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The Canadian Mineralogist
Vol. 48, pp. 1109-1118 (2010)
DOI : 10.3749/canmin.48.5.1109
THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF WATKINSONITE, Cu2PbBi4Se8,
FROM THE ZÁLESÍ URANIUM DEPOSIT, CZECH REPUBLIC
Dan TOPa§
Department of Materials Research and Physics, Paris–Lodron University of Salzburg,
Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A–5020 Salzburg, Austria
Emil maKOViCKY
Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Østervoldgade 10, DK–1350, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jiří SEJKORa
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Václavské nám. 68, CZ–115 79, Praha 1, Czech Republic
HERbERT DiTTRiCH
Department of Materials Research and Physics, Paris–Lodron University of Salzburg,
Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A–5020 Salzburg, Austria
abSTRaCT
The crystal structure of sulfur-free watkinsonite, ideally Cu2PbBi4Se8, monoclinic, a 12.952(4), b 4.152(1), c 15.155(5) Å,
b 108.93(1)°, space group P21/m, Z = 2, part of the selenide mineralization of the uranium deposit of Zálesí, Czech Republic,
has been solved by direct methods and reined to R1 = 4.61% on the basis of 1287 unique relections [Fo > 4s(Fo)] collected on
a Bruker P3 diffractometer with a CCD detector and MoKa radiation. The crystal structure contains one Pb site, four Bi sites,
two Cu sites and eight Se sites. Partial replacement of one Cu (in a linearly coordinated site) by Ag is observed. The crystal
structure consists of (100)PbS slabs four atomic planes thick of a galena-like structure alternating with single layers of hexagonally
packed selenium. The Pb atoms form asymmetric bicapped coordination prisms embedded in the surfaces of the galena-like
pseudotetragonal slabs; atoms Bi1–3 occur as irregular coordination octahedra in the interior and at the surfaces of this slab. In
addition, Bi4 forms a coordination prism similar to that of lead. Tetrahedrally coordinated copper Cu2 caps triangular voids of
the hexagonal layer, whereas linearly coordinated Cu1 (with minor Ag), with the opposing Cu–Se bonds equal to 2.36 and 2.40
Å, respectively, forms foreshortened coordination octahedra, with four additional Cu–Se distances in the range 3.05–3.17 Å. The
crystal structure of watkinsonite is closely related to that of berryite, Cu3Ag2Pb3Bi7S16, in which the foreshortened coordination
octahedra are occupied by Ag, and Cu resides in the hexagonal layer.
Keywords: sulfosalt, watkinsonite, crystal structure, berryite, Zálesí deposit, Czech Republic.
SOmmaiRE
Nous avons résolu par méthodes directes la structure cristalline de la watkinsonite dépourvue de soufre, dont la formule, de
façon idéale, est Cu2PbBi4Se8, monoclinique, a 12.952(4), b 4.152(1), c 15.155(5) Å, b 108.93(1)°, groupe spatial P21/m, Z = 2,
formant partie de la minéralisation en séléniures du gisement uranifère de Zálesí, en République Tchèque, et nous l’avons afinée
jusqu’à un résidu R1 de 4.61% en utilisant 1287 rélexions uniques observées [Fo > 4s(Fo)], prélevées avec un diffractomètre
Bruker P3 muni d’un détecteur CCD et avec rayonnement MoKa. La structure contient un site Pb, quatre sites Bi, deux sites
Cu et huit sites Se. Nous observons le remplacement partiel d’un atome de Cu (dans un site à coordinence linéaire) par Ag. La
structure cristalline est faite de dalles de (100)PbS d’une épaisseur de quatre plans atomiques, dont la structure ressemble à celle
de la galène, qui alternent avec des couches distinctes de sélénium en agencement compact hexagonal. Les atomes de Pb logent
dans des prismes de coordinence assymétriques et biterminés, encastrés dans la surface des dalles pseudotétragonales ressemblant
à la galène; les atomes Bi1–3 se trouvent en coordinence octaédrique irrégulière à l’intérieur et à la surface de ces dalles. De
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plus, l’atome Bi4 forme un prisme de coordinance semblable à celui qui renferme le Pb. Le Cu2, à coordinence tétraédrique,
recouvre des lacunes triangulaires de la couche hexagonale, tandis que le Cu1 (avec un faible quantité de Ag), en coordinence
linéaire, les liaisons Cu–Se étant égales à 2.36 et 2.40 Å, respectivement, forment des octaèdres de coordinence trappus ayant
quatre liaisons Cu–Se additionnelles dans l’intervalle 3.05–3.17 Å. La structure cristalline de la watkinsonite montre une relation
étroite avec celle de la berryite, Cu3Ag2Pb3Bi7S16, dans laquelle Ag occupe les octaèdres de coordinence trappus, et le Cu réside
dans la couche hexagonale.
