The mineralogy of the historical Mochalin Log REE deposit, South Urals, Russia. Part III. Percleveite-(La), La 2 Si 2 O 7 , a new REE disilicate mineral

The new mineral percleveite-(La) (IMA2019–037), ideally La 2 Si 2 O 7 , was found in polymineralic nodules of the Mochalin Log REE deposit, Chelyabinsk Oblast, South Urals, Russia. It is associated with allanite-(Ce), allanite-(La), bastnäsite-(Ce), bastnäsite-(La), ferriallanite-(Ce), ferriallanite...

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Veröffentlicht in:Mineralogical magazine 2020-12, Vol.84 (6), p.913-920
Hauptverfasser: Kasatkin, Anatoly V., Zubkova, Natalia V., Pekov, Igor V., Chukanov, Nikita V., Škoda, Radek, Agakhanov, Atali A., Belakovskiy, Dmitriy I., Ksenofontov, Dmitriy A., Plášil, Jakub, Kuznetsov, Aleksey M., Britvin, Sergey N., Pushcharovsky, Dmitry Yu
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Zusammenfassung:The new mineral percleveite-(La) (IMA2019–037), ideally La 2 Si 2 O 7 , was found in polymineralic nodules of the Mochalin Log REE deposit, Chelyabinsk Oblast, South Urals, Russia. It is associated with allanite-(Ce), allanite-(La), bastnäsite-(Ce), bastnäsite-(La), ferriallanite-(Ce), ferriallanite-(La), ferriperbøeite-(Ce), ferriperbøeite-(La), fluorbritholite-(Ce), hydroxylbastnäsite-(Ce), perbøeite-(Ce), perbøeite-(La), törnebohmite-(Ce) and törnebohmite-(La). Percleveite-(La) occurs as isolated anhedral grains commonly up to 0.2 mm × 0.4 mm and very rarely up to 1 mm × 1 mm. The new mineral is transparent with greasy lustre. The mineral is very pale yellow to colourless in thin fragments to light yellow in aggregates. It is brittle, with imperfect {001} cleavage and an uneven fracture. Mohs’ hardness is ca . 6. D calc = 5.094 g cm –3 . Under the microscope, percleveite-(La) is non-pleochroic, optically uniaxial (+), ω = 1.825(10) and ɛ = 1.835(10). The Raman spectrum is given. Chemical data (wt.%, electron-microprobe) are: La 2 O 3 36.80, Ce 2 O 3 31.22, Pr 2 O 3 1.57, Nd 2 O 3 2.96, SiO 2 26.73, total 99.28. The empirical formula based on 7 O apfu is (La 1.02 Ce 0.86 Nd 0.08 Pr 0.04 ) Σ2.00 Si 2.00 O 7 . Percleveite-(La) is tetragonal, P 4 1 ; the unit-cell parameters are: a = 6.8482(3), c = 24.8550(13) Å, V = 1165.64(11) Å 3 and Z = 8. The strongest reflections in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern [ d , Å( I )( hkl )] are: 4.194(18)(113), 3.564(16)(106), 3.349(16)(201,202), 3.157(100)(203,116,008), 3.043(22)(211), 2.934(39)(122), 2.893(29)(213) and 2.864(21)(117). The crystal structure of percleveite-(La) is solved from the single-crystal X-ray diffraction data [ R = 0.0617 for 2831 unique reflections with I > 2σ( I )]. The new mineral is named as an analogue of percleveite-(Ce) with La predominance over the rare-earth elements.
ISSN:0026-461X
1471-8022
DOI:10.1180/mgm.2020.81