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Article

Crystal Structure of Kristiansenite from Szklarska Poręba, Southwestern Poland

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Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, 6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, BC V6T IZ4, Canada
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Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry, AGH University of Science and Technology, Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Minerals 2018, 8(12), 584; https://doi.org/10.3390/min8120584
Submission received: 28 October 2018 / Revised: 4 December 2018 / Accepted: 7 December 2018 / Published: 11 December 2018

Abstract

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Kristiansenite, ideally Ca2ScSn(Si2O7)(Si2O6OH), a rare late-stage hydrothermal Sc-bearing sorosilicate mineral, was found in a gadolinite-fergusonite-type pegmatite of the MI-REE subclass related to the Karkonosze granite, exposed in a quarry at Szklarska Poręba, Lower Silesia, Poland. Kristiansenite occurs in an association with andradite, epidote, allanite-(Ce), titanite, fersmite, scheelite, Sc-bearing columbite-(Fe), a YNbO4 mineral as fergusonite-(Y) or fergusonite-(Y)-beta, silesiaite and wolframite. Single-crystal study of the mineral (R1 of 4.96%), with composition Ca2.00(Sn0.97Sc0.69Fe3+0.17Mn0.05Ti0.04Zr0.03Nb0.02Al0.02Ta0.01)Σ2(Si2O7)[(Si1.98Al0.02)Σ2O6.03(OH)0.97], corroborates its triclinic structure with space group-symmetry C1, Z = 2, and unit-cell parameters a = 10.0304(5), b = 8.4056(4), c = 13.3228(6) Å, α = 90.001(3), β = 109.105(3), γ = 89.997(3)° and V = 1061.40(9) Å3. In the structure of the mineral, the Ca and Si sites are dominantly occupied with Ca and Si, whereas the M1–M4 sites are disordered. The M3 and M4 sites are occupied dominantly by Sn and subordinately Sc, whereas the M1 and M2 sites are occupied dominantly by Sc and subordinately by remaining occupants, including Sn.

1. Introduction

Kristiansenite, ideally Ca2ScSn(Si2O7)(Si2O6OH), is a rare Sc-bearing sorosilicate mineral of Nb-Y-F (NYF) type pegmatites first found in a pegmatite of the amazonite–cleavelandite type at Heftetjern, Tørdal, Telemark, Norway [1]. Next the mineral was found in pegmatites from the Italian Alps in the Baveno region (Locatelli quarry and Seula mine [2,3]), and in a granitic pegmatite from Cadalso de los Vidrios near Madrid, Spain [4]. Recently, Výravsky et al. [5] noted the presence of kristiansenite in the intragranitic NYF-affilliated pegmatite Kožichovice II, Třebíč pluton, Czech Republic, as a product of late Ca metasomatism of the primary thortveitite, Sc2Si2O7. The crystal structure of type kristiansenite from Norway (triclinic; space group-symmetry C1, Z = 2) was solved by Ferraris et al. [6].
In this paper, we discuss the crystal chemistry and structure of kristiansenite found in a NYF-affiliated pegmatite in the Szklarska Poręba Huta quarry in Lower Silesia, southwestern Poland, related to post-magmatic stages in the Karkonosze granite intrusion.

2. Geological Setting

The Karkonosze granite is the largest Variscan pluton in the Western Sudetes at the northeastern margin of the Bohemian Massif. In Poland, it extends among Jelenia Góra and Janowice Wielkie on the northeast, Kowary and Śnieżka Mt. to the south, and spreads to the west up to Liberec in the Czech Republic (Figure 1). The main rocks of the massif are porphyritic to equigranular biotite-bearing granite associated with a small volume of two-mica granite and subordinate granophyric granite [7,8], locally with lamprophyre and aplite dykes. The pluton is considered as a syn-collisional magmatic arc intrusion on the active margin of a continental platform neighboring oceanic crust, crystallized from relatively reduced, K-rich, calc-alkaline, highly evolved, mostly peraluminous I-type to transitional I-S type magmas ~320–310 Ma [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16].
Pegmatites are particularly abundant in the porphyritic Karkonosze granite, and less frequent in the metamorphic cover of the granite massif. Most of them are barren, but there are also widespread weakly to moderately fractionated rare element-bearing pegmatites of NYF affiliation [17]. Intragranitic pegmatites usually form zoned pods, lenses and, more rarely, dikes of length ranging from centimetres to several decimetres, exceptionally several metres, whereas the pegmatites intruding the metamorphic cover are discordant massive dikes and lenticular bodies. In the classification of Černý and Ercit [18], the Karkonosze pegmatites correspond mainly to (i) podiform and lenticular gadolinite-fergusonite type intragranitic pegmatites of the miarolitic—rare-earth-elements (MI-REE) subclass; (ii) barren, schorl-bearing thin dikes, cutting discordantly the metamorphic envelope closest the granite.

