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A contribution to understanding the complex nature of peisleyite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

S. J. Mills ,
C. Ma  and
W. D. Birch
S. J. Mills*
Affiliation:
Geosciences, Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia
C. Ma
Affiliation:
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
W. D. Birch
Affiliation:
Geosciences, Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia
*
*E-mail: smills@museum.vic.gov.au
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Abstract

The type specimen of peisleyite has been reinvestigated by a combination of scanning electron microscopy, electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) and synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction. Morphological investigation showed that mats of peisleyite crystals, individually <3 μm across, are intergrown with wavellite veinlets to form the white cryptocrystalline material that is typical of ‘peisleyite’. New EPMA data (mean of 12 analyses) gave the empirical formula of peisleyite as (Na1.69Ca0.18)Σ1.87(Al9.04Fe0.03)Σ9.07[(P6.28S1.38Si0.25)O4]Σ7.91(OH)6.66·27.73H2O, or ideally Na2Al9[(P,S)O4]8(OH)6·28H2O. The associated wavellite was found to be F-rich. Synchrotron powder data were indexed and refined and gave the following unit cell: P1̄, a = 9.280(19), b = 11.976(19), c = 13.250(18) Å, α = 91.3(1), β = 75.6(1), γ = 67.67(1)°, V = 1308(5) Å3 and Z = 4. These data are significantly different to those reported in the original description of peisleyite.

Keywords

peisleyitewavellitephosphatesulphateToms phosphate quarrySouth Australiasynchrotron
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 75 , Issue 6 , December 2011 , pp. 2733 - 2737
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2011

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