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Ziminaite, Fe3+VO4, a new howardevansite-group mineral from the Bezymyannyi volcano, Kamchatka, Russia

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The new mineral ziminaite, ideally Fe3+VO4, was found in fumarole sublimates at the Bezymyannyi volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. Ziminaite occurs as lamellar, tabular or flattened prismatic crystals up to 10 × 30 × 50 μm typically epitaxially overgrowing koksharovite, and as aggregates (up to 0.15 mm) associated with bannermanite in cavities in volcanic scoria. The mineral is translucent, yellowish-brown with an adamantine luster. The calculated density is 3.45 g cm− 3. In reflected light, ziminaite is light grey. Bireflectance is weak, internal reflections are deep yellow. The reflectance values [R max –R min, % (λ, nm)] are: 17.7–16.3 (470), 15.7–14.1 (546), 15.1–13.8 (589), 14.7–13.6 (650). Chemical composition (wt%) is: MgO 2.20, CaO 0.01, Al2O3 7.81, Fe2O3 27.18, TiO2 4.50, SiO2 0.26, P2O5 0.09, V2O5 57.01, total 99.06. The empirical formula, based on 24 O atoms, is: (Fe3 + 3.29Al1.48Ti0.54Mg0.53)Σ5.84(V6.05Si0.04P0.01)Σ6.10O24 (Z = 1). Ziminaite is triclinic, P \(\overline {1}\), a 8.012(4), b 9.345(5), c 6.678(3) Å, α 106.992(10), β 101.547(8), γ 96.594(11)º, V 460.4(4) Å3, Z = 6. The strongest reflections of the powder X-ray diffraction pattern [d,Å(I)(hkl)] are: 3.751(17)(1–21, 12 − 1), 3.539(86)(120), 3.270(67)(01–2), 3.209(100)(2–20), 3.090(20)(2–11, 002), 3.041(18)(03 − 1, 02–2), 2.934(14)(12 − 2, 030) and 1.665(24)(023, 12 − 4). The crystal structure, solved from single-crystal data (R 1 = 0.085), is based upon heteropolyhedral framework built by VO4 tetrahedra and Fe3+-centred octahedra and five-fold polyhedra. Ziminaite belongs to the howardevansite group being its first member without species-defining uni- or divalent cations and with all large cation sites vacant. The mineral is named after the Zimina volcano situated near the discovery locality.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Gerald Giester and an anonymous referee for their valuable comments and Lutz Nasdala for the editorial work. Chemical composition of ziminaite was studied in Laboratory of Analytical Techniques of High Spatial Resolution, Dept. of Petrology, Moscow State University. Technical support by the St Petersburg State University X-Ray Diffraction Research Resource Center is gratefully acknowledged. This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 14-17-00048 (mineralogical studies) and St Petersburg State University through the internal grant 3.38.238.2015 (X-ray diffraction studies and crystal structure determination).

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  1. Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    Igor V. Pekov & Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt

  2. Institute of Earth Sciences, St Petersburg State University, University Embankment 7/9, 199034, St Petersburg, Russia

    Oleg I. Siidra & Yury S. Polekhovsky

  3. Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny 35, Moscow, Russia

    Pavel M. Kartashov

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Pekov, I.V., Siidra, O.I., Yapaskurt, V.O. et al. Ziminaite, Fe3+VO4, a new howardevansite-group mineral from the Bezymyannyi volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. Miner Petrol 112, 371–379 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-017-0550-y

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