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Quintinite-1M from the Mariinsky Deposit, Ural Emerald Mines, Central Urals, Russia

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The paper describes the first finding of quintinite [Mg4Al2(OH)12][(CO3)(H2O)3] at the Mariinsky deposit in the Central Urals, Russia. The mineral occurs as white tabular crystals in cavities within altered gabbro in association with prehnite, calcite, and a chlorite-group mineral. Quintinite is the probable result of late hydrothermal alteration of primary mafic and ultramafic rocks hosting emerald-bearing glimmerite. According to electron microprobe data, the Mg: Al ratio is ~2: 1. IR spectroscopy has revealed hydroxyl and carbonate groups and H2O molecules in the mineral. According to single crystal XRD data, quintinite is monoclinic, space group C2/m, a =5.233(1), b = 9.051(2), c = 7.711(2) Å, β = 103.09(3)°, V = 355.7(2) Å3. Based on structure refinement, the polytype of quintinite should be denoted as 1M. This is the third approved occurrence of quintinite-1M in the world after the Kovdor complex and Bazhenovsky chrysotile–asbestos deposit.

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  1. Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    E. S. Zhitova, S. V. Krivovichev, A. N. Zaitsev & N. S. Vlasenko

  2. Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. AkademikaVonsovskogo15, Yekaterinburg, 620016, Russia

    M. P. Popov

  3. Ural State Mining University, ul. Kuibysheva 30, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia

    M. P. Popov

  4. Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, bul. Piipa 9, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683006, Russia

    E. S. Zhitova

  5. Kola Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Fersmana 14, Apatity, Murmansk oblast, 184209, Russia

    S. V. Krivovichev

  6. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd., Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, UK

    A. N. Zaitsev

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Original Russian Text © E.S. Zhitova, M.P. Popov, S.V. Krivovichev, A.N. Zaitsev, N.S. Vlasenko, 2016, published in Zapiski Rossiiskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 2016, No. 6, pp. 90–101.

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Zhitova, E.S., Popov, M.P., Krivovichev, S.V. et al. Quintinite-1M from the Mariinsky Deposit, Ural Emerald Mines, Central Urals, Russia. Geol. Ore Deposits 59, 745–751 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701517080116

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