3. Occurrence

The Szklarska Poręba Huta quarry, located within a town Szklarska Poręba near Jelenia Góra, is currently the only place in the Polish part of the massif where granite is exploited, mainly as dimension stone. Small bodies of granitic NYF-type pegmatite, forming lenses and nests up to several tens of centimeters across, are relatively frequent within the coarsely crystalline variety of the porphyritic to equigranular granite; smaller nests up to only a few centimeters across and very often with a small cavity in the centre, are frequent in the granophyre granite.
Pegmatite mineralization in the porphyritic to equigranular granite, small primary cavities within granophyre granite, and in quartz veinlets cutting the granite, all with superimposed W-Sn-Mo-Bi and Th-U-REE ore assemblages, is represented by numerous REE-bearing phases, e.g., xenotime-(Y), monazite-(Ce), a YNbO4 mineral as fergusonite-(Y) or fergusonite-(Y)-beta, allanite-(Ce), yttrialite-(Y), gadolinite-(Y), gadolinite-(Ce) and hingganite-(Y); Nb-bearing phases, e.g., the mentioned YNbO4 mineral, columbite-(Fe) and fersmite; and Sc-bearing phases, e.g., thortveitite, scandium columbite-(Fe) and rare kristiansenite and its Fe-analogue, silesiaite, recently approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association [19], and many other more common minerals [20,21,22,23,24,25,26]. Kristiansenite has been found in small cavities of the equigranular granite in an assemblage composed of Ca-bearing minerals such as andradite grading to grossular garnet, epidote, allanite-(Ce), titanite and Sn-bearing titanite, fersmite and scheelite, Sc-bearing columbite-(Fe), fergusonite-(Y) or fergusonite-(Y)-beta, wolframite and marcasite. Locally, along with thortveitite, it forms numerous minute inclusions in scheelite.

4. Materials and Methods

4.1. Electron-Microprobe Analysis

Electron-microprobe analysis (EMPA) of kristiansenite was performed at the Inter-Institute Analytical Complex for Minerals and Synthetic Substances at the University of Warsaw, using a Cameca SX 100 electron microprobe operating in wavelength-dispersive mode under the following conditions: accelerating voltage of 15 kV, beam current of 20 nA, beam diameter of 2 μm, peak count-time of 20 s, and background time of 10 s. Standards, diffracting crystals, analytical lines, and mean detection limits (in wt. %) were as follows: albite—Na (TAP, Kα, 0.02), diopside—Mg (TAP, Kα, 0.02), Si (TAP, Kα, 0.03) and Ca (PET, Kα, 0.04), orthoclase—Al (TAP, Kα, 0.03), rutile—Ti (PET, Kα, 0.09), rhodonite—Mn (LIF, Kα, 0.12), hematite—Fe (LIF, Kα, 0.12), LiNbO3—Nb (PET, Lα, 0.10), LiTaO3—Ta (TAP, Mα, 0.10), cassiterite—Sn (LPET, Lα, 0.07), zircon—Zr (LPET, Lα, 0.07), pure Sc—Sc (LPET, Kα, 0.02). The raw data were reduced with the PAP routine [27]. Atomic contents were normalized in relation to totals of eight cations and 14 oxygen atoms per formula unit (apfu), with the OH content calculated from electroneutrality of the formula, assuming all Fe as Fe3+.

