American Mineralogist

Volume 111, Issue no. 03 : March 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

376 Microstructural and chemical responses of lunar pyroxene to shock shearing under low-to-moderate shock conditions
Jiawei Zhao, Xiang Zhang, Yuqing Chang, Axel Wittmann, Zhiyong Xiao, Xiang Wu, Chang Xu, Yuqi Qian, Qi He, Siyuan Zhao, Kenan Cao, Haipeng Song, Cheng Qian, Wentao Hu, Biji Luo, Zhenbing She, Fabin Pan, and Long Xiao

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394 Genesis of jordanite-geocronite solid solution series in the Huize Pb-Zn deposit, SW China: Implications for fluid evolution in the late mineralization stage
Songning Meng, Yumiao Meng, Xiaowen Huang, Xiangping Gu, Zeming Shi, Ruizhong Hu, and Xianwu Bi

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410 How fluids control beryllium mineralization in a magmatichydrothermal system: Evidence from mica geochemistry and quartz-beryl O isotopes
Hao-Ran Wu, Hao Yang, Yu-Sheng Zhu, Wen-Chun Ge, Zheng Ji, Yan Jing, and Zhi-Chao Zhang

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431 Toward the continuous series of HgS-ZnS solid solutions: Zn-rich metacinnabar assemblages in the Vorontsovskoe gold deposit, Northern Urals, Russia
Fedor D. Sandalov, Mikhail A. Rassomakhin, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Sergey N. Britvin, Dmitry A. Artemyev, Sergey Yu. Stepanov, and Elena V. Belogub

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446 Molecular-level insights into mechanisms of Li enrichment and occurrence in natural clay-bauxite
Song Yan, Wei Li, Yuanfeng Cai, Yuli Yuan, Qisong Zou, Jinsong Wang, Xiaoke Zhang, Zhou Fang, He Zhang, Tao Sun, Weiwei Li, and Jinhai Yu

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461 Conversion of titanite to rutile during the albitization of granitoids from the Sakar Batholith, SE Bulgaria: Experimental studies
Anna Gumsley, Daniel Harlov, Rafał Juroszek, Beata Marciniak-Maliszewska, Petras Jokubauskas, and Ianko Gerdjikov

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476 Kimberlite emplacement conditions through experimentally produced reaction rims on ilmenite macrocrysts
Lydia Fairhurst, Yana Fedortchouk, and Michael Powell

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491 Raman spectroscopic investigation of ianthinite [U24+(UO2)4O6(OH)4(H2O)4]·5H2O, a rare mixed-valence uranium oxide hydrate
Tyler L. Spano, Travis A. Olds, Addison Malone, Brodie S. Barth, Nicholas M. Kaitschuck, Jennifer N. Neu, Daniel E. Felton, and Andrew Miskowiec

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500 A Zr-Hf geothermometer for magmatic zircon: New experiments and formulation
Leonid Aranovich and Alexander Borisov

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509 (Li,Na)-P substitution in garnet: An indicator of ultrahighpressure conditions in subducted continental crust
Martin Racek, Petr Jeřábek, Pavla Štípská, Prokop Závada, Martin Svojtka, Ondrej Lexa, Pavlína Hasalová, and František Veselovský

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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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Mineral Informatics: Revolutionizing Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry

345

Uncovering the mineral assemblages of six major gold deposit types: A machine learning approach to big data analytics of a global mineralogical database
Bin Wang, Renguang Zuo, and Oliver P. Kreuzer

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Spectroscopy in geology: a decade of breakthroughs

360

Infrared spectroscopy of natural Type Ib diamond: Insights into the formation of Y-centers and the early aggregation of nitrogen
Maxwell C. Day, Michael C. Jollands, Francesca Innocenzi, Davide Novella, Fabrizio Nestola, and Martha G. Pamato

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REGULAR ARTICLE

376

Microstructural and chemical responses of lunar pyroxene to shock shearing under low-to-moderate shock conditions
Jiawei Zhao, Xiang Zhang, Yuqing Chang, Axel Wittmann, Zhiyong Xiao, Xiang Wu, Chang Xu, Yuqi Qian, Qi He, Siyuan Zhao, Kenan Cao, Haipeng Song, Cheng Qian, Wentao Hu, Biji Luo, Zhenbing She, Fabin Pan, and Long Xiao

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394

Genesis of jordanite-geocronite solid solution series in the Huize Pb-Zn deposit, SW China: Implications for fluid evolution in the late mineralization stage
Songning Meng, Yumiao Meng, Xiaowen Huang, Xiangping Gu, Zeming Shi, Ruizhong Hu, and Xianwu Bi

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410

How fluids control beryllium mineralization in a magmatichydrothermal system: Evidence from mica geochemistry and quartz-beryl O isotopes
Hao-Ran Wu, Hao Yang, Yu-Sheng Zhu, Wen-Chun Ge, Zheng Ji, Yan Jing, and Zhi-Chao Zhang

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431

Toward the continuous series of HgS-ZnS solid solutions: Zn-rich metacinnabar assemblages in the Vorontsovskoe gold deposit, Northern Urals, Russia
Fedor D. Sandalov, Mikhail A. Rassomakhin, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Sergey N. Britvin, Dmitry A. Artemyev, Sergey Yu. Stepanov, and Elena V. Belogub

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446

Molecular-level insights into mechanisms of Li enrichment and occurrence in natural clay-bauxite
Song Yan, Wei Li, Yuanfeng Cai, Yuli Yuan, Qisong Zou, Jinsong Wang, Xiaoke Zhang, Zhou Fang, He Zhang, Tao Sun, Weiwei Li, and Jinhai Yu

