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IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC)

Newsletter 77

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2024

Ferdinando Bosi ,
Frédéric Hatert ,
Marco Pasero  and
Stuart J. Mills
Ferdinando Bosi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy – ferdinando.bosi@uniroma1.it
Frédéric Hatert
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Minéralogie et de Cristallochimie, Université de Liège, Bâtiment B18, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium – fhatert@uliege.be
Marco Pasero*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy – marco.pasero@unipi.it
Stuart J. Mills
Affiliation:
Geosciences, Museums Victoria, PO Box 666, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia – smills@museum.vic.gov.au
*
Author for correspondence: Marco Pasero, Email: marco.pasero@unipi.it
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 88 , Issue 2 , April 2024 , pp. 203 - 209
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The information given here is provided by the IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification for comparative purposes and as a service to mineralogists working on new species.

Each mineral is described in the following format:

Mineral name, if the authors agree on its release prior to the full description appearing in press

Chemical formula (ideal formula)

Mineral symbol

Type locality

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E-mail address of corresponding author

Relationship to other minerals

Crystal system, Space group; Structure determined, yes or no

Unit-cell parameters

Strongest lines in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern

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Citation details concern the fact that this information will be published in the Mineralogical Magazine on a routine basis, as well as being added month by month to the Commission's website.

It is still a requirement for the authors to publish a full description of the new mineral.

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NEW MINERAL PROPOSALS APPROVED IN DECEMBER 2023

IMA No. 2022-121a

  • Lishiite

  • (Ca2□)Sr3(CO3)5

  • Lht

  • Shaxiongdong carbonatite syenite complex, about 150 km southwest of Shiyan, Hubei Province, Zhushan County, China (32°09’14.37” N, 110°18’46.64” E)

  • Jie Dai*, Tong Wang, Guowu Li, Guan Wang, Xiaodong Pan, Shangke Xie, Jing Ren, Kunyang Wang, Ting Li, Tao Wang, Jiale He, Jinsha Xu and Ganfu Shen

  • *E-mail:

  • Burbankite group

  • Hexagonal: P63mc; structure determined

  • a = 10.4898(5), c = 6.4167(5) Å

  • 3.461(92), 3.069(74), 2.615(199), 2.365(62), 1.991(66), 1.936(63), 1.858(86), 1.663(61)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Geological Museum of China, Xisi, Yangrou Hutong No. 15, Xicheng District, Beijing, People's Republic of China, catalogue number M16140

  • How to cite: Dai, J., Wang, T., Li, G., Wang, G., Pan, X., Xie, S., Ren, J., Wang, K., Li, T., Wang, T., He, J., Xu, J. and Shen, G. (2024) Lishiite, IMA 2022-121a. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-032a

  • Rotherkopfite

  • KNa2(Fe2+2.5Ti1.5)Fe2+(Si4O12)2

  • Rkp

  • Rother Kopf, Roth, near Gerolstein, Eifel Volcanic Fields, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (50°14’47” N, 6°37’23” E)

  • Anthony R. Kampf*, Gerhard Möhn, Chi Ma, George Rossman, Joy Désor and Yunbin Guan

  • *E-mail:

  • Neptunite group

  • Monoclinic: C2/c; structure determined

  • a = 16.460(2), b = 12.5457(6), c = 10.0487(7) Å, β = 115.669(7)°

  • 9.63(100), 7.76(33), 3.339(38), 3.198(48), 2.952(67), 2.867(37), 2.179(35), 1.511(34)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue number 76283

  • How to cite: Kampf, A.R., Möhn, G., Ma, C., Rossman, G., Désor, J. and Guan, Y. (2024) Rotherkopfite, IMA 2023-032a. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-046

  • Zhonghongite

  • Cu29(As,Sb)12S33

  • Zhh

  • Cordilleran veins, in the Jiama deposit, about 70 km east of Lhasa, south Tibet, China (29°42’ N, 91°45’ E)

  • Shi-Ji Zheng*, Xiang-Ping Gu, Zhong-Jie Bai and Zhong-Kun Zhang

  • *E-mail:

  • New structure type

  • Orthorhombic: F2mm; structure determined

  • a = 10.37741(5), b = 14.69821(9), c = 36.7645(2) Å

  • 4.397(2), 3.483(3), 2.998(100), 2.596(27), 1.834(58), 1.566(25), 1.499(4), 1.298(3)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Geological Museum of China, No. 16 Yangrou Hutong, Xisi, Beijing 100031, People's Republic of China, catalogue number GMCTM2023002

