American Mineralogist

Volume 106, Issue no. 01 : January 2021

Letter

MSA Presidential Address

1   MSA at 100 and why optical mineralogy still matters: The optical properties of talc
Mickey E. Gunter

1 P-V-T equation of state of hydrous phase A up to 10.5 GPa
Cuiping Yang, Toru Inoue, and Takumi Kikegawa

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7 Elastic properties and structures of pyrope glass under high pressures
Naoki Hisano, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Tomonori Ohashi, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, Yuji Higo, Yuki Shibazaki, and Akio Suzuki

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REGULAR ARTICLES

15 Effects of pH and Ca exchange on the structure and redox state of synthetic Na-birnessite
Chiara Elmi, Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and Eugene S. Ilton

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28 A systematic assessment of the diamond trap method for measuring fluid compositions in high-pressure experiments
Greta Rustioni, Andreas Audétat, and Hans Keppler

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38 Origin, properties, and structure of breyite: The second most abundant mineral inclusion in super-deep diamonds
Frank E. Brenker, Fabrizio Nestola, Lion Brenker, Luca Peruzzo, and Jeffrey W. Harris

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44 Why Tolbachik diamonds cannot be natural
Konstantin D. Litasov, Hiroyuki Kagi, Tatyana B. Bekker, Yoshiki Makino, Takafumi Hirata, and Vadim V. Brazhkin

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54 Deciphering the enigmatic origin of Guyana’s diamonds
Roy Bassoo, Kenneth S. Befus, Peng Liang, Steven L. Forman, and Glenn Sharman

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69 Precipitation of low-temperature disordered dolomite induced by extracellular polymeric substances of methanogenic Archaea Methanosarcina barkeri: Implications for sedimentary dolomite formation
Fangfu Zhang, Huifang Xu, Evgenya S. Shelobolina, Hiromi Konishi, and Eric E. Roden

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82 Atomic-scale characterization of commensurate and incommensurate vacancy superstructures in natural pyrrhotites
Lei Jin, Dimitrios Koulialias, Michael Schnedler, Andreas U. Gehring, Mihály Pósfai, Philipp Ebert, Michalis Charilaou, Robin E. Schäublin, Chun-Lin Jia, Jörg F. Löffler, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

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97 Three-dimensional and microstructural fingerprinting of gold nanoparticles at fluid-mineral interfaces
Haoyang Zhou, Richard Wirth, Sarah A. Gleeson, Anja Schreiber, and Sathish Mayanna

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105 Seaborgite, LiNa6K2(UO2)(SO4)5(SO3OH)(H2O), the first uranyl mineral containing lithium
Anthony R. Kampf, Travis A. Olds, Jakub Plášil, Joe Marty, Samuel N. Perry, Loretta Corcoran, and Peter C. Burns

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112 Reheating and magma mixing recorded by zircon and quartz from high-silica rhyolite in the Coqen region, southern Tibet
Shao-Rong Chen, Qing Wang, Di-Cheng Zhu, Roberto F. Weinberg, Liang-Liang Zhang, and Zhi-Dan Zhao

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123 Crystal chemistry and thermal behavior of Fe-carpholite from the Pollino Massif, southern Italy
Ernesto Mesto, Salvatore Laurita, Maria Lacalamita, Rosa Sinisi, Giovanna Rizzo, Emanuela Schingaro, and Giovanni Mongelli

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135 New insights into the control of visible gold fineness and deposition: A case study of the Sanshandao gold deposit, Jiaodong, China
Hong-Wei Peng, Hong-Rui Fan, Xuan Liu, Bo-Jie Wen, Yong-Wen Zhang, and Kai Feng

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150 A comment on “An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kind clustering”
Frédéric Hatert, Stuart J. Mills, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Mike S. Rumsey

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154 Reply to “A comment on ‘An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kind clustering’”
Robert M. Hazen

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Supplements

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American Mineralogist      Vol. 107, no. 1   January 2022

15    Boron isotope compositions establish the origin of marble from metamorphic complexes: Québec, New York, and Sri Lanka
Corinne Kuebler, Antonio Simonetti, Stefanie S. Simonetti, and Robert F. Martin

Item #AM-22-17811
Online Material
AM-22-17811.zip zipped


31    Celleriite, (Mn22+Al)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH), a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Federico Pezzotta, Alessandra Altieri, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Paolo Ballirano, Gioacchino Tempesta, Jan Cempírek, Radek Škoda, Jan Filip, Renata Čopjaková, Milan Novák, Anthony R. Kampf, Emily D. Scribner, Lee A. Groat, and R. James Evans
Item #AM-22-17818
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-17818.zip zipped


54    Incorporation of incompatible trace elements into molybdenite: Layered PbS precipitates within molybdenite
Yiping Yang, Hongping He, Wei Tan, Qi Tao, Junming Yao, Haiyang Xian, Shangying Li, Jiaxin Xi, Jianxi Zhu, and Huifang Xu
Item #AM-22-17609
Online Material
AM-22-17609.zip zipped