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461

Conversion of titanite to rutile during the albitization of granitoids from the Sakar Batholith, SE Bulgaria: Experimental studies
Anna Gumsley, Daniel Harlov, Rafał Juroszek, Beata Marciniak-Maliszewska, Petras Jokubauskas, and Ianko Gerdjikov

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476

Kimberlite emplacement conditions through experimentally produced reaction rims on ilmenite macrocrysts
Lydia Fairhurst, Yana Fedortchouk, and Michael Powell

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491

Raman spectroscopic investigation of ianthinite [U24+(UO2)4O6(OH)4(H2O)4]·5H2O, a rare mixed-valence uranium oxide hydrate
Tyler L. Spano, Travis A. Olds, Addison Malone, Brodie S. Barth, Nicholas M. Kaitschuck, Jennifer N. Neu, Daniel E. Felton, and Andrew Miskowiec

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500

A Zr-Hf geothermometer for magmatic zircon: New experiments and formulation
Leonid Aranovich and Alexander Borisov

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509

(Li,Na)-P substitution in garnet: An indicator of ultrahighpressure conditions in subducted continental crust
Martin Racek, Petr Jeřábek, Pavla Štípská, Prokop Závada, Martin Svojtka, Ondrej Lexa, Pavlína Hasalová, and František Veselovský

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345

Uncovering the mineral assemblages of six major gold deposit types: A machine learning approach to big data analytics of a global mineralogical database
Bin Wang, Renguang Zuo, and Oliver P. Kreuzer

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360

Infrared spectroscopy of natural Type Ib diamond: Insights into the formation of Y-centers and the early aggregation of nitrogen
Maxwell C. Day, Michael C. Jollands, Francesca Innocenzi, Davide Novella, Fabrizio Nestola, and Martha G. Pamato

Item#: AM-26-39722
AM-26-39722.zip zipped

376

Microstructural and chemical responses of lunar pyroxene to shock shearing under low-to-moderate shock conditions
Jiawei Zhao, Xiang Zhang, Yuqing Chang, Axel Wittmann, Zhiyong Xiao, Xiang Wu, Chang Xu, Yuqi Qian, Qi He, Siyuan Zhao, Kenan Cao, Haipeng Song, Cheng Qian, Wentao Hu, Biji Luo, Zhenbing She, Fabin Pan, and Long Xiao

Item#: AM-26-39877
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394

Genesis of jordanite-geocronite solid solution series in the Huize Pb-Zn deposit, SW China: Implications for fluid evolution in the late mineralization stage
Songning Meng, Yumiao Meng, Xiaowen Huang, Xiangping Gu, Zeming Shi, Ruizhong Hu, and Xianwu Bi

Item#: AM-26-39708
AM-26-39708.zip zipped

410

How fluids control beryllium mineralization in a magmatichydrothermal system: Evidence from mica geochemistry and quartz-beryl O isotopes
Hao-Ran Wu, Hao Yang, Yu-Sheng Zhu, Wen-Chun Ge, Zheng Ji, Yan Jing, and Zhi-Chao Zhang

Item#: AM-26-39678
AM-26-39678.zip zipped

431

Toward the continuous series of HgS-ZnS solid solutions: Zn-rich metacinnabar assemblages in the Vorontsovskoe gold deposit, Northern Urals, Russia
Fedor D. Sandalov, Mikhail A. Rassomakhin, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Sergey N. Britvin, Dmitry A. Artemyev, Sergey Yu. Stepanov, and Elena V. Belogub

Item#: AM-26-39783
AM-26-39783.zip zipped

446

Molecular-level insights into mechanisms of Li enrichment and occurrence in natural clay-bauxite
Song Yan, Wei Li, Yuanfeng Cai, Yuli Yuan, Qisong Zou, Jinsong Wang, Xiaoke Zhang, Zhou Fang, He Zhang, Tao Sun, Weiwei Li, and Jinhai Yu

Item#: AM-26-39683
AM-26-39683.zip zipped

461

Conversion of titanite to rutile during the albitization of granitoids from the Sakar Batholith, SE Bulgaria: Experimental studies
Anna Gumsley, Daniel Harlov, Rafał Juroszek, Beata Marciniak-Maliszewska, Petras Jokubauskas, and Ianko Gerdjikov

Item#: AM-26-39731
AM-26-39731.zip zipped

476

Kimberlite emplacement conditions through experimentally produced reaction rims on ilmenite macrocrysts
Lydia Fairhurst, Yana Fedortchouk, and Michael Powell

Item#: AM-26-39608
AM-26-39608.zip zipped

491

Raman spectroscopic investigation of ianthinite [U24+(UO2)4O6(OH)4(H2O)4]·5H2O, a rare mixed-valence uranium oxide hydrate
Tyler L. Spano, Travis A. Olds, Addison Malone, Brodie S. Barth, Nicholas M. Kaitschuck, Jennifer N. Neu, Daniel E. Felton, and Andrew Miskowiec

Item#: AM-26-39759
AM-26-39759.zip zipped

509

(Li,Na)-P substitution in garnet: An indicator of ultrahighpressure conditions in subducted continental crust
Martin Racek, Petr Jeřábek, Pavla Štípská, Prokop Závada, Martin Svojtka, Ondrej Lexa, Pavlína Hasalová, and František Veselovský

Item#: AM-26-39836
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