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Acmonidesite, a new ammonium sulfate chloride from La Fossa crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2018

Francesco Demartin ,
Carlo Castellano  and
Italo Campostrini
Francesco Demartin*
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Chimica, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano, Italy
Carlo Castellano
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Chimica, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano, Italy
Italo Campostrini
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Chimica, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milano, Italy
*
Author for correspondence: Francesco Demartin, Email: francesco.demartin@unimi.it
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Abstract

The new mineral acmonidesite, (NH4,K,Pb2+,Na)9Fe42+(SO4)5Cl8, was found in an active fumarole (fumarole FA, temperature ~250°C) at La Fossa crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy. It occurs on a pyroclastic breccia as brown prismatic crystals up to 0.10 mm long, in association with salammoniac, alunite and adranosite. The mineral is orthorhombic, space group C2221 (no. 20) with a = 9.841(1), b = 19.448(3) c = 17.847(3) Å, V = 3415.7(9) Å3 and Z = 4. The six strongest reflections in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern are: [dobs in Å(I)(hkl)] 8.766(100)(110), 1.805(88)(390), 5.178(45)(131), 4.250(42)(221), 2.926(42)(330) and 2.684(32)(261). The empirical formula (based on 28 anions per formula unit [pfu]) is (NH4)5.77K1.42Pb0.62Na1.24Fe3.96Mn0.08S5.04O20.16Cl7.97Br0.08. The idealised formula is (NH4,K,Pb2+,Na)9Fe42+(SO4)5Cl8. The calculated density is 2.551 g cm–3. Using single-crystal diffraction data, the structure was refined to a final R(F) = 0.0363 for 4614 independent observed reflections [I > 2σ(I)]. The structure contains two independent, distorted octahedral iron sites, Fe1 and Fe2, with the iron atoms in the 2+ oxidation state, as confirmed by the interatomic distances and bond-valence calculations (2.06 and 1.94 vu, respectively). Fe1 is surrounded by two chlorine atoms and four oxygens of the sulfate ions, with the following average distances (Å): Fe1–O 2.125 and Fe1–Cl 2.472; and Fe2 is surrounded by three chlorine atoms and three oxygens of the sulfate ions, with the following average distances (Å): Fe2–O 2.110 and Fe2–Cl 2.531. Three independent sulfate anions are also present and are connected with the iron polyhedra to form a three-dimensional structure containing voids occupied by four independent ammonium ions (two of them partially replaced by K+), one Na+/Pb2+ site and one Cl– ion.

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acmonidesitenew mineral speciesvolcanic sublimatecrystal structureVulcano IslandItaly
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , February 2019 , pp. 137 - 142
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2018 

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Footnotes

Associate Editor: Giancarlo Della Ventura

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