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Classification of the minerals of the graftonite group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2018

Frank C. Hawthorne  and
Adam Pieczka
Frank C. Hawthorne*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
Adam Pieczka
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

A classification and nomenclature scheme has been approved by the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification for the minerals of the graftonite group. The crystal structures of these minerals have three distinct sites that are occupied by Fe2+, Mn2+ and Ca2+. These sites have coordination numbers [8], [5] and [6], and these differences lead to very strong order of Fe2+, Mn2+ and Ca2+ over these sites. As a result of this strong order, the following compositions have been identified as distinct species: graftonite: FeFe2(PO4)2; graftonite-(Ca): CaFe2(PO4)2; graftonite-(Mn): MnFe2(PO4)2; beusite: MnMn2(PO4)2; and beusite-(Ca): CaMn2(PO4)2.

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graftonite groupclassificationnomenclaturebeusite

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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 82 , Issue 6 , December 2018 , pp. 1301 - 1306
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2019 

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Associate Editor: Stuart Mills

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