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SummaryMicroprobe and X-ray investigation of a mineral occurring with breithauptite, nickeline, and other arsenides in the naujaite at Igdlúnguaq, Ilímaussaq alkaline massif, S. Greenland, shows that this mineral, which was formerly misidentified as ‘maucherite’, is a westerveldite (Fe0·85Ni0·15)As, of much iron-richer composition than the nickeloan westerveldites from the only two other known occurrences of this mineral. Westerveldite from Igdlúnguaq was presumably formed by reaction of nickeline with iron-rich solutions under conditions of reheating at temperatures of about 450° C and under partial pressures of arsenic below those necessary to stabilize nickeline. Sulphur-bearing löllingite occurs as exsolution blades in the westerveldite. Iron-rich nickeline, up to a composition (Ni0·82Fe0·18)As0·95Sb0·05, was presumably formed by recrystallization of nickeline in the transition stage just before this mineral became unstable and was replaced by westerveldite. |