4.2. Crystal Structure Refinement

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction measurements were made at C-HORSE (the Centre for Higher Order Structure Elucidation, in the Department of Chemistry at University of British Columbia) on a kristiansenite crystal 45 × 60 × 40 μm, using a Bruker X8 APEX II diffractometer with graphite monochromated MoKα radiation, at a crystal-to-detector distance of 40 mm. The data were collected at 100 K to a maximum 2θ value of 60.2°, in a series of φ and ω scans in 0.50° oscillations with 60 s exposures, integrated using the Bruker SAINT software package [28], and corrected for absorption effects using the multi-scan technique (SADABS; [29]), and for Lorentz and polarization effects. As the sample diffracted only weakly, a long collection time (48 h) was required to acquire enough reflections for a refinement. The collection was performed at 100 K to reduce noise from thermal vibrations. All refinements were performed using the SHELXTL crystallographic software package [30] of Bruker AXS. The weighting scheme was based on counting statistics. Neutral atom scattering factors were taken from Cromer and Waber [31]. Anomalous dispersion effects were included in Fcalc [32]; the values for ∆f′ and ∆f″ were those of Creagh and McAuley [33]. The values for the mass attenuation coefficients are those of Creagh and Hubbell [34].
The structure was solved by direct methods [30] in the monoclinic space group C2/c, as indicated by experiment, using neutral atom scattering factors, and refined to an R1 index of 6.45% with anisotropic displacement parameters. However, in their original description of kristiansenite, Ferraris et al. [6] found that the crystals of kristiansenite typically show metric merohedral twinning. While the underlying structure including cation ordering is triclinic, the twin law belonging to the higher Laue group makes the structure appear monoclinic within experimental error. However, the presence of cation ordering at the octahedral M sites reveals the triclinic structure. The triclinic structure was derived from the monoclinic structure using online software at the Bilbao Crystallographic Server [35], with atomic positions in the triclinic structure based directly on equivalent positions in the monoclinic structure. The position of Ca1 was fixed arbitrarily as the origin. Following [6], the structure was refined to an R1 index of 4.96% in the unconventional triclinic space group setting C1.

5. Results

Compositional data from EMPA of the studied kristiansenite are presented in Table 1. Atomic contents for the averaged analysis (4 spots), give the following empirical formula of the mineral: Ca2.00 (Sn0.97Sc0.69Fe3+0.17Mn0.05Ti0.04Zr0.03Nb0.02Al0.02Ta0.01)Σ2 (Si2O7) [(Si1.98Al0.02)Σ2 O6.03 (OH)0.97]. Details of the data measurement and structure solution are listed in Table 2. Atomic coordinates, equivalent isotropic-displacement parameters, and occupancy for atomic sites in the kristiansenite are given in Table 3. Selected bond lengths and bond angles are collected in Table 4, and a bond-valence calculation is shown in Table 5. Anisotropic displacement parameters are presented in CIF file attached as Supplementary Materials.

6. Discussion

Taking into account accuracies in the microprobe analysis, it can be assumed that the Ca sites, with a lack of Na, are completely occupied by Ca, and the Si sites are dominantly occupied by Si, with a small deficiency completed by subordinate Al. The occupancies are corroborated by the refined electron densities and occupancies of the sites (Table 3), as well as average <Ca–O> distances in the 7-fold-coordinated Ca1–Ca4 polyhedra (2.487–2.504 Å; Table 4), and Si1–Si8 tetrahedra (1.615–1.643 Å).
The four M sites of the kristiansenite cell have very diverse occupants, dominated by tetravalent (Sn, Ti, Zr)4+ and trivalent cations (Sc, Fe, Al)3+, respectively; however, trace amounts of divalent (Mn2+) and pentavalent (Nb, Ta)5+ cations are also present. This is similar to the composition of the type material [1], but the presence of Mn, Nb, and Ta are new. The total charge of the M-site occupants in the formula unit equals 6.99 valence units, and the calculated H+, bonded to oxygen atoms coordinating Si, is 0.97 apfu; both nearly equal to the ideal values in the general composition of the mineral. Substitutions at the octahedral M sites must, therefore, be mutually charge-balanced to a high degree. These substitutions involve the distribution of cations among the M sites and lead to the observed disordering of the divalent to pentavalent M-type cations among the M1–M4 sites. The refined total content of electrons at the M sites of the unit cell, 145.9 e, agrees well with 145.1 e calculated from the EMPA formula. The structure refinement separates the electrons among the M1–M4 sites in the following way: 27.2(4); 30.8(3); 43.8(4); 44.1(4) e, respectively, which leads to the Sn–Sc site occupancies presented in Table 3.
However, the real population of the M-site occupants is much more diversified than the simple Sn–Sc system. To approximate the distribution of octahedral cations among the M1–M4 sites, the refined electron densities at the sites were recalculated proportional to the value of 145.1 e from the empirical microprobe formula: 27.1; 30.6; 43.6 and 43.9 e. Note that the differences between the measured and calculated electron densities are smaller than the respective 1σ ranges in the refinement. Since the M4 and M3 sites have very similar high electron densities, Sn is predicted to be one of their main occupants. The remaining occupants were tested from various combinations of octahedral cations with the best results achieved for the pair Sn–Sc. The M4- and M3-site occupancies were calculated as (Sn0.788Sc0.212) and (Sn0.778Sc0.224), respectively, corresponding to the recalculated electron densities and featuring very realistic calculated averaged cation radii close to ~0.702 Å. The remaining M2 and M1 cations are highly dominated by Sc3+ (0.957 apfu as a result of Z∙SctotalM4Sc − M3Sc). Due to the predominance of Sc, the occupancies of the sites were analyzed in the system Sc–(X), where (X) denotes a complex cation average of the rest of the Sn and traces of all other octahedral cations. For such a system, the M2 occupancy were evaluated at (X0.640Sc0.360) and the M1 occupancy at (X0.403Sc0.597), respectively, for which the calculated averaged cation radii are equal to ~0.703 Å and ~0.716 Å, respectively. Formally, the M2 site is dominated by trivalent Sc + Fe (0.57 apfu) with dominant Sc (0.36 apfu), and the M1 site is highly dominated by Sc (0.60 apfu), with only subordinate Fe and Sn (0.13 and 0.14 apfu, respectively). The arrangement of the calculated averaged M1–M4 radii vs. the refined mean bond lengths in the M1–M4 octahedra (Table 4) is represented by an equation <Mi–O> = 1.025 · <ri> + 1.343 with a correlation coefficient R2 = 0.986 that is very close to the ideal relationship <Mi–O> = <ri> + rO2− (Figure 2). It corroborates that in the studied kristiansenite from Szklarska Poręba, the M1 and M2 sites are dominated with Sc, and the M3 and M4 sites dominated with Sn. The distribution of cations among the sites is highly disordered, with visible preference of Sn–Sc disorder at the M3 and M4 sites, and Sc–X disorder at the M2 and M1 sites.
The kristiansenite unit cell contains two hydrogen atoms on average, shared among the O5–O8 and O25–O28 oxygens, but OH only prevails over O2− at two sites, O25 bonded with M1 and O26 bonded with M2. The O25–O27 and O26–O28 distances, 2.604 and 2.641 Å respectively, imply the presence of two hydrogen bonds with the O25 and O26 donor oxygens (b.v. = −1.34 and −1.41; Table 5), and the O27 and O28 acceptor oxygens (b.v. = −1.57 and −1.62). The equivalent distances in the structure of type kristiansenite are 2.627 and 2.646 Å [5]. The presence of hydroxyl anions around the M1 and M2 sites dominated by M3+ cations suggests a simple substitution M3+OH(M4+O2−)−1. This also explains the subordinate presence of OH at the O7–O8 sites coordinated around the M3 and M4 sites dominated by M4+ cations, because subordinate amounts of M3+-type cations are present at the sites only due to the M3+M4+ disorder.

