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rH,O where n is co' 0 5, occurs as Burangaite* Claringbullite, Cu.Cl(OH), soft blue plates with cuprite and malachiteat the Nchanga open Martti Lehtinen,and Th G Sahama(1977) O. von Knorring, pit, Zambia, and at the M'sesa mine, Kambowe' Katanga The a new phosphatemineral from Rwanda Bull Geol Burangaite, compositionwas establishedby microprobe analyseson 3 grainsof Soc Finlarul,49,33-36. the material from Zambia and 2 from Katanga A small amount of (0.06 to 0 l2 percent) was also reported for each specimen' Analysisby O. von Knorring gaveAl,O3 34.35' FerO, l.l4' FeO SO, is hexagonal,a : 6.671'c = 9.183A, Z = 2,G meas 626, MgO 200, MnO 040. CaO 1.88,NazO 2.93'P2O"3765' The mineral calc 3.92; the lattice dimensionsshow simple relationsto H,O+ I | 60. insol 2.06. sum 100.27percent, corresponding to a 3.9. G and of buttgenbachiteThe strongestlines in the unit cell content of (Na, oo)(FqreMgr n"Mno ,r)(Alro orFq nr) thoseof connellite ",Car powderdiffractionpattern are: 5 75 (l0T0,ws),4'89 (l0ll's)' 4 58 (PO4),5?,(O,OH )ru.8HrO or 2(Na,CaL(Fe.Mg)rAl'o(POo)' Claringbullite is (o,oH),,4H,O. ioooz,r), 2.700 (10T3,ll22,vvs), 2.445 Q022'vs). : negative:a : 1.782't : 1.780.The name is for Sir Frank Burangaileis monoclinic.space group C2/c' a:25.09' b optically Claringbull, former director of the British Museum (Natural His- 5 048. c = 13.454,p = ll0 9l'. The strongestX-ray lines(56 of Mineralogy. A.P. given) are I l.7l (100X200).4.86 (41X202).3.318 (39X1 l3'313)' tory) and Keeper 3 l l5 (70x802,51I ). 3 081(90x1 l3.sl3). Color bluish to bluish-green, slightly bluish. Fukalite* = : 11001perfect H = 5. G 3.05 Optically biaxial, negative.a Henmi, lsao Kusachi,Akira Kawahara,and Kitinosuke l.6ll+0.002.8 : 1635+0.002,t = t.643+0.00t'2V: 58" (calc Chiyoko -- (1977)Fukalite' a new calciumcarbonate silicate hydrate 60o).r ) u,Z b,X : c = llo in theacuteangleB.Pleochroic, X Henmi Mineral. J (Tokyo), 8, 374-381. fight blue, l'dark blue.Z colorless,y > X > Z. mineral. long prismatic crystals in the Buranga Burangaite occurs as Analysesof material from Fuka and Mihara containing a little with bertossaite,trolleite, scorza- pegmatite.Rwanda, associated cafcite and xonotlite gave, respectively,SiO, 29'09,29'98: TiOz, (which apatite, bjarebyite' and wardite. Forms lite it replaces), MnO none; Al,Os 0.55,0.27' Fe"O"0.10, 0.14; MgO 0 14' 002; 102, 104. l0l. 123,311,22l'311 , and 40T. noted include 301. CaO 54.40.54 8l; NarO 0.17,0.05: K,O 0.01,0 021P,O' 001'0'07: structure, with blue core and colorless Crystals show hourglass H2O+ 4.45,4.26: H,O- 0.23,0.39; CO, 10.32,l0'22: F 0'32' 0 43; : margrn. sum 99.79, 99 56: -(O : F,) 0.13, 0.18 99.66' 99.38 percent' localitY.M.F. The name is for the correspondingclosely to Ca.Si,Ou(OH,F),(CO')' The mineral is decomposedby acids with effervesence.When heatedthe mineral Charoite losesHrO and COz at about 600"C with the formation of larnite' In hydrothermalexperiments at I kbar HrO pressure,fukalite was L V. Nikol'skaya,A. l. Novozhilovand M. l. Samoilovich(1976) unchangedat 500'C and decomposedirreversibly to ,fosh- The nature of the color of a new alkali silicate from agite, and dellaiteabove 550o. eastern Transbaikal. Izuest