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New minerals, nomenclature, and classification
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20 Jan 2025
New minerals, nomenclature, and classification |
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Dacostaite, K(Mg2Al)[Mg(H2O)6]2(AsO4)2F6 ⋅ 2H2O, a new fluoride–arsenate mineral from the Cetine di Cotorniano Mine (Tuscany, Italy)
Cristian Biagioni
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Centro per l'Integrazione della Strumentazione scientifica dell'Università di Pisa (CISUP), Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Daniela Mauro
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Pisa, Via Roma 79, 56011 Calci, Italy
Jiří Sejkora
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Zdeněk Dolníček
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Andrea Dini
Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Radek Škoda
Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
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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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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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The study of the original material of beraunite from the type locality Hrbek, Czech Rep., from collections of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany) and National Museum Prague (Czech Republic) proved the identity of the minerals beraunite and eleonorite. Because the name beraunite has priority, we consider the name eleonorite to be redundant and proposed to abolish it. The proposal 21-D approved by the IMA discredited eleonorite and accepted the formula of beraunite Fe3+6(PO4)4O(OH)4·6H2O.
Daniela Mauro, Cristian Biagioni, and Federica Zaccarini
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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This work reports the full crystal-chemical characterization of gersdorffite from Contrada Zillì (Peloritani Mountains, Sicily, Italy). The structural type shown by gersdorffite (ordered polytype 213) and its chemistry agree with low-temperature crystallization conditions. Moreover, the chemical zoning of the studied crystals recorded changes in the crystallization physicochemical conditions. This zoning may be due to a multistage crystallization, related to the evolution of the ore deposits.
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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Grimmite, sulfide of cobalt and nickel, is the new mineral for the mineralogical system.
Yves Moëlo and Cristian Biagioni
Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 623–635, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-623-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-623-2020, 2020
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The plagionite group is a family of complex sulfides (
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Short summary
Dacostaite is a new fluoride–arsenate mineral found in the Sb(Au) deposit of the Cetine di Cotorniano Mine (Tuscany, Italy). It shows a novel crystal structure formed by heteropolyhedral layers and isolated Mg(H2O)6 groups connected by H bonds. The heteropolyhedral layers are similar to those occurring in alunite-supergroup minerals, and this is a further example of the ability of nature to use similar modules in forming the large number of currently known structural arrangements.
Dacostaite is a new fluoride–arsenate mineral found in the Sb(Au) deposit of the Cetine di...