7. Conclusions

The gadolinite-fergusonite-type pegmatite of the MI-REE subclass related to the Karkonosze granite exposed in the Szklarska Poręba Huta granite quarry in Lower Silesia, Poland, is one of few known occurrences of kristiansenite, Ca2ScSn(Si2O7)(Si2O6OH), a rare sorosilicate mineral. The mineral is associated with andradite, grossular, epidote, allanite-(Ce), titanite and Sn-bearing titanite, fersmite, scheelite, Sc-bearing columbite-(Fe), a YNbO4 mineral as fergusonite-(Y) or fergusonite-(Y)-beta, wolframites and marcasite, and represent a late-stage hydrothermal phase. The studied kristiansenite features a triclinic structure with space group-symmetry C1, and unit-cell parameters a = 10.0304(5), b = 8.4056(4), c = 13.3228(6) Å, α = 90.001(3), β =109.105(3), γ = 89.997(3)° and V = 1061.40(9) Å3 as collected at room temperature, very close to the cell of type kristiansenite [1,6]. Its unit cell can also be interpreted as monoclinic within the range of accuracy of the parameters, however, the presence of cation ordering at the octahedral M sites reveals its true triclinic structure. The Ca and Si sites in the structure of the kristiansenite are completely occupied by these elements, whereas the M1–M4 sites have very diversified occupants with the dominant tetravalent (Sn, Ti, Zr)4+ and trivalent cations (Sc, Fe, Al)3+, and trace amounts of divalent (Mn2+) and pentavalent (Nb, Ta)5+ cations, all disordered among the sites. The M4 and M3 sites are dominantly occupied by Sn and subordinately by Sc due to Sn–Sc disorder typical for the mineral. The M2 and M1 sites are filled dominantly by Sc and comprise all other divalent to pentavalent cations along with subordinate Sn due to the disorder among Sc and all other M-type occupants, including the rest Sn. Two hydrogen atoms are dominantly bonded with two oxygens coordinated around the M1 and M2 sites dominantly occupied by trivalent cations, suggesting M3+OH(M4+O2−)−1 substitution that controls the M-sites occupants and their lattice setting. Therefore, due to Sn–Sc disorder, a subordinate OH amount is also bonded to the M3 and M4 occupants. Hydroxyls coordinated around the M1 and M2 form hydrogen bonds with oxygens coordinated around M3 and M4 sites.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/8/12/584/s1, CIF file for kristiansenite from Szklarska Poręba (Poland).