Akad Nauk SSSR, Ser' geol., No. Weissenbergand precessionphotographs showed fukalite to be 10. ll6-120 (in Russian). = orthorhombic, space group Bm2,b' Bmmb, or Bbnb, a -- = = Optical, infrared. and electron paramagneticresonance spectra 5.48+0.01,b : 3 78+0.01, c 23.42+0.03A'Z 2'C 2'7'l calc are interpretedto indicatethat the deep reddish-violetcolor of this G : 2'l7O+0.002 meas. The strongest diffraction lines for the new mineral,"a complexalkali silicate,"is causedby the presence Fuka material are 2.854 (100X107)' 3.084 (90X1ll), 2926 of Mns*. The mineral contains0.0n percentMn,0.00n percentFe (65X008),2.33S (30X0.0.10), s.86 (25X004) It occurs in easternTransbaikal with tinaksite lAm Mineral., 50' The mineral occursas flaky crystalsup to 0.2 mm long in skarns 2098(1965)l with scawtiteand in hillebranditeveinlets at Fuka' Okayama Pref , and as an alteration product of spurrite in gehlenite-spurrite Dist'ussion skarns at Mihara, Okayama Pref., and at Kushiro, Hiroshima H about 4 Optically biaxial, sign New namesshould not be given without a full description.M.F. Pref.Color white 10 pale brown. = not determined,indices (Fuka and Mihara, respectively)a l'59.' 1.592', = 1.60u,1.60": "Y = 162c, 1.62".Elongation negative' Claringbullite* A The name is for the first locality.Type materialis at the Depart- (1977) E. E. Fejer.A. M. Clark, A. G. Couper and C J. Elliott ment of Earth Sciences,Okayama University, Okayama, Japan' Mag', Claringbuflite, a new hydrated copper chloride. Mineral' M.F. 4L 433-436. Gatumbaite* + marked with an asterisk after the name were ap- Fransolet(1977) Gatum- proved before publication by the Commission on New Minerals Oleg von Knorring and And16-Mathieu HzO, a new speciesfrom Buranga peg- and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Associa- baite, CaAlr(PO.)r(OH ), Jahrb. Mineral. Monatsh.,56l-568' tron. matite, Rwanda. Neues

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23.48-28.11percent; the former is approximately6HrO and the latternear 3HzO.The contentionthat theseare different species is supportedby correspondinglydifferent optical and physicalprop- erty data.Powder data are similarbut clearlynot the same,para- alumohydrocalcitehaving the following major lines:2.90 (100), spectrum indicates the presence of both hydroxyl groups and water 6.20(30), 4.M (20),3.e0(25), 3.32(2s),2.6s (24) and2.64 (32). molecules. The mineralis white, radially fibrous,colorless in thin section, and the extinctionwith respectto the fibresis l0-12.. Hardnessis 1.7-1.8,G : 2.0;HCI attacksthe mineral only stightly. Its occurrence,with gypsumand calcite,is in theoxidized ores of the Vodino (Ukraine)and Gawidak(Turkmen SSR) sulfur depos- 1tS. Crystallographicdata are not given. Discussion The mineral forms sheavesand rosetteswith radial fibrous struc- ture, up to 3-10 mm in diameter. Color purewhite, luster pearly. H It is difficult to summarizethe descriptionof this mineralbe- < 5, brittle, giving fibrous asbestiform splinters, with a longitudi_ causeit is dividedbetween two papers.The morerecent of the two nal cleavage and some cross-fractures.Does not fluoresce in UV. is altogethertoo brief and incomplete,referring the readerto the earlierone which, in turn, presentsmost