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Waimirite-(Y), orthorhombic YF3, a new mineral from the Pitinga mine, Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas, Brazil and from Jabal Tawlah, Saudi Arabia: description and crystal structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Daniel Atencio ,
Artur C. Bastos Neto ,
Vitor P. Pereira ,
José T. M. M. Ferron ,
M. Hoshino ,
T. Moriyama ,
Y. Watanabe ,
R. Miyawaki ,
José M. V. Coutinho  and
Marcelo B. Andrade
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Daniel Atencio*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Lago 562, 05508-080, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Artur C. Bastos Neto
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Avenida Bento Gonçalves 9500, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Vitor P. Pereira
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Avenida Bento Gonçalves 9500, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
José T. M. M. Ferron
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-graduação em Geociências, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
M. Hoshino
Affiliation:
Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 7, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
T. Moriyama
Affiliation:
Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 7, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
Y. Watanabe
Affiliation:
Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 7, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
R. Miyawaki
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan
José M. V. Coutinho
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Lago 562, 05508-080, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Marcelo B. Andrade
Affiliation:
São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, Caixa Postal 369, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Kenneth Domanik
Affiliation:
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, 1629 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ, 85721-0092, USA
Nikita V. Chukanov
Affiliation:
Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432 Russia
K. Momma
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan
H. Hirano
Affiliation:
Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 7, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
M. Tsunematsu
Affiliation:
Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 7, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
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*E-mail: datencio@usp.br
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Abstract

Waimirite-(Y) (IMA 2013-108), orthorhombic YF3, occurs associated with halloysite, in hydrothermal veins (up to 30 mm thick) cross-cutting the albite-enriched facies of the A-type Madeira granite (∼1820 Ma), at the Pitinga mine, Presidente Figueiredo Co., Amazonas State, Brazil. Minerals in the granite are 'K-feldspar', albite, quartz, riebeckite, 'biotite', muscovite, cryolite, zircon, polylithionite, cassiterite, pyrochlore-group minerals, 'columbite', thorite, native lead, hematite, galena, fluorite, xenotime-(Y), gagarinite-(Y), fluocerite-(Ce), genthelvite–helvite, topaz, 'illite', kaolinite and 'chlorite'. The mineral occurs as massive aggregates of platy crystals up to ∼1 μm in size. Forms are not determined, but synthetic YF3 displays pinacoids, prisms and bipyramids. Colour: pale pink. Streak: white. Lustre: non-metallic. Transparent to translucent. Density (calc.) = 5.586 g/cm3 using the empirical formula. Waimirite-(Y) is biaxial, mean n = 1.54–1.56. The chemical composition is (average of 24 wavelength dispersive spectroscopy mode electron microprobe analyses, O calculated for charge balance): F 29.27, Ca 0.83, Y 37.25, La 0.19, Ce 0.30, Pr 0.15, Nd 0.65, Sm 0.74, Gd 1.86, Tb 0.78, Dy 8.06, Ho 1.85, Er 6.38, Tm 1.00, Yb 5.52, Lu 0.65, O (2.05), total (97.53) wt.%. The empirical formula (based on 1 cation) is (Y0.69Dy0.08Er0.06Yb0.05Ca0.03Gd0.02Ho0.02Nd0.01Sm0.01Tb0.01Tm0.01Lu0.01)Σ1.00[F2.54〈0.25O0.21]Σ3.00. Orthorhombic, Pnma, a = 6.386(1), b = 6.877(1), c = 4.401(1) Å, V = 193.28(7) Å3, Z = 4 (powder data). Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) data [d in Å (I) (hkl)]: 3.707 (26) (011), 3.623 (78) (101), 3.438 (99) (020), 3.205 (100) (111), 2.894 (59) (210), 1.937 (33) (131), 1.916 (24) (301), 1.862 (27) (230). The name is for the Waimiri-Atroari Indian people of Roraima and Amazonas. A second occurrence of waimirite-(Y) is described from the hydrothermally altered quartz-rich microgranite at Jabal Tawlah, Saudi Arabia. Electron microprobe analyses gave the empirical formula (Y0.79Dy0.08Er0.05Gd0.03Ho0.02Tb0.01Tm0.01Yb0.01)Σ1.00[F2.85O0.08〈0.07]Σ3.00. The crystal structure was determined with a single crystal from Saudi Arabia. Unit-cell parameters refined from single-crystal XRD data are a = 6.38270(12), b = 6.86727(12), c = 4.39168(8) Å, V = 192.495(6) Å3, Z = 4. The refinement converged to R1 = 0.0173 and wR2 = 0.0388 for 193 independent reflections. Waimirite-(Y) is isomorphous with synthetic SmF3, HoF3 and YbF3. The Y atom forms a 9-coordinated YF9 tricapped trigonal prism in the crystal structure. The substitution of Y for Dy, as well as for other lanthanoids, causes no notable deviations in the crystallographic values, such as unit-cell parameters and interatomic distances, from those of pure YF3.

Keywords

waimirite-(Y)new mineralhydrothermal veinyttrium fluoridePitinga minePresidente Figueiredo Co.Amazonas StateBrazilJabal TawlahSaudi Arabia
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , June 2015 , pp. 767 - 780
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2015

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