Mckelveyite group minerals – Part 2: Alicewilsonite-(YCe), Na<sub>2</sub>Sr<sub>2</sub>YCe(CO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>6</sub> ⋅ 3H<sub>2</sub>O, a new species
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract. The new mckelveyite group mineral alicewilsonite-(YCe), ideally Na2Sr2YCe(CO3)6 ⋅ 3H2O, was found at Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, and subsequently at the Saint-Amable sill, Quebec, Canada, and the Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Alicewilsonite-(YCe) crystals are commonly hemimorphic pseudotrigonal and pseudohexagonal and show barrel-shaped, saucer-shaped, spindle-shaped, cone-shaped, columnar, tabular, and platy habits. They are usually up to 2–3 mm in size with some larger crystals reaching 2–3 cm. The crystals often form stacked or parallel growth aggregates and rosettes. Alicewilsonite-(YCe) colour varies from pale yellow to yellow, lemon yellow, green yellow, orange-yellow, pale green to green, pale grey to grey, green grey, beige, and colourless. The streak is white; the lustre is vitreous. The cleavage is fair to indistinct, parallel to (001). The Mohs hardness is 3. Dcalc is 3.37 g cm−3. Alicewilsonite-(YCe) is optically biaxial (+), with α=1.554(3), β=1.558(3), γ=1.644(2), 2V (calc.) = 26∘, 2V (meas.) = 20(3)∘ (589 nm). The IR spectrum is reported. The composition (wt %, average of six analyses) is Na2O 7.42, CaO 0.72, SrO 21.49, BaO 1.41, Y2O3 8.52, La2O3 5.93, Ce2O3 9.52, Pr2O3 0.59, Nd2O3 1.75, Sm2O3 0.46, Gd2O3 0.83, Dy2O3 1.65, Ho2O3 0.34, Er2O3 1.21, Yb2O3 0.64, CO2 29.33, H2O 6.13, total 97.94. The empirical formula of the holotype calculated on the basis of six cations is Na2.11Ca0.11Sr1.83Ba0.08Y0.67(Ce0.51La0.32Pr0.03Nd0.09Sm0.02Gd0.04 Dy0.08Ho0.02Er0.06Yb0.03)Σ1.20(CO3)5.88 (H2O)3.00. The mineral is triclinic, P1, a=9.0036(6) Å, b=9.0175(6) Å, c=6.7712(5) Å, α=102.724(2)∘, β=116.398(2)∘, γ=60.003(2)∘, V=426.46(5) Å3, and Z=1. The strongest reflections of the powder X-ray diffraction pattern [d,Å(I)(hkl)] are 6.07(31)(001), 4.372(100)(120, 2‾1‾1, 11‾0), 4.037(25)(1‾11, 1‾2‾1, 210), 3.201(25)(121, 2‾1‾2, 11‾1), 2.831(67)(1‾12, 1‾2‾2, 211, 1‾21, 21‾0), 2.601(39)(030, 3‾3‾1,3‾01), 2.236(24)(2‾4‾1, 2‾21, 4‾2‾1). 2.019(23)(003, 2‾22, 2‾4‾2‾, 420). 1.9742(24)(032, 3‾03, 3‾3‾3, 331, 03‾2, 301). The crystal structure, solved and refined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data (R1=0.055), is of the weloganite type.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".