data in widely-ranging numbers,some of which overlapalumohydrocalcite data. While the differencesbetween the two hydratesdo appearreal, it is most unfortunatethat crystallographicdata for thesix-hydrate are omit- ted. Alumohydrocalcitedoes not appear to be a partial dehy- drationproduct of para-alumohydrocalcite,but thisis not statedin eitherpaper. J.S,W. this fnineral was given in Am. Mineral., 59, ll4} (1974). M.F. Perhamite* Janggunite* PeteJ. Dunn and DanielE. Appleman(1977) perhamite, a new calcium aluminum Soo Jin Kim (1977) Janggunite,a new manganesehydroxide min_ silico-phosphatemineral, and a re-exam- ination of vis|ite. Mineral. eral from the Janggun mine, Bonghwa, Korea. Mineral. Mag., Mag., 41, 437-442. 41, 519-523. Perhamiteoccurs as rare,isolated brown spheruliticmasses (cd. l mm across)of platy crystals, Janggunite occurs as radiating groups of flakes, flower-like ag_ associatedwith siderite,colorless gregates, wardite,amblygonite, colloform bands, or arborescent massesin the cementa- eosphorite,and sphaleritein a vuggy am_ blygonite-richpegmatite tion zone of the supergene oxide deposits. Chemical zoneat the Bell Pit, Newry Hill, Newry, Maine. Microprobe analysis (partly by microprobe and partly by wet_chemical tech_ analyses lead to the formula 3CaO.3.5Al,O3.35ior.2P,O6. niques) Ieads to the idealized formula Mnlt,(Mnr+,Fes+),*, l8HrO. Perhamiteis hexagonal, : spacegroup probably P6/mmm, : : : O(OH)"(x 0.2). The powder pattern can be indexed on an with a 7.02A,c 20.21,Z l: G(meas)2.64, orthorhombiccellwith a:9.324,b: 14.05,c:7.956A,2 = 4,C G(calc)2.53. Strongest lines of the powderpattern (meas) are:6.08 (100,50), 5.80 (l0l,7l), 3.59, (calc) 3.58. Important diffraction lines are: 9.36 3.51(110,50), 3.115 (113,50), (lo0,O,7.09 (020,s),4.62 (200,121,m) a.l7 (130,m),3.547 (tt2,s). 2.882(N7,114,100) and 2.t04 (109,35).This descriptionis based on material from the The flakesaverage 0.05 mm, and the mineralis very fragilewith Bell Pit. In a secondoccurrence in the Dunton Gem mine, atop cleavagein one direction.Color black,luster dull, streakbrownish Newry Hill, perhamiteis in a very soft delicatewhite blackto dark brown,H : 2-i. The DTA curveshows endothermic botryoidalcluster, yielding the samep6wder diffrac- tlon pattern. peaksat 250-370"and 955oC. The IR absorptioncurve shows The mineralis perham, peaksat 515, 545, 1025and 3225cm-t. Jangguniteis closely namedfor Frank C. geologistand peg- matite miner associatedwith ,, and calcite.Tixtural relations of West Paris, Maine, in honor of his dedicated laborsin the recovery indicatethat it was formed at almost the last stageof oxide ore of mineralspecimens. A.p. formationand in a highly oxidizingenvironment. A.p. * Para-alumohydrocalcite S. A. Williamsand M. Duggan(1977) Ruizite, a new silicate mineralfrom Christmas,Arizona. Mineral. Mag.,4l, 429_432. l. V. I. Srebrodol'skii(1977) para-alumohydrocalcite, a new min_ eral.Zapiski Vses.Mineral. Obshch.,tOA, ne-ly (in Russian). Ruizite occursin the mesogenecalc-silicate assemblage at the 2. V. I. Srebrodol'skii(1974) Alumohydrocalcite.lzuest Akad. Christmasmine, Gila County,Arizona, with ,, Nauk SSR, Ser.Geol., no. I0, 88-96(in Russian). smectite,and junitoite. Its color is