  • How to cite: Zheng, S.-J., Gu, X.-P., Bai, Z.-J. and Zhang, Z.-K. (2024) Zhonghongite, IMA 2023-046. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-074

  • Ehrigite

  • Bi8Te3

  • Ehg

  • Good Hope gold mine, Hedley district, British Columbia, Canada (49°19’54” N, 120°00’48” W)

  • Cristiana L. Ciobanu*, Nigel J. Cook, Jie Yao, Ashley Slattery and Benjamin Wade

  • *E-mail:

  • Tetradymite group

  • Trigonal: R $\overline 3$m

  • a = 4.519(6), c = 65.18(2) Å

  • 3.266(100), 2.362(38), 2.260(38), 1.858(21), 1.633(12), 1.487(15), 1.435(18), 1.323(12)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia, catalogue number G35384

  • How to cite: Ciobanu, C.L., Cook, N.J., Yao, J., Slattery, A. and Wade, B. (2024) Ehrigite, IMA 2023-074. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-075

  • Amableite-(Ce)

  • Na15[(Ce1.5Na1.5)Mn3]Mn2Zr3□Si[Si24O69(OH)3](OH)2⋅H2O

  • Ambl-Ce

  • Demix-Varennes quarry, Saint-Amable sill, Lajemmerais RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada (45°40’01” N, 73°20’35” W)

  • Nikita V. Chukanov*, Andrey A. Zolotarev, Christof Schäfer, Dmitry A. Varlamov, Igor V. Pekov, Marina F. Vigasina, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, Sergey M. Aksenov, Svetlana A. Vozchikova and Sergey N. Britvin

  • *E-mail:

  • Eudialyte group

  • Trigonal: R3; structure determined

  • a = 14.1340(3), c = 30.378(1) Å

  • 11.34(51), 7.06(76), 6.00(32), 4.312(63), 3.783(38), 3.538(43), 2.963(84), 2.837(100)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt 18-2, Moscow 119071, Russia, registration number 6921/1

  • How to cite: Chukanov, N.V., Zolotarev, A.A., Schäfer, C., Varlamov, D.A., Pekov, I.V., Vigasina, M.F., Belakovskiy, D.I., Aksenov, S.M., Vozchikova, S.A. and Britvin, S.N. (2024) Amableite-(Ce), IMA 2023-075. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-083

  • Chinnerite

  • [Mg(H2O)6]Na(H2O)2Al3(PO4)2F6

  • Chin

  • Penrice quarry, 2 km north of Angaston, South Australia, Australia

  • Peter Elliott, Ian E. Grey*, Stephanie Boer, Anthony R. Kampf, Colin M. MacRae, Alexander Glenn and Cameron Davidson

  • *E-mail:

  • Chemically and structurally related to penriceite

  • Monoclinic: P2/m; structure determined

  • a = 9.863(3), b = 6.946(1), c = 12.345(2) Å, β = 96.85(3)°

  • 12.42(76), 7.95(48), 5.73(61), 5.29(35), 4.98(25), 2.990(48), 2.862(100), 2.735(33)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia, catalogue number G35383 (holotype), and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue number 76301 (cotype)

  • How to cite: Elliott, P., Grey, I.E., Boer, S., Kampf, A.R., MacRae, C.M., Glenn, A. and Davidson, C. (2024) Chinnerite, IMA 2023-083. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-084

  • Bayanoboite-(Y)

  • Ba2Y(CO3)2F3

  • Byb-Y

  • Bayan Obo deposit (main pit), Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, China, (41°47’ N, 109°57’ E)

  • Yuan Xue, Ningyue Sun, Guowu Li*, Jinhua Hao, Peng Liu, Wenlei Song, Xianhua Li, Junfeng Shen, Li Yang, Zhaojing Wang, Wenxiang Meng, Guoying Yan, Yonggang Zhao and Yun Liu

  • *E-mail:

