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  • Anatoly V. Kasatkin
  • Natalia V. Zubkova
  • Igor V. Pekov
  • Nikita V. Chukanov
  • Dmitriy A. Ksenofontov
  • Atali A. Agakhanov
  • Dmitriy I. Belakovskiy
  • Yury S. Polekhovsky
  • Aleksey M. Kuznetsov
  • Sergey N. Britvin
  • Dmitry Yu. Pushcharovsky
  • Fabrizio Nestola
Two new isostructural minerals radekškodaite-(La) (CaLa 5 )(Al 4 Fe 2+ )[Si 2 O 7 ][SiO 4 ] 5 O(OH) 3 and radekškodaite-(Ce) (CaCe 5 )(Al 4 Fe 2+ )[Si 2 O 7 ][SiO 4 ] 5 O(OH) 3 were discovered in polymineralic nodules from the Mochalin Log REE deposit, South Urals, Russia. Radekškodaite-(La) is associated with allanite-(Ce), allanite-(La), bastnäsite-(Ce), bastnäsite-(La), ferriallanite-(Ce), ferriallanite-(La), ferriperbøeite-(La), fluorbritholite-(Ce), törnebohmite-(Ce) and törnebohmite-(La). Radekškodaite-(Ce) is associated with ancylite-(Ce), bastnäsite-(Ce), bastnäsite-(La), lanthanite-(La), perbøeite-(Ce) and törnebohmite-(Ce). The new minerals form isolated anhedral grains up to 0.35 × 0.75 mm [radekškodaite-(La)] and 1 mm × 2 mm [radekškodaite-(Ce)]. Both minerals are greenish-brown with vitreous lustre. D calc = 4.644 [radekškodaite-(La)] and 4.651 [radekškodaite-(Ce)] g cm –3 . Both minerals are optically biaxial (+); radekškodaite-(La): α = 1.790(7), β = 1.798(5), γ = 1.825(8) and 2V meas = 60(10)°; radekškodaite-(Ce): α = 1.798(6), β = 1.806(6), γ = 1.833(8) and 2V meas = 65(10)°. Chemical data [wt.%, electron-microprobe; FeO:Fe 2 O 3 by charge balance; H 2 O by stochiometry; radekškodaite-(La)/radekškodaite-(Ce)] are: CaO 3.40/2.74, La 2 O 3 27.68/22.23, Ce 2 O 3 20.39/24.30, Pr 2 O 3 0.94/1.48, Nd 2 O 3 1.71/3.18, ThO 2 0.23/0.24, MgO 0.85/1.04, Al 2 O 3 10.35/10.84, MnO 0.64/0.69, FeO 2.55/2.76, Fe 2 O 3 3.12/2.57, TiO 2 0.13/0.04, SiO 2 26.03/26.10, F 0.10/0.09, H 2 O 1.62/1.63, –O=F –0.04/–0.04, total 99.70/99.89. The empirical formulae based on O 28 (OH,F) 3 are: radekškodaite-(La): (Ca 0.98 Th 0.01 La 2.75 Ce 2.01 Nd 0.16 Pr 0.09 ) Σ6.00 (Al 3.28 Fe 3+ 0.63 Fe 2+ 0.57 Mg 0.34 Mn 0.15 Ti 0.03 ) Σ5.00 Si 7.00 O 28 [(OH) 2.91 F 0.09 ]; radekškodaite-(Ce): (Ca 0.79 Mn 0.16 Th 0.01 Ce 2.39 La 2.20 Nd 0.30 Pr 0.14 ) Σ5.99 (Al 3.43 Fe 2+ 0.62 Fe 3+ 0.52 Mg 0.42 Ti 0.01 ) Σ5.00 Si 7.00 O 28 [(OH) 2.92 F 0.08 ]. Both minerals are monoclinic, P 2 1 / m ; the unit-cell parameters [radekškodaite-(La)/radekškodaite-(Ce)] are: a = 8.9604(3)/8.9702(4), b = 5.7268(2)/5.7044(2), c = 25.1128(10)/25.1642(13) Å, β = 116.627(5)/116.766(6)°, V = 1151.98(7)/1149.68(11) Å 3 and Z = 2/2. The crystal structures are solved based on single-crystal X-ray diffraction data; R = 0.0554 [radekškodaite-(La)] and 0.0769 [radekškodaite-(Ce)]. Both minerals belong to the epidote–törnebohmite polysomatic series and represent first members of ET2 -type: their structure consists of regular alternating modules, one slab of the epidote (E) structure and two slabs of törnebohmite (T). The rootname radekškodaite is given in honor of the Czech mineralogist Radek Škoda (born 1979), Associate Professor at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. The suffix-modifier -(La) or -(Ce) indicates the predominance of La or Ce among REE in the mineral.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)839-853
Number of pages15
JournalMineralogical Magazine
Volume84
Issue number6
DOIs
StateE-pub ahead of print - 24 Aug 2020

    Research areas

  • radekškodaite-(La), radekškodaite-(Ce), new mineral, rare-earth silicate, crystal structure, polysomatism, allanite, törnebohmite, Mochalin Log, South Urals

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