American Mineralogist

Volume 110, Issue no. 02 : February 2025

Letter

MSA Presidential Address

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

181 Gender in mineral names
Christopher Emproto, Gabriela A. Farfan, Tyler L. Spano, Marko Bermanec, Mike S. Rumsey, Barbara L. Dutrow, Raquel Alonso-Perez, Jessica Riaño, and Adam C. Simon

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189 Role of impurities in the semiconducting properties of natural pyrite: Implications for the electrochemical accumulation of visible gold and formation of hydrothermal gold deposits
Baisong Du, Jun Deng, M. Santosh, Zuoman Wang, Yuke Shen, Shufei Liu, Hanwen Yang, and Kexin Xu

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217 Unraveling clay-mineral genesis and climate change on Earth and Mars using machine learning-based VNIR spectral modeling
Lulu Zhao, Anbei Deng, Hanlie Hong, Jiannan Zhao, Thomas J. Algeo, Fuxing Liu, Nanmujia Luozhui, and Qian Fang

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232 Characteristics of the distribution of minerals among the space groups
Carl N. Drummond and Princess N. Sarpong

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241 Al3+ and H+ substitutions in TiO2 polymorphs: Structural and vibrational investigations
Sha Wang, Qingbo Wang, Yu Ye, Dan Liu, Xi Zhu, Yancheng Hu, Yunfan Miao, Zhen Wu, and Yanming Pan

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255 Oriented triphylite rods in apatite from an LCT pegmatite in the Stankuvatske Li-ore deposit, Ukraine: Implications for Li mobility
Sergii Kurylo, Igor Broska, and Gieré Reto

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272 Quartz textures, trace elements, fluid inclusions, and in situ oxygen isotopes from Aktogai porphyry Cu deposit, Kazakhstan
Changhao Li, Ping Shen, Reimar Seltmann, Di Zhang, Hongdi Pan, and Eleonora Seitmuratova

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293 Cu nanoparticle geometry as the key to bicolor behavior in Oregon sunstones: An application of LSPR theory in nanomineralogy
Chengsi Wang, Andy H. Shen, Peter J. Heaney, Aaron Palke, Ke Wang, Haiying Wang, and Lore Kiefert

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306 Gowerite, Ca[B5O8(OH)][B(OH)3]·3H2O: Revisiting the crystal structure and exploring its formation context
Atsushi Kyono and Kosuke Yamaguchi

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312 Zhonghongite, Cu29(As,Sb)12S33, a new mineral from the high-sulfidation vein of Jiama porphyry system, Tibet, China
Shi-Ji Zheng, Xiang-Ping Gu, Zhong-Jie Bai, and Zhong-Kun Zhang

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319 Uramphite, (NH4)(UO2)(PO4)·3H2O, from the second world occurrence, Beshtau uranium deposit, Northern Caucasus, Russia: Crystal-structure refinement, infrared spectroscopy, and relation to uramarsite
Vladislav V. Gurzhiy, Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Nikita V. Chukanov, and Jakub Plášil

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328 A simple method to create mineral mounts in thin section for teaching optical mineralogy
Matthew J. Kohn

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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

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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
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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
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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
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82    A Rayleigh model of cesium fractionation in granite-pegmatite systems
David London
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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Regular Article

181

Gender in mineral names
Christopher Emproto, Gabriela A. Farfan, Tyler L. Spano, Marko Bermanec, Mike S. Rumsey, Barbara L. Dutrow, Raquel Alonso-Perez, Jessica Riaño, and Adam C. Simon

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189

Role of impurities in the semiconducting properties of natural pyrite: Implications for the electrochemical accumulation of visible gold and formation of hydrothermal gold deposits
Baisong Du, Jun Deng, M. Santosh, Zuoman Wang, Yuke Shen, Shufei Liu, Hanwen Yang, and Kexin Xu

Abstract     Members Full Text Download      

217

Unraveling clay-mineral genesis and climate change on Earth and Mars using machine learning-based VNIR spectral modeling
Lulu Zhao, Anbei Deng, Hanlie Hong, Jiannan Zhao, Thomas J. Algeo, Fuxing Liu, Nanmujia Luozhui, and Qian Fang

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232

Characteristics of the distribution of minerals among the space groups
Carl N. Drummond and Princess N. Sarpong

Abstract     Members Full Text Download      

241

Al3+ and H+ substitutions in TiO2 polymorphs: Structural and vibrational investigations
Sha Wang, Qingbo Wang, Yu Ye, Dan Liu, Xi Zhu, Yancheng Hu, Yunfan Miao, Zhen Wu, and Yanming Pan

