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Mavlyanovite, Mn5Si3: a new mineral species from a lamproite diatreme, Chatkal Ridge, Uzbekistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

R. G. Yusupov ,
C. J. Stanley ,
M. D. Welch ,
J. Spratt ,
G. Cressey ,
M. S. Rumsey ,
R. Seltmann  and
E. Igamberdiev
R. G. Yusupov
Affiliation:
Samarkandskaya-Darbaza st., 2A, 26, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 100021
C. J. Stanley*
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
M. D. Welch
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
J. Spratt
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
G. Cressey
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
M. S. Rumsey
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
R. Seltmann
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
E. Igamberdiev
Affiliation:
Toitepa, Tashkent oblast, Uzbekistan
*
* E-mail: c.stanley@nhm.ac.uk
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Abstract

Mavlyanovite, ideally Mn5Si3, is a new mineral from a lamproite diatreme close to the upper reaches of the Koshmansay river, Chatkal ridge, Uzbekistan. It occurs together with unnamed manganese siliciphosphide and manganese silicicarbide minerals in round to ovoid segregations, up to 10 cm in diameter, in volcanic glass. Segregations of hexagonal prismatic mavlyanovite up to 1–2 mm occur in interstices in the matrix and tiny inclusions (1–2 μm) of alabandite and khamrabaevite occur within mavlyanovite. It is opaque with a metallic lustre, has a dark-grey streak, is brittle with a conchoidal fracture and a near-perfect basal cleavage. VHN100 is 1029–1098 kg/mm2 (Mohs hardness ~7). In plane-polarized reflected light, mavlyanovite is a pale-brownish-grey against the accompanying unnamed manganese silicicarbide (white). Reflectance values and colour data are tabulated. Average results of 19 electronmicroprobe analyses give Mn70.84, Fe 6.12, Si 22.57, Ti 0.15, P 0.18, total 99.86 wt.% leading to an empirical formula of (Mn4.66Fe0.40)5.06(Si2.91Ti0.01P0.02)2.94 based on8 a.p.f.u. The calculated density is 6.06 g/cm3, (on the basis of the empirical formula and unit-cell parameters from the structure determination). Mavlyanovite is hexagonal (P63/mcm) with a 6.8971(7), c 4.8075(4) Å, V 198.05(3) Å3 and Z = 2. The structure has been determined and refined to R1 = 0.017, wR2 = 0.044, GoF = 1.16. Mavlyanovite is the naturally-occurring analogue of synthetic Mn5Si3 which is the parent aristotype structure of the Nowotny intermetallic phases studied extensively by the material-science community. It is also the Mn-dominant analogue of xifengite Fe5Si3. The mineral name honours Academician Gani Arifkhanovich Mavlyanov (1910–1988), for his contributions to the understanding of the geology of Uzbekistan.

Keywords

mavlyanovitealabanditekhamrabaevitemanganese silicicarbidexifengite.
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 73 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 43 - 50
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2009

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