Author Contributions

A.P. and B.G. collected the kristiansenite sample, performed its E.M.P. analysis, made compositional calculations and prepared the figures, R.J.E. and L.A.G. made structural studies of the extracted crystal and described structure of the mineral; R.J.E. and A.P. wrote the manuscript.

Funding

This research was funded by the AGH UST grant no. 11.11.140.158 to A.P. and B.G.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results.

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Figure 1. Geological sketch of the Polish part of the Karkonosze granite massif with its metamorphic envelope. Abbreviations: ISB—Intra-Sudetic Basin. Symbols: star—the quarry at Szklarska Poręba, black lines—faults.
Figure 1. Geological sketch of the Polish part of the Karkonosze granite massif with its metamorphic envelope. Abbreviations: ISB—Intra-Sudetic Basin. Symbols: star—the quarry at Szklarska Poręba, black lines—faults.
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Figure 2. Variation of the M cation radius in octahedral coordination <rM> evaluated from the site scattering with the refined <M–O> distances.
Figure 2. Variation of the M cation radius in octahedral coordination <rM> evaluated from the site scattering with the refined <M–O> distances.
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Table 1. Average electron-microprobe analysis of kristiansenite from Szklarska Poręba (n = 4).
Table 1. Average electron-microprobe analysis of kristiansenite from Szklarska Poręba (n = 4).
Constituentwt. %apfu
Ta2O50.470.01
Nb2O50.490.02
SiO240.783.98
TiO20.500.04
ZrO20.560.03
SnO224.790.97
Al2O30.290.03
Sc2O38.160.69
Fe2O3 *2.340.17
MnO0.640.05
CaO19.112.00
H2O(calc.)1.490.97
Total99.61
n—number of analytical spots; Na and Mg were below detection; *—calculated assuming all Fe as Fe3+.
Table 2. Data measurement and refinement information for kristiansenite.
Table 2. Data measurement and refinement information for kristiansenite.
Crystal Data
Crystal size (mm)0.045 × 0.060 × 0.040
Space groupC1
a (Å)10.0304(5)
b (Å)8.4056(4)
c (Å)13.3228(6)
α90.001(3)
β109.105(3)
γ89.997(3)
V3)1061.40(9)
Z2
Data Collection and Refinement
RadiationMoKα
Monochromatorgraphite
Temperature100 K
Total Fo29,210
Unique Fo6213
Fo > 4σ Fo4503
Range of h, k, l−14 ≤ h ≤ 14, −11 ≤ k ≤ 11, −18 ≤ l ≤ 18
Max. 2θ (°)60.17
Inversion twin components0.956:0.044
Rint0.0936
L.s. parameters339
R1 for Fo > 4σ Fo0.0496
R1, all unique Fo0.0836
wR20.1141
a0.0497
b0.00
GooF1.052
