Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
2. Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
3. Polish Geological Institute—National Research Institute, Rakowiecka 4, 00-975 Warsaw, Poland
Abstract
For the first time, chromium disulphides, known from meteorites, such as caswellsilverite, NaCrS2; grokhovskyite, CuCrS2; and a potentially new mineral, AgCrS2, as well as the products of their alteration, such as schöllhornite, Na0.3CrS2∙H2O, and a potentially new mineral with the formula {Fe0.3(Ba,Ca)0.2} CrS2·0.5H2O, have been found in terrestrial rock. Layered chromium disulphides were found in unusual phosphide-bearing breccia of the pyrometamorphic Hatrurim Complex in the Negev Desert, Israel. The chromium disulphides belong to the central fragment of porous gehlenite paralava cementing altered host rock clasts. The empirical formula of caswellsilverite is (Na0.77Sr0.03Ca0.01)Σ0.81(Cr3+0.79Cr4+0.18V3+0.01 Fe3+0.01)Σ0.99S2·0.1H2O, and the end-member content of NaCrS2 is 76%. It forms single crystals in altered pyrrhotite aggregates. Grokhovskyite has the empirical formula {Cu+0.84Fe3+0.10Ca0.06 Na0.01 Sr0.01Ba0.01}Σ1.03(Cr3+0.94 Fe3+0.05 V3+0.05)Σ1.00S2·0.35H2O, and the CuCrS2 end-member content is 75–80%. A potentially new Ag-bearing chromium disulphide is characterised by the composition (Ag0.89Cu0.07)Σ0.96(Cr0.98 Fe0.03V0.01Ni0.01)Σ1.04S2. Caswellsilverite, grokhovskyite and AgCrS2 form in gehlenite paralava at high temperatures (near 1000 °C) and low pressure under reducing conditions. The structure of the layered chromium disulphides, MCrS2, is characterised by the presence of hexagonal octahedral layers (CrS2)1−, between which M-sites of the monovalent cations Ag, Cu and Na set. A low-temperature alteration of the layered chromium disulphides, when schöllhornite and {Fe0.3(Ba,Ca)0.2}CrS2·0.5H2O form, is reflected in the composition and structural modification of the layer with monovalent cations, whereas the octahedral layer (CrS2)1− remains unchanged.
Funder
National Science Center of Poland
Subject
Geology,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
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