(Traduit par la Rédaction)
Mots-clés: sulfosel, watkinsonite, structure cristalline, berryite, gisement de Zálesí, République Tchèque.
inTRODuCTiOn
Watkinsonite is a selenosulide of lead, bismuth
and copper, first described by Johan et al. (1987)
from the selenide–telluride association of the Otish
Mountains uranium deposit, Quebec, Canada. The
empirical formula, Cu2.36Pb1.26Bi3.70Se6.21S1.74Te0.05,
was approximated as Cu2PbBi4(Se,S)8 (Förster et al.
2005). The original crystallographic data indicate that
watkinsonite is monoclinic, space group P2/m, P2, or
Pm, with a 12.921, b 3.997, c 14.989 Å, and b 109.2°.
A new ind of virtually sulfur-free watkinsonite from
the Zálesí uranium deposit, Czech Republic, yielded
material suitable for a crystal-structure analysis.
In the paper on the crystal structure of berryite,
Cu3Ag2Pb3Bi7S16, Topa et al. (2006) suggested that
watkinsonite ought to be structurally related to the
monoclinic polytype of berryite they analyzed, because
its d 001 value (equal to 14.16 Å) is a half of the
corresponding spacing (28.24 Å) in berryite, and the
published unit-cell of watkinsonite is metrically identical to one of the two “component subcells” recognizable for the two variants of the pseudotetragonal layer
(plus adjacent interlayer) in the structure of berryite–
P21/m. This prediction has now been conirmed to a
surprising extent.
maTERial inVESTigaTED
The scarce samples containing watkinsonite were
collected from the waste pile of the mine dump material
that probably originated from Adit No. 1 of the uranium
mine, or from unnamed exploratory shafts in the area
of the small uranium deposit of Zálesí. This deposit
is situated at the southern margin of the settlement
of Zálesí, about 6.5 km southwest of the Rychlebské
Hory Mountains, northern Moravia, Czech Republic.
A relatively abundant selenide mineralization is associated with the older, uraninite stage of mineralization
that is close to the so-called “ive-elements” formation
(U–Ni–Co–As–Ag) of hydrothermal ore veins (Fojt et
al. 2005, Sejkora et al. 2006). Watkinsonite occurs there
as irregular aggregates from 0.01 to about 4 mm, usually
smaller than 0.5 mm. On a fresh fracture, it is yellowish
to brownish grey (in comparison with clausthalite); it
exhibits a metallic luster and a characteristic conchoidal
fracture. Watkinsonite aggregates in a quartz gangue
are usually intergrown with practically sulfur-free
clausthalite (Pb0.97Ag0.01Cu0.01Bi0.01)S1.00Se0.99 (Fig. 1);
uraninite, chalcopyrite, bornite, covellite, löllingite and
S-rich umangite were also observed in close association.
ExPERimEnTal
Chemical analyses
Quantitative chemical data for watkinsonite were
obtained on two different electron microprobes.
