Copper Oxosulphates from Fumaroles of Tolbachik Volcano
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Eur. J. Mineral. 2017, 29, 499–510 Published online 10 January 2017 Copper oxosulphates from fumaroles of Tolbachik volcano: puninite, Na2Cu3O(SO4)3 – a new mineral species and structure refinements of kamchatkite and alumoklyuchevskite 1,* 1 2 1 OLEG I. SIIDRA ,EVGENII V. NAZARCHUK ,ANATOLY N. ZAITSEV ,EVGENIYA A. LUKINA , 1 3 4 1 EVGENIYA Y. AVDONTSEVA ,LIDIYA P. VERGASOVA ,NATALIA S. VLASENKO ,STANISLAV K. FILATOV , 5 3 RICK TURNER and GENNADY A. KARPOV 1 Department of Crystallography, St. Petersburg State University, University emb. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia *Corresponding author, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Mineralogy, St. Petersburg State University, University emb. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia 3 Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bulvar Piypa 9, 683006 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 4 Research Park, Resource Centre Geomodel, St. Petersburg State University, University emb. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia 5 The Drey, Allington Track, Allington, Salisbury SP4 0DD, Wiltshire, UK Abstract: Typical characteristics of many anhydrous sulphates of exhalative origin at fumaroles at the Second scoria cone of the Northern Breakthrough of the Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia, are the presence of additional oxygen atoms (Oa) in the composition. Recent field works on the fumaroles of the Second scoria cone in 2014 and 2015 resulted in discovery of a new mineral species, puninite, and collection of fresh alumoklyuchevskite and kamchatkite samples which allowed the re-refinement of crystal structures. The crystal structure of kamchatkite, KCu3O(SO4)2Cl, was solved and refined in Pnma 3 space group (a = 9.755(2), b = 7.0152(15), c = 12.886(3) Å, V = 881.8(3) Å , R1 = 0.021), whereas alumoklyuchevskite, K3Cu3 AlO2(SO4)4, is triclinic, P1(a = 4.952(3), b = 11.978(6), c = 14.626(12) Å, a = 87.119(9), b = 80.251(9), g = 78.070(9)°, V = 836.3 3 (9) Å , R1 = 0.049) in contrast to previously reported data. The new mineral puninite, ideally Na2Cu3O(SO4)3, was found in sublimates of Glavnaya Tenoritovaya fumarole. The mineral is named in honor of the Russian crystallographer Yurii Olegovich Punin (1941–2014). Puninite is closely associated with lammerite-b, tenorite, hematite and anhydrite. Puninite is emerald-green in colour. It is biaxial, optically positive, a = 1.587(2), b = 1.611(2), g = 1.649(2), 2Vcalc =60°. The mineral is soluble in water. The empirical formula of puninite based on 13 O atoms is (Na1.76K0.08)S1.84(Cu2.97Zn0.04)S3.01(SO4)3.02O0.92. Puninite is the first Na-dominant copper oxosulfate mineral observed on Second scoria cone. It is monoclinic, C2/c, a = 17.41(1), b = 9.39(1), c = 14.40(1) Å, b = 112.04(7)°, V = 2183(2) Å3, Z = 8. The eight strongest lines of the X-ray powder diffraction pattern are (I-d-hkl): 100-8.058-200, 18.88-6.675- 002, 28.47-6.466- 202, 14.1-4.398-202, 17.37-4.247- 113, 33.89-3.839- 022, 29.15-2.854- 224, 14.95-2.724- 024. Puninite is structurally related to euchlorine, NaKCu3O (SO4)3 and to fedotovite, K2Cu3O(SO4)3. The unit-cell a parameter value is very sensitive to the K-Na ratio in “euchlorine group” 8þ minerals. The crystal structure of puninite (R1 = 0.035) is based on oxocentred [O2Cu6] dimers. Four sulphate tetrahedra are ‘face- to-face’ attached to the dimers, whereas the other sulphate tetrahedral groups provide their linkage in two dimensions. The structural architecture of all the copper-oxosulphate exhalative minerals described in this paper can be described as being organized via a “host– guest” principle. Key-words: puninite; new mineral; kamchatkite; alumoklyuchevskite; sulphates; oxocentred tetrahedra; volcanic exhalations; crystal structure; host–guest structures; Second scoria cone; Tolbachik. 1. Introduction great variety of sulphate minerals. Most of these minerals are anhydrous, in contrast to the majority of known Fumarolic activity taking place after the Great Tolbachik sulphate minerals which contain additional water mole- Fissure eruption (GTFE) that occurred in 1975–1976 in cules or hydroxyl groups (Alpers et al., 2000). To date, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia (Fedotov and Markhinin, more than 20 sulphate mineral species have been 1983; Vergasova and Filatov, 2012) is characterized by the discovered in fumaroles of the Second scoria cone, eschweizerbart_xxx 0935-1221/17/0029-2619 $ 5.40 DOI: 10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2619 © 2017 E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, D-70176 Stuttgart 500 O.I. Siidra et al. Northern Breakthrough, GTFE. Typical characteristics of The new mineral puninite, Na2Cu3O(SO4)3, was also many anhydrous sulphates of exhalative origin at this discovered in fresh samples collected by O.I.S. and E.A.L. locality are the presence of additional oxygen atoms in the Glavnaya Tenoritovaya fumarole in 2014. Puninite (Oa) in the