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A new mineral depmeierite, the first cancrinite-group member with the species-forming extraframework anion PO 3−4 , has been found at Mt. Karnasurt in the Lovozero alkaline pluton on the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Natrolite and depmeierite are the major components of a hydrothermal peralkaline veinlet 1.5 cm thick, which cross cuts the foyaite-urtite-lujavrite complex. The associated minerals are steenstrupine-(Ce), vuonnemite, epistolite, sodalite, aegirine, serandite, natisite, and vitusite-(Ce). Depmeierite occurs as colorless transparent isometric grains up to 1 cm in size. Its luster is vitreous. The mineral is brittle, and its cleavage (100) is perfect. Its Mohs hardness is 5, and D(meas) = 2.321(1) and D(calc) = 2.313 g/cm3. Depmeierite is optically biaxial positive, ω = 1.493(2), and ɛ = 1.497(2). The IR spectrum is given. The chemical composition is as follows (wt %, the average of 10 microprobe analyses with the H2O and CO2 determined by selective sorption): 23.04 Na2O, 0.54 K2O, 0.03 Fe2O3, 29.07 Al2O3, 36.48 SiO2, 3.30 P2O5, 0.08 SO3, 0.97 CO2, and 5.93 H2O; the total is 99.44. The empirical formula based on (Si,Al)12O24 is (Na758K0.12)Σ7.70(Si6.19Al5.81O24)[(PO4)0.47(CO3)0.22(OH)0.02(SO4)0.01]Σ0.72 · 3.345H2O. The simplified formula is Na8[Al6Si6O24](CO3)1 − x · 3H2O (x < 0.05). Depmeierite is hexagonal with space group P63, and the unit-cell dimensions are a = 12.7345(2), c = 5.1798(1), V = 727.46(2) Å3, and Z = 1. The strongest reflections of the X-ray powder pattern (d, Å (I, %) [hkl]) are as follows: 6.380(30) [110], 4.695(91) [101], 3.681(37) [300], 3.250(100) [211], 2.758 (33) [400], 2.596(31) [002], and 2.121(24) [330, 302]. The crystal structure was studied using a single crystal, and R hkl = 0.0362. Depmeierite differs from cancrinite in the development of wide channels containing Na cations, H2O molecules, prevailing PO 3−4 -anionic groups, and CO 2−3 . The mineral is named in honor of the German crystallographer Wulf Depmeier (born in 1944). The type specimen is deposited at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The cancrinite sensu stricto subgroup separated within the cancrinite group comprises six minerals with AB frameworks, the smallest unit cell is (a ≈ 12.55–12.75, c ≈ 5.1–5.4 Å), and the chain […Na…H2O…]∞ exists in narrow channels: cancrinite, vishnevite, cancrisilite, hydroxycancrinite, kyanoxalite, and depmeierite. The P-bearing varieties of the cancrinite-group minerals are discussed, as well as the formation conditions of the noncarbonate members of the group related to intrusive alkaline complexes.
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Original Russian Text © I.V. Pekov, L.V. Olysych, N.V. Zubkova, N.V. Chukanov, K.V. Van, D.Yu. Pushcharovsky, 2010, published in Zapiski RMO (Proceedings of the Russian Mineralogical Society), 2010, No. 4, pp. 63–74.
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Pekov, I.V., Olysych, L.V., Zubkova, N.V. et al. Depmeierite Na8[Al6Si6O24](PO4,CO3)1−x · 3H2O (x < 0.5): A new cancrinite-group mineral species from the Lovozero alkaline pluton of the Kola Peninsula. Geol. Ore Deposits 53, 604–613 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701511070166
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