  • New structure type

  • Orthorhombic: Pbcn; structure determined

  • a = 9.4528(4), b = 6.9499(2), c = 11.7638(5) Å

  • 5.011(31), 3.712(100), 3.475(22), 3.216(56), 2.789(35), 2.193(21), 1.961(33), 1.853(15)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Geological Museum of China, Xisi, Yangrou Hutong No. 15, Xicheng District, Beijing, People's Republic of China, catalogue number GMCTM2023008 (holotype), and the Crystal Structure Laboratory, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China, catalogue number BYEB-2 (cotype)

  • How to cite: Xue, Y., Sun, N., Li, G., Hao, J., Liu, P., Song, W., Li, X., Shen, J., Yang, L., Wang, Z., Meng, W., Yan, G., Zhao, Y. and Liu, Y. (2024) Bayanoboite-(Y), IMA 2023-084. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-085

  • Skogbyite

  • Zr(Mg2Mn3+4)SiO12

  • Skb

  • Långban deposit, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden (59°51’19” N, 14°15’53” E)

  • Erik Jonsson*, Ulf Hålenius, Jaroslaw Majka and Ferdinando Bosi

  • *E-mail:

  • The Mg analogue of gatedalite

  • Tetragonal: I41/acd; structure determined

  • a = 9.4914(4), c = 18.9875(10) Å

  • 5.480(12), 2.740(100), 2.373(11), 2.178(7), 2.163(6), 1.678(31), 1.431(13), 1.089(6)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50 007, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden, catalogue number GEO-NRM20230033

  • How to cite: Jonsson, E., Hålenius, U., Majka, J. and Bosi, F. (2024) Skogbyite, IMA 2023-085. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-087

  • Désorite

  • Pb2(Fe3+6Zn)O2(PO4)4(OH)8

  • Dso

  • Schöne Aussicht mine, Dernbach, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (50°27’14” N, 7°46’20” E)

  • Anthony R. Kampf*, Gerhard Möhn and Chi Ma

  • *E-mail:

  • New structure type

  • Triclinic: P $\overline 1$; structure determined

  • a = 5.4389(7), b = 9.324(1), c = 10.093(1) Å, α = 109.024(8), β = 90.521(6), γ = 97.588(7)°

  • 9.492(72), 4.584(100), 3.687(59), 3.307(79), 3.183(90), 2.850(79), 2.707(97), 2.452(50)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue number 76300

  • How to cite: Kampf, A.R., Möhn, G. and Ma, C. (2024) Désorite, IMA 2023-087. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-089

  • Lebedevite

  • K4Na14Cu14O8(AsO4)8Cl6

  • Ldv

  • Arsenatnaya fumarole, Second scoria cone of the Northern Breakthrough of the Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka peninsula, Far-Eastern Region, Russia (55°41’ N, 160°14’ E, 1200 m a.s.l.)

  • Natalia N. Koshlyakova*, Igor V. Pekov, Atali A. Agakhanov, Emma Bullock, Natalia V. Zubkova, Marina F. Vigasina, Sergey N. Britvin, Peter C. Burns, Robert M. Hazen and Elena S. Zhitova

  • *E-mail:

  • Structurally related to arsmirandite and lehmannite

  • Tetragonal: I4/mmm; structure determined

  • a = 15.0019(5), c = 11.2048(5) Å

  • 10.65(67), 9.03(83), 5.33(61), 2.996(58), 2.675(59), 2.597(100), 2.335(40), 1.923(44)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt 18-2, Moscow 119071, Russia, registration number 6050/1

  • How to cite: Koshlyakova, N.N., Pekov, I.V., Agakhanov, A.A., Bullock, E., Zubkova, N.V., Vigasina, M.F., Britvin, S.N., Burns, P.C., Hazen, R.M. and Zhitova, E.S. (2024) Lebedevite, IMA 2023-089. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-090

  • Mampsisite

  • Ca4Al2(CO3)(OH)12⋅5H2O

  • Mmp

  • Ca. 2 km southeast of the Hatrurim Junction (road no. 31), Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel (31°12’30” N, 35°15’30” E)

  • Sergey N. Britvin*, Mikhail N. Murashko, Vladimir N. Bocharov, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Oleg S. Vereshchagin and Yevgeny Vapnik

  • *E-mail:

  • Hydrotalcite supergroup

  • Triclinic: P $\overline 1$; structure determined

  • a = 5.7834(2), b = 9.9274(3), c = 15.0972(4) Å, α = 87.198(2), β = 89.805(2), γ = 89.967(2)°