Initially, at the Laboratory of Electron Microscopy
and Microanalysis of Masaryk University and Czech
Geological Survey, Brno, watkinsonite (15 aggregates)
and associated minerals were analyzed with a Cameca
SX–100 electron microprobe in the wavelengthdispersion mode (WDS) with an accelerating voltage
of 25 kV, a specimen current of 20 nA, and a beam
diameter of about 1 m. The following standards and
X-ray lines were used: Cu (Cu Ka), Ag (Ag La), PbSe
(Se Lb), CuFeS2 (SKa), Bi2Te3 (TeLb), PbS (PbMa)
and Bi (BiMb). Peak-counting times (CT) were 20 s
for both main and minor elements; CT for each background was one half of peak time. Raw intesities were
converted to the concentrations automatically using
the PAP (Pouchou & Pichoir 1985) matrix-correction
software package.
At the Department of Geography and Geology,
University of Salzburg, a JEOL Superprobe JXA–8600
apparatus was operated in WDS mode, at 25 kV and
35 nA, with a defocused beam (~3 m). The measurement time was 15 s for peak and 5 s for background
counts. The following standards and X-ray lines were
used: natural CuFeS2 (chalcopyrite; CuKa), natural PbS
(galena PbLa), synthetic Bi2Se3 (BiLa, SeLa), synthetic
Bi2S3 (SKa), synthetic CdTe (TeLa) and Ag metal
(AgLa). The raw data were corrected with the on-line
ZAF–4 procedure. Chemical data on the grain presented
in Figures 1a and 1b, together with selected results of
point analyses made in Brno, are shown in Table 1
and Figure 2. In the (Cu + Ag) – Bi – Pb diagram, the
chemical composition of watkinsonite from Zálesí is
positioned close to the structurally determined formula
Cu2PbBi4Se8.
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fig. 1. Back-scattered electron image (a) and optical image (b) of the grain of watkinsonite studied from Zálesí, Czech Republic.
Symbols: wat: watkinsonite, cls: clausthalite, urn: uraninite.
fig. 2. Chemical composition of watkinsonite from Zálesí (circles) and berryite from
Grube Clara (Topa et al. 2006) (rhombs) in the central portions of the (Cu + Ag) – Bi
– Pb diagram.
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Single-crystal X-ray diffraction
For our single-crystal investigation, several grains
of watkinsonite were extracted from the aggregates
in a polished section. They were investigated with a
Bruker AXS diffractometer equipped with a CCD area
detector using graphite-monochromated MoKa radiation. An irregular fragment measuring approximately
0.03 3 0.05 3 0.09 mm was found to be suitable for
structural investigation. Experimental data are listed in
Table 2. The SMART (Bruker AXS, 1998) system of
programs was used for unit-cell determination and data
collection, SAINT+ (Bruker AXS, 1998) for the calculation of integrated intensities, and XPREP (Bruker AXS,
1998) for empirical absorption-correction based on
pseudo-C scans. The space group P21/m, proposed by
the XPREP program, differs from the original proposal
derived from powder data by Johan et al. (1987). The
structure of watkinsonite was solved by direct methods
(program SHELXS of Sheldrick 1997a) and differenceFourier syntheses (program SHELXL of Sheldrick
1997b). Reinement data are given in Table 2; fractional
coordinates and anisotropic displacement-parameters of
atoms are listed in Table 3. The principal interatomic
distances are presented in Table 4, and selected geometrical parameters for individual coordination polyhedra,
calculated with the IVTON program (Balić-Žunić &
Vicković 1996), are given in Table 5. A table of structure factors for watkinsonite may be obtained from the
Depository of Unpublished Data on the Mineralogical
Association of Canada website [document Watkinsonite
CM48_1109]. Atom labeling is shown in Figure 3, and
the crystal structure is illustrated in Figure 4.