composition: for example, piypite, K4Cu4 (Cyrillic: пун4н4т) is named in honour of Professor Yurii O2(SO4)4·(Na,Cu)Cl (Filatov & Vergasova, 1989); fedo- Olegovich Punin (Юр46 О:егов4ч Пун4н) (1941–2014), tovite, K2Cu3O(SO4)3, euchlorine, KNaCu3O(SO4)3 who worked for 45 years at Department of Crystallogra- (Vergasova et al., 1988a); kamchatkite, KCu3OCl(SO4)2 phy, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Yurii Punin 3þ (Vergasova et al., 1988b); klyuchevskite, K3Cu3Fe O2 was an outstanding scientist in the field of Crystallography (SO4)4 (Vergasova et al., 1989); alumoklyuchevskite, and Crystal Growth. The mineral and mineral name have K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4 (Gorskaya et al., 1995); dolerophanite, been approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Cu2O(SO4)(Effenberger, 1985); nabokoite, Cu7TeO4(SO4)5· Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical 3þ 3þ KCl (Popova et al.,1987); atlasovite, Cu6Fe Bi Association (2015-012). Type material is deposited in O4(SO4)5·KCl (Popova et al.,1987); vergasovaite, Cu3O the collections of the Mineralogical Museum, Department [(Mo,S)O4)](SO4)(Bykova et al.,1998); wulffite, K3NaCu4 of Mineralogy, St Petersburg State University, St O2(SO4)4, and parawulffite, K5Na3Cu8O4(SO4)8 (Pekov Petersburg, Russia, catalogue number 19638. et al.,2014); cryptochalcite, K2Cu5O(SO4)5 (Pekov et al., 2015c), which all contain O atoms that do not participate in 2À 2. Locality and occurrence strongly bonded (SO4) complexes. Volcanic gases of the GTFE are enriched in copper (Meniaylov et al.,1980) Puninite, kamchatkite and alumoklyuchevskite were and many of the sulphate minerals contain this metal as found in the Glavnaya Tenoritovaya fumarole (Pekov essential component, with consequent formation of et al., 2015a) on the Second scoria cone of the Northern unique mineral assemblages. The Oa atoms in the Breakthrough of the GTFE on Kamchatka peninsula, structures of such sulphate minerals are tetrahedrally Russia. The Second scoria cone is located 18 km SSW of coordinated by Cu, with formation of oxocentered OCu4 the active volcano Ploskiy Tolbachik. The temperature of tetrahedra (Krivovichev et al., 2013) polymerized into a gases in the sampling location was about 320 °C. Puninite variety of structural units with different dimensionality. occurs as crystalline crusts (Fig. 1), individual crystals up Note also that all of the copper oxosulphate minerals to 10 Â 30 Â 50 mm (usually from 5 to 20 mm in size) and listed above (except vergasovaite) contain alkali elements irregularly shaped grains. Puninite is closely associated (K and/or Na). Potassium dominates in the composition with lammerite-b, tenorite, hematite and anhydrite. The of these minerals, whereas Na is an essential component kamchatkite and alumokluchevskite used in this study in euchlorine, wulffite and parawulffite only. Euchlorine have the same macroscopic appearance as those described is one of the most abundant minerals in fumaroles of the by Vergasova et al. (1988b) and Gorskaya et al. (1995). Second scoria cone (GTFE) and Naboko scoria cone, Kamchatkite occurs in association with chalcocyanite, Tolbachik Fissure eruption in 2012–2013 (TFE) (Voly- coparsite, and unidentified Cs-Cu-Cl selenite and Cu-Cl nets et al.,2013). The presence of the oxocentered OCu4 arsenate (Fig. 2). tetrahedra in the structures of exhalative minerals from fumaroles of the Second scoria cone suggested a mechanism of metal (mainly copper) transport by 3. Experimental procedure volcanic gases in the form of similar tetrahedral 3.1. Physical and optical properties of puninite complexes (Filatov et al., 1992). Kamchatkite, KCu3O(SO4)2Cl (Vergasova et al., 1988b) Puninite is emerald-green in colour, has a greenish streak was discovered in the exhalative sulphate assemblages of the and vitreous lustre. The mineral is brittle with uneven Yadovitaya (Poisonous) Fumarole. The crystal structure of fracture and perfect cleavage on {100}. Hardness fi kamchatkite was re ned in the non-centrosymmetric Pna21 corresponds to 2–3 on the Mohs' scale. The density could space group to R1 = 0.055 (Varaksina et al., 1990). not be measured due to sample paucity, but it has been À3 Alumoklyuchevskite, K3Cu3AlO2(SO4)4 is isotypic to calculated as 3.284 g cm using structural data and the 3þ klyuchevskite, K3Cu3Fe O2(SO4)4 (Vergasova et al., empirical formula. No fluorescence is detected. Under 1989) and was discovered in 1995 (Gorskaya et al.,1995) the microscope, puninite is pale green with very weak in the samples collected earlier, soon after eruption in 1976– pleochroism. It is biaxial, optically positive, a = 1.562(2), 1977; however, the only structural information available to b = 1.591(2), g = 1.634(2) (589 nm), 2V (meas.) moder- date for both minerals is of rather poor quality (R1 =13%: ately large, 2Vcalc = 80.7°. The mineral is soluble in water. Krivovichev et al., 2009). Kamchatkite and alumoklyu- Compatibility, 1 – (Kp/Kc)=À0.035, is excellent (Man- chevskite are unstable in open air at ambient conditions and darino, 1981).