  • 7.58(100), 4.124(8), 3.774(37), 2.845(11), 2.724(14), 2.514(20), 2.451(20), 2.330(14)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt 18-2, Moscow 119071, Russia, registration number 6061/1

  • How to cite: Britvin, S.N., Murashko, M.N., Bocharov, V.N., Vlasenko, N.S., Vereshchagin, O.S. and Vapnik, Y. (2024) Mampsisite, IMA 2023-090. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-091

  • Xenotime-(Gd)

  • Gd(PO4)

  • Xtm-Gd

  • Zimná Voda vein, Slovenské Rudohorie Mts., 5.6 km south of the village of Prakovce and 400 m northwest of Trohánka bivouac shelter, Košice Region, Slovakia (48°46’01” N, 20°54’47” E, 950 m a.s.l.)

  • Martin Ondrejka*, Peter Bačík, Juraj Majzlan, Pavel Uher, Štefan Ferenc, Martin Števko, Mária Čaplovičová, Stanislava Milovská, Tomáš Mikuš, Christiane Rößler, Christian Matthes and Alexandra Molnárová

  • *E-mail:

  • Xenotime group

  • Tetragonal: I41/amd

  • a = 6.9589(5), c = 6.0518(6) Å

  • 4.566(43), 3.479(100), 2.768(18), 2.578(63), 2.460(19), 2.166(20), 1.839(19), 1.780(53)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Slovak National Museum, Natural History Museum, Vajanského nábrežie 2, PO Box 13, 81006 Bratislava, Slovakia, catalogue number M20412

  • How to cite: Ondrejka, M., Bačík, P., Majzlan, J., Uher, P., Ferenc, Š., Števko, M., Čaplovičová, M., Milovská, S., Mikuš, T., Rößler, C., Matthes, C. and Molnárová, A. (2024) Xenotime-(Gd), IMA 2023-091. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-092

  • Selenodantopaite

  • Ag5Bi13Se22

  • Sdnt

  • On the dumps of the Princ Evžen deposit, near Potůčky, Krušné hory Mountains, Czech Republic (50°25’34” N, 12°45’03” E)

  • Jiří Sejkora*, Cristian Biagioni, Emil Makovicky and Vladimír Šrein

  • *E-mail:

  • The Se analogue of dantopaite

  • Monoclinic: C2/m; structure determined

  • a = 13.670(4), b = 4.140(1), c = 19.282(6) Å, β = 106.38(111)°

  • 3.700(31), 3.525(38), 3.397(14), 3.359(33), 3.062(21), 3.037(27), 2.936(100), 2.892(30)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 19300 Praha 9, Czech Republic, catalogue number P1P 22/2023, and the Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Pisa, Via Roma 79, Calci (PI), Italy, catalogue number 20068

  • How to cite: Sejkora, J., Biagioni, C., Makovicky, E. and Šrein, V. (2024) Selenodantopaite, IMA 2023-092. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-094

  • Lednevite

  • Cu[PO3(OH)]⋅H2O

  • Led

  • Murzinskoe Au deposit, Krasnoshchyokovskiy District, Altai Krai, Western Siberia, Russia (51°35’44” N, 82°36’34” E)

  • Anatoly V. Kasatkin*, Natalia V. Zubkova, Vladislav V. Gurzhiy, Radek Škoda, Fabrizio Nestola, Atali A. Agakhanov, Nikita V. Chukanov, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy and Dalibor Všianský

  • *E-mail:

  • Known synthetic analogue

  • Monoclinic: P21/a; structure determined

  • a = 8.6459(6), b = 6.3951(4), c = 6.8210(5) Å, β = 93.866(2)°

  • 5.135(100), 4.648(33), 3.241(28), 3.095(49), 3.002(20), 2.891(27), 2.775(53), 2.568(29)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt 18-2, Moscow 119071, Russia, registration number 6047/1

  • How to cite: Kasatkin, A.V., Zubkova, N.V., Gurzhiy, V.V., Škoda, R., Nestola, F., Agakhanov, A.A., Chukanov, N.V., Belakovskiy, D.I. and Všianský, D. (2024) Lednevite, IMA 2023-094. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

NEW MINERAL PROPOSALS APPROVED IN JANUARY 2024

IMA No. 2019-027a

  • Geuerite

  • Ag2Tl4Pb4As22S40

  • Geu

  • Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland (46°21’54” N, 8°13’15” E)

