Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Within the research of secondary phosphates of the Bohemian Massif, an interesting phosphate mineralization was found on a historical sample from the Veselá hora pegmatite deposit near Domažlice (Czech Republic). Jahnsite-(CaMnFe), jahnsite-(MnMnFe), frondelite, messelite-fairfieldite, mitridatite, Mn-rich fluorapatite and parafiniukite were detected in a sample collected in the year 1944, at the time of feldspar mining in the Veselá Hora deposit. Older jahnsite forms flat elongated yellow-orange crystals, up to 2 mm in size in cavities of the phosphate matrix; its chemical composition ranges from jahnsite-(CaMnFe) to jahnsite-(MnMnFe). Younger jahnsite-(CaMnFe) was observed in flat crystals with vitreous lustre and light brown-orange to pink-orange colour. The structural data for both generations are very similar. The mineral is monoclinic, space group P2/a, the unit-cell parameters refined from X-ray powder diffraction data are: a 15.009(3), b 7.1515(16), c 9.873(3) Å, β 111.1(5)° and V 988.4(3) Å3. Frondelite occurring in the cavity forms very dark green to black hemispherical aggregates, up to 1 mm in size, composed of radially arranged fibres. Frondelite is orthorhombic, space group Bbmm, the unit-cell parameters refined from X-ray powder diffraction data are: a 13.828(5), b 16.960(6), c 5.175(2) Å and V 1214.7(5) Å3. Members of the messelite-fairfieldite solid solution were observed as yellowish grains and aggregates associated with mitridatite, Mn-rich fluorapatite, parafiniukite, jahnsite-(CaMnFe) and quartz. It is triclinic, space group P-1, the unit-cell parameters refined from X-ray powder diffraction data are: a 5.476(4), b 5.763(3), c 6.566(2) Å, α 90.19(4)°, β 102.58(5)°, γ 108.45(4)° and V 988.4(3) Å3. The results of the WDS analyses and empirical formulas of all described phosphates are given in the paper.
Source: Bulletin Mineralogie Petrologie
DOI: 10.46861/bmp.33.090
Institution: National Museum
Language: English
Subfield: Geochemistry and Petrology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4413229709