[en] The new mineral bonacinaite (IMA2018-056), Sc(AsO 4) q 2H 2 O, was found on the dumps of the Varenche Mine (Saint-Barthélemy, Nus, Aosta Valley, Italy), an old manganese mine, where it occurs as a lowtemperature hydrothermal mineral associated mainly with quartz, granular braunite, undefined manganese oxides, arseniopleite, manganberzeliite and thortveitite. Bonacinaite forms colourless (with faint to distinct violet tints), pseudohexagonal, thick tabular crystals, up to 0.25 mm in size, sometimes with annular internal zones showing violet tinges, or as small, faintly violet lath-shaped crystals. The crystals are transparent and brittle, with vitreous lustre. The calculated density of an almost pure bonacinaite crystal is 2.82 g cm −3. Optically, bonacinaite is biaxial negative, α = 1.598(4), β = 1.618(3), and γ = 1.638(3) (measured with a Na light source, 589 nm); 2V (measured) is large, and 2V (calculated) = −88.9°. The empirical formula, based on six O atoms per formula unit is (Sc 0.90 Mn 3+ 0.08 Fe 3+ 0.01 Pb 0.01) 1.00 [(As 0.95 P 0.06) 1.01 O 4 ] q 2H 2 O. Bonacinaite has monoclinic symmetry, with space group P 2 1 /n and unit-cell parameters (single-crystal data / powder diffraction data) a = 5.533(1)/5.521(1), b = 10.409(2)/10.336(3), c = 9.036(2)/9.059(4) Å, β = 91.94(3)/91.97(4), V = 520.1(2)/516.7(3) Å 3 and Z = 4. The crystal structure was refined from single-crystal intensity data obtained from a distinctly Al-and P-bearing crystal to R 1 (F) = 3.7 % for 1178 reflections. Bonacinaite is isotypic with the other members of the metavariscite group: kolbeckite, metavariscite and phosphosiderite.
Disciplines :
Earth sciences & physical geography
Author, co-author :
Ciriotti, Marco; AMI -Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, Devesi-Cirié, Italy ; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy
Kolitsch, Uwe; Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abt, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria ; Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Cámara, Fernando ; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra "Ardito Desio", Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Vignola, Pietro ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géologie > Minéralogie et cristallochimie ; CNR -Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Milan, Italy
Hatert, Frédéric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géologie > Minéralogie et cristallochimie
Bittarello, Erica; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy
Bracco, Roberto; AMI -Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, Savona, Italy
Bortolozzi, Giorgio; AMI -Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, Treviso, Italy deceased
Language :
English
Title :
Bonacinaite, Sc(AsO 4 ) • 2H 2 O, the first scandium arsenate
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