American Mineralogist

Volume 111, Issue no. 02 : February 2026

Letter

MSA Presidential Address

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

173 Controls on metal zonation in porphyry-skarn systems: Evidence from the Tonglushan Cu polymetallic deposit, Eastern China
Xiaolin Wu, Guiqing Xie, Jing Xu, and Wenyuan Liu

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190 Anomalously high REE diaspore formed in bauxite overlying paleokarstic surface
Lei Liu, Yong-Bo Peng, Xue-Fei Liu, Qing-Fei Wang, Xue-Fei Sun, Li-Hua Zhao, Shang-Qing Zhang, Wen-Xia Wang, Rong-Rong Liang, and Jun Deng

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209 Arsenohauchecornite, ognitite, parkerite, and related minerals from Ona Preta orebody, Caraj‡s, Brazil: Fingerprinting PGE signatures in hydrothermal Ni ores
Yuri Tatiana Campo Rodr’guez, Cristiana Liana Ciobanu, Nigel J. Cook, Ashley Slattery, Benjamin Wade, Sarah E. Gilbert, Maria Emilia Schutesky, and Kathy Ehrig

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231 Quartz-petalite intergrowths in the Yichun pegmatite: Formation from late-stage Li-rich melts and implications for Li mineralization in rare-metal granites
Mingqian Wu, Iain M. Samson, Anouk M. Borst, Xi Diao, Charles D. Beard, Xu Zheng, Mei Fan, Zhaoliang Hou, and Kunfeng Qiu

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246 Investigating formation and enrichment processes of the super-large North Sanshandao gold deposit (Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China): An in-depth mineralogical perspective
Jian Li, Zhi-ming Yang, Ming-chun Song, Lei-lei Dong, Wen-yan Cai, Ming Lei, and Qingyi Cui

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266 Seismic signature of the upper continental crust: Implications from the thermoelastic properties of liebermannite and K-hollandite II
Dong Wang, Longyu Duan, Xin Deng, Wenzhong Wang, and Zhongqing Wu

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277 Scandio-fluoro-eckermannite, NaNa2(Mg4Sc)(Si8O22)F2, a new Sc-dominant amphibole-supergroup mineral from the Bayan Obo deposit, China
Shuang-Liang Liu, Hong-Rui Fan, Xiang-Ping Gu, Hai-Dong She, Kui-Feng Yang, Xiao-Chun Li, Qi-Wei Wang, Zhan-Feng Yang, Yong-Gang Zhao, Fenggang Wang, and Xuan Liu

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289 New minerals auropolybasite [Ag15AuSb2S11] and auropearceite [Ag15AuAs2S11]: Implications for the formation of bonanza ores in epithermal systems
Tomáš Mikuš, Juraj Majzlan, Jozef Vlasáč, Jakub Plášil, Jiří Sejkora, Martin Števko, Václav Petřiček, and Emil Makovicky

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303 Incongruent melting of garnet during garnet-spinel transition and its implication for lithospheric exhumation
Dongya Zou, Anping Chen, Hongdan Deng, Xiaoyan Gu, Hongfu Zhang, Huiting Zhang, and Yantao Hao

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315 The optics of a possible new interference figure in mineralogy
Isaac G. de Oliveira, Laryssa S. Carneiro, Lee A. Groat, Lucilene dos Dos Santos, Carlos W. de A. Paschoal, and Tereza F. de O. Neri

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324 Fe2+/Fe3+ intervalence charge transfer and enhanced d-d absorption in mixed-valence iron minerals at elevated temperatures
Helen V. Evans and George R. Rossman

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335 The first meteoritic ammonium mineral: Discovery of boussingaultite in the Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous chondrite
Sergey N. Britvin, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Maria G. Krzhizhanovskaya, Marina A. Ivanova, and Irina A. Volkova

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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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Online Material
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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
Item #AM-22-17818
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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
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
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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
CIF and Online Material
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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
CIF and Online Material
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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
Online Material
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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

