At the Hagendorf-Süd pegmatite, Bavaria, phosphophyllite plays an important paragenetic role in the formation of numerous Zn-bearing secondary phosphate minerals. We report the results of studies conducted on the alteration of phosphophyllite in a heavily corroded triphylite nodule from the 67 m level of the pegmatite mine. The most abundant secondary phosphate minerals associated with phosphophyllite are oxidized schoonerite-group minerals, including the new mineral schmidite, [5]Zn[6], whose formation is contemporaneous with phosphophyllite. The phosphophyllite crystals in the nodule are characteristically covered with a composite rind of epitactic Zn-rich jahnsite crystals on the phosphophyllite surface overlain by an orange-yellow amorphous Zn-bearing ferric phosphate and/or green mitridatite. The jahnsite crystals are compositionally zoned into two-phase domains based on their Ca/Zn contents. The low-Zn domains are jahnsite-(CaMnMn) whereas the high-Zn domains correspond to a potentially new species, “jahnsite-(CaMnZn)”. The amorphous phase coating the jahnsite crystals has Zn levels similar to those in jahnsite, and is probably derived from its alteration. Its properties are consistent with it being a Zn-bearing santabarbaraite. Younger idiomorphic crystals of laueite, earlshannonite and zincostrunzite occur on the phosphophyllite rind. The laueite crystals have a surface layer, ∼5 µm thick, in which Mn is replaced completely by a 1:1 atomic mixture of Zn + Mg, giving a composition . The composition of the surface phase is explained by configurational-entropy stabilisation. The earlshannonite crystals commonly grow epitactically on the laueite, yet despite the close association, they are Zn-bearing only, with very low Mg contents. Single-crystal structure refinements have been done on both (Zn + Mg)-bearing laueite and Zn-bearing earlshannonite and all H atoms were located in both cases. Structural models are presented for the epitactic growth of jahnsite on phosphophyllite and earlshannonite on laueite.
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September 01, 2018
Secondary Zn-bearing phosphate minerals associated with alteration of phosphophyllite at Hagendorf-Süd, Bavaria
Ian E. Grey;
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CSIRO Mineral Resources
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Erich Keck;
Erich Keck
2
Algunderweg 3
, 92694Etzenricht, Germany
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Colin M. MacRae;
Colin M. MacRae
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CSIRO Mineral Resources
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A. Matt Glenn;
A. Matt Glenn
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CSIRO Mineral Resources
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W. Gus Mumme;
W. Gus Mumme
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Anthony R. Kampf;
Anthony R. Kampf
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Mineral Sciences Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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John D. Cashion
John D. Cashion
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Monash University, School of Physics and Astronomy
, Victoria3800, Australia
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Erich Keck
2
Algunderweg 3
, 92694Etzenricht, Germany
Colin M. MacRae
1
CSIRO Mineral Resources
, Private Bag 10, Clayton, 3169, Victoria, Australia
A. Matt Glenn
1
CSIRO Mineral Resources
, Private Bag 10, Clayton, 3169, Victoria, Australia
W. Gus Mumme
1
CSIRO Mineral Resources
, Private Bag 10, Clayton, 3169, Victoria, Australia
Anthony R. Kampf
3
Mineral Sciences Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA900007, USA
John D. Cashion
4
Monash University, School of Physics and Astronomy
, Victoria3800, Australia
Corresponding author, e-mail: ian.grey@csiro.au
Publisher: Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, Sociedad Española de Mineralogia, Societá Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, Société Francaise de Minéralogie
Received:
08 Jan 2018
Revision Received:
28 Feb 2018
Accepted:
28 Mar 2018
First Online:
05 Nov 2018
Online Issn: 1617-4011
Print Issn: 0935-1221
© 2018 E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, D-70176 Stuttgart
European Journal of Mineralogy (2018) 30 (5): 1007–1020.
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Received:
08 Jan 2018
Revision Received:
28 Feb 2018
Accepted:
28 Mar 2018
First Online:
05 Nov 2018
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Ian E. Grey, Erich Keck, Colin M. MacRae, A. Matt Glenn, W. Gus Mumme, Anthony R. Kampf, John D. Cashion; Secondary Zn-bearing phosphate minerals associated with alteration of phosphophyllite at Hagendorf-Süd, Bavaria. European Journal of Mineralogy 2018;; 30 (5): 1007–1020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1127/ejm/2018/0030-2763
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- alteration
- Bavaria Germany
- Central Europe
- chemical composition
- crystal structure
- electron probe data
- entropy
- epitaxy
- Europe
- Germany
- metals
- new minerals
- paragenesis
- phosphates
- refinement
- secondary minerals
- substitution
- triphylite
- X-ray diffraction data
- zinc
- laueite
- jahnsite
- mitridatite
- phosphophyllite
- earlshannonite
- santabarbaraite
- Hagendorf-Sud Pegmatite
- zincostrunzite
- schmidite
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