  • Dan Topa*, Uwe Kolitsch and Chris Stanley

  • *E-mail:

  • Sartorite homologous series

  • Monoclinic: P21/c; structure determined

  • a = 8.521(2), b = 8.005(2), c = 25.031(5) Å, β = 100.56(3)°

  • 3.806(52), 3.650(90), 3.005(49), 2.971(76), 2.871(58), 2.756(100), 2.740(97), 2.130(60)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abteilung, Naturhistorisches Museum, Burgring 7, A-1010 Wien, Austria, catalogue number NHMW-MIN-O1177

  • How to cite: Topa, D., Kolitsch, U. and Stanley, C. (2024) Geuerite, IMA 2019-027a. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2019-071

  • Reckibachite

  • Ag2Pb12As14Sb4S40

  • Rek

  • Reckibach, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland (46°21’38” N, 8°11’26” E)

  • Dan Topa*, Berthold Stoeger, Uwe Kolitsch, Ralph Cannon and Chris Stanley

  • *E-mail:

  • Chemically and structurally related to rathite

  • Monoclinic: P21/c; structure determined

  • a = 8.479(2), b = 7.946(2), c = 25.261(5) Å, β = 100.54(3)°

  • 3.671(66), 3.103(61), 3.007(64), 2.969(100), 2.745(94), 2.727(79), 2.329(56), 2.120(80)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abteilung, Naturhistorisches Museum, Burgring 7, A-1010 Wien, Austria, catalogue number NHMW-MIN-O1786

  • How to cite: Topa, D., Stoeger, B., Kolitsch, U., Cannon, R. and Stanley, C. (2024) Reckibachite, IMA 2019-071. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2021-022a

  • Cafeosite

  • Ca4Fe2+3Fe3+2□O6S4

  • Cfo

  • Dhofar 225, a carbonaceous chondrite recovered in the desert of Oman

  • Marina A. Ivanova*, Sergey N. Britivin, Roza I. Gulyaeva, Sofia A. Petrova, Nina G. Zinovieva, Vladimir V. Kozlov and Stanislav N. Tyushnyakov

  • *E-mail:

  • Known synthetic analogue

  • Orthorhombic: Cmce

  • a = 17.4856(9), b = 11.1516(5), c = 11.1543(5) Å

  • 2.784(25), 2.653(30), 2.343(100), 2.182(16), 1.969(57), 1.507(35), 1.461(13), 1.392(14)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin St. 19, Moscow 119991, Russia, catalogue number 16185

  • How to cite: Ivanova, M.A., Britivin, S.N., Gulyaeva, R.I., Petrova, S.A., Zinovieva, N.G., Kozlov, V.V. and Tyushnyakov, S.N. (2024) Cafeosite, IMA 2021-022a. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2022-106a

  • Nipeiite-(Ce)

  • Ce9Fe3+(SiO4)6[SiO3(OH)](OH)3

  • Npe-Ce

  • In a REE deposit, Taiping Town, southeast Henan Province, China (33°39’10” N, 111°41’33” E)

  • Kai Qu*, Fabrizio Nestola, Cristian Biagioni, Xianzhang Sima, Radek Škoda, Anatoly Kasatkin, Ting Li, Guang Fan, Junping Ren, Wenlong Tang, Jinghui Li and Yanjuan Wang

  • *E-mail:

  • Cerite supergroup

  • Trigonal: R3c; structure determined

  • a = 10.897(2), c = 38.739(8) Å

  • 4.585(34), 3.508(47), 3.347(37), 3.146(28), 2.994(100), 2.872(30), 2.724(88), 1.977(35)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Geological Museum of China, No. 16, Yangrou Hutong, Xisi, Beijing 100031, People's Republic of China, catalogue number M16141

  • How to cite: Qu, K., Nestola, F., Biagioni, C., Sima, X., Škoda, R., Kasatkin, A., Li, T., Fan, G., Ren, J., Tang, W., Li, J. and Wang, Y. (2024) Nipeiite-(Ce), IMA 2022-106a. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-088

  • Moragite

  • Ca3TiSi2(Al2Si)O14

  • Mora

  • Hatrurim Basin, near Ye'elim Mount, Negev Desert, Israel (31°14’21.9” N, 35°16’54.8” E)