orangeinclining to brown,with a pale streak;H = 5, G meas: 2.9. Crystalsmonoclinic, 2/in, Para-alumohydrocalcitediffers from alumohydrocalcite elongateon [010];a : 11.95,b = 6.t7, c: 9.034,g = 9lo22Vz,. [CaAldCO,),(OH)..3H,O]in its water content of 6H,O. The dis_ Probablespace group P2r/c with Z = 4, giving G calc2.997. tinctionis madeon the basisof a comparison of multiplechemical Strongestlines of the powderpattern are 11.95(10), 4.190 (7), analysesof "alumohydrocalcites',from variouslocalities showing 3.il6 (6), 5.0e2(5), 3.644(4),2.e5r (4),2.5st (4),2.132(4). total water contentsin the rangesof either 32.6_34.03percent or : : Refractiveindices are a 1.663,P 1.715ll t0l0l,7 = t.j34,y c m,03-ffi4x / 7S /0708_0794$00.50 NEW MINERAL NAMES 795

-44o : ,2V" : 60.2; inclined dispersion,p > u strong.Twinned California,and knipovichitediscredited, Mineral. Rec ' 6, 180-183, on {100}.Analysis by wet methods gave CaO 20.57,Mn"Or23.42, 1975).A.P. SiO, 39.14,HrO 16.0,sum 99.13 percent,leading to the idealized formula CaMn3+(SiOr)r(OH).2HrO. The name is for the discov- Cafarsite erer, Joe Ana Ruiz of Mammoth, Arizona. A.P. A. Edenbarter,W. Nowacki, and M. Weibel(1917) Zur Struktur und Zusammensetzungvon Cafarsit.Cafarsit ein As(III)-Oxid' Unnamed (K'Ba),(Ti'Fe).O'3 kein Arsenat.Schweiz. Mineralog Petogr' Mill ' 57' l-16. B. H. Doran, A. H. White and A. C. Willis (1977) A. N. Bagshaw, Cafarsitewasfirst describedlAm. Mineral',52,1584 (1967)l as an of a natural potassium-barium hexatitanate arsenate,Car(Fe,TilMn(AsO,)" 2H,O. Qualitativetests (decolor- isostructuralwith KrTirO,,. Aust J. Chem.,30, 1195-1200. izingiodine) indicate that arsenicis presentin thetrivalent state. A (microprobeby R. Guber, atomicabsorption by B. The mineral was found in the Kimberley Division, Western new analysis Ayranci)gave As2Os 55.0, CaO 16.5,MnO 26, NazO 1.1,TiO, Australia, associatedwith perovskite and priderite lAm. Mineral , Al,Oo0.7, FeO 7.8,H,O 1.6,sum 99.53 percent' 36,793 (1951)l by L. C. Hodge and M. W. Pryce.It is monoclinic, 14.1,SnOz 0.13, corresponding to (Cae .uMno TeNao77)(Tir uSno orAlo *Fe2 q)Ast2-qr spacegroup C2/ m, a : 15.432,b = 3.6368,c : 9.123A, A : 99.25", HzO. This is converted in some unexplained fashion to Z = 2;X+ay powder data not given. Electron microprobe analysis O...1.92 (Ca"Mn3,+"Mn3.+")(Tt.rFe?IFei.+g)As,rOs"'4'5HrO. Cubic' space (not given) gave the formula (Ko u"Baoee)z(Tio ou)"O1sColor ".Fes+o groupPn3, a:15.984A,2 = 4'M,F. black. Cleavages {100} perfect, {201} good. Faces noted are {100} and {201}. Davreuxite Discussion Andr6-Mathieu Fransoletand Pol Bourguignon (1976)Precisions As has happened so often recently, the crystal structure of a min6ralogiques sur la davreuxite. C.R. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 283D' mineral is reported in detail before occurrence,physical properties, 295-297. and X-ray powder data are reported. M.F. Davreuxite(De Koninck, 1878;Dana's System,6th Ed., p. 706) was examined by Lacroix in 1886 and reported to be a hydrated Unnamed barium titanate mica. Material from the Paris Museum, examinedby Lacroix, was of pyrophyllite with another Tsuyoshi Tanaka and Kimio Okumura (1977) Ultrafine barium found by X-ray study to be a mixture