IOWAITE, A REINVESTIGATION

被引:49
作者
BRAITHWAITE, RSW
DUNN, PJ
PRITCHARD, RG
PAAR, WH
机构
[1] SMITHSONIAN INST,DEPT MINERAL SCI,WASHINGTON,DC 20560
[2] SALZBURG UNIV,INST MINERAL,A-5020 SALZBURG,AUSTRIA
关键词
IOWAITE; PYROAURITE; PALABORA MINE; TRANSVAAL;
D O I
10.1180/minmag.1994.058.390.08
中图分类号
P57 [矿物学];
学科分类号
070901 ;
摘要
Iowaite has been re-examined using new, well crystallized material from the Palabora open pit mine, Transvaal. Microprobe, carbon analyser and thermal analyses, powder and single-crystal X-ray diffraction, infrared, UV-visible and mass spectroscopic and optical studies were made. The ideal formula is Mg6Fe2(III)(OH)16Cl2.4H2O. It is trigonal, R3mBAR, a = 3.1183(9), c = 24.113(8) angstrom, V = 203.1(2) angstrom3, Z = 3/8; D(obs) 2.09 g/cm3; D(calc) 2.04 g/cm3; hardness (Mohs) = 2 1/2. The interlayer Cr ions are displaced from the threefold axis. It is uniaxial negative, with omega = 1.561 +/- 0.002, epsilon = 1.543 +/- 0.002; coloured crystals are intensely pleochroic, due to intervalence charge transfer between the Fe3+ and Fe2+ substituting for Mg2+, with O pale yellow, E deep blue-green.
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页码:79 / 85
页数:7
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