Manganese spinel minerals reported till now include hausmannite, iwakiite, Jacobsite, galaxite, hetaerolite, manganochromite and vuorelainenite. The first four minerals occur commonly in the bedded manganese deposits formed in Paleozoic to Mesozoic sediments of Japan. Their mutual phase relations are usually considered in the ternary system Mn
3O
4-MnFe
2 O
4-MnAl
2O
4. The immiscibility range between jacobsite and galaxite in the system MnFe
2O
4-MnAl
2O
4 disappears with increasing Mn
3O
4 content in their solid solutions at metamor. phic temperature and an extensive jacobsite∼galaxite complete solution becomes to exist with another restricted hausmannite solution in the ternary system. Jacobsite also has extensive solution with Mn
2TiO
4 and the Mn
2TiO
4 content of the solution attains to about 70 mole % in the metamorphosed deposits. Consequently jacobsite solution needs to be treated in the quarternary system Mn
3O
4-MnFe
2O
4-MnAl
2O
4-Mn
2TiO
4. Iwakiite, Mn (Fe, Mn)
2O
4, has the only extensive solution with Mn
2TiO
4 in the quarternary system but its stability relation is unknown because it never coexist with any other spinels and has not been synthesized. This mineral must hold the keys to decipher the complex phase relations in this system.
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