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Mineralogical Magazine; December 2007; v. 71; no. 6; p. 683-690; DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2007.071.6.683
© 2007 Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Crystal structure and crystal chemistry of fluorannite and its relationships to annite

M. F. Brigatti1,*, E. Caprilli2, D. Malferrari1 and A. Mottana2

1 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Italy

* E-mail: brigatti{at}unimore.it

This study focuses on the crystal-chemical characterization of fluorannite from the Katugin Ta-Nb deposit, Chitinskaya Oblast’, Kalar Range, Transbaikalia, eastern Siberia, Russia. The chemical formula of this mineral is (K0.960Na0.020Ba0.001)(Fe2.1022+Fe0.4253+Cr0.0023+Mg0.039Li0.085Ti0.210Mn0.057)(Al0.674Si3.326) O10(F1.060OH0.028O0.912). This mica belongs to the 1M polytype (space group C2/m) with layer parameters a = 5.3454(2) Å , b = 9.2607(4) Å , c = 10.2040(5) Å , β = 100.169(3)°. Structure refinement, using anisotropic displacement parameters, converged at R = 0.0384. When compared to annite, fluorannite shows a smaller cell volume (Vfluorannite = 497.19 Å 3; Vannite = 505.71 Å3), because of its smaller lateral dimensions and c parameter. Flattening in the plane of the tetrahedral basal oxygen atoms decreases with F content, together with the A–O4 distance (i.e. the distance between interlayer cation A and the octahedral anionic position) due to the reduced repulsion between the interlayer cation and the anion sited in O4.

KEYWORDS: fluorannite, trioctahedral mica, crystal structure, Katugin, Russia






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