  • Irina Galuskina*, Biljana Krüger, Yevgeny Vapnik and Evgeny Galuskin

  • *E-mail:

  • The Al analogue of qeltite

  • Trigonal: P321; structure determined

  • a = 7.958(4), c = 4.948(1) Å

  • 6.892(30), 3.101(77), 2.828(100), 2.605(19), 2.305(33), 2.297(16), 1.911(14), 1.794(22)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt 18-2, Moscow 119071, Russia, registration number 6060/1

  • How to cite: Galuskina, I., Krüger, B., Vapnik, Y. and Galuskin, E. (2024) Moragite, IMA 2023-088. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-095

  • Kvačekite

  • NiSbSe

  • Kvč

  • Bukov mine, near the village of Bukov, 35 km southeast of Nové Město, Moravě, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic (49°27’27.333” N, 16°13’43.224” E)

  • Petr Pauliš, Zdeněk Dolníček, Jiří Sejkora*, Ondřej Pour, František Laufek, Jana Ulmanová and Anna Vymazalová

  • *E-mail:

  • The Se analogue of ullmannite

  • Cubic: P213; structure determined

  • a = 6.0901(1) Å

  • 3.046(11), 2.724(100), 2.487(71), 1.863(39), 1.689(16), 1.628(29), 1.522(7), 1.329(13)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 19300 Praha 9, Czech Republic, catalogue number P1P 26/2023

  • How to cite: Pauliš, P., Dolníček, Z., Sejkora, J., Pour, O., Laufek, F., Ulmanová, J. and Vymazalová, A. (2024) Kvačekite, IMA 2023-095. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-096

  • Ferriphoxite

  • [(NH4)2K(H2O)][Fe3+(HPO4)2(C2O4)]

  • Fphx

  • Rowley mine (125-foot level), about 30 km NNW of Gila Bend, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA (33°02’57” N, 113°01’50” W)

  • Anthony R. Kampf*, Chi Ma, Frank C. Hawthorne and Joe Marty

  • *E-mail:

  • Same structural units as in carboferriphoxite (IMA No. 2023-097; this Newsletter)

  • Monoclinic: P21/c; structure determined

  • a = 11.389(5), b = 6.352(3), c = 18.716(9) Å, β = 102.887(9)°

  • 11.178(36), 9.202(100), 8.058(47), 5.520(65), 4.614(32), 3.191(65), 3.149(36), 3.014(46)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue numbers 76303 (holotype) and 76304 (cotype)

  • How to cite: Kampf, A.R., Ma, C., Hawthorne, F.C. and Marty, J. (2024) Ferriphoxite, IMA 2023-096. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-097

  • Carboferriphoxite

  • [(NH4)K(H2CO3)][Fe3+(HPO4)(H2PO4)(C2O4)]

  • Cfphx

  • Rowley mine (125-foot level), about 30 km NNW of Gila Bend, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA (33°02’57” N, 113°01’50” W)

  • Anthony R. Kampf*, Chi Ma, Frank C. Hawthorne and Joe Marty

  • *E-mail:

  • Same structural units as in ferriphoxite (IMA No. 2023-096; this Newsletter)

  • Triclinic: P $\overline 1$; structure determined

  • a = 6.4405(3), b = 9.399(5), c = 11.839(6) Å, α = 95.763(10), β = 92.314(10), γ = 100.665(8)°

  • 11.83(100), 9.17(62), 4.13(21), 3.806(26), 3.200(28), 3.154(75), 3.043(32), 2.842(27)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue numbers 76304 (holotype) and 76303 (cotype)

  • How to cite: Kampf, A.R., Ma, C., Hawthorne, F.C. and Marty, J. (2024) Carboferriphoxite, IMA 2023-097. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-098

  • Manganohatertite

  • NaNaCa(MnFe3+)(AsO4)3

  • Mnhtt

  • Arsenatnaya fumarole, Second scoria cone of the Northern Breakthrough of the Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka peninsula, Far-Eastern Region, Russia (55°41’ N, 160°14’ E, 1200 m a.s.l.)