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

255

Oriented triphylite rods in apatite from an LCT pegmatite in the Stankuvatske Li-ore deposit, Ukraine: Implications for Li mobility
Sergii Kurylo, Igor Broska, and Gieré Reto

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

272

Quartz textures, trace elements, fluid inclusions, and in situ oxygen isotopes from Aktogai porphyry Cu deposit, Kazakhstan
Changhao Li, Ping Shen, Reimar Seltmann, Di Zhang, Hongdi Pan, and Eleonora Seitmuratova

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

293

Cu nanoparticle geometry as the key to bicolor behavior in Oregon sunstones: An application of LSPR theory in nanomineralogy
Chengsi Wang, Andy H. Shen, Peter J. Heaney, Aaron Palke, Ke Wang, Haiying Wang, and Lore Kiefert

Abstract     Members Full Text Download      

306

Gowerite, Ca[B5O8(OH)][B(OH)3]·3H2O: Revisiting the crystal structure and exploring its formation context
Atsushi Kyono and Kosuke Yamaguchi

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

312

Zhonghongite, Cu29(As,Sb)12S33, a new mineral from the high-sulfidation vein of Jiama porphyry system, Tibet, China
Shi-Ji Zheng, Xiang-Ping Gu, Zhong-Jie Bai, and Zhong-Kun Zhang

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

319

Uramphite, (NH4)(UO2)(PO4)·3H2O, from the second world occurrence, Beshtau uranium deposit, Northern Caucasus, Russia: Crystal-structure refinement, infrared spectroscopy, and relation to uramarsite
Vladislav V. Gurzhiy, Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Nikita V. Chukanov, and Jakub Plášil

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328

A simple method to create mineral mounts in thin section for teaching optical mineralogy
Matthew J. Kohn

Open Access     Deposit Item

DEPOSIT ITEMS

181

Gender in mineral names
Christopher Emproto, Gabriela A. Farfan, Tyler L. Spano, Marko Bermanec, Mike S. Rumsey, Barbara L. Dutrow, Raquel Alonso-Perez, Jessica Riaño, and Adam C. Simon

Item#: AM-25-29327
Online Material
AM-25-29327.zip zipped

217

Unraveling clay-mineral genesis and climate change on Earth and Mars using machine learning-based VNIR spectral modeling
Lulu Zhao, Anbei Deng, Hanlie Hong, Jiannan Zhao, Thomas J. Algeo, Fuxing Liu, Nanmujia Luozhui, and Qian Fang

Item#: AM-25-29299
Online Material
AM-25-29299.zip zipped

241

Al3+ and H+ substitutions in TiO2 polymorphs: Structural and vibrational investigations
Sha Wang, Qingbo Wang, Yu Ye, Dan Liu, Xi Zhu, Yancheng Hu, Yunfan Miao, Zhen Wu, and Yanming Pan

Item#: AM-25-29316
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-29316.zip zipped

255

Oriented triphylite rods in apatite from an LCT pegmatite in the Stankuvatske Li-ore deposit, Ukraine: Implications for Li mobility
Sergii Kurylo, Igor Broska, and Gieré Reto

Item#: AM-25-29172
Online Material
AM-25-29172.zip zipped

272

Quartz textures, trace elements, fluid inclusions, and in situ oxygen isotopes from Aktogai porphyry Cu deposit, Kazakhstan
Changhao Li, Ping Shen, Reimar Seltmann, Di Zhang, Hongdi Pan, and Eleonora Seitmuratova

Item#: AM-25-28931
Online Material
AM-25-28931.zip zipped

306

Gowerite, Ca[B5O8(OH)][B(OH)3]·3H2O: Revisiting the crystal structure and exploring its formation context
Atsushi Kyono and Kosuke Yamaguchi

Item#: AM-25-29367
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-29367.zip zipped

312

Zhonghongite, Cu29(As,Sb)12S33, a new mineral from the high-sulfidation vein of Jiama porphyry system, Tibet, China
Shi-Ji Zheng, Xiang-Ping Gu, Zhong-Jie Bai, and Zhong-Kun Zhang

Item#: AM-25-29338
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-29338.zip zipped

319

Uramphite, (NH4)(UO2)(PO4)·3H2O, from the second world occurrence, Beshtau uranium deposit, Northern Caucasus, Russia: Crystal-structure refinement, infrared spectroscopy, and relation to uramarsite
Vladislav V. Gurzhiy, Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Nikita V. Chukanov, and Jakub Plášil

Item#: AM-25-29313
CIF
AM-25-29313.zip zipped

328

A simple method to create mineral mounts in thin section for teaching optical mineralogy
Matthew J. Kohn

Item#: AM-25-29285
Online Material
AM-25-29285.zip zipped
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