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Okhotskite, a new mineral, an Mn3+-dominant member of the pumpellyite group, from the Kokuriki mine, Hokkaido, Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

K. Togari  and
M. Akasaka
K. Togari
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan
M. Akasaka
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan
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Abstract

Okhotskite, an Mn3+-dominant pumpellyite-group mineral, is monoclinic, A2/m, a = 8.887, b = 6.000, c = 19.55 Å, β = 97.08°, Z = 1. The formula is

(Ca7.63Na0.17K0.01)Σ7.81(Mn2.75 2+Mg1.10)Σ3.85(Mn4.50 3+Al1.87Fe1.61 3+Ti0.02) Σ8.00Si12.13O39.71(OH)16.29,

which simplifies to Ca8(Mn2+,Mg)4(Mn3+,Al,Fe3+)8Si12O5∂-n (OH)n . Strong lines in the X-ray powder diffraction pattern are: 4.76(60)(004, 111), 3.87(70)(202), 2.96(100)(115, 300), 2.88(25)(022), 2.72(70)(302), 2.67(45)(3̄04, 3̄11), 2.55(45)(024, 3̄13) and 2.38(45)(304).

Its colour is deep orange with a pale orange streak and vitreous lustre. Transparent. Non-fluorescent. H6 (Mohs). Density (calc.) = 3.40 g/cm3. Optically biaxial negative, 2V(meas) = 46(5)°, 2V(calc) = 46°, dispersion indiscernible. Refractive indices: α = 1.782(5), β = 1.820(5), γ = 1.827(5). Orientation: Y = b, c∧Z = 9–14° in acute angle of β. Pleochroism is distinct: X yellow, Y and Z deep orange. Absorption: X < Y < Z.

This mineral occurs as fine prisms up to 0.2 mm long and forms aggregates in network veinlets cutting hematite ore from the Kokuriki mine in the Tokoro district, eastern Hokkaido, Japan. Associated minerals are: hematite, piemontite, quartz, neotocite, bementite, apatite, Mn-oxides, inesite and rhodochrosite. The mineral is named okhotskite for the Sea of Okhotsk, along which the mine is located.

Keywords

okhotskitenew mineralpumpellyite groupHokkaidoJapan

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Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 51 , Issue 362 , October 1987 , pp. 611 - 614
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1987

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