Redefinition of beraunite, Fe3+6(PO4)4O(OH)4.6H2O, and discreditation of the name eleonorite: a re-investigation of type material from the Hrbek Mine (Czech Republic)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00125673

Result on the web

<a href="https://ejm.copernicus.org/articles/34/223/2022/" target="_blank" >https://ejm.copernicus.org/articles/34/223/2022/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-223-2022" target="_blank" >10.5194/ejm-34-223-2022</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Redefinition of beraunite, Fe3+6(PO4)4O(OH)4.6H2O, and discreditation of the name eleonorite: a re-investigation of type material from the Hrbek Mine (Czech Republic)

Original language description

Re-investigation of the type material of beraunite from the Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá, Czech Republic, proved the identity of beraunite and eleonorite. Based on this study, the mineral eleonorite was discredited and the ideal formula of beraunite was redefined from Fe2+Fe3+5(PO4)4(OH)5.6H2O to Fe3+6(PO4)4O(OH)4.6H2O. Beraunite from Hrbek Mine usually forms prismatic crystals (flattened on {100}; elongated along b axis, striated on {100} || b, up to 0.2 x 0.5 x 3 mm, often in radial clusters up to 6 mm in size in association with black goethite, olive-green to dark green dufrénite and yellow to orange cacoxenite. Beraunite is hyacinth-red, dark red or red-brown and has a light orange-red streak; crystals are translucent, with a vitreous lustre. The symmetry of the structure was found to be lower (Cc) than reported in the past (C2/c), this has been proven by the crystal structure refinement, Robs = 2.7% for Cc and ~8% for C2/m. Unit-cell parameters of original material of F. A. Breithaupt derived from powder X-ray diffraction data are: a = 20.653(2), b = 5.1433(6), c = 19.241(2) Å, β = 93.560(9)o and V = 2039.9(2) Å3. Calculated density is 2.961 g.cm-3. Beraunite is optically biaxial (+), α = 1.768(2), β = 1.781(3), γ &gt; 1.805, 2Vmeas = 69(4)o, 2Vcalc = not possible to calculate. Dispersion of optical axes is strong, r &gt; v. The orientation is Y = b; X ALMOST EQUAL TO a, and Z ALMOST EQUAL TO c. The empirical formula of the original beraunite sample calculated on the basis of P = 4 apfu is: Fe3+5.76Al0.15Zn0.01(PO4)4.00O0.99(OH)3.77.6H2O. 57Fe Mössbauer spectrum of beraunite neotype (National Museum, Prague) from type locality implies that all iron atoms in beraunite structure are exclusively trivalent, located at M site with different next-nearest neighbour configurations. There is no spectral evidence for Fe2+ or iron in some impurities (e.g., limonite).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10504 - Mineralogy

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Mineralogy

ISSN

0935-1221

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

223-238

UT code for WoS article

000780842500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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