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Nickolayite, FeMoP, a new natural molybdenum phosphide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2022

Mikhail N. Murashko ,
Sergey N. Britvin Open the ORCID record for Sergey N. Britvin [Opens in a new window] ,
Yevgeny Vapnik ,
Yury S. Polekhovsky ,
Vladimir V. Shilovskikh Open the ORCID record for Vladimir V. Shilovskikh [Opens in a new window] ,
Anatoly N. Zaitsev  and
Oleg S. Vereshchagin Open the ORCID record for Oleg S. Vereshchagin [Opens in a new window]
Mikhail N. Murashko
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Sergey N. Britvin*
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia Nanomaterials Research Center, Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fersman Str. 14, Apatity, 184200, Russia
Yevgeny Vapnik
Affiliation:
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel
Yury S. Polekhovsky
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Vladimir V. Shilovskikh
Affiliation:
Geomodel Resource Center, Saint-Petersburg State University, Ulyanovskaya Str. 1, St. Petersburg, 198504, Russia
Anatoly N. Zaitsev
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Oleg S. Vereshchagin
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
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*Author for correspondence: Sergey N. Britvin, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Nickolayite, FeMoP, is a new terrestrial phosphide structurally related to allabogdanite (high-pressure modification of (Fe,Ni)2P), and the meteoritic phosphides florenskyite, FeTiP and andreyivanovite, FeCrP. From the point of view of chemical composition, nickolayite is an Fe-analogue of monipite, MoNiP. The mineral was discovered in the Daba-Siwaqa complex, Central Jordan, a part of the pyrometamorphic Hatrurim Formation (the Mottled Zone), whose outcrops encompass a 150 × 200 km area around the Dead Sea in the Middle East. Nickolayite appears as an accessory phase in the fused clinopyroxene–plagioclase rocks texturally resembling gabbro–dolerite. The irregularly shaped grains of the mineral, up to 80 μm in size are associated with baryte, tridymite, chromite, hematite, pyrrhotite, fluorapatite, titanite and powellite. Macroscopically, nickolayite grains possess light-grey to greyish-white colour and metallic lustre. The mineral is ductile. The mean VHN hardness (50 g load) is 538 kg mm–2. The calculated density based on the empirical formula and the unit-cell parameters is 7.819 g cm–1. In reflected light, nickolayite has a white colour, with no bireflectance or pleochroism. The COM approved reflectance values [Rmax/Rmin (%), λ(nm)] are: 48.5/46.5 (470), 50.5/48.5 (546), 51.8/49.9 (589) and 53.9/52.0 (650). The chemical composition of the holotype crystal is (electron microprobe, average of 4 analyses, wt.%): Fe 32.21, Mo 47.06, Ni 3.69, Co 0.13, P 17.45, total 100.54, that corresponds to the empirical formula Fe1.00(Mo0.87Ni0.11Fe0.02)Σ1.00P1.00 and an ideal formula of FeMoP. Nickolayite is orthorhombic, space group Pnma, unit-cell parameters of holotype material are: a = 5.9519(5), b = 3.7070(3), c = 6.8465(6) Å, V = 151.06(2) Å3 and Z = 4. The crystal structure of holotype material was solved and refined to R1 = 0.0174 based on 251 unique observed reflections. The origin of the mineral is probably connected to the processes of co-reduction of molybdenum- and phosphorus-bearing minerals during high-temperature pyrometamorphic processes.

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phosphidemolybdenumcrystal structurepyrometamorphismgabbro-doleriteDead SeaMiddle EastHatrurim Formation
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 86 , Issue 5 , October 2022 , pp. 749 - 757
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

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