The turquoise-chalcosiderite Cu(Al,Fe3+)(6)(PO4)(4)(OH)(8)center dot 4H(2)O solid-solution series: A Mossbauer spectroscopy, XRD, EMPA, and FTIR study

作者：Abdu Yassir A^*; Hull Sharon K; Fayek Mostafa; Hawthorne Frank C

来源：American Mineralogist, 2011, 96(10): 1433-1442.

DOI：10.2138/am.2011.3658

• Turquoise
• chalcosiderite
• alteration
• Castillian Mine
• Tyron Mine
• Cornwall
• electron microprobe analysis
• FTIR
• Mossbauer spectroscopy

Eight turquoise samples covering a wide range of compositions in the turquoise-chalcosiderite solid-solution series were analyzed by Mossbauer spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), electron microprobe analysis (EMPA), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Two of the turquoise samples display evidence of alteration from weathering processes. The unit formulas were calculated on the basis of 24 (O,OH) anions and 11 cations using the results of EMPA, assuming all Fe as Fe3+, as confirmed by Mossbauer spectroscopy. The altered turquoise samples show deficiencies in both cations and anion groups, indicated by EMPA, but they preserve the crystal structure of turquoise, as verified by XRD. They also show large amounts of Si and Ca in their microprobe data, due to the presence of kaolinite and Ca carbonate, respectively, which are identified by FTIR spectroscopy. The isomorphous substitution of Fe3+ for Al in the turquoise structure broadens and shifts the IR bands to lower frequencies, in particular the OH-stretching bands. The Mossbauer spectra, collected at room temperature, are fitted with two generalized Fe3+ sites, using a Voigt-based quadrupole-splitting distribution method, which are assigned to the M3 (smaller quadrupole splitting) on the one hand and M1 and M2 octahedral sites on the other hand. The Fe3+ distribution over the M3 and M1,2 sites, calculated from the Mossbauer relative areas and EMPA, indicates that Fe3+ prefers the larger M3 octahedron in the turquoise-chalcosiderite solid-solution series.

• 出版日期2011-10