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Bytízite, a new Cu-Sb selenide from Příbram, Czech Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2018

Pavel Škácha ,
Jiří Sejkora  and
Jakub Plášil
Pavel Škácha*
Affiliation:
Mining muzeum Příbram, Hynka Kličky place 293, Příbram VI, 261 01, Czech Republic Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, Prague 9 – Horní Počernice, 193 00, Czech Republic
Jiří Sejkora
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, Prague 9 – Horní Počernice, 193 00, Czech Republic
Jakub Plášil
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i., Na Slovance 1999/2, 18221 Praha 8, Czech Republic
*
*E-mail: skacha-p@muzeum-pribram.cz
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Abstract

The new mineral bytízite was found in the dump of shaft No. 16, one of the mines in the Příbram uranium and base-metal district, central Bohemia, Czech Republic. Bytízite is associated with chaméanite, příbramite, giraudite, berzelianite, umangite, eskebornite, hakite, tetrahedrite, bukovite, crookesite and uraninite in a calcite-dominant gangue. The new mineral occurs as anhedral grains up to 40 µm, growing together in aggregates up to 300 µm across. Bytízite is steel-grey in colour and has a metallic lustre. Mohs hardness is ca. 2–3; the calculated density is 6.324 g cm–3. In reflected light bytízite is grey with a yellowish hue, yellowish and brownish. Bireflectance and pleochroism are weak. Anisotropy is strong with grey to brownish rotation tints. Internal reflections were not observed. The empirical formula, based on electron-microprobe analyses, is (Cu3.00Fe0.01Ag0.01)3.02(Sb0.97As0.06)1.03Se2.94. The ideal formula is Cu3SbSe3, which requires Cu 34.71, Sb 22.16 and Se 43.13, total 100.00 wt.%. Bytízite is orthorhombic, Pnma, a = 7.9594(12), b = 10.5830(14), c = 6.8240(11) Å, with V = 574.82(15) Å3 and Z = 4. The strongest reflections of the calculated powder X-ray diffraction pattern [d, Å (I)(hkl)] are: 3.73(37)(210), 3.27(62)(211), 2.867(40)(022), 2.698(100)(122) and 2.646(37)(040). According to the single-crystal X-ray diffraction data (Robs = 0.0437), bytízite is isostructural with synthetic Cu3SbSe3. The structure of bytízite contains two Cu, one Sb, and two Se sites (the latter is occupied both by Se and S atoms). In the structure of both synthetic Cu3SbSe3 and bytízite, there are groups of three cis-edge-sharing tetrahedra [Cu3Se8], which are interlinked to a 3D framework by SbSe3 groups. Bytízite is named after its type locality, the Bytíz deposit, near the village Bytíz.

Keywords

bytízitenew mineralSb-Se analogue of wittichenitecopper antimony selenideselenide mineralscrystal structureuranium depositPříbramCzech Republic
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 199 - 209
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2018 

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Associate Editor: Andrew Christy

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