DESCRiPTiOn Of THE STRuCTuRE
General features
The structure of watkinsonite can be described in
analogy to that of berryite (Topa et al. 2006) as an alternation of two types of layer, i.e., pseudotetragonal slabs
that are four atomic planes thick, and pseudohexagonal
layers that in these structures are reduced to single
THE CRYSTal STRuCTuRE Of waTKinSOniTE
sheets of hexagonally arranged anions with interstitial
cations present in some positions of the sheet.
The structure contains one lead site, four independent Bi sites that do not seem to exhibit signs of Pb-forBi substitution, and two copper sites. One of the latter
sites, the linearly coordinated Cu1 site, accommodates
the minor Ag present. There are eight independent Se
sites. All atoms are at the (m) positions with y = 0.25
and 0.75. Whether there is any partial order of Se and S
in distinct sites of the two types of layer in the case of
watkinsonite from Otish Mountains (Johan et al. 1987),
similar to that observed for the layered structure of
proudite (Mumme et al. 2009), is not known at present.
Coordination polyhedra
The Cu1 site is an octahedrally coordinated (2 +
4) site in the pseudotetragonal layer. The two bonds
oriented to the foreshortened apices of the coordination
octahedron form a linear coordination. The opposing
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Cu–Se distances involved are equal to 2.358 and 2.401
Å, respectively; the shorter of them is oriented toward
the exterior of the pseudotetragonal layer. The Cu1 site
houses the bulk of analytically determined Ag (Tables
3, 4). The contents of silver in the structurally analyzed
grain extracted from a margin of the watkinsonite aggregate appear slightly higher than the average obtained for
the bulk (Table 1).
These paired octahedral Cu1 sites are analogous to
the paired octahedral Ag1 sites in berryite–P21/m (Topa
et al. 2006), which have the short Ag–S bonds equal to
2.443–2.475 Å. In watkinsonite, the four long Cu1–Se
distances in the octahedron are equal to 3.046–3.168
Å; those of Ag–S in berryite are 3.104–3.123 Å long.
For an exact comparison with berryite, the difference
between the radii of S2– and Se2– should be subtracted
from the Cu–Se data.
The Cu2 site is tetrahedrally coordinated (Table 4)
and corresponds to the Cu2 site of berryite. Atom Cu2
forms [010] strings of edge-sharing tetrahedra, however,
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fig. 3. Atom labels in the structure of watkinsonite. All sites are fully occupied.
with Cu–Cu distances equal to 2.58 Å, indicating
Cu–Cu interactions. The marginal Bi octahedra of the
pseudotetragonal layer, Bi1 and Bi2, show a considerable difference between the Bi–Se distance in the apex
of the pyramid and that below the base of the tetragonal
pyramid: 2.746 versus 3.270 Å and 2.735 versus 3.228
Å, respectively. The Bi4 site, which forms paired
columns of square coordination pyramids of Bi, is the
most eccentric of all Bi sites, with the Bi–S bond toward
the apex of the pyramid equal to 2.718 Å, opposed by
the long distances inside the capped trigonal coordination prism (Fig. 4), which are equal to 3.551 and 3.748
Å, respectively. The Bi3 site, occluded completely
in the pseudotetragonal layer, is close to octahedral,
with the apical distances equal to 2.888 and 2.993 Å,
and a fairly symmetrical distribution of the remaining
distances, from 2.880 to 3.037 Å. This results in an
eccentricity value that is much lower than for the other
Bi sites (Table 5). The polyhedron volume, however, is
smallest of all the Bi sites (Table 5). This inding and
the bond-valence results suggest that no recognizable
Pb-for-Bi substitution takes place at the Bi3 site.
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The single Pb site is an asymmetric bicapped
trigonal prism site, with out-of-layer Pb–Se distances
being substantially longer than the intralayer ones
(Table 4).
Modular description
The pseudotetragonal (Q) slabs four atomic layers
thick are outlined schematically by shading in Figure 4.
