Unnamed pt(Cu0.67 sn0.33 ) from the bolshoy khailyk river, western sayans, russia, and a review of related compounds and solid solutions

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Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2021

Идентификатор DOI: 10.3390/min11111240

Ключевые слова: bolshoy khailyk, intermetallic compounds and alloys, ophiolite complexes, pge– cu–au mineralization, placer deposits, platinum-group minerals, russia, ternary pt–cu–sn phase, western sayans

Аннотация: We describe a potentially new species of a platinum cupride–stannide mineral (PCSM) of composition Pt(Cu0.67 Sn0.33 ). It occurs in a placer deposit in the River Bolshoy Khailyk, southern Krasnoyarskiy kray, Russia. A synthetic equivalent of PCSM was obtained and characterized. The PCSM occurs as anhedral or subhedral grains up to Показать полностью15 µm × 30 µm in association with various platinum-group minerals, Rh–Co-rich pentlandite and magnetite, all hosted by a placer grain of Cu– Au–Pt alloy. Synchrotron micro-Laue diffraction studies indicate that the PCSM mineral is tetragonal and belongs to the inferred space-group P4/mmm (#123). Its unit-cell parameters are a = 2.838 (3) Å, c = 3.650 (4) Å, and V = 29.40 (10) Å3, and Z = 1. The c:a ratio calculated from the unit-cell parameters is 1.286. These characteristics are in good agreement with those obtained for specimens of synthetic Pt(Cu0.67 Sn0.33 ). A review on related minerals and unnamed phases is provided to outline compositional variations and extents of solid solutions in the relevant systems PtNi–PtFe–PtCu, PdCu–PdHg–PdAu, PdHg–PtHg, and AuCu–PtCu. The PCSM-bearing mineralization appears to be related genetically with an ophiolitic source-rock of the Aktovrakskiy complex of the western Sayans. The unnamed phase likely crystallized from microvolumes of a highly fractionated melt rich in Cu and Sn. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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Издание

Журнал: Minerals

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 11, Is. 11

Номера страниц: 1240

ISSN журнала: 2075163X

Издатель: MDPI

Персоны

  • Barkov Andrei Y. (Cherepovets State Univ, Res Lab Ind & Ore Mineral, Cherepovets 162600, Russia)
  • Bindi Luca (Univ Firenze, Dipartimento Sci Terra, I-50121 Florence, Italy)
  • Juarez-Arellano Erick A. (Univ Papaloapan, Inst Quim Aplicada, Circuito Cent 200,Parque Ind, Tuxtepec 68301, Oaxaca, Mexico)
  • Tamura Nobumichi (Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Adv Light Source, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA)
  • Shvedov Gennadiy (Siberian Fed Univ, Inst Min Geol & Geotechnol, Krasnoyarsk 660025, Russia)
  • Ma Chi (CALTECH, Div Geol & Planetary Sci, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA)
  • Martin Robert F. (McGill Univ, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Montreal, PQ H3A 0E8, Canada)