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Vapnikite Ca3UO6 – a new double-perovskite mineral from pyrometamorphic larnite rocks of the Jabel Harmun, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

E. V. Galuskin ,
I. O. Galuskina ,
J. Kusz ,
T. Armbruster ,
K. M. Marzec ,
P. Dzierżanowski  and
M. Murashko
E. V. Galuskin*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Earth Sciences, Department of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Silesia, Będzińska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
I. O. Galuskina
Affiliation:
Faculty of Earth Sciences, Department of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Silesia, Będzińska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
J. Kusz
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
T. Armbruster
Affiliation:
Mineralogical Crystallography, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
K. M. Marzec
Affiliation:
Jagiellonian Centre for Experimental Therapeutics, Bobrzyńskiego 14, 30-348 Krakow, Poland
P. Dzierżanowski
Affiliation:
Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Warsaw, al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
M. Murashko
Affiliation:
Systematic Mineralogy, 44, 11 th line V.O., apt. 76, Saint-Petersburg 199178, Russia
*
E-mail: evgeny.galuskin@us.edu.pl
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Abstract

The new mineral species vapnikite, Ca3UO6, was found in larnite pyrometamorphic rocks of the Hatrurim Formation at Jabel Harmun in the Judean desert, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel. Vapnikite is an analogue of the synthetic ordered double-perovskite β-Ca3UO6 and is isostructural with the natural fluorperovskite – cryolite Na3AlF6. Vapnikite Ca3UO6 (P21/n, Z = 2, a = 5.739(1), b = 5.951(1), c = 8.312(1) Å, β = 90.4(1)°, V = 283.9(1) Å3) forms yellow-brown xenomorphic grains with a strong vitreous lustre. Small grains up to 20−30 µm in size are wedged between larnite, brownmillerite and ye’elimite. Vapnikite has irregular fracture, cleavage and parting were not observed. The calculated density is 5.322 g cm−3, the microhardness is VHN25 = 534 kg mm−2 (mean of seven measurements) corresponding to the hardness of ∼5 on the Mohs scale. The crystal structure of vapnikite Ca3UO6 differs from that of its synthetic analogue β-Ca3UO6 by having a larger degree of Ca, U disorder. Vapnikite formed at the high-temperature retrograde stage of pyrometamorphism when larnite rocks were altered by fluids/melts of high alkalinity.

Keywords

vapnikiteCa3UO6vorlaniteRamanstructurepyrometamorphic rocksHatrurim FormationJabel Harmun
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 571 - 581
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2014

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