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Ryabchikovite, CuMg(Si2O6), a new pyroxene group mineral, and some genetic features of natural anhydrous copper silicates

  • Nadezhda V. Shchipalkina , Oleg S. Vereshchagin ORCID logo , Igor V. Pekov , Dmitry I. Belakovskiy , Natalia N. Koshlyakova , Vladimir V. Shilovskikh , Dmitriy V. Pankin , Sergey N. Britvin , Fedor D. Sandalov and Evgeny G. Sidorov
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Abstract

Ryabchikovite, ideally CuMg(Si2O6), a new pyroxene-group mineral (IMA No. 2021-011) was discovered in exhalations of the active Arsenatnaya fumarole, Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. The associated minerals are diopside, hematite, cuprospinel, fluorophlogopite, anhydrite, johillerite, tilasite, and aphthitalite-group sulfates. Ryabchikovite forms thin (up to 25 μm), light brown to reddish-brown epitactic crusts on short-prismatic brownish-gray crystals of diopside (up to 0.5 mm). The new mineral is optically biaxial (+), α = 1.685(5), β = 1.690(5), γ = 1.703(4), and 2V (meas) = 60(15)°. The average chemical composition (wt%, electron microprobe data) is: MgO 18.05, CaO 0.77, CuO 26.46, ZnO 2.23, Al2O3 0.93, Fe2O3 1.89, SiO2 50.10, total 100.43. The empirical formula calculated based on 6 O atoms per formulas unit is M g 1.05 C u 0.78 Z n 0.06 F e 0.06 3 + C a 0.03 S i 1.96 A l 0.04 O 6 Electron backscattered diffraction and powder X-ray difraction show that ryabchikovite is a Cu,Mg-ordered analog of clinoenstatite. Ryabchikovite adopts the space group P21/с and has the following unit-cell parameters: a = 9.731(9), b = 8.929(8), c = 5.221(4) Å, β = 110.00(6)°, V = 426.3(7) Å3, and Z = 4. Ryabchikovite is named in honor of the outstanding Russian geochemist and petrologist Igor Dmitrievich Ryabchikov (1937–2017). Our studies reveal that copper analogs of rock-forming minerals could be found in fumarolic systems. Their crystallization does not require high temperatures or/and pressures (below 500 °C/Pa).


† Deceased 20 March 2021


Funding statement: This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 1917-00050. The authors thank the Resource Center of X-ray diffraction studies and Geomodel Resource Centre of Saint-Petersburg State University for providing instrumental and computational resources. Raman measurements were partly performed at SPbSU Research park Center for optical and laser materials research with financial support from St. Petersburg State University (project no. 93021679).

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Mario Tribaudino, Frank C. Hawthorne, and an anonymous reviewer for valuable comments and suggestions for improving the paper, and Fabrizio Nestola for his editorial work.

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Received: 2022-06-01
Accepted: 2022-08-18
Published Online: 2023-07-10
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