American Mineralogist
LETTER
248
Toward a thermal model for the Skaergaard liquidus
S.A. Morse
AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY
228
Environments around Al, Si, and Ca in aluminate and aluminosilicate melts by X-ray absorption spectroscopy at high temperature
D.R. Neuville, L. Cormier, D. de Ligny, J. Roux, A-M. Flank, and P. Lagarde
REGULAR ARTICLE
1
Footemineite, the Mn-analog of atencioite, from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its relationship with other roscheritegroup minerals
Daniel Atencio, Paulo A. Matioli, Jason B. Smith, Nikita V. Chukanov, José M.V. Coutinho, Ramimiza K. Rastsvetaeva, and Steffen Möckel
7
Element mobility and scale of mass transport in the formation of quartz veins during regional metamorphism of the Waits River Formation, east-central Vermont
Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland and John M. Ferry
22
Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 1. Supergene dissolution of Pt-bearing chromite
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, François Chabaux, Chantal Peiffert, Jean-Claude Parisot, Jean-Paul Ambrosi, and Fabrice Colin
31
Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 2. Dissolution vs. accumulation of platinum group minerals
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, Thierry Augé, Jean Claude Parisot, Fabrice Colin, and Michel Cathelineau
39
Comparative Raman spectroscopic study on ilmenite-type MgSiO3 (akimotoite), MgGeO3, and MgTiO3 (geikielite) at high temperatures and high pressures
Taku Okada, Toshiharu Narita, Takaya Nagai, and Takamitsu Yamanaka
48
A low-pressure–high-temperature technique for the piston-cylinder
Gordon Moore, Kurt Roggensack, and Stan Klonowski
53
Pressure-induced structural deformation and elastic behavior of wairakite
Silvia Ori, Simona Quartieri, Giovanna Vezzalini, and Vladimir Dmitriev
63
Metamorphic vanadian-chromian silicate mineralization in carbon-rich amphibole schists from the Malé Karpaty Mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia
Pavel Uher, Martin KováÄik, Michal KubiÅ¡, Alexander Shtukenberg, and Daniel OzdÃn
74
High-temperature deformation of volcanic materials in the presence of water
G. Robert, J.K. Russell, D. Giordano, and C. Romano
81
Menezesite, the first natural heteropolyniobate, from Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil: Description and crystal structure
Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Antonio C. Doriguetto, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, Javier Ellena, and Viviane C. Ferrari
88
Single-crystal X-ray and Raman investigation on melanophlogite from Varano Marchesi (Parma, Italy)
Mario Tribaudino, Andrea Artoni, Christian Mavris, Danilo Bersani, Pier Paolo Lottici, and Daniele Belletti
95
Direnzoite, [NaK6MgCa2(Al13Si47O120)·36H2O], a new zeolite from Massif Central (France): Description and crystal structure
E. Galli and A.F. Gualtieri
103
On twinning and microstructures in calcite and dolomite
Ann-Kristin Larsson and Andrew G. Christy
114
Density functional calculations of the electronic structure and optical properties of aluminosilicate polymorphs (Al2SiO5)
Sitaram Aryal, Paul Rulis, and W.Y. Ching
124
Crystal-size distribution and composition of garnets in eclogites from the Dabie orogen, central China
Hao Cheng, Zuyi Zhou, and Eizo Nakamura
134
Cation order/disorder behavior and crystal chemistry of pyrope-grossular garnets: An 17O 3QMAS and 27Al MAS NMR spectroscopic study
Kimberly E. Kelsey, Jonathan F. Stebbins, Lin-Shu Du, Jed L. Mosenfelder, Paul D. Asimow, and Charles A. Geiger
144
Analytical transmission electron microscopy study of a natural MORB sample assemblage transformed at high pressure and high temperature
Angèle Ricolleau, Guillaume Fiquet, Ahmed Addad, Nicolas Menguy, Christian Vanni, Jean-Philippe Perrillat, Isabelle Daniel, Hervé Cardon, and Nicolas Guignot
154
Barioperovskite, BaTiO3, a new mineral from the Benitoite Mine, California
Chi Ma and George R. Rossman
158
The nature of unusual luminescence in natural calcite CaCO3
Michael Gaft, Lev Nagli, Gerard Panczer, Glenn Waychunas, and Naomi Porat
168
Carbonate in igneous and metamorphic fluorapatite: Two type A and two type B substitutions