74    Thermoelastic properties of zircon: Implications for geothermobarometry
Alix M. Ehlers, Gabriele Zaffiro, Ross J. Angel, Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran, Michael A. Carpenter, Matteo Alvaro, and Nancy L. Ross

Item #AM-22-17731
Online Material
AM-22-17731.zip zipped


82    A Rayleigh model of cesium fractionation in granite-pegmatite systems
David London
Item #AM-22-17855
Online Material
AM-22-17855.zip zipped


92    The atomic arrangement and electronic interactions in vonsenite at 295, 100, and 90 K
Marc Maderazzo, John M. Hughes, M. Darby Dyar, George R. Rossman, Brandon J. Ackley, Elizabeth C. Sklute, Marian V. Lupulescu, and Jeffrey Chiarenzelli
Item #AM-22-17851
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-17851.zip zipped


100    Oxalate formation by Aspergillus niger on minerals of manganese ores
Olga Frank-Kamenetskaya, Marina Zelenskaya, Alina Izatulina, Vladislav Gurzhiy, Aleksei Rusakov, and Dmitry Vlasov
Item #AM-22-17651
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-17651.zip zipped


116    Mesoproterozoic seafloor authigenic glauconite-berthierine: Indicator of enhanced reverse weathering on early Earth
Jianbai Ma, Xiaoying Shi, Maxwell Lechte, Xiqiang Zhou, Zhenfei Wang, Kangjun Huang, Maxim Rudmin, and Dongjie Tang
Item #AM-22-17904
Online Material
AM-22-17904.zip zipped


131    Chemical variability in vyacheslavite, U(PO4)(OH): Crystal-chemical implications for hydrous and hydroxylated U4+, Ca, and REE phosphates
Gwladys Steciuk, Radek Škoda, Veronika Dillingerová, and Jakub Plášil
Item #AM-22-17875
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-17875.zip zipped


138    Bennesherite, Ba2Fe2+Si2O7: A new melilite group mineral from the Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel
Arkadiusz Krzątała, Biljana Krüger, Irina Galuskina, Yevgeny Vapnik, and Evgeny Galuskin
Item #AM-22-17747
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-17747.zip zipped


147    Single-crystal elasticity of phase Egg AlSiO3OH and δ-AlOOH by Brillouin spectroscopy
Baoyun Wang, Yanyao Zhang, Suyu Fu, Wei Yan, Eiichi Takahashi, Li Li, Jung-Fu Lin, and Maoshuang Song

Item #AM-22-18056
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-18056.zip zipped

SPECIAL COLLECTION: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF EARTH'S DEEP MANTLE AND CORE

1

P-V-T equation of state of hydrous phase A up to 10.5 GPa
Cuiping Yang, Toru Inoue, and Takumi Kikegawa

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

7

Elastic properties and structures of pyrope glass under high pressures
Naoki Hisano, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Tomonori Ohashi, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, Yuji Higo, Yuki Shibazaki, and Akio Suzuki

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

REGULAR ARTICLE

15

Effects of pH and Ca exchange on the structure and redox state of synthetic Na-birnessite
Chiara Elmi, Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and Eugene S. Ilton

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

28

A systematic assessment of the diamond trap method for measuring fluid compositions in high-pressure experiments
Greta Rustioni, Andreas Audétat, and Hans Keppler

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

38

Origin, properties, and structure of breyite: The second most abundant mineral inclusion in super-deep diamonds
Frank E. Brenker, Fabrizio Nestola, Lion Brenker, Luca Peruzzo, and Jeffrey W. Harris

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

44

Why Tolbachik diamonds cannot be natural
Konstantin D. Litasov, Hiroyuki Kagi, Tatyana B. Bekker, Yoshiki Makino, Takafumi Hirata, and Vadim V. Brazhkin

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

54

Deciphering the enigmatic origin of Guyana’s diamonds
Roy Bassoo, Kenneth S. Befus, Peng Liang, Steven L. Forman, and Glenn Sharman

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

69

Precipitation of low-temperature disordered dolomite induced by extracellular polymeric substances of methanogenic Archaea Methanosarcina barkeri: Implications for sedimentary dolomite formation
Fangfu Zhang, Huifang Xu, Evgenya S. Shelobolina, Hiromi Konishi, and Eric E. Roden

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

82

Atomic-scale characterization of commensurate and incommensurate vacancy superstructures in natural pyrrhotites
Lei Jin, Dimitrios Koulialias, Michael Schnedler, Andreas U. Gehring, Mihály Pósfai, Philipp Ebert, Michalis Charilaou, Robin E. Schäublin, Chun-Lin Jia, Jörg F. Löffler, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Open Access     Deposit Item

97

Three-dimensional and microstructural fingerprinting of gold nanoparticles at fluid-mineral interfaces
Haoyang Zhou, Richard Wirth, Sarah A. Gleeson, Anja Schreiber, and Sathish Mayanna

