 35, issue 1
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Articles | Volume 35, issue 1
CNMNC Newsletter
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06 Feb 2023
CNMNC Newsletter |  | 06 Feb 2023

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

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

  • Citation details for the mineral prior to publication of full description

Citation details concern the fact that this information will be published in the European Journal of Mineralogy on a routine basis, as well as being added month by month to the commission's website. It is still a requirement for the authors to publish a full description of the new mineral.

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: R3‾; 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-(□)

  • (Nb0.8□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: R3‾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: Fd3‾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

  • MgNi22+(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(Ag0.5Fe0.52+)TlPb23.5(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: P1‾; 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: Pn3‾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.

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