Disorder and compositional variation in the lillianite homologous series

South Australia Museum, Department of Mineralogy, Adelaide, South Aust., Australia

High resolution transmission electron microscopy studies on the lillianite group minerals from the Ivigtut cryolite deposit, Ivigtut, South Greenland revealed the existence of disordered intergrowths of lillianite/gustavite-like blocks (N = 4) and heyrovskyite-like (N = 7) structural blocks. One disorder sequence is examined in detail, which gave an average homologue number N = 4.92 corresponding to a composition of Pb (sub 3.92-2x) Bi (sub 2+x) Ag _x S (sub 6.92) with x nearly equal 1.2. An Axial Next-Nearest Neighour Ising model was used to follow the fluctuations in the average homologue number N across the crystal. This yielded compositional fluctuations of the order of 70-170 Aa over a 1800 Aa region of the crystal, with a 202 Aa lamella of ordered vikingite. Trends in the randomness of the gustavite-vikingite intergrowth were evaluated and the dominant slab sequence was found to be 4,4,4,7 and 4,4,7,7, suggesting that some longer period homologues may be stable. A number of defects were noted in which changes in slab widths were accommodated. The origin of these partially ordered/disordered lillianite homologues is discussed.

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