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Juabite, Cu5(Te6+O4)2(As5+O4)2.3H2O. a new mineral species from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Andrew C. Roberts ,
Robert A. Gault ,
Martin C. Jensen ,
Alan J. Criddle  and
Elizabeth A. Moffatx
Andrew C. Roberts
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8
Robert A. Gault
Affiliation:
Research Division, Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station “D”, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIP 6P4
Martin C. Jensen
Affiliation:
121-2855 Idlewild Drive, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. 89509
Alan J. Criddle
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Elizabeth A. Moffatx
Affiliation:
Canadian Conservation Institute, 1030 Innes Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0M5
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Abstract

Juabite, ideally Cu5(Te6+O4)2(As5+O4)2·3H2O, is triclinic, space-group choices P1(1) or P(2), with unit-cell parameters refined from powder data: a = 8.984(5), b = 10.079(7), c = 8.975(5) Å, α = 102.68(7)°, β = 92.45(6)°, γ = 70.45(5)° V = 746.8(8) Å3, a:b:c = 0.8914:1:0.8905, Z = 2. The strongest seven reflections of the X-ray powder-diffraction pattern [d in Å (I)(hkl)] are: 9.28 (70)(010), 4.65 (70)(020), 3.097 (100)(030,11), 3.018 (60)(212), 2.658 (50)(01), 2.468 (50)(2) and 1.740 (50)(1, 521, 5). The mineral is an extremely rare constituent on the dumps of the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah, U.S.A., where it occurs as crystalline platy masses that average 0.2–0.3 mm in longest dimension within small interconnected vugs of drusy quartz. Associated minerals are enargite, beudantite, and an undefined, possible Pb-analogue of arsenobismite. Individual crystals are subhedral to euhedral and average 125 × 100 × 1–2 µm in size. Cleavage {010} perfect. Forms are: {010} major; {100}, {01}, and {101} minor. The mineral is translucent (masses) to transparent (crystals), emerald-green, with a pale green streak, and an uneven to subconchoidal fracture. Juabite is vitreous to adamantine (almost gemmy) on cleavage faces, brittle, and nonfluorescent; H (Mohs) 3–4; D (calc.) 4.59 g/cm3 for the idealised formula. In polished section, juabite is white in plane-polarised reflected light in air with ubiquitous turquoise-blue internal reflections; bireflectance and anisotropy are unknown (due to interference from internal reflections). Averaged electronmicroprobe analyses yielded CuO 38.25, PbO 0.57, TeO3 32.58, As2O5 22.81, H2O (calc. assuming 3H2O) [5.19], total [99.40] wt.%, leading to the empirical formula (Cu5.01Pb0.03)Σ5.04(TeO4)l.93(AsO4)2.07·3.00H2O based on O = 19. The infrared absorption spectrum shows definite bands for structural H2O with an O-H stretching frequency centred at 3283 cm−1 and a H-O-H flexing frequency centred at 1642 cm−1. The mineral name is for the county within the state of Utah in which the Centennial Eureka mine is located.

Keywords

juabitenew mineralCentennial Eureka mineJuab County, Utah, U.S.A.X-ray dataelectron-microprobe analysesreflectance datainfrared spectroscopy
Type
Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 61 , Issue 404 , February 1997 , pp. 139 - 144
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1997

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