The pseudohexagonal (H) layers are single layers of
Se atoms halving the interspace between the Q slabs.
The Bi4 positions are protruding from the surfaces
of the pseudotetragonal layers, with coordination
polyhedra including three atoms from the hexagonal
layers. The long Bi4–Se7 distance “ties” the Bi4 atom
to the Q layer. This situation corresponds in full to that
in berryite (Topa et al. 2006), in which the bismuth
site involved is Bi1 (Fig. 5). In watkinsonite, two Bi4
sites are paired, but in berryite, Bi1 columns pair with
Pb3 columns. As in berryite, watkinsonite is a lock-in
type of incommensurate two-layer structure, in which
one common period comprises two pseudohexagonal
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subcells matching three pseudotetragonal subcells
along the layer in the a direction, and this ratio is ixed
by interlayer bonds. In berryite (Fig. 5), the pseudohexagonal layer is populated by an alternation of Cu1,
Cu2 and Cu3 coordination triangles; only the space
occupied by the Bi1–Pb3 coordination polyhedra was
left unilled. In watkinsonite, both the space deined by
the pair of Bi4–Bi4 polyhedra and that facing Pb are
left empty, and only single [010] columns of this layer
are occupied by Cu, in a compact manner. The presence of two Cu sites instead of three as in berryite is
balanced out by the substitution of Pb3 in berryite by
Bi4 in watkinsonite.
According to the cations protruding from the
surface of the Q layer, the sequence of Q layers in
berryite–P21/m was described by Topa et al. (2006)
as an alternation of “pseudotetragonal Pb–Pb layers”
(with Pb3 protruding) with “pseudotetragonal Bi–Bi
layers” (Bi1 protruding). They also argued that in the
orthorhombic–Pcm21 polytype of berryite, the layers
ought to be of the “Pb–Bi type”. Based on the original
space-group assignment by Johan et al. (1987), Topa et
fig. 4. The crystal structure of watkinsonite. In the order of decreasing size, spheres represent Se, Pb (blue), Bi, and Cu
(red). The pseudotetragonal layers (Q) and the pavonite-related layers “a”, respectively, are shaded; the intervening
pseudohexagonal (H) layers and the intermediate “b” intervals are left unshaded. In order to identify the single-sheet H
layers, follow the pattern and spacing of Se atoms in the unshaded interspaces between two adjacent Q layers. Inspection of
the Figure 5 will help as well.
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fig. 5. The crystal structure of the monoclinic polytype of berryite (Topa et al. 2006). For the majority of explanations, see the
caption to Figure 4. The silver atoms are indicated in green. The component subcell centered on the Q1 layers (Pb–Pb type,
see the text), metrically identical to the unit cell of watkinsonite, is drawn in red.
al. (2006) assumed that the layers in watkinsonite also
are of the “Pb–Bi type”, and the original space-group
Pn was considered as the probable choice. The present
data, however, indicate that the symmetry is P21/m, and
the layers are of the “Bi–Bi type”, although the unitcell metric corresponds to that of the “Pb–Pb” subunit
of berryite, illustrated in the central upper portions of
Figure 3 in Topa et al. (2006).
Lone-electron-pair micelles in watkinsonite and
berryite are of the same type and position: the micelle
deined by two Bi1 and two Bi3 atoms in the interior of
the Q slab of watkinsonite (Fig. 4) is the same as the 2
Bi3 – 2 Bi7 micelle in berryite (Fig. 5), and the spaces
that accommodate pairs of lone electrons under Bi4
coordination pyramids in watkinsonite correspond to
such spaces under Bi1 polyhedra in berryite. All pairs of
Cu1 coordination octahedra have the same orientation
in the structure of watkinsonite, but the corresponding
pairs of Ag sites alternate in orientation in monoclinic
berryite (Figs. 4, 5).
