文摘
The new mineral calcinaksite, ideally KNaCa(Si4O10)?·?H2O, the first hydrous and Ca-dominant member of the litidionite group, is found in a xenolith of metamorphosed carbonate-rich rock from the southern lava flow of the Bellerberg volcano, Eastern Eifel region, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is associated with wollastonite, gehlenite, brownmillerite, Ca2SiO4 (larnite or calcio-olivine), quartz, aragonite, calcite, jennite, tobermorite and ettringite. Calcinaksite occurs as clusters of colourless to light-grey subhedral prismatic crystals. The mineral is brittle, with Mohs-hardness of 5; Dmeas is 2.62(2) g/cm3 and Dcalc is 2.623?g/cm3. The IR spectrum shows the presence of H2O molecules forming three different H-bonds. Calcinaksite is optically biaxial (+), α--.542(2), β--.550(2), γ--.565(3), 2V meas--5(10). The chemical composition (electron-microprobe data, H2O determined by the Alimarin method, wt%) is: Na2O 6.69, K2O 12.01, CaO 15.04, FeO 0.59, SiO2 61.46, H2O 4.9, total 100.69. The empirical formula is H2.11?K0.99Na0.84Ca1.04Fe0.03Si3.98O11. The crystal structure was solved and refined to R 1--.053, wR 2--.075 based upon 3057 reflections having I-gt;-σ(I). Calcinaksite is triclinic, space group P \( \overline{1} \) , a--.021(2), b--.250(3), c--0.145(2) ?. α--02.23(2)°, β--00.34(2)°, γ--15.09(3)°, V--95.4(3) ?3, Z--. The strongest reflections of the X-ray powder pattern [d, ? (I,%) (hkl)] are: 3.431 (70) (?21, ?11, ?10, 012, 0-2), 3.300 (67) (?31), 3.173 (95) (?03, ?01, ?20, 003, 111), 3.060 (100) (?12, 2-1, ?21, 200, ?-13, 021, ?02), 2.851 (83) (0-3, ?22, 1-3, 1-1), 2.664 (62) (1-3, ?22, 201).