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[R7-04] Shiranuiite and placer deposit of platinum group minerals, Haraigawa, Misato machi, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Keywords:Platinum-group minerals (PGM), Placer PGM, Shiranuiite
We have discovered a placer deposit of platinum-group minerals (PGM) in the clinopyroxene mass, Haraigawa, Misato machi, Kumamoto Prefecture. Two new minerals, minakawaite and michitoshiite-(Cu), were discovered in this deposit, and an unknown mineral of the thiospinel group was also found. It is named shiranuiite and was approved as a new mineral (IMA2023-072a). Most placer grains are isoferroplatinum: Pt3Fe, and some grains have been altered at the outer edge (several to several hundred μm) to tulameenite: Pt2CuFe or tetraferroplatinum: PtFe, showing the influence of post-magmatic alteration. Bowieite: Rh2S3, the second most abundant inclusions, rarely appear on the surface of grains, while it is altered to often cuprorhodsite: (Cu+0.5Fe3+0.5)Rh3+2S4 and rarely shiranuiite: Cu+(Rh3+Rh4+)S4. The empirical formula of shiranuiite is (Cu+0.95Fe3+0.04Ni0.01)(Rh3+1.19Rh4+0.77Ir4+0.06)S3.99, and the unit cell parameter is a = 9.757Å on Fd-3m space group.