The distribution of copper
The presence of linearly coordinated Cu (with
only minor Ag) in the form of paired lattened Cu2Se6
octahedra in watkinsonite was an unexpected feature
of its structure, and it resolves speculations about the
accommodation of copper in this mineral. As a result of
this inding, the coniguration of the Q layer in watkinsonite is exceedingly close to that of the “Pb–Pb” layer
in monoclinic berryite. The only difference is that the
protruding atoms on layer surfaces are Bi4 in watkinsonite as opposed to Pb in berryite. The other Pb site
on the Q surface is common to both structures and also
to both types of layer in berryite.
The presence of smaller coordination-octahedra of
Cu in the Q layer of watkinsonite (in comparison to
the rest of the structure), instead of the Ag octahedra
found in berryite, has a pronounced inluence on the
distribution of Cu in the adjacent hexagonal layer. The
coordination triangles that correspond to “Cu1” and
“Cu3” positions of berryite lie in the extension of the
space occupied by the octahedrally coordinated Cu1 in
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fig. 6. Collage of slices of pavonite-like structure (one of which is shaded) cut out of the structure of watkinsonite. When
joined by applying crystallographic shear, they generate a pavonite homologue N = 5. Selected foreshortened octahedra are
indicated in pink.
watkinsonite. Thus, the relevant coordination triangles,
which were occupied in berryite, become too small to
host a copper site. Copper is then forced to populate
the Cu2 site, which corresponds to the “Cu2” position
of berryite.
RElaTiOnS TO OTHER SulfOSalTS
In addition to the obvious modular afinity to the
sulfosalts related to cannizzarite, such as berryite,
watkinsonite is also related to the pavonite homologous series (Makovicky et al. 1977). If we divide the
structure of watkinsonite into slices compatible with
the pavonite structural principle (slices denoted as a
and shaded in Fig. 6) and remove the intermediate
parts (slices b, unshaded) by means of crystallographic
shear, a structure of the pavonite homologue N = 5 will
result. It has paired Bi pyramids and empty coordination
octahedra in the thinner layers of the 5P structure, and it
has ive octahedra strung along diagonals of the thicker
structural layers of this structure. The same exercise
gave a more complicated homologue of pavonite, with
N = 5, 6, 5 ,6… for berryite–P21/m (Topa et al. 2006).
COnCluSiOnS
With the exception of one empty copper site (the two
Cu sites Cu1 and Cu3 from berryite become equivalent
in watkinsonite) and replacement of a marginal Pb
atom by Bi, the structure of watkinsonite corresponds
closely to that of the pseudotetragonal “Pb–Pb” layer
of monoclinic berryite–P21/m, with the relevant parts
of interlayer space and of the adjacent pseudohexagonal
layer added, as predicted by Topa et al. (2006) (Figs. 4,
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5). Thus it is one more success story of modular crystallography of sulfosalts. The most remarkable feature of
the structure is the linear coordination of copper in the
paired, foreshortened Cu1–Se6 coordination octahedra
in the pseudotetragonal portions of the structure. This
unusual coordination is closer to that of Ag+ and Hg2+
than to the usual tetrahedral or trigonal-planar Cu coordination observed in numerous sulfosalts. This structure
type spans a range of compositions from mixed sulide–
selenide to pure selenide, and can contain different
Cu:Ag proportions in the foreshortened octahedral sites.
aCKnOwlEDgmEnTS
DT gratefully acknowledges the support of the
Christian Doppler Research Society (Austria). EM
was supported by the grant no. 272–08–0227 of the
Research Council for Nature and Universe (Denmark).
JS acknowledges the support by Ministry of Culture of
the Czech Republic (DE07P04OMG003), and thanks
Drs. Pavel Škácha (Charles University, Prague) and
Radek Škoda (Masaryk Unversity, Brno) for the kind
assistance. We thank Dr. Hexiong Yang for a constructive review and Prof. Robert F. Martin for a thoughtful
review and editorial assistance.
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