R. Chris Tacker
177
The crystal structure of diopside at pressure to 10 GPa
Richard M. Thompson and Robert T. Downs
187
Electron backscatter diffraction analysis of zircon: A systematic assessment of match unit characteristics and pattern indexing optimization
Steven M. Reddy, Nicholas E. Timms, and Bruce M. Eglington
198
Compressibility trends of the clinopyroxenes, and in-situ high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite
Andrew C. McCarthy, Robert T. Downs, and Richard M. Thompson
210
Synthesis and characterization of low-OH–fluor-chlorapatite: A single-crystal XRD and NMR spectroscopic study
Francis M. McCubbin, Harris E. Mason, Hyunsoo Park, Brian L. Phillips, John B. Parise, Hanna Nekvasil, and Donald H. Lindsley
217
Pressure dependence of the hydrogen-bond geometry in topaz-OD from neutron powder diffraction
K. Komatsu, H. Kagi, W.G. Marshall, T. Kuribayashi, J.B. Parise, and Y. Kudoh
235
The origin of S4+ detected in silicate glasses by XANES
Max Wilke, Pedro J. Jugo, Kevin Klimm, Jean Susini, Roman Botcharnikov, Simon C. Kohn, and Markus Janousch
241
Effects of ionizing radiation on the hollandite structure-type: Ba0.85Cs0.26Al1.35Fe0.77Ti5.90O16
Abdesselam Abdelouas, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Tomo Suzuki, Bernd Grambow, Thierry Advocat, Florence Bart, and Rodney C. Ewing
NEW MINERAL NAMES
252
NEW MINERAL NAMES
Kim Tait, Glenn Poirier, Ralph Rowe and Paula C. Piilonen
REVIEWERS
257
REVIEWERS 2007
BOOK REVIEW
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BOOK REVIEW: WILLS’ MINERAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ORE TREATMENT AND MINERAL RECOVERY, Seventh edition, by B.A. Wills and T.J. Napier-Munn. (2006) Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier), Burlington, Massachusetts. 456 p. ISBN: 978-0-7506-4450-1.
Vincent J. Van Hinsberg
DEPOSIT ITEMS
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Footemineite, the Mn-analog of atencioite, from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its relationship with other roscheritegroup minerals
Daniel Atencio, Paulo A. Matioli, Jason B. Smith, Nikita V. Chukanov, José M.V. Coutinho, Ramimiza K. Rastsvetaeva, and Steffen Möckel
TABLE 6. Calculated (Fc) and observed (Fo) structure factors for the crystal structure of footemineite
AM-08-001.zip zipped
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Element mobility and scale of mass transport in the formation of quartz veins during regional metamorphism of the Waits River Formation, east-central Vermont
Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland and John M. Ferry
31
Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 2. Dissolution vs. accumulation of platinum group minerals
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, Thierry Augé, Jean Claude Parisot, Fabrice Colin, and Michel Cathelineau
81
Menezesite, the first natural heteropolyniobate, from Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil: Description and crystal structure
Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Antonio C. Doriguetto, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, Javier Ellena, and Viviane C. Ferrari
TABLE 8. Observed (Fo) and calculated (Fc) structure factors for the crystal structure of menezesite
AM-08-002.zip zipped
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Single-crystal X-ray and Raman investigation on melanophlogite from Varano Marchesi (Parma, Italy)
Mario Tribaudino, Andrea Artoni, Christian Mavris, Danilo Bersani, Pier Paolo Lottici, and Daniele Belletti
CIF for Melanophlogite, (structure deposited Cambridge Structural Database CSD no. 417910)
AM-08-003.zip zipped
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Crystal-size distribution and composition of garnets in eclogites from the Dabie orogen, central China
Hao Cheng, Zuyi Zhou, and Eizo Nakamura
177
The crystal structure of diopside at pressure to 10 GPa
Richard M. Thompson and Robert T. Downs
187
Electron backscatter diffraction analysis of zircon: A systematic assessment of match unit characteristics and pattern indexing optimization
Steven M. Reddy, Nicholas E. Timms, and Bruce M. Eglington
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