American Mineralogist

Volume 110, Issue no. 03 : March 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

364 Groundmass pyroxene crystal habits (trachts) record syneruptive magma dynamics in glassy pyroclasts
Shota H. Okumura, Satoshi Okumura, and Akira Miyake

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378 Transcrustal magmatic system in lamprophyre dike constructed by multiple magma reservoirs
Xiangsong Wang, Yannan Wang, Min Sun, Guochun Zhao, Keda Cai, Xijun Liu, Zhenglin Li, Yunying Zhang, and Fenn Leppard

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394 Magma oxygen fugacity and volatile components control the Miocene high-Sr/Y granitoids forming either Cu or W mineralization in the Gangdese metallogenic region, Xizang, China
Li-Qiang Wang, Teng Gao, Bao-Liang Li, and Yong Wang

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408 Structural variations along the apatite F-OH join: II. The role of hydrogen bonding in fluoridated teeth
John M. Hughes, Daniel Harlov, John Rakovan, Jamshid Ahmadi, and Melanie J. Sieber

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414 Phase transformation of ferric-iron-rich silicate in Earth's mid-mantle
Mingda Lv, Shengcai Zhu, Jiachao Liu, Yi Hu, Feng Zhu, Xiaojing Lai, Dongzhou Zhang, Bin Chen, Przemyslaw Dera, Jie Li, and Susannah M. Dorfman

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422 Insights into the structure of disordered layered lead oxychlorides: Twinning and short-range order in janchevite, Pb9VO10.250.75Cl2.5
Giovanni O. Lepore, Luca Bindi, Francesco d’Acapito, Anna-Irene Landi, and Paola Bonazzi

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430 Coexisting hematite induces and accelerates the transformation of ferrihydrite: Pathway and underlying mechanisms
Hongyan Wei, Jing Liu, Qingze Chen, Yixuan Yang, Haiyang Xian, Xiaoliang Liang, Yiping Yang, Jianxi Zhu, and Runliang Zhu

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446 Interfacial structure and acidity of the orthoclase (001) surface: Understanding the effect of the surface metal cation
Xi Zhang, Xiandong Liu, Yingchun Zhang, and Xiancai Lu

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452 Mineralogical fingerprints of crustal silica contamination in the Bayan Obo carbonatite
Yulun Xiao, Wubin Yang, Xiaoyong Yang, Yonghua Cao, Pengfei Tian, and Zhuang Zhao

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467 The effect of the ANa-AK ratio on chlorine incorporation into hastingsitic amphiboles
Jared P. Matteucci, David M. Jenkins, and M. Darby Dyar

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480 Paulišite, Ca2Zn(CO3)3·2H2O, a new mineral with a novel crystal structure
Jiří Sejkora, Cristian Biagioni, Zdeněk Dolníček, Radek Škoda, and Jana Ederov

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489 Rubinite, Ca3Ti23+Si3O12, a new mineral in CV3 carbonaceous chondrites and a refractory garnet from the solar nebula
Chi Ma, Takashi Yoshizaki, Alexander N. Krot, John R. Beckett, Tomoki Nakamura, Kazuhide Nagashima, Jun Muto, Marina A. Ivanova, and Alexander A. Ulyanov

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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
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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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Critical Minerals for a Sustainable Future

337

Geochemistry and mineralogy of the shale-hosted vanadium Van Property deposit, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada
Stefanie M. Brueckner, Turner Green, Merilie A. Reynolds, Daniel Gregory, and Ricardo Silva

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364

Groundmass pyroxene crystal habits (trachts) record syneruptive magma dynamics in glassy pyroclasts
Shota H. Okumura, Satoshi Okumura, and Akira Miyake

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378

Transcrustal magmatic system in lamprophyre dike constructed by multiple magma reservoirs
Xiangsong Wang, Yannan Wang, Min Sun, Guochun Zhao, Keda Cai, Xijun Liu, Zhenglin Li, Yunying Zhang, and Fenn Leppard

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394

Magma oxygen fugacity and volatile components control the Miocene high-Sr/Y granitoids forming either Cu or W mineralization in the Gangdese metallogenic region, Xizang, China
Li-Qiang Wang, Teng Gao, Bao-Liang Li, and Yong Wang

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408

Structural variations along the apatite F-OH join: II. The role of hydrogen bonding in fluoridated teeth
John M. Hughes, Daniel Harlov, John Rakovan, Jamshid Ahmadi, and Melanie J. Sieber

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414

Phase transformation of ferric-iron-rich silicate in Earth’s mid-mantle
Mingda Lv, Shengcai Zhu, Jiachao Liu, Yi Hu, Feng Zhu, Xiaojing Lai, Dongzhou Zhang, Bin Chen, Przemyslaw Dera, Jie Li, and Susannah M. Dorfman

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422

Insights into the structure of disordered layered lead oxychlorides: Twinning and short-range order in janchevite, Pb9VO10.250.75Cl2.5

Giovanni O. Lepore, Luca Bindi, Francesco d’Acapito, Anna-Irene Landi, and Paola Bonazzi