Open Access     Deposit Item

105

Seaborgite, LiNa6K2(UO2)(SO4)5(SO3OH)(H2O), the first uranyl mineral containing lithium
Anthony R. Kampf, Travis A. Olds, Jakub Plášil, Joe Marty, Samuel N. Perry, Loretta Corcoran, and Peter C. Burns

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

112

Reheating and magma mixing recorded by zircon and quartz from high-silica rhyolite in the Coqen region, southern Tibet
Shao-Rong Chen, Qing Wang, Di-Cheng Zhu, Roberto F. Weinberg, Liang-Liang Zhang, and Zhi-Dan Zhao

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

123

Crystal chemistry and thermal behavior of Fe-carpholite from the Pollino Massif, southern Italy
Ernesto Mesto, Salvatore Laurita, Maria Lacalamita, Rosa Sinisi, Giovanna Rizzo, Emanuela Schingaro, and Giovanni Mongelli

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

135

New insights into the control of visible gold fineness and deposition: A case study of the Sanshandao gold deposit, Jiaodong, China
Hong-Wei Peng, Hong-Rui Fan, Xuan Liu, Bo-Jie Wen, Yong-Wen Zhang, and Kai Feng

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

150

A comment on “An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kind clustering”
Frédéric Hatert, Stuart J. Mills, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Mike S. Rumsey

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

154

Reply to “A comment on ‘An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kind clustering’”
Robert M. Hazen

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

157

NEW MINERAL NAMES

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

15

Effects of pH and Ca exchange on the structure and redox state of synthetic Na-birnessite
Chiara Elmi, Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and Eugene S. Ilton

Item#: AM-21-17112
CIF
AM-21-17112.zip zipped

38

Origin, properties, and structure of breyite: The second most abundant mineral inclusion in super-deep diamonds
Frank E. Brenker, Fabrizio Nestola, Lion Brenker, Luca Peruzzo, and Jeffrey W. Harris

Item#: AM-21-17513
CIF
AM-21-17513.zip zipped

54

Deciphering the enigmatic origin of Guyana’s diamonds
Roy Bassoo, Kenneth S. Befus, Peng Liang, Steven L. Forman, and Glenn Sharman

Item#: AM-21-17486
Supplemental Material
AM-21-17486.zip zipped

69

Precipitation of low-temperature disordered dolomite induced by extracellular polymeric substances of methanogenic Archaea Methanosarcina barkeri: Implications for sedimentary dolomite formation
Fangfu Zhang, Huifang Xu, Evgenya S. Shelobolina, Hiromi Konishi, and Eric E. Roden

Item#: AM-21-17381
Supplemental Material
AM-21-17381.zip zipped

82

Atomic-scale characterization of commensurate and incommensurate vacancy superstructures in natural pyrrhotites
Lei Jin, Dimitrios Koulialias, Michael Schnedler, Andreas U. Gehring, Mihály Pósfai, Philipp Ebert, Michalis Charilaou, Robin E. Schäublin, Chun-Lin Jia, Jörg F. Löffler, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Item#: AM-21-17479
Supplemental Material
AM-21-17479.zip zipped

97

Three-dimensional and microstructural fingerprinting of gold nanoparticles at fluid-mineral interfaces
Haoyang Zhou, Richard Wirth, Sarah A. Gleeson, Anja Schreiber, and Sathish Mayanna

Item#: AM-21-17696
Supplemental Material
AM-21-17696.zip zipped

105

Seaborgite, LiNa6K2(UO2)(SO4)5(SO3OH)(H2O), the first uranyl mineral containing lithium
Anthony R. Kampf, Travis A. Olds, Jakub Plášil, Joe Marty, Samuel N. Perry, Loretta Corcoran, and Peter C. Burns

Item#: AM-21-17540
CIF and Supplemental Material
AM-21-17540.zip zipped

112

Reheating and magma mixing recorded by zircon and quartz from high-silica rhyolite in the Coqen region, southern Tibet
Shao-Rong Chen, Qing Wang, Di-Cheng Zhu, Roberto F. Weinberg, Liang-Liang Zhang, and Zhi-Dan Zhao

Item#: AM-21-17426
Supplemental Material
AM-21-17426.zip zipped

123

Crystal chemistry and thermal behavior of Fe-carpholite from the Pollino Massif, southern Italy
Ernesto Mesto, Salvatore Laurita, Maria Lacalamita, Rosa Sinisi, Giovanna Rizzo, Emanuela Schingaro, and Giovanni Mongelli

Item#: AM-21-17385
CIF and Supplemental Material
AM-21-17385.zip zipped

135

New insights into the control of visible gold fineness and deposition: A case study of the Sanshandao gold deposit, Jiaodong, China
Hong-Wei Peng, Hong-Rui Fan, Xuan Liu, Bo-Jie Wen, Yong-Wen Zhang, and Kai Feng

Item#: AM-21-17475
Supplemental Material
AM-21-17475.zip zipped
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