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Schmidite and wildenauerite, two new schoonerite-group minerals from the Hagendorf-Sud pegmatite, Oberpfalz, Bavaria

Ian E. Grey, Erich Keck, Anthony R. Kampf, John D. Cashion, Colin M. MacRae, Alexander M. Glenn and Yesim Gozukara
Schmidite and wildenauerite, two new schoonerite-group minerals from the Hagendorf-Sud pegmatite, Oberpfalz, Bavaria
Mineralogical Magazine (April 2019) 83 (2): 181-190

Abstract

Schmidite, Zn(Fe (super 3+) (sub 0.5) Mn (super 2+) (sub 0.5) ) (sub 2) ZnFe (super 3+) (PO (sub 4) ) (sub 3) (OH) (sub 3) (H (sub 2) O) (sub 8) and wildenauerite, Zn(Fe (super 3+) (sub 0.5) Mn (super 2+) (sub 0.5) ) (sub 2) Mn (super 2+) Fe (super 3+) (PO (sub 4) ) (sub 3) (OH) (sub 3) (H (sub 2) O) (sub 8) are two new oxidised schoonerite-group minerals from the Hagendorf-Sud pegmatite, Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Schmidite occurs as radiating sprays of orange-brown to copper-red laths on and near to altered phosphophyllite in a corroded triphylite nodule, whereas wildenauerite forms dense compacts of red laths, terminating Zn-bearing rockbridgeite. The minerals are biaxial (+) with alpha = 1.642(2), beta = 1.680(1), gamma = 1.735(2) and 2V (sub meas) = 81.4(8) degrees for schmidite, and with alpha = 1.659(3), beta = 1.687(3), gamma = 1.742(3) and 2V (sub meas) = 73(1) degrees for wildenauerite. Electron microprobe analyses, with H (sub 2) O from thermal analysis and FeO/Fe (sub 2) O (sub 3) from Mossbauer spectroscopy, gave FeO 0.4, MgO 0.3, Fe (sub 2) O (sub 3) 23.5, MnO 9.0, ZnO 15.5, P (sub 2) O (sub 5) 27.6, H (sub 2) O 23.3, total 99.6 wt.% for schmidite, and FeO 0.7, MgO 0.3, Fe (sub 2) O (sub 3) 25.2, MnO 10.7, ZnO 11.5, P (sub 2) O (sub 5) 27.2, H (sub 2) O 24.5, total 100.1 wt.% for wildenauerite. The empirical formulae, scaled to 3 P and with OH (super -) adjusted for charge balance are Zn (sub 1.47) Mn (super 2+) (sub 0.98) Mg (sub 0.05) Fe (super 2+) (sub 0.04) Fe (super 3+) (sub 2.27) (PO (sub 4) ) (sub 3) (OH) (sub 2.89) (H (sub 2) O) (sub 8.54) for schmidite and Zn (sub 1.11) Mn (super 2+) (sub 1.18) Mg (sub 0.05) Fe (super 2+) (sub 0.08) Fe (super 3+) (sub 2.47) (PO (sub 4) ) (sub 3) (OH) (sub 3.25) (H (sub 2) O) (sub 9.03) for wildenauerite. The two minerals have orthorhombic symmetry, space group Pmab and Z = 4. The unit-cell parameters from refinement of powder X-ray diffraction data are a = 11.059(1), b = 25.452(1) and c = 6.427(1) Aa for schmidite, and a = 11.082(1), b = 25.498(2) and c = 6.436(1) Aa for wildenauerite. The crystal structures of schmidite and wildenauerite differ from that of schoonerite in having minor partitioning of Zn from the (super [5]) Zn site to an adjacent vacant tetrahedral site (super [4]) Zn, separated by approximately 1.0 Aa from (super [5]) Zn. The two minerals are distinguished by the cation occupancies in the octahedral M1 to M3 sites. Schmidite has M1 = M2 = (Fe (super 3+) (sub 0.5) Mn (super 2+) (sub 0.5) ) and M3 = Zn and wildenauerite has M1 = M2 = (Fe (super 3+) (sub 0.5) Mn (super 2+) (sub 0.5) ) and M3 = Mn (super 2+) .


ISSN: 0026-461X
EISSN: 1471-8022
Coden: MNLMBB
Serial Title: Mineralogical Magazine
Serial Volume: 83
Serial Issue: 2
Title: Schmidite and wildenauerite, two new schoonerite-group minerals from the Hagendorf-Sud pegmatite, Oberpfalz, Bavaria
Affiliation: CSIRO Mineral Resources, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Pages: 181-190
Published: 201904
Text Language: English
Publisher: Mineralogical Society, London, United Kingdom
References: 19
Accession Number: 2019-065528
Categories: Mineralogy of non-silicatesIgneous and metamorphic petrology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. 11 tables
N49°37'00" - N49°40'60", E12°22'60" - E12°30'00"
Secondary Affiliation: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA, United StatesMonash University, AUS, AustraliaCSIRO Manufacturing, AUS, Australia
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2019, American Geosciences Institute. Abstract, Copyright, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Reference includes data from GeoScienceWorld, Alexandria, VA, United States
Update Code: 201934
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