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Structural role of tellurium in the minerals of the pearceite-polybasite group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

L. Bindi ,
P. Voudouris  and
P. G. Spry
L. Bindi*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via La Pira, 4, I-50121, Florence, Italy
P. Voudouris
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy-Petrology, Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, G-15784, Athens, Greece
P. G. Spry
Affiliation:
Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, 253 Science I, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3212, USA
*
* E-mail: luca.bindi@unifi.it
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Abstract

The crystal structure of a Te-rich polybasite has been refined by means of X-ray diffraction data collected at room temperature (space group Pm1; R = 0.0505 for 964 observed reflections and 94 parameters; refined formula Ag14.46Cu1.54Sb1.58As0.42S9.67Te1.33). The structure comprises stacking of [(Ag, Cu)6(Sb, As)2(S, Te)7]2–A and [Ag9Cu(S, Te)2(S, Te)2]2+B layer modules in which Sb forms isolated SbS3 pyramids, as occurs typically in sulfosalts, Cu links two S atoms in a linear coordination and Ag occupies sites with coordination ranging from quasi linear to almost tetrahedral. The silver d10 ions are found in the B layer module along two-dimensional diffusion paths and their electron densities evidenced by means of a combination of a Gram-Charlier development of the atomic displacement factors and a split model. The Te-for-S substitution occurs at the same structural sites that Se substitutes for S in selenopolybasite and the Te occupancy at one of these sites is 0.49, thus suggesting the possibility that 'telluropolybasite' could be found in nature.

Keywords

polybasitetelluriumcrystal structureionic conductivitystructural disorderKallianou mineralizationGreece
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 77 , Issue 4 , June 2013 , pp. 419 - 428
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2013

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