American Mineralogist
HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
529
A fresh look at crystals in the Bishop Tuff
Michel Pichavant
ACTINIDES IN GEOLOGY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
530
Remobilization of U and REE and the formation of secondary minerals in oxidized U deposits
Susanne Göb, Jan-Erik Gühring, Michael Bau, and Gregor Markl
549
Revision of the symmetry and the crystal structure of Äejkaite, Na4(UO2)(CO3)3
Jakub Plášil, Karla Fejfarová, Michal DuÅ¡ek, Radek Å koda, and Jan RohlÃÄek
REGULAR ARTICLE
554
Characterization of ferric arsenate-sulfate compounds: Implications for arsenic control in refractory gold processing residues
Dogan Paktunc, Juraj Majzlan, Lukáš Palatinus, John Dutrizac, Mariana Klementová, and Glenn Poirier
566
Crystal structure and chemistry of skarn-associated bismuthian vesuvianite
Ulf HÃ¥lenius, Ferdinando Bosi, and Kjell Gatedal
574
Transformation of graphite to lonsdaleite and diamond in the Goalpara ureilite directly observed by TEM
Yoshihiro Nakamuta and Shoichi Toh
582
Quartz nanocrystals in the 2.48 Ga Dales Gorge banded iron formation of Hamersley, Western Australia: Evidence for a change from submarine to subaerial volcanism at the end of the Archean
Yi-Liang Li, David R. Cole, Kurt Konhauser, and Lung Sang Chan
588
Synthesis and characterization of amphiboles along the tremolite–glaucophane join
David M. Jenkins, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Roberta Oberti, and Krassimir Bozhilov
601
Elasticity of franklinite and trends for transition-metal oxide spinels
Hans J. Reichmann, Steven D. Jacobsen, and Tiziana Boffa Ballaran
609
Noise of collapsing minerals: Predictability of the compressional failure in goethite mines
Ekhard K.H. Salje, Giulio I. Lampronti, Daniel E. Soto-Parra, Jordi Bar??, Antoni Planes, and Eduard Vives
616
Redox systematