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Beusite-(Ca), ideally CaMn22+(PO4)2, a new graftonite-group mineral from the Yellowknife pegmatite field, Northwest Territories, Canada: Description and crystal structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2018

Frank C. Hawthorne ,
Michael A. Wise ,
Petr Černý ,
Yassir A. Abdu ,
Neil A. Ball ,
Adam Pieczka  and
Adam Włodek
Frank C. Hawthorne*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
Michael A. Wise
Affiliation:
Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC 119, Washington, DC 0013-7012
Petr Černý
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
Yassir A. Abdu
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Sharjah, P.O. Box 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Neil A. Ball
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
Adam Pieczka
Affiliation:
AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry, 30-059 Kraków, Mickiewicza 30, Poland
Adam Włodek
Affiliation:
AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry, 30-059 Kraków, Mickiewicza 30, Poland
*
*E-mail: frank_hawthorne@umanitoba.ca
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Abstract

Beusite-(Ca), ideally Ca${\rm Mn}_{\rm 2}^{2 +} $(PO4)2, is a new graftonite-group mineral from the Yellowknife pegmatite field, Northwest Territories, Canada. It occurs in a beryl–columbite–phosphate rare-element pegmatite where it is commonly intergrown with triphylite–lithiophilite or sarcopside, and may form by exsolution from a high-temperature (Li,Ca)-rich graftonite-like parent phase. It occurs as pale-brown lamellae 0.1–1.5 mm wide in triphylite, and is pale brown with a vitreous lustre and a very pale-brown streak. It is brittle, has a Mohs hardness of 5, and the calculated density is 3.610 g/cm3. Beusite-(Ca) is colourless in plane-polarized light, and is biaxial (+) with α = 1.685(2), β = 1.688(2), γ = 1.700(5), and the optic axial angle is 46.0(5)°. It is non-pleochroic with X || b; Y ˄ a = 40.3° in β obtuse; Z ˄ a = 49.7° in β acute. Beusite-(Ca) is monoclinic, has space group P21/c, a = 8.799(2), b = 11.724(2), c = 6.170(1) Å, β = 99.23(3)°, V = 628.3(1) Å3 and Z = 4. Chemical analysis by electron microprobe gave P2O5 41.63, FeO 19.43, MnO 23.63, CaO 15.45, sum 100.14 wt.%. The empirical formula was normalized on the basis of 8 anions pfu: (Ca0.94Fe0.92Mn1.13)Σ2.99(PO4)2.00. The crystal structure was refined to an R1 index of 1.55%. Beusite-(Ca) is a member of the graftonite group with Ca completely ordered at the [8]-coordinated M(1) site.

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beusite-(Ca)new mineralchemical analysiscrystal structureRaman spectrumYellowknife pegmatite fieldNorthwest TerritoriesCanada
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 82 , Issue 6 , December 2018 , pp. 1323 - 1332
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2019 

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Associate Editor: Anthony Kampf

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