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Yuksporite
Rare inosilicate mineral
Rare inosilicate mineral
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Yuksporite |
| image | Yuksporite-3.jpg |
| caption | Yuksporite from the Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia (4 cm across) |
| category | Inosilicates |
| formula | see text |
| IMAsymbol | Yks |
| molweight | 2,546.97 g/mol |
| strunz | 9.DG.95 |
| dana | 66.3.1.5 |
| system | Monoclinic |
| class | Prismatic (2/m) |
| (same H-M symbol) | |
| symmetry | P2/m |
| color | Brownish pink to rose-red to straw-yellow |
| habit | Fibrous, scaly or lamellar |
| mohs | to 5 |
| luster | Vitreous, silky |
| refractive | nα = 1.644, nγ = 1.660 |
| opticalprop | Biaxial |
| pleochroism | X pale rose-yellow, Y, Z rose-yellow |
| streak | Nearly white to white |
| gravity | 3.05 |
| diaphaneity | Semitransparent |
| other | Barely detectable radioactivity |
| references |
(same H-M symbol)
Yuksporite is a rare inosilicate mineral with double width, unbranched chains, and the complicated chemical formula . It contains the relatively rare elements strontium, titanium and niobium, as well as the commoner metallic elements potassium, calcium, sodium and manganese. As with all silicates, it contains groups of linked silicon and oxygen atoms, as well as some associated water molecules.
Yuksporite is a member of the umbite group that has just two known members, umbite, , and yuksporite.
Unit cell
Yuksporite was originally thought to be orthorhombic, space group unknown.
Appearance
The mineral is brownish pink, rose pink or yellowish in color, with a silky to vitreous luster and a nearly white streak. It occurs in semi-transparent fibrous, scaly or lamellar aggregates up to 10 cm across.
Properties
Yuksporite is a biaxial mineral, but most authors do not specify whether it is (+) or (-); the Handbook of Mineralogy gives it as (+). All agree, however, that the refractive indices are Nx = 1.644 and Nz = 1.660 (with Ny unspecified), which are larger than those for quartz, but similar to those for tourmaline. Yuksporite shows pleochroism, with X pale rose-yellow, and Y, Z rose-yellow. It has a hardness of to 5, between fluorite and apatite, and specific gravity 3.05, similar to fluorite. It exhibits barely detectable radioactivity.
Occurrence and associations
The type locality is the Hackman Valley, Yukspor Mt, Khibiny Massif, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia, and type material is conserved at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, catalogue number 25847. The only occurrences reported by Mindat.org are in Russia. At the Khibiny massif it occurs in veins in nepheline syenite associated with titanite, pectolite, astrophyllite, biotite and aegirine. At the Murun Massif in the Sakha Republic it is associated with aegirine, kalsilite, potassic feldspar, titanite, lamprophyllite, wadeite and tausonite.
References
References
- Warr, L.N.. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine.
- Gaines et al (1997) Dana’s New Mineralogy Eighth Edition. Wiley
- "Yuksporite".
- (2014). "Yuksporite Mineral Data".
- (2005). "Yuksporite". Mineral Data Publishing.
- "IMA Mineral List with Database of Mineral Properties".
- Schairer J F. (1927). "New Mineral Names: summarising Fersman A E (1923) Transactions of the Northern Scientific and Economic Expedition (16) 16-73". American Mineralogist.
- In 2004, however, the structure was solved using [[synchrotron radiation]] and found to be [[Monoclinic crystal system|monoclinic]] 2/m with [[space group]] P21/m. The monoclinic [[unit cell]] has two formula units per cell (Z = 2) and side lengths a = 7.126 Å, b = 24.913 Å and c = 17.075 Å, with the angle β between the a and c axes equal to 101.89°.Krivovichev, Yakovenchuk, Armbruster, Dobelin, Pattison, Weber and Depmeier (2004) American Mineralogist 89:1561
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