Roy. Sci. Nat., Brussels, titanate particles in the Allende meteorite. Geochem.J (Tokyo), mineral; type material from the Inst' I I, 137-145. contained the same two minerals. A new analysis on 70 mg by J M. Speetjensgave SiO, 42 83, presence Electron microprobe analysesof Allende showed the of Al2O3 43.49, Fe,Og 1.05, MnO 8.85, MgO 0'48, CaO trace' H,O particles up to 50 X 150 microns rich in Ba and Ti. Analysis of a 3 98, sum 100.68 percent. Optical and X-ray study indicated that (total spot rich in Ba and Ti gave SiO, 14, TiO, 19, AlrO' 1, FeO about l0 percent of and 5 percent of pyrophyllite were Fe) 17, MgO 10,CaO I , Na,O, K,O, 0, BaO 33, sum 96 percent;it present in the analyzed sample. Subtracting these, the formula is is estimated that the barium titanate represented56 percent of the calculated as MnrAl,rSirOr' (OHI. The infrared spectrum shows a 1 area arralyzed,so that the pure material may be BaTiOr. M.F. complex pattern with intense absorption between 400-650 cm and 700-1200cm-'with a very intenseband at 815 cm-r. Only (OH) groups are present. The formula may be Mn,Al'r(SiOn)?O, NEW DATA (oH).1. X-raystudy shows the mineral to bemonoclinic,a:9:5'1, b: Alumohydrocalcite 5.79,c = 12.88A,B : I l6o.The strongest X-ray lines are 8.48 (35)' W. Paar (19'7'l)Ein Vorkommen von Alumohydrocalcit von Chit- 5.706(40), 4.283 (s0), 3.s07(100), 3.180 (35)' 3.119(30)' 3.101 ral, Westpakistan, und neue Beobachtungen an chromhaltigem (40),2.869(70),2.837 (3s), 2.520 (30). Alumohydrocalcit von Nowej Rudy, Polen (:ytu.ode, Schle- The mineraloccurs as long fiberscreamy white to verypale rose sien). Aufschluss, 28, 269-212. in color, intimately associatedwith quartz and pyrophylliteat Ottre,Belgium. G : 3.l5+0.05' Optically biaxial, negative, indices A new occurtence of alumohydrocalcite at Chitral, NW-Fron- (Na) : 1.680, : I 686(+0.002), 2V : 70', elongationpositive' = 0 r tier Province, Pakistan, is described. The optical constants, a M.F. 1 502,P = 1.562,t : 1.585,and X-ray powder diffraction data (see PDF 21-127) are in good agreement with German material from Bergisch-Gladbach (K. Kautz, 1968, 1969, M. A. 69-2359, 70- Kerolite which has inclined extinction at 60. Reinvestigation of the 2593) G. W Brindley,David L. Bishand Hsien-MingWan (1977)The (: Cr-bearing alumohydrocalcite of Neurode Nowej Rudy), Si- nature of kerolite,its relationto talc and stevensite'Mineral' (K. Hoehne, 1953,M. A. 12-182) resultedin similar optical lesia, Mag , 41, 443-452. constants and 6" extinction. This is in contrast to a report of parallel extinction for material from the same locality (A. Mora- Kerolitesfrom Goles Mountain (Yugoslavia),Wiry (Poland)' (Czechoslovakia) wiecki, 1962, M. A. l'7-766) leading to the designation B-alu- MadisonCounty (North Carolina)and Kremze mohydrocalcite. Alumohydrocalcite from Chitral is associated are comparedwith talc and stevensite.Chemical analyses lead to with aragonite, quartz, and dickite and has formed by the action of the formulaRsSi.O'o(OH)r'nH,O with R mainlyMg andn about cool-hydrothermal COr:bearing solutions (<140' C) on dickite. 0.8-1.2.IR dataand dehydration-rehydrationexperiments suggest (Seealso: G. E. Dunning et al. Chromian alumohydrocalcite from that the additionalwater is partly surface-heldhydrogen-bonded 0003-ffi4x / 78 / 0708-0795$00.50 796 NEW MINERAL NAMES