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430

Coexisting hematite induces and accelerates the transformation of ferrihydrite: Pathway and underlying mechanisms
Hongyan Wei, Jing Liu, Qingze Chen, Yixuan Yang, Haiyang Xian, Xiaoliang Liang, Yiping Yang, Jianxi Zhu, and Runliang Zhu

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446

Interfacial structure and acidity of the orthoclase (001) surface: Understanding the effect of the surface metal cation
Xi Zhang, Xiandong Liu, Yingchun Zhang, and Xiancai Lu

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452

Mineralogical fingerprints of crustal silica contamination in the Bayan Obo carbonatite
Yulun Xiao, Wubin Yang, Xiaoyong Yang, Yonghua Cao, Pengfei Tian, and Zhuang Zhao

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467

The effect of the ANa-AK ratio on chlorine incorporation into hastingsitic amphiboles
Jared P. Matteucci, David M. Jenkins, and M. Darby Dyar

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480

Paulišite, Ca2Zn(CO3)3·2H2O, a new mineral with a novel crystal structure
Jiří Sejkora, Cristian Biagioni, Zdeněk Dolníček, Radek Škoda, and Jana Ederov

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489

Rubinite, Ca3Ti23+Si3O12, a new mineral in CV3 carbonaceous chondrites and a refractory garnet from the solar nebula
Chi Ma, Takashi Yoshizaki, Alexander N. Krot, John R. Beckett, Tomoki Nakamura, Kazuhide Nagashima, Jun Muto, Marina A. Ivanova, and Alexander A. Ulyanov

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337

Geochemistry and mineralogy of the shale-hosted vanadium Van Property deposit, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada
Stefanie M. Brueckner, Turner Green, Merilie A. Reynolds, Daniel Gregory, and Ricardo Silva

Item#: AM-25-39359
Online Material
AM-25-39359.zip zipped

378

Transcrustal magmatic system in lamprophyre dike constructed by multiple magma reservoirs
Xiangsong Wang, Yannan Wang, Min Sun, Guochun Zhao, Keda Cai, Xijun Liu, Zhenglin Li, Yunying Zhang, and Fenn Leppard

Item#: AM-25-39271
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394

Magma oxygen fugacity and volatile components control the Miocene high-Sr/Y granitoids forming either Cu or W mineralization in the Gangdese metallogenic region, Xizang, China
Li-Qiang Wang, Teng Gao, Bao-Liang Li, and Yong Wang

Item#: AM-25-39023
Online Material
AM-25-39023.zip zipped

408

Structural variations along the apatite F-OH join: II. The role of hydrogen bonding in fluoridated teeth
John M. Hughes, Daniel Harlov, John Rakovan, Jamshid Ahmadi, and Melanie J. Sieber

Item#: AM-25-39393
CIF
AM-25-39393.zip zipped

414

Phase transformation of ferric-iron-rich silicate in Earth’s mid-mantle
Mingda Lv, Shengcai Zhu, Jiachao Liu, Yi Hu, Feng Zhu, Xiaojing Lai, Dongzhou Zhang, Bin Chen, Przemyslaw Dera, Jie Li, and Susannah M. Dorfman

Item#: AM-25-39410
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AM-25-39410.zip zipped

422

Insights into the structure of disordered layered lead oxychlorides: Twinning and short-range order in janchevite, Pb9VO10.250.75Cl2.5

Giovanni O. Lepore, Luca Bindi, Francesco d’Acapito, Anna-Irene Landi, and Paola Bonazzi

Item#: AM-25-39414
CIF
AM-25-39414.zip zipped

430

Coexisting hematite induces and accelerates the transformation of ferrihydrite: Pathway and underlying mechanisms
Hongyan Wei, Jing Liu, Qingze Chen, Yixuan Yang, Haiyang Xian, Xiaoliang Liang, Yiping Yang, Jianxi Zhu, and Runliang Zhu

Item#: AM-25-39281
Online Material
AM-25-39281.zip zipped

446

Interfacial structure and acidity of the orthoclase (001) surface: Understanding the effect of the surface metal cation
Xi Zhang, Xiandong Liu, Yingchun Zhang, and Xiancai Lu

Item#: AM-25-39207
Online Material
AM-25-39207.zip zipped

452

Mineralogical fingerprints of crustal silica contamination in the Bayan Obo carbonatite
Yulun Xiao, Wubin Yang, Xiaoyong Yang, Yonghua Cao, Pengfei Tian, and Zhuang Zhao

Item#: AM-25-39297
Online Material
AM-25-39297.zip zipped

467

The effect of the ANa-AK ratio on chlorine incorporation into hastingsitic amphiboles
Jared P. Matteucci, David M. Jenkins, and M. Darby Dyar

Item#: AM-25-39083
Online Material
AM-25-39083.zip zipped

480

Paulišite, Ca2Zn(CO3)3·2H2O, a new mineral with a novel crystal structure
Jiří Sejkora, Cristian Biagioni, Zdeněk Dolníček, Radek Škoda, and Jana Ederov

Item#: AM-25-39418
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