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Universita di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Pisa, Italy
Dessauite, a new mineral in the crichtonite group, occurs within cavities in calcite veins as tabular {001} rhombohedral, black, millimeter-sized crystals at Buca della Vena Mine, Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy). It is associated with derbylite, hematite, rutile, karelianite, siderite, and calcite. Dessauite is trigonal, space group R3, with a = 9.197(1) Aa, alpha = 68.75(2) degrees . Optically, dessauite is opaque and shows low bireflectance and very weak pleochroism. Electron microprobe analyses led to the following simplified chemical formula: (Sr,Pb)(Y,U)(Ti,Fe (super 3+) ) 20 O 38 . The crystal structure of dessauite was refined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data to R = 0.065. Dessauite is isostructural with the others members of the crichtonite group; a peculiar structural feature is the presence of additional, partially occupied octahedral sites. A comparison of the crystal-chemical formulas of all the minerals within the crichtonite group is presented. In view of the structural information, the analytical data have been re-arranged on the basis of the crystal-chemical formula ABC 18 T 2 O 38 , rather than AM 21 O 38 .
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