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

REGULAR ARTICLE

173

Controls on metal zonation in porphyry-skarn systems: Evidence from the Tonglushan Cu polymetallic deposit, Eastern China
Xiaolin Wu, Guiqing Xie, Jing Xu, and Wenyuan Liu

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

190

Anomalously high REE diaspore formed in bauxite overlying paleokarstic surface
Lei Liu, Yong-Bo Peng, Xue-Fei Liu, Qing-Fei Wang, Xue-Fei Sun, Li-Hua Zhao, Shang-Qing Zhang, Wen-Xia Wang, Rong-Rong Liang, and Jun Deng

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

209

Arsenohauchecornite, ognitite, parkerite, and related minerals from Ona Preta orebody, Caraj‡s, Brazil: Fingerprinting PGE signatures in hydrothermal Ni ores
Yuri Tatiana Campo Rodr’guez, Cristiana Liana Ciobanu, Nigel J. Cook, Ashley Slattery, Benjamin Wade, Sarah E. Gilbert, Maria Emilia Schutesky, and Kathy Ehrig

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

231

Quartz-petalite intergrowths in the Yichun pegmatite: Formation from late-stage Li-rich melts and implications for Li mineralization in rare-metal granites
Mingqian Wu, Iain M. Samson, Anouk M. Borst, Xi Diao, Charles D. Beard, Xu Zheng, Mei Fan, Zhaoliang Hou, and Kunfeng Qiu

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

246

Investigating formation and enrichment processes of the super-large North Sanshandao gold deposit (Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China): An in-depth mineralogical perspective
Jian Li, Zhi-ming Yang, Ming-chun Song, Lei-lei Dong, Wen-yan Cai, Ming Lei, and Qingyi Cui

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

266

Seismic signature of the upper continental crust: Implications from the thermoelastic properties of liebermannite and K-hollandite II
Dong Wang, Longyu Duan, Xin Deng, Wenzhong Wang, and Zhongqing Wu

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

277

Scandio-fluoro-eckermannite, NaNa2(Mg4Sc)(Si8O22)F2, a new Sc-dominant amphibole-supergroup mineral from the Bayan Obo deposit, China
Shuang-Liang Liu, Hong-Rui Fan, Xiang-Ping Gu, Hai-Dong She, Kui-Feng Yang, Xiao-Chun Li, Qi-Wei Wang, Zhan-Feng Yang, Yong-Gang Zhao, Fenggang Wang, and Xuan Liu

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

289

New minerals auropolybasite [Ag15AuSb2S11] and auropearceite [Ag15AuAs2S11]: Implications for the formation of bonanza ores in epithermal systems
Tomáš Mikuš, Juraj Majzlan, Jozef Vlasáč, Jakub Plášil, Jiří Sejkora, Martin Števko, Václav Petřiček, and Emil Makovicky

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

303

Incongruent melting of garnet during garnet-spinel transition and its implication for lithospheric exhumation
Dongya Zou, Anping Chen, Hongdan Deng, Xiaoyan Gu, Hongfu Zhang, Huiting Zhang, and Yantao Hao

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

315

The optics of a possible new interference figure in mineralogy
Isaac G. de Oliveira, Laryssa S. Carneiro, Lee A. Groat, Lucilene dos Dos Santos, Carlos W. de A. Paschoal, and Tereza F. de O. Neri

Abstract     Members Full Text Download      

324

Fe2+/Fe3+ intervalence charge transfer and enhanced d-d absorption in mixed-valence iron minerals at elevated temperatures
Helen V. Evans and George R. Rossman

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

335

The first meteoritic ammonium mineral: Discovery of boussingaultite in the Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous chondrite
Sergey N. Britvin, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Maria G. Krzhizhanovskaya, Marina A. Ivanova, and Irina A. Volkova

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

173

Controls on metal zonation in porphyry-skarn systems: Evidence from the Tonglushan Cu polymetallic deposit, Eastern China
Xiaolin Wu, Guiqing Xie, Jing Xu, and Wenyuan Liu

