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New arsenate minerals from the Arsenatnaya fumarole, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. XII. Zubkovaite, Ca3Cu3(AsO4)4

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2019

Igor V. Pekov ,
Inna S. Lykova ,
Atali A. Agakhanov ,
Dmitry I. Belakovskiy ,
Marina F. Vigasina ,
Sergey N. Britvin ,
Anna G. Turchkova ,
Evgeny G. Sidorov  and
Katharina S. Scheidl
Igor V. Pekov*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
Inna S. Lykova
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
Atali A. Agakhanov
Affiliation:
Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt 18-2, 119071Moscow, Russia
Dmitry I. Belakovskiy
Affiliation:
Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt 18-2, 119071Moscow, Russia
Marina F. Vigasina
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
Sergey N. Britvin
Affiliation:
Department of Crystallography, St Petersburg State University, University Embankment 7/9, 199034St Petersburg, Russia
Anna G. Turchkova
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991Moscow, Russia
Evgeny G. Sidorov
Affiliation:
Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Piip Boulevard 9, 683006Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Katharina S. Scheidl
Affiliation:
Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14 (UZA 2), A-1090Vienna, Austria
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*Author for correspondence: Igor V. Pekov, Email: igorpekov@mail.ru
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Abstract

The new mineral zubkovaite, Ca3Cu3(AsO4)4, was found in the Arsenatnaya fumarole at the Second scoria cone of the Northern Breakthrough of the Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. It is associated with anhydrite, svabite, hematite, johillerite, tilasite, fluorophlogopite, sanidine and aphthitalite. Zubkovaite occurs as coarse prismatic crystals up to 0.01 mm × 0.01 mm × 0.2 mm combined in radiating aggregates or crusts. The mineral is transparent, bright sky-blue, turquoise-coloured or light bluish-green, with vitreous lustre. It is brittle, with imperfect cleavage. The Mohs’ hardness is ca 3. Dcalc is 4.161 g cm–3. Zubkovaite is optically biaxial (–), α = 1.747(5), β = 1.774(5), γ = 1.792(5) and 2Vmeas = 75(10)°. Chemical composition (wt.%, electron microprobe) is: CaO 19.22, CuO 27.37, As2O5 52.54, SO3 0.67, total 99.80. The empirical formula based on 16 O apfu is Ca2.96Cu2.97(As3.945S0.07)Σ4.015O16. Zubkovaite is monoclinic, C2, a = 16.836(3), b = 5.0405(8), c = 9.1173(17) Å, β = 117.388(13)°, V = 687.0(2) Å3 and Z = 2. The strongest reflections of the powder XRD pattern [d,Å (I) (hkl)] are: 7.44 (100) ($\bar 2$01), 3.727 (79) (400, $\bar 2$02, $\bar 3$11), 3.334 (92) ($\bar 1$12), 2.914 (73) (311), 2.765 (50) ($\bar 6$01, $\bar 6$02), 2.591 (96) ($\bar 3$13) and 2.521 (53) (020). The crystal structure is unique for minerals. It was solved from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data to R = 7.19%. The structure contains trimers of Cu2+-centred polyhedra (consisting of one distorted square CuO4 in the core and two distorted square pyramids CuO5) and two crystallographically independent As5+O4 tetrahedra playing different roles: As(2)O4 tetrahedra link neighbouring trimers into ribbons whereas As(1)O4 tetrahedra link adjacent ribbons into heteropolyhedral layers; Ca cations are located in the interlayer space. The mineral is named in honour of the Russian crystallographer and crystal chemist Natalia Vital'evna Zubkova (born 1976).

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zubkovaitenew mineralcalcium copper arsenatecrystal structurefumarole sublimateTolbachik volcanoKamchatka
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 83 , Issue 6 , December 2019 , pp. 879 - 886
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2019

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Associate Editor: David Hibbs

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