Hydroxycalciopyrochlore, A New Mineral Species from Sichuan, China
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    Hydroxycalciopyrochlore, ideally (Ca,Na,U,□)2(Nb,Ti)2O6(OH), cubic, is a new mineral species (IMA2011-026) within the pyrochlore supergroup that was found occurring at the Maoniuping mine, Mianning County, Xichang prefecture, Sichuan Province, southwest China. The mineral is found in an alkali feldspar granite rare-earth ore deposit (26–27 Ma). Associated minerals include calcite, barite, celestine, albite, aegirine, aegirine-augite, fluorite, parasite-(Ce), thorite, thorianite, zircon, galena, sphalerite, magnetite, and pyrite. Crystals occur mostly as octahedra, and less often as dodecahedra and tetrahexahedra or combinations thereof. Some occur with an allotriomorphic habit with a thick triangular tabular form. Crystals generally range from 0.1 to 1 mm in size. The mineral is brownish-black, greenish-black and black on fresh sections with a brown streak. The crystal is translucent, and has a greasy lustre on fresh sections. It is metamict without any observed parting or cleavage and with a conchoidal fracture. The Vickers microhardness is 572 kg/mm2 (5–6 on the Mohs hardness scale). The density measured by hydrostatic weighing is 5.10(3) g/cm3. The strongest four reflections in the X-ray powder-diffraction pattern [d in ? (I) hkl] are: 2.9657 (100) 2 2 2, 1.8142 (34) 0 4 4, 1.5463 (21) 2 2 6, 2.5688 (18) 0 0 4. The unit-cell parameters are a = 10.381(4) ?, V = 1118.7(7) ?3, Z = 8. The structure was solved and refined in the space group Fd3m with R = 0.09. The empirical formula is (Ca0.74Na0.58U0.40Ce0.05Fe0.02□0.21)2.00(Nb1.15Ti0.80Ta0.03Al0.01Mg0.01)2.00O6.02 [(OH)1.01F0.09]1.10, on the basis of 2 atoms of B pfu; the simplified formula is (Ca,Na,U,□)2(Nb,Ti)2O6(OH). Type material is deposited in the Geological Museum of China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, catalogue number M11800.

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YANG Guangming, LI Guowu, XIONG Ming, PAN Baoming, YAN Chenjie.2014. Hydroxycalciopyrochlore, A New Mineral Species from Sichuan, China[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),88(3):748-753

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  • Received:April 01,2013
  • Revised:May 07,2014
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