Item#: AM-26-29726
Online Material
AM-26-29726.zip zipped

190

Anomalously high REE diaspore formed in bauxite overlying paleokarstic surface
Lei Liu, Yong-Bo Peng, Xue-Fei Liu, Qing-Fei Wang, Xue-Fei Sun, Li-Hua Zhao, Shang-Qing Zhang, Wen-Xia Wang, Rong-Rong Liang, and Jun Deng

Item#: AM-26-29748
Online Material
AM-26-29748.zip zipped

209

Arsenohauchecornite, ognitite, parkerite, and related minerals from Ona Preta orebody, Caraj‡s, Brazil: Fingerprinting PGE signatures in hydrothermal Ni ores
Yuri Tatiana Campo Rodr’guez, Cristiana Liana Ciobanu, Nigel J. Cook, Ashley Slattery, Benjamin Wade, Sarah E. Gilbert, Maria Emilia Schutesky, and Kathy Ehrig

Item#: AM-26-29647
Online Material
AM-26-29647.zip zipped

231

Quartz-petalite intergrowths in the Yichun pegmatite: Formation from late-stage Li-rich melts and implications for Li mineralization in rare-metal granites
Mingqian Wu, Iain M. Samson, Anouk M. Borst, Xi Diao, Charles D. Beard, Xu Zheng, Mei Fan, Zhaoliang Hou, and Kunfeng Qiu

Item#: AM-26-29818
Online Material
AM-26-29818.zip zipped

246

Investigating formation and enrichment processes of the super-large North Sanshandao gold deposit (Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China): An in-depth mineralogical perspective
Jian Li, Zhi-ming Yang, Ming-chun Song, Lei-lei Dong, Wen-yan Cai, Ming Lei, and Qingyi Cui

Item#: AM-26-29701
Online Material
AM-26-29701.zip zipped

266

Seismic signature of the upper continental crust: Implications from the thermoelastic properties of liebermannite and K-hollandite II
Dong Wang, Longyu Duan, Xin Deng, Wenzhong Wang, and Zhongqing Wu

Item#: AM-26-29562
Online Material
AM-26-29562.zip zipped

277

Scandio-fluoro-eckermannite, NaNa2(Mg4Sc)(Si8O22)F2, a new Sc-dominant amphibole-supergroup mineral from the Bayan Obo deposit, China
Shuang-Liang Liu, Hong-Rui Fan, Xiang-Ping Gu, Hai-Dong She, Kui-Feng Yang, Xiao-Chun Li, Qi-Wei Wang, Zhan-Feng Yang, Yong-Gang Zhao, Fenggang Wang, and Xuan Liu

Item#: AM-26-29667
CIF and Online Material
AM-26-29667.zip zipped

289

New minerals auropolybasite [Ag15AuSb2S11] and auropearceite [Ag15AuAs2S11]: Implications for the formation of bonanza ores in epithermal systems
Tomáš Mikuš, Juraj Majzlan, Jozef Vlasáč, Jakub Plášil, Jiří Sejkora, Martin Števko, Václav Petřiček, and Emil Makovicky

Item#: AM-26-29806
CIF
AM-26-29806.zip zipped

303

Incongruent melting of garnet during garnet-spinel transition and its implication for lithospheric exhumation
Dongya Zou, Anping Chen, Hongdan Deng, Xiaoyan Gu, Hongfu Zhang, Huiting Zhang, and Yantao Hao

Item#: AM-26-29809
Online Material
AM-26-29809.zip zipped

324

Fe2+/Fe3+ intervalence charge transfer and enhanced d-d absorption in mixed-valence iron minerals at elevated temperatures
Helen V. Evans and George R. Rossman

Item#: AM-26-29724
Online Material
AM-26-29724.zip zipped

335

The first meteoritic ammonium mineral: Discovery of boussingaultite in the Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous chondrite
Sergey N. Britvin, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Maria G. Krzhizhanovskaya, Marina A. Ivanova, and Irina A. Volkova

Item#: AM-26-29851
CIF and Online Material
AM-26-29851.zip zipped
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