Note: w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + (a ×P)2 + b × P], where P = [Max (Fo2, 0) + 2 × Fc2)]/3.
Table 3. Atomic coordinates, equivalent isotropic displacement parameters, and occupancy for atomic sites in kristiansenite (the occupancy for anion sites are from bond valence analysis).
Table 3. Atomic coordinates, equivalent isotropic displacement parameters, and occupancy for atomic sites in kristiansenite (the occupancy for anion sites are from bond valence analysis).
xyzUeqOccupancy
Ca10000.0177(6)Ca
Ca20.0010(4)0.7003(4)−0.4984(3)0.0171(6)Ca
Ca30.2017(4)−0.0030(4)−0.2699(3)0.0177(7)Ca
Ca40.2019(2)0.7035(2)−0.7699(2)0.0166(6)Ca
M1−0.2522(4)0.0879(4)−0.2458(3)0.0084(6)0.214(5) Sn + 0.787(5) Sc
M2−0.2530(3)0.6135(4)−0.7469(3)0.0104(5)0.339(5) Sn + 0.661(5) Sc
M30.4605(3)0.0856(3)−0.0262(3)0.0073(4)0.785(6) Sn + 0.215(6) Sc
M40.4607(3)0.6146(3)−0.5255(3)0.0089(4)0.798(6) Sn + 0.202(6) Sc
Si1−0.2317(5)0.2728(5)−0.0195(4)0.0089(7)Si
Si2−0.2319(5)0.4280(5)−0.5194(4)0.0093(7)Si
Si30.4362(5)0.2748(5)−0.2527(4)0.0086(8)Si
Si40.4359(5)0.4260(5)−0.7531(4)0.0088(7)Si
Si5−0.0276(5)0.3829(5)−0.8161(4)0.0086(7)Si
Si6−0.0276(5)0.3182(5)−0.3164(4)0.0093(7)Si
Si70.2286(5)0.3824(5)−0.4567(4)0.0094(7)Si
Si80.2281(5)0.3185(5)0.0433(4)0.0092(7)Si
O10.575(1)0.255(1)−0.2877(9)0.015(2) *O
O20.5808(10)0.446(1)−0.7846(8)0.009(2) *O
O3−0.371(1)0.256(1)0.0136(9)0.015(2)O
O4−0.3756(10)0.444(1)−0.4871(8)0.007(2)O
O5−0.071(1)−0.0512(10)−0.2004(8)0.012(2)O
O6−0.0688(10)0.7518(10)−0.7013(7)0.010(2) *O
O70.279(1)−0.053(1)−0.0687(8)0.014(2)O
O80.276(1)0.753(1)−0.5689(8)0.013(2)O
O9−0.211(1)0.128(1)−0.0914(8)0.012(2)O
O10−0.211(1)0.573(1)−0.5911(8)0.010(2) *O
O110.413(1)0.128(1)−0.1813(8)0.011(2)O
O120.414(1)0.573(1)−0.6817(8)0.010(2) *O
O13−0.0941(10)0.252(1)0.0908(7)0.012(2)O
O14−0.0940(9)0.4488(10)−0.4087(7)0.010(2) *O
O150.2999(9)0.251(1)−0.3601(7)0.014(2)O
O160.3004(10)0.450(1)−0.8614(8)0.013(2) *O
O17−0.139(1)0.284(1)−0.2584(8)0.009(2) *O
O18−0.147(1)0.418(1)−0.7629(8)0.009(2) *O
O190.344(1)0.284(1)−0.0150(8)0.012(2)O
O200.353(1)0.416(1)−0.5079(8)0.014(2)O
O21−0.3117(10)0.0388(10)−0.4038(7)0.010(2)O
O22−0.3117(10)0.659(1)0.0966(7)0.012(2)O
O230.5155(10)0.039(1)−0.8674(8)0.012(2) *O
O240.516(1)0.659(1)−0.3675(8)0.013(2)O
O25−0.3834(10)−0.107(1)−0.2289(8)0.015(2)O
O26−0.3852(9)0.807(1)−0.7313(7)0.012(2)O
O270.5868(10)−0.0979(10)−0.0419(8)0.012(2) *O
O280.5908(10)0.7993(10)−0.5393(7)0.007(2) *O
Note: * Uiso.
Table 4. Bond lengths (Å) and bond angles (°) for kristiansenite.
Table 4. Bond lengths (Å) and bond angles (°) for kristiansenite.
Ca1-O222.327(9)Ca2-O202.319(10)
Ca1-O92.328(10)Ca2-O212.328(9)
Ca1-O192.362(10)Ca2-O102.344(9)
Ca1-O32.398(10)Ca2-O42.375(9)
Ca1-O52.564(10)Ca2-O62.599(9)
Ca1-O22.753(10)Ca2-O12.699(11)
Ca1-O132.757(8)Ca2-O142.747(8)
<Ca1-O>2.498<Ca2-O>2.487
O2-Ca1-O379.3(3)O1-Ca2-O480.0(3)
O2-Ca1-O1372.3(3)O1-Ca2-O1472.3(3)
O2-Ca1-O1985.6(3)O1-Ca2-O2082.7(3)
O2-Ca1-O2266.9(3)O1-Ca2-O2168.8(3)
O3-Ca1-O583.9(3)O4-Ca2-O683.1(3)
O3-Ca1-O1971.0(3)O4-Ca2-O2068.8(3)
O3-Ca1-O2297.4(3)O4-Ca2-O2199.1(3)
O5-Ca1-O968.7(3)O6-Ca2-O1068.9(3)
O5-Ca1-O1980.4(3)O6-Ca2-O2082.3(3)
O5-Ca1-O22124.8(3)O6-Ca2-O21123.7(3)
O9-Ca1-O1359.5(3)O10-Ca2-O1459.5(3)
O9-Ca1-O1981.3(4)O10-Ca2-O2082.7(3)
O9-Ca1-O22117.3(3)O10-Ca2-O21117.0(3)
O13-Ca1-O19108.5(3)O14-Ca2-O20108.5(3)
O13-Ca1-O2269.4(3)O14-Ca2-O2169.5(3)
Ca3-O242.325(10)Ca4-O182.340(9)
Ca3-O112.335(10)Ca4-O122.342(10)
Ca3-O12.367(10)Ca4-O232.347(9)
Ca3-O172.370(9)Ca4-O22.348(9)
Ca3-O72.568(10)Ca4-O82.569(10)
Ca3-O42.775(10)Ca4-O32.772(12)
Ca3-O152.785(9)Ca4-O162.794(9)
<Ca3-O>2.504<Ca4-O>2.501
O4-Ca3-O178.6(3)O3-Ca4-O279.8(3)
O4-Ca3-O1572.0(3)O3-Ca4-O1671.2(3)
O4-Ca3-O1784.4(3)O3-Ca4-O1882.3(3)
O4-Ca3-O2467.1(3)O3-Ca4-O2368.2(3)
O1-Ca3-O786.2(3)O2-Ca4-O884.9(3)
O1-Ca3-O1771.7(3)O2-Ca4-O1869.3(3)
O1-Ca3-O2498.0(4)O2-Ca4-O2399.8(3)
O7-Ca3-O1168.4(3)O8-Ca4-O1269.3(3)
O7-Ca3-O1780.7(3)O8-Ca4-O1882.5(3)
O7-Ca3-O24126.4(3)O8-Ca4-O23125.4(3)
O11-Ca3-O1557.8(3)O12-Ca4-O1657.8(3)
O11-Ca3-O1781.0(3)O12-Ca4-O1882.4(3)
O11-Ca3-O24115.8(3)O12-Ca4-O23115.5(3)
O15-Ca3-O17106.5(3)O16-Ca4-O18106.7(3)
O15-Ca3-O2469.0(3)O16-Ca4-O2368.9(3)
M1-O91.989(9)M2-O222.008(8)
M1-O172.035(9)M2-O182.009(9)
M1-O212.037(9)M2-O102.011(9)
M1-O52.078(9)M2-O62.099(9)
M1-O252.159(10)M2-O22.113(9)
M1-O12.163(10)M2-O262.153(9)
<M1-O>2.077<M2-O>2.065
O9-M1-O1790.7(4)O22-M2-O1891.8(4)
O9-M1-O585.8(4)O22-M2-O697.2(3)
O9-M1-O2587.1(4)O22-M2-O286.5(3)
O9-M1-O192.0(4)O22-M2-O2688.6(3)
O17-M1-O2193.6(4)O18-M2-O1092.0(4)
O17-M1-O591.2(4)O18-M2-O692.1(4)
O17-M1-O182.7(4)O18-M2-O280.5(4)
O21-M1-O596.8(4)O10-M2-O686.1(4)
O21-M1-O2588.4(4)O10-M2-O290.7(4)
O21-M1-O185.8(4)O10-M2-O2687.4(3)
O5-M1-O2592.9(4)O6-M2-O2693.7(3)
O25-M1-O193.1(4)O2-M2-O2693.7(3)
M3-O111.991(9)M4-O122.010(9)
M3-O232.044(9)M4-O242.024(9)
M3-O272.050(9)M4-O202.042(9)
M3-O192.067(9)M4-O282.074(8)
M3-O72.073(9)M4-O82.102(9)
M3-O32.145(9)M4-O42.110(9)
<M3-O>2.061<M4-O>2.06
O11-M3-O2788.5(4)O12-M4-O2091.6(4)
O11-M3-O1989.0(4)O12-M4-O2888.6(4)
O11-M3-O785.6(4)O12-M4-O885.8(4)
O11-M3-O392.2(4)O12-M4-O491.8(4)
O23-M3-O2789.8(3)O24-M4-O2090.2(4)
O23-M3-O1992.7(4)O24-M4-O2889.4(4)
O23-M3-O795.2(4)O24-M4-O895.9(4)
O23-M3-O387.2(4)O24-M4-O486.8(4)
O27-M3-O793.8(4)O20-M4-O892.0(4)
O27-M3-O393.7(4)O20-M4-O479.4(4)
O19-M3-O790.3(4)O28-M4-O894.7(3)
O19-M3-O382.0(4)O28-M4-O493.9(3)
Si1-O31.603(10)Si2-O101.600(10)
Si1-O91.606(10)Si2-O81.624(10)
Si1-O71.627(10)Si2-O41.640(9)
Si1-O131.663(9)Si2-O141.667(9)
<Si1-O>1.625<Si2-O>1.633
O3-Si1-O9113.1(5)O4-Si2-O14107.8(5)
O3-Si1-O7111.7(6)O8-Si2-O4110.3(5)
O3-Si1-O13107.2(5)O8-Si2-O14108.5(5)
O9-Si1-O7113.8(5)O10-Si2-O8114.4(5)
O9-Si1-O13102.5(5)O10-Si2-O4112.7(5)
O7-Si1-O13107.7(5)O10-Si2-O14102.5(5)
Si3-O11.612(11)Si4-O121.617(10)
Si3-O111.626(10)Si4-O61.624(9)
Si3-O51.634(9)Si4-O161.639(10)
Si3-O151.636(9)Si4-O21.649(10)
<Si3-O>1.627<Si4-O>1.632
O1-Si3-O11113.4(5)O6-Si4-O16110.5(5)
O1-Si3-O5112.1(5)O6-Si4-O2110.5(5)
O1-Si3-O15106.7(5)O12-Si4-O6114.5(5)
O5-Si3-O15109.9(5)O12-Si4-O16101.1(5)
O11-Si3-O5113.4(5)O12-Si4-O2111.7(5)
O11-Si3-O15100.4(5)O16-Si4-O2108.0(5)
Si5-O231.598(9)Si6-O171.586(10)
Si5-O181.602(10)Si6-O141.623(9)
Si5-O131.626(9)Si6-O241.631(10)
Si5-O261.633(9)Si6-O251.655(10)
<Si5-O>1.615<Si6-O>1.624
O13-Si5-O26108.2(5)O14-Si6-O24109.9(5)
O18-Si5-O13106.4(5)O14-Si6-O25108.8(5)
O18-Si5-O26112.1(5)O17-Si6-O14108.4(5)
O23-Si5-O18112.3(5)O17-Si6-O24112.7(5)
O23-Si5-O13109.3(5)O17-Si6-O25108.5(5)
O23-Si5-O26108.5(5)O24-Si6-O25108.4(5)
Si7-O211.602(9)Si8-O191.625(10)
Si7-O281.619(9)Si8-O221.632(9)
Si7-O201.630(10)Si8-O271.655(10)
Si7-O151.666(9)Si8-O161.659(9)
<Si7-O>1.629<Si8-O>1.643
O20-Si7-O15104.0(5)O19-Si8-O22112.2(5)
O21-Si7-O28111.8(5)O19-Si8-O27109.6(5)
O21-Si7-O20112.2(5)O19-Si8-O16106.5(5)
O21-Si7-O15108.0(5)O22-Si8-O27111.8(5)
O28-Si7-O20113.2(5)O22-Si8-O16108.7(5)
O28-Si7-O15107.2(5)O27-Si8-O16107.8(5)
Table 5. Bond valences (calculated with parameters from Brese and O’Keefe, [36]).
Table 5. Bond valences (calculated with parameters from Brese and O’Keefe, [36]).
CationsAnions
Ca1:Ca2+1.85O1:O2−1.93
Ca2:Ca2+1.90O2:O2−1.89
Ca3:Ca2+1.84O3:O2−1.98
Ca4:Ca2+1.86O4:O2−1.95
M1:Sn4+3.83O5:O2−, (OH)1.70
M1:Sc3+2.58O6:O2−, (OH)1.68
M1:Fe3+3.29O7:O2−, (OH)1.80
M2:Sn4+3.94O8:O2−, (OH)1.76
M2:Sc3+2.65O9:O2−2.09
M2:Fe3+3.39O10:O2−2.06
M3:Sn4+3.96O11:O2−2.12
M3:Sc3+2.67O12:O2−2.11
M3:Fe3+3.40O13:O2−2.01
M4:Sn4+3.96O14:O2−2.01
M4:Sc3+2.67O15:O2−1.97
M4:Fe3+3.41O16:O2−1.98
Si1:Si4+4.00O17:O2−2.04
Si2:Si4+3.92O18:O2−2.07
Si3:Si4+3.97O19:O2−1.96
Si4:Si4+3.91O20:O2−2.03
Si5:Si4+4.10O21:O2−2.03
Si6:Si4+4.01O22:O2−2.00
Si7:Si4+3.95O23:O2−2.09
Si8:Si4+3.81O24:O2−2.06
O25:(OH), O2−1.34
O26:(OH), O2−1.41
O27:O2−, (OH)1.57
O28:O2−, (OH)1.62

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