Kainite

Not to be confused with Kainate.
Kainite
General
CategorySulfate minerals
Formula
(repeating unit)		KMg(SO4)Cl·3H2O
Strunz classification7.DF.10
Crystal systemMonoclinic
Crystal classPrismatic (2/m)
(same H-M symbol)
Space groupC2/m
Unit cella = 19.72, b = 16.23
c = 9.53 [Å]; β = 94.92°; Z = 16
Identification
ColorColorless; yellow, brownish, greyish-green, red, violet, blue
Crystal habitCrystal aggregates, fibrous, massive
Cleavage{001}, perfect
FractureSplintery
TenacityBrittle
Mohs scale hardness2.5–3
LusterVitreous
StreakWhite
DiaphaneityTransparent
Specific gravity2.15
Optical propertiesBiaxial (−)
Refractive indexnα = 1.494 nβ = 1.505 nγ = 1.516
Birefringenceδ = 0.022
PleochroismVisible: X = violet, Y = blue, Z = yellowish
2V angleMeasured: 90°
DispersionWeak
References[1][2][3]

Kainite (/ˈkaɪnaɪt/ or /ˈkeɪnaɪt/)[4] (KMg(SO4)Cl·3H2O) is an evaporite mineral in the class of "Sulfates (selenates, etc.) with additional anions, with H2O" according to the Nickel–Strunz classification. It is a hydrated potassium-magnesium sulfate-chloride, naturally occurring in irregular granular masses or as crystalline coatings in cavities or fissures. This mineral is dull and soft, and is colored white, yellowish, grey, reddish, or blue to violet. Its name is derived from Greek καινος [kainos] ("(hitherto) unknown"), as it was the first mineral discovered that contained both sulfate and chloride as anions. Kainite forms monoclinic crystals.

Crystal structure of kainite

Properties

Kainite is of bitter taste and soluble in water. On recrystallization picromerite is deposited from the solution.

Genesis and occurrence

Kainite was discovered in the Stassfurt salt mines in today's Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 1865 by the mine official Schöne and was first described by Carl Friedrich Jacob Zincken.[5][6]

Kainite is a typical secondary mineral that forms through metamorphosis in marine deposits of potassium carbonate, and is also occasionally formed through resublimation from volcanic vapours. It is often accompanied by anhydrite, carnallite, halite, and kieserite.

Kainite is only found in comparatively few places,[7] among them in salt mines in central and northern Germany, Bad Ischl (Austria), on Pasquasia in Sicily, in Whitby (UK), and in the Carlsbad Potash District in New Mexico, in volcanic deposits in Kamchatka[8] and in Iceland,[9] and in salt lakes in western China. It has also been identified in Gusev Crater on Mars.[10]

It can also be produced from bittern remaining after removal of table salt from seawater.

Uses

Kainite is used as a source of potassium and magnesium compounds, as a fertilizer, and as gritting salt.

References

  1. ^ The Handbook of Mineralogy
  2. ^ Mindat.org
  3. ^ Webmineral.com
  4. ^ "kainite". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  5. ^ Zincken, C. (1865): Mittheilung an Prof. H.B. Geinitz vom 18.März 1865 [Über ein neues Mineral, Kainit].- Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 310.
  6. ^ Zincken, C. (1865): Ueber die Zusammensetzung des Kainits von Leopoldshall bei Stassfurth.- Berg- und hüttenmännische Zeitung 24, 288.
  7. ^ "Kainite: Localities for Kainite". Mindat.
  8. ^ Pekov, Igor V., et al. "New zinc and potassium chlorides from fumaroles of the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia: mineral data and crystal chemistry. II. Flinteite, K2ZnCl4." European Journal of Mineralogy (2015): ejm2459_pap_gsw.
  9. ^ Jacobsson et al (1992) Encrustations from Lava Caves on Surtsey, Iceland. A Preliminary Report: Surtsey Research Progress Report X: 73-78 Reykjevik, Iceland.
  10. ^ Rice, M. S., et al. "Silica-rich deposits and hydrated minerals at Gusev Crater, Mars: Vis-NIR spectral characterization and regional mapping." Icarus 205.2 (2010): 375-395.


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