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Langhofite, Pb2(OH)[WO4(OH)], a new mineral from Långban, Sweden.
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2109-2277
Università degli Studi di Milano.
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5390-0577
2020 (English)In: Mineralogical magazine, ISSN 0026-461X, E-ISSN 1471-8022, Vol. 84, p. 381-389Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Langhofite, ideally Pb2(OH)[WO4(OH)], is a new mineral from the Långban mine, Värmland, Sweden. The mineral and its name were approved by the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (IMA2019-005). It occurs in a small vug in hematite–pyroxene skarn associated with calcite, baryte, fluorapatite, mimetite and minor sulfide minerals. Langhofite is triclinic, space group P1, and unit-cell parameters a = 6.6154(1) Å, b = 7.0766(1) Å, c = 7.3296(1) Å, α = 118.175(2)°,β = 94.451(1)°, γ = 101.146(1)° and V = 291.06(1) Å3 for Z = 2. The seven strongest Bragg peaks from powder X-ray diffractometry are[dobs, Å (I )(hkl)]: 6.04(24)(010), 3.26(22)(11-2), 3.181(19)(200), 3.079(24)(1-12), 3.016(100)(020), 2.054(20)(3-11) and 2.050(18)(13-2). Langhofite occurs as euhedral crystals up to 4 mm, elongated along the a axis, with lengthwise striation. Mohs hardness is ca. 2½,based on VHN25 data obtained in the range 130–192. The mineral is brittle, with perfect {010} and {100} cleavages. The calculated density based on the ideal formula is 7.95(1) g⋅cm–3. Langhofite is colourless to white (non-pleochroic) and transparent, with a white streakand adamantine lustre. Reflectance curves show normal dispersion, with maximum values 15.7–13.4% within 400–700 nm. Electron microprobe analyses yield only the metals Pb and W above the detection level. The presence of OH-groups is demonstrated with vibration spectroscopy, from band maxima present at ∼3470 and 3330 cm–1. A distinct Raman peak at ca. 862 cm–1 is related to symmetricW–oxygen stretching vibrations. The crystal structure is novel and was refined to R = 1.6%. It contains [W2O8(OH)2]6– edge-sharingdimers (with highly distorted WO6-octahedra) forming chains along [101] with [(OH)2Pb4]6+ dimers formed by (OH)Pb3 triangles. Chains configure (010) layers linked along [010] by long and weak Pb–O bonds, thus explaining the observed perfect cleavage on{010}. The mineral is named for curator Jörgen Langhof (b. 1965), who collected the discovery sample.

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2020. Vol. 84, p. 381-389
Keywords [en]
langhofite, new mineral, lead tungsten oxysalt, crystal structure, skarn, Långban, Sweden
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Geology
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The changing Earth
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-4034DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2020.28OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-4034DiVA, id: diva2:1510577
Available from: 2020-12-16 Created: 2020-12-16 Last updated: 2025-09-12Bibliographically approved

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