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New minerals, nomenclature, and classification
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New minerals, nomenclature, and classification |
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Tetrahedrite-(Cd), Cu6(Cu4Cd2)Sb4S13, from Radětice near Příbram, Czech Republic: the new Cd member of the tetrahedrite group
Jiří Sejkora
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Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic
Cristian Biagioni
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via Santa Maria, 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Pavel Škácha
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic
Mining Museum Příbram, Hynka Kličky Place 293, 261 01 Příbram VI, Czech Republic
Silvia Musetti
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via Santa Maria, 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Anatoly V. Kasatkin
Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt 18-2, 119071 Moscow, Russia
Fabrizio Nestola
Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6, 35131, Padua, Italy
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Yanjuan Wang, Fabrizio Nestola, Zengqian Hou, Xiangping Gu, Guochen Dong, Zhusen Yang, Guang Fan, Zhibin Xiao, and Kai Qu
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Bobtraillite is an extremely rare cyclosilicate with a unique composition and complex structure. In this paper, we describe the second occurrence of the extremely rare complex zirconium silicate. The results suggest that the ideal formula of bobtraillite could be written as (Na, □)12(□, Na)12Sr12Zr14(Si3O9)10[Si2BO7(OH)2]6·12H2O.
Luca Faccincani, Valerio Cerantola, Fabrizio Nestola, Paolo Nimis, Luca Ziberna, Leonardo Pasqualetto, Aleksandr I. Chumakov, Jeffrey W. Harris, and Massimo Coltorti
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We determined the physical conditions at the time of its entrapment for an inclusion pair hosted in a Siberian diamond (Udachnaya kimberlite) and found that it equilibrated under relatively oxidized conditions, near the enstatite–magnesite–olivine–diamond (EMOD) buffer, similarly to Udachnaya xenoliths originating from comparable depths. These results can be reconciled with models suggesting relatively oxidized, water-rich CHO fluids as the most likely parents for lithospheric diamonds.
Cristian Biagioni, Marco E. Ciriotti, Georges Favreau, Daniela Mauro, and Federica Zaccarini
Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 365–374, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-365-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-365-2022, 2022
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The paper reports the type description of the new mineral species graulichite-(La). This is a new addition to the dussertite group within the alunite supergroup, and its discovery improves our knowledge on the crystal chemistry of this important supergroup of minerals, having both technological and environmental applications.
Luboš Vrtiška, Jaromír Tvrdý, Jakub Plášil, Jiří Sejkora, Radek Škoda, Nikita V. Chukanov, Andreas Massanek, Jan Filip, Zdeněk Dolníček, and František Veselovský
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Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 717–726, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-717-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-717-2021, 2021
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Pavel Škácha, Jiří Sejkora, Jakub Plášil, Zdeněk Dolníček, and Jana Ulmanová
Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 175–187, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-175-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-175-2021, 2021
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Yves Moëlo and Cristian Biagioni
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Short summary
We present the description of new mineral – a Cd-dominant member of the tetrahedrite group, tetrahedrite-(Cd), from the Radětice deposit near Příbram, Czech Republic. All necessary data including crystal structure were successfully determined, and the mineral and its name have been approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International Mineralogical Association (number 2022-115).
We present the description of new mineral – a Cd-dominant member of the tetrahedrite group,...
