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Ferri-fluoro-katophorite from Bear Lake diggings, Bancroft area, Ontario, Canada: a new species of amphibole, ideally Na(NaCa)(Mg4Fe3+)(Si7Al)O22F2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2018

Roberta Oberti ,
Massimo Boiocchi ,
Frank C. Hawthorne ,
Neil A. Ball  and
Robert F. Martin
Roberta Oberti*
Affiliation:
CNR-Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Sede secondaria di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
Massimo Boiocchi
Affiliation:
Centro Grandi Strumenti, Università di Pavia, via Bassi 21, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
Frank C. Hawthorne
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada
Neil A. Ball
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada
Robert F. Martin
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450. University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7, Canada
*
*Author for correspondence: Roberta Oberti, Email: oberti@crystal.unipv.it
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Abstract

Ferri-fluoro-katophorite is the second species characterised involving the rootname katophorite in the sodium–calcium subgroup of the amphibole supergroup. The mineral and its name were approved by the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification, IMA2015-096. It was found in the Bear Lake diggings, Bancroft area, Ontario, Canada, where coarse euhedral crystals of amphibole, phlogopite, sanidine solid-solution (now coarsely exsolved to microcline perthite), titanite, augite, zircon and fluorapatite crystallised from a low-viscosity silicocarbonatitic magma of crustal origin. Greenish grey prismatic crystals of ferri-fluoro-katophorite generally protrude from the walls into a body of coarsely crystalline calcite, but they also occur away from the walls, completely enclosed by calcite. The empirical formula derived from electron microprobe analysis and single-crystal structure refinement is: A(Na0.55K0.32)Σ0.87B(Na0.79Ca1.18Mn2+0.03)Σ2.00C(Mg3.29Mn2+0.02Fe2+1.19Fe3+0.31Al0.09Ti4+0.08Li0.02)Σ5.00T(Si7.39Al0.61)Σ8.00O22W[F1.23 (OH)0.77]Σ2.00. Ferri-fluoro-katophorite is biaxial (–), with α = 1.640(2), β = 1.652(2), γ = 1.658(2), 2Vmeas. = 68.9(2)° and 2Vcalc.. = 70.1°. The unit-cell parameters are a = 9.887(3), b = 18.023(9), c = 5.292(2) Å, β = 104.66(3)°, V = 912.3(6) Å3, Z = 2 and space group C2/m. The strongest ten lines in the powder X-ray pattern [d values (in Å) I (hkl)] are: 2.708, 100, (151); 2.388, 74, (131); 3.139, 72, (310); 8.449, 69, (110); 2.540, 65, ($\bar{2}$02); 2.591, 53, (061); 2.739, 47, ($\bar{3}$31); 2.165, 45, (261); 3.279, 44, ($\bar{2}$40); 2.341, 43, ($\bar{3}$51).

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ferri-fluoro-katophoritenew amphibole specieselectron-microprobe analysisoptical propertiespowder-diffraction patterncrystal-structure refinementBear Lake diggingsOntarioCanada
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , June 2019 , pp. 413 - 417
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2018 

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Associate Editor: Ian Graham

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