molecular water, lost up to about 300.C and easily recoverable.X- The name is given to spindle-shapedor scalenohedralJike forms ray diffraction yields broad basal bands corresponding to a basal l-6 microns in diameter that form aggregates,up to 60 microns in spacing of about 9.6,4.and a crystallite size of about five structural diameter and 120 microns in length, on the undersides of loose layers. Kerolite is considered to be a useful varietal name for this rocks within the cave stream. Scanning electron microscope photo- talc-like mineral. It cannot be defined as serpentine + srevenslte. graphs are given. (Note: The 1975Glossary of Mineral Species,p.62, lists,,Kerolite, a mixt. of a serpentine mineral with stevensite.") A.p, Discussion An unnecessaryname. M.F, Vis6ite

Pete J. Dunn and Daniel E. Appleman (1977) perhamite, a new calcium aluminum silico-, and a re-examina- tion of vis6ite. Mineral Mag.,4l, 437-442.

Type vis6ite, from Vis6, Belgium (NMNH no. 106364) was DiscreditedMinerals reexamined and agrees with the original description by Melon Allopalladium : Stibiopalladinite (Am. Mineral., 30, 548, 1945). Microprobe analyses of both core and rind of the tiny botryoidal clusters lead to the approximate A. D. Genkin, Gerhard Tischendorf, and I. P. Laputina (1977) formula 5CaO 6ALO'.3SiO, 3.5P,O6.l.5F.36HrO. Due to rhe Allopalladium from Tilkerode, Harz, D.D.R. Z. Geol Wiss.,8, lack of single crystals and the extremely diffuse powder pattern this 1003-1009(in German). formula cannot be confirmed by single-crystal methods and an X-ray, optical, and accurate density determination electron-microprobe analyses of material from the type locality showed that this "palladium amalgam', (see Other specimens of vis6ite from Vis6, Belgium, in no way re- Dana's System,7th Ed., p. I I 3- I l4) is stibiopalladinite,with most semble the original material, but are chalky, blue, friable, and common composition Pd 68.4, Cu 0.2, Sb 29.9. As 1.3.sum 99.8 massive. Microprobe analysis of this blue vis6ite leads to the for- percent M.F. mula 3CaO. 6.5Al,Or.SiOr. 2P,O6. 9HrO. Both materials are so poorly crystalline that it is impossible to obtain more than a few weak, extremely broad and diffuse diffrac- Svitalskite : Celadonite tion lines, but there are no discernible differences in spacing or E. K. Lazarenko and V. L Pavlishin (1976'tMineral. Osad. Obrazo- intensity of the lines obtained from the two types of vis6ite. The uanii.3.2l-32 powder diffraction data are in substantial agreement with those of McConnell (Am. Mineral., 37, 609-611.,1952).A.p, Svitalskite, named in 1960, was suggestedto be an unnecessary name for celadonite f,Am. Mineral., 48, l18l (1963)1, but was defended as a distinct mineral by Serdyuchenko in 1965. Applelite : Calcite This paper gives new X-ray, unit-cell determinations, DTA, and in- D. W. Ash (1975) Applelite: a new calcite structure from Apple frared data on type material, with the conclusion that svitalskite Cave, Orange County, Indiana National Speleological Soc. corresponds in every way to celadonite with close to Sinin the unit Bull.. 37. 35-39. cell M.F. 0n,03-004x /'t I / 0708_0796$00.50