  • Natalia N. Koshlyakova*, Igor V. Pekov, Atali A. Agakhanov, Emma Bullock, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, Natalia V. Zubkova, Nikita V. Chukanov, Sergey N. Britvin, Maria O. Bulakh, Peter C. Burns, Robert M. Hazen and Elena S. Zhitova

  • *E-mail:

  • Alluaudite supergroup

  • Monoclinic: C2/c; structure determined

  • a = 12.4557(4), b = 13.0156(3), c = 6.7289(2) Å, β = 113.662(4)°

  • 6.58(24), 5.72(20), 3.670(35), 3.245(34), 3.023(27), 2.903(24), 2.856(100), 2.660(36)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Prospekt 18-2, Moscow 119071, Russia, registration number 6055/1

  • How to cite: Koshlyakova, N.N., Pekov, I.V., Agakhanov, A.A., Bullock, E., Belakovskiy, D.I., Zubkova, N.V., Chukanov, N.V., Britvin, S.N., Bulakh, M.O., Burns, P.C., Hazen, R.M. and Zhitova, E.S. (2024) Manganohatertite, IMA 2023-098. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-099

  • Giuşcăite

  • Ag2Tl4Pb4As20Sb2S40

  • Gic

  • Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland (46°21’54” N, 8°13’15” E)

  • Dan Topa*, Berthold Stoeger, Uwe Kolitsch, Philippe Roth, Frank Keutsch and Chris Stanley

  • *E-mail:

  • Sartorite homologous series

  • Monoclinic: Pn; structure determined

  • a = 8.545(3), b = 8.207(3), c = 24.768(8) Å, β = 99.625(3)°

  • 12.21(55), 4.21(47), 3.890(63), 3.646(100), 2.987(62), 2.861(52), 2.785(76), 2.778(69)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abteilung, Naturhistorisches Museum, Burgring 7, A-1010 Wien, Austria, catalogue number NHMW-MIN-O2595

  • How to cite: Topa, D., Stoeger, B., Kolitsch, U., Roth, P., Keutsch, G. and Stanley, C. (2024) Giuşcăite, IMA 2023-099. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

IMA No. 2023-100

  • Ferrimuirite

  • Ba10(Ca2Fe3+2)[Si8O24]O2Cl10

  • Fmui

  • Gun claim, Itsi Mountain, Yukon, Canada (62°50’50” N, 130°00’51” W)

  • Inna Lykova*, Ralph Rowe, Glenn Poirier, Henrik Friis and Stephanie Barnes

  • *E-mail:

  • The Fe3+ analogue of muirite

  • Tetragonal: P4mm; structure determined

  • a = 13.98983(8), c = 5.58187(6) Å

  • 4.364(46), 3.702(49), 3.579(50), 3.499(33), 3.298(39), 2.899(100), 2.791(39), 2.729(42)

  • Type material is deposited in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, catalogue number CMNMC 91404

  • How to cite: Lykova, I., Rowe, R., Poirier, G., Friis, H. and Barnes, S. (2024) Ferrimuirite, IMA 2023-100. CNMNC Newsletter 77; Mineralogical Magazine, 88, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2024.5

OTHER ISSUES

Bukovite: revised formula

Recently, a paper was published [Journal of Geosciences, 68, 179–184 (2023)], in which the chemical formula of bukovite was revised from Cu4Tl2Se4 to (Cu3Fe)Tl2Se4 based on a single-crystal structural study. From these data it was shown that copper and thallium occur in bukovite as Cu+ and Tl+; therefore the occurrence of some Fe3+ partially substituting for Cu+ at the unique M site is necessary for charge balance requirements. This represents a further case of valency-imposed double site occupancy. The chemical formula of bukovite has been modified in the IMA List of Minerals accordingly. This is an executive decision taken by the CNMNC officers.

Renaming of straßmannite to strassmannite

It was agreed to modify the name straßmannite to strassmannite, with “double s” instead of ß – the so-called “Eszett” which is peculiar to the German alphabet. This is in keeping with a recent CNMNC resolution [Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 225–232 (2023)] which aims at rationalising the mineralogical nomenclature by abolishing Greek letters as well as Arabic and Roman numerals from mineral names. Straßmannite represented the unique case among mineral names in which the Eszett was employed instead of double s. Therefore, for the sake of analogy with fleisstalite, giessenite, günterblassite, mössbauerite, phosphorrösslerite and rösslerite, the mineral straßmannite – which was approved only six years ago – is now renamed strassmannite. This is an executive decision taken by the CNMNC officers.