Nechelyustovite, a new heterophyllosilicate mineral, and new data on bykovaite: A comparative TEM study

• Main Authors: Nèmeth N., Khomyakov A. P., Menshikov Y.u. P., FERRARIS, Giovanni
• Other Authors: Khomyakov A.P., Ferraris G., Menshikov Yu. P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Mineralogia; Cristallografia; new mineral specie; nechelyustovite; bykovaite; heterophyllosilicate; Khibiny massif; Kola Peninsula; TEM study; Khibiny; Kukisvumchorr; kola peninsula
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2318/58302

A new mineral species, nechelyustovite, (Ba0.75Sr0.25K0.17Ce0.02Ca0.01h0.80)P2.00{(Na2.20Ti0.94Mn0.62Ca0.20Fe0.04)P4.00 [(Ti1.33Nb0.67)P2.00O2Si4O14](O1.30H2O0.70)P2.00}Æ4.325H2O (electron microprobe), was collected from a hydrothermally altered pegmatite body emplaced in the nepheline syenites near their contact with ijolite–urtites in the south-western part of the Khibiny alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia, in the underground Kirovskii Mine at Mount Kukisvumchorr. It forms rosettes scattered in a natrolite matrix which are up to 1–5 cm in diameter and composed of extremely fine (0.01–0.1 mm) bounded flakes and lamellae. Nechelyustovite is associated with natrolite, belovite-(La), belovite-(Ce), gaidonnayite, nenadkevichite, epididymite, fluorapophyllite, sphalerite and submicrometric barytolamprophyllite. It is creamy with greyish, bluish or yellowish shades; streak is white, lustre vitreous, pearly or silvery; translucent, transparent in fine flakes formed by [010] elongated and (001) flattened lamellae; H = 3 (Mohs); {001} perfect and {100} medium cleavages; brittle; fracture uneven; Dmeas = 3.32–3.42(2), Dcalc = 3.22 g/cm3. Biaxial (+); at 589 nm a = 1.700(3), b = 1.710(3), c = 1.734(3); 2V(calc) 66; X ~ c, Y ~ a, Z ~ b. Nechelyustovite, simplified as (Ba,Sr,K,h)2{(Na, Ti,Mn)4[(Ti,Nb)2O2Si4O14](O,H2O,F)2}Æ4.5H2O, is a new heterophyllosilicate member of the mero-plesiotype bafertisite series and a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study shows that it occurs as two polytypes intergrown at submicrometric scale: polytype 1M, P2/m, a = 5.37, b = 7.00, c = 24.05 A˚ , b = 91.1, Z = 2; polytype 2M, A2/m, a = 5.38, b = 7.04, c = 48.10 A˚ , b = 91.1, Z = 4. The spacing (A˚ ) and intensities of the most intense X-ray powder diffraction peaks are 24.06 (100), 7.05 (13), 5.95 (36), 3.95 (25), 2.828 (42), 2.712 (19) and 2.155 (13). A TEM study of bykovaite, simplified as (Ba,Na,K,h)2{(Na,Ti,Mn)4[(Ti,Nb)2O2Si4O14](H2O,F, OH)2}Æ3.5H2O, shows that also this heterophyllosilicate occurs as two polytypes intergrown ...