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A new barium uranyl oxide hydrate mineral, protasite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

M. K. Pagoaga ,
D. E. Appleman  and
J. M. Stewart
M. K. Pagoaga
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
D. E. Appleman
Affiliation:
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
J. M. Stewart
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Abstract

Protasite, a new barium-containing member of the uranyl oxide hydrate group, occurs as bright orange pseudo-hexagonal platelets associated with uraninite and uranophane on unidentified rock matrix from Shinkolobwe mine, Zaïre. Protasite is monoclinic, Pn with a 12.295(2), b 7.221(1), c 6.9558(8) Å, β 90.40(2)°, and V 617.50(11) Å3. The tabular pseudo-hexagonal crystals are flattened on {010}, 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm wide and up to 0.1 mm thick. They are biaxial negative, 2 V = 60–65°, β and γ 1.79–1.83, and X = b. Sector twinning is common. Microprobe analysis shows BaO 15.0, UO3 78.0, H2O(diff.) 7.0%. The structural formula is Ba[(UO2)3O3(OH)2]. 3H2O, Z = 2, and density(calc.) = 5.827(3) g cm−3. Complete crystal-structure analysis shows protasite to be the simplest model structure of the uranyl oxide hydrate group.

Keywords

protasitenew mineraluranyl oxideShinkolobwe mineZaïre
Type
Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 50 , Issue 355 , March 1986 , pp. 125 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1986

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