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Agmantinite, Ag2MnSnS4, a new mineral with a wurtzite derivative structure from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2018

Frank N. Keutsch ,
Dan Topa ,
Rie Takagi Fredrickson ,
Emil Makovicky  and
Werner H. Paar
Frank N. Keutsch*
Affiliation:
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Dan Topa
Affiliation:
Naturhistorisches Museum-Wien, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria
Rie Takagi Fredrickson
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706, USA
Emil Makovicky
Affiliation:
Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, Østervoldgade 10, DK-1350, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Werner H. Paar
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Chemie und Physik der Materialien, University, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria (Department of chemistry and physics of materials)
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*Author for correspondence: Frank N. Keutsch, Email: keutsch@seas.harvard.edu
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Abstract

Agmantinite, ideally Ag2MnSnS4, is a new mineral from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Oyon district, Catajambo, Lima Department, Peru. It occurs as orange–red crystals up to 100 μm across. Agmantinite is translucent with adamantine lustre and possesses a red streak. It is brittle. Neither fracture nor cleavage were observed. Based on the empirical formula the calculated density is 4.574 g/cm3. On the basis of chemically similar compounds the Mohs hardness is estimated at between 2 to 2½. In plane-polarised light agmantinite is white with red internal reflections. It is weakly bireflectant with no observable pleochroism with red internal reflections. Between crossed polars, agmantinite is weakly anisotropic with reddish brown to greenish grey rotation tints. The reflectances (Rmin and Rmax) for the four standard wavelengths are: 19.7 and 22.0 (470 nm); 20.5 and 23.2 (546 nm); 21.7 and 2.49 (589 nm); and 20.6 and 23.6 (650 nm), respectively.

Agmantinite is orthorhombic, space group P21nm, with unit-cell parameters: a = 6.632(2), b = 6.922(2), c = 8.156(2) Å, V = 374.41(17) Å3, a:b:c 0.958:1:1.178 and Z = 2. The crystal structure was refined to R = 0.0575 for 519 reflections with I > 2σ(I). Agmantinite is the first known mineral of ${M}_{\rm 2}^{\rm I} $MIIMIVS4 type that is derived from wurtzite rather than sphalerite by ordered substitution of Zn, analogous to the substitution pattern for deriving stannite from sphalerite. The six strongest X-ray powder-diffraction lines derived from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data [d in Å (intensity)] are: 3.51 (s), 3.32 (w), 3.11 (vs), 2.42 (w), 2.04 (m) and 1.88 (m). The empirical formula (based on 8 apfu) is (Ag1.94Cu0.03)Σ1.97(Mn0.98Zn0.05)Σ1.03Sn0.97S4.03.The crystal structure-derived formula is Ag2(Mn0.69Zn0.31)Σ1.00SnS4 and the simplified formula is Ag2MnSnS4.

The name is for the composition and the new mineral and mineral name have been approved by the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (IMA2014-083).

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agmantinitenew mineralelectron-microprobe datareflectance dataX-ray diffraction datawurtzitestanniteUchucchacua depositPeru
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 83 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 233 - 238
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2018 

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Associate Editor: David Hibbs

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