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Kusachiite, CuBi2O4, a new mineral from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Chiyoko Henmi
Chiyoko Henmi*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700, Japan
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Abstract

Kusachiite, CuBi2O4, has been found in a calcite vein cutting gehlenite-spurrite skarns at Fuka, Okayama Prefecture. It is associated with calcite, henmilite, sillenite, bakerite, tenolite, bultfonteinite, apophyllite, cuspidine and thaumasite. Kusachiite occurs as prismatic crystals or globular aggregates of platy crystals. It is black, opaque with a metallic lustre. Kusachiite is tetragonal with space group P4/ncc, a = 8.511(2), c = 5.823(2) Å, Z = 4. The strongest lines in the X-ray powder pattern [d in Å (I)(hkl)] are 3.191 (100)(211), 2.695 (18)(310), 1.947 (18)(411), 4.26 (17)(200), 2.913 (16)(002), 2.404 (13)(202), 1.728 (12)(213), and 1.652 (9)(332). The Mohs hardness is 4.5, and the density is 8.5(3) g/cm3 (meas.) and 8.64 g/cm3 (calc.). Cleavage is perfect on {110}. Six electron probe analyses gave the following mean values CuO 13.91, Bi2O3 86.00 and total 99.91 in wt.%. The empirical formula calculated on the basis of O = 4 is Cu0.960Bi2.027O4 with the simplified formula CuBi2O4.

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kusachiitenew mineralcopperbismuthoxide

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Mineralogy
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 59 , Issue 396 , September 1995 , pp. 545 - 548
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1995

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