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Torrecillasite, Na(As,Sb)43+ O6Cl, a new mineral from the Torrecillas mine, Iquique Province, Chile: Description and crystal structure
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Scopus SCOPUS_ID:84906818589
DOI 10.1180/MINMAG.2014.078.3.20
Año 2014
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The new mineral torrecillasite (IMA2013-112), Na(As,Sb)4 3+ O6Cl, was found at the Torrecillas mine, Iquique Province, Chile, where it occurs as a secondary alteration phase in association with anhydrite, cinnabar, gypsum, halite, lavendulan, magnesiokoritnigite, marcasite, quartz, pyrite, scorodite, wendwilsonite and other potentially new As-bearing minerals. Torrecillasite occurs as thin colourless prisms up to 0.4 mm long in jack-straw aggregates, as very thin fibres in puff balls and as massive intergrowths of needles. Prisms are elongated on [100] with diamond-shaped cross-section and irregular terminations. Crystals are transparent, with adamantine lustre and white streak. The Mohs hardness is 21/2, tenacity is brittle and fracture is irregular. Cleavage on (001) is likely. The calculated density is 4.056 g cm-3. Optically, torrecillasite is biaxial (-) with α= 1.800(5), β = 1.96(1), γ = 2.03(calc.) (measured in white light). The measured 2V is 62.1(5)° no dispersion or pleochroism were observed, the optical orientation is X = c, Y = b, Z = a. The mineral is very slowly soluble in H2O, slowly soluble in dilute HCl and rapidly soluble in concentrated HCl. The empirical formula, determined from electron-microprobe analyses, is Na1.03Mg0.02)σ1. 05(As3.39Sb0.62)∑4.01O6.07C l0.93. Torrecillasite is orthorhombic, Pmcn, a = 5.2580(9), b = 8.0620(13), c = 18.654(3) Å, V = 790.7(2) Å 3 and Z = 4. The eight strongest X-ray powder diffraction lines are [dobs Å (I)(hkl)]: 4.298(33)(111), 4.031(78)(014,020), 3.035(100)(024,122), 2.853(39)(115,123), 2.642(84)(124,200), 2.426(34)(125), 1.8963(32)(225) and 1.8026(29) (0̇1̇0,233). The structure, refined to R1 = 4.06% for 814 Fo >4σF reflections, contains a neutral, wavy As 2O3 layer parallel to (001) consisting of As 3+O3 pyramids that share O atoms to form six-membered rings. Successive layers are flipped relative to one another and successive interlayer regions contain alternately either Na or Cl atoms. Torrecillasite is isostructural with synthetic orthorhombic NaAs4O6Br. © 2014 The Mineralogical Society.

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Mineralogical Magazine 0026-461X

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1 Kampf, Anthony R. Hombre Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Estados Unidos
2 Nash, Barbara P. P. Mujer The University of Utah - Estados Unidos
3 Dini, Maurizio Hombre
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