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Mineralogy of the antimony occurrence Mikulovický vrch near Kadaň (Czech Republic)
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Two rare sulfosalt minerals, fülöppite and plagionite, have been determined in samples from a small abandoned Sb occurrence Mikulovický vrch near Kadaň, northern Bohemia, Czech Republic. The more abundant fülöppite forms grey aggregates (up to 5 mm in size) with metallic lustre in quartz gangue and rare crystals up to 1.5 mm across in association with stibnite, plagionite, sphalerite, pyrite and arsenopyrite. Fülöppite is monoclinic, space group C2/c with refined unit-cell parameters: a 13.443(2), b 11.737(2), c 16.953(2) Å, β 94.69(1)° and V 2665.9(5) Å3. Its empirical formula (mean of 93 point analyses) is (Pb2.80Sn0.01Hg0.01)Σ2.82Sb8.18S14.99. Two types of plagionite were found as irregular aggregates up to 200 μm in size in quartz gangue, ussualy in association with fülöppite. The first rarer one is close to the ideal composition with empirical formula (mean of 10 point analyses) (Pb4.90Hg0.01)Σ4.91Sb8.07S17.02; the second is distinctly Pb-poor with the calculated N homologue number in the range of 1.37 - 1.74 and empirical formula (mean of 62 point analyses) (Pb4.31Sn0.02Hg0.01)Σ4.34Sb8.53S17.13. Determination of fülöppite and Pb-poor plagionite was also confirmed by Raman spectroscopy. Gypsum, valentinite, native sulphur and jarosite were detected as products of weathering of primary mineralization.
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