PLÁŠIL, Jakub, Jan HLOUŠEK, Radek ŠKODA, Milan NOVÁK, Jiří SEJKORA, Jiří ČEJKA, František VESELOVSKÝ and Juraj MAJZLAN. Vysokýite, U4+[AsO2(OH)2]4·4H2O, a new mineral from Jáchymov, Czech Republic. Mineralogical Magazine. Mineralogical Society, 2013, vol. 77, No 8, p. 3055-3066. ISSN 0026-461X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2013.077.8.01.
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Original name Vysokýite, U4+[AsO2(OH)2]4·4H2O, a new mineral from Jáchymov, Czech Republic.
Authors PLÁŠIL, Jakub (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Jan HLOUŠEK (203 Czech Republic), Radek ŠKODA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Milan NOVÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jiří SEJKORA (203 Czech Republic), Jiří ČEJKA (203 Czech Republic), František VESELOVSKÝ (203 Czech Republic) and Juraj MAJZLAN (703 Slovakia).
Edition Mineralogical Magazine, Mineralogical Society, 2013, 0026-461X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 1.898
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/13:00072902
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2013.077.8.01
UT WoS 000333054700001
Keywords in English vysokýite; new mineral; uranium(IV) tetrakis[dihydrogen arsenate] tetrahydrate; crystal structure; oxide zone; Jáchymov
Tags AKR, rivok
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Abstract
Vysokýite, U4+[(AsO2(OH)2] 4(H2O)4 (IMA 2012-067), was found growing on an altered surface of massive native As in the Geschieber vein, Jáchymov ore district, Western Bohemia, Czech Republic. The new mineral was found in association with běhounekite, štěpite, kaatialaite, arsenolite, claudetite and gypsum. It forms extremely fibrous light-green crystals up to 8 mm long. Crystals have an alabaster lustre and a greenish-white to greyish streak. Vysokýite is brittle with uneven fracture and perfect cleavage along (100) and (001); the Mohs hardness is ~2. A density of 3.393 g/cm3 was calculated using the empirical formula and unit-cell parameters obtained from a single-crystal diffraction experiment. Vysokýite is non-fluorescent under short or long wavelength UV radiation. The average of five spot wavelength dispersive spectroscopy (WDS) analyses is 29.44 UO2, 1.03 SiO2, 48.95 As2O5, 0.12 SO3, 15.88 H2O (calc.), total 95.42 wt.%. The empirical formula of vysokýite (based on 20 O a.p.f.u.) is U1.00[AsO2(OH)2] 3.90(SiO4)0.16 (SO4)0.014H 2O. The As-O-H and O-H vibrations dominate in the Raman spectrum. Vysokýite is triclinic, space group P1, with a = 10.749(2), b = 5.044(3), c = 19.1778(7) A, alpha = 89.872(15) , beta = 121.534(15) , gamma = 76.508(15) , and V = 852.1(6) A3, Z = 2 and D calc = 3.34 gcm-3. The strongest diffraction peaks in the X-ray powder diffraction pattern are [d obs in A (I rel.)(hkl)]: 8.872(100)(100), 8.067(50)(002), 6.399(7)(103), 4.773(6)(104), 3.411(10)(302), 3.197(18)(313). The crystal structure of vysokýite was solved from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data by the charge-flipping method and refined to R 1 = 0.0595 based on 2718 unique observed reflection, and to wR 2 = 0.1160 for all 4173 unique reflections. The structure of vysokýite consists of UO8 square antiprisms sharing all of their vertices with 8 As-tetrahedra to form infinite chains parallel to [010]. These chains are linked by hydrogen bonds involving terminal (OH) groups of the double-protonated As-tetrahedra and molecules of H2O located between the chains. The new mineral is named in honour of Arnošt Vysoký (1823-1872), the former chief of the Jáchymov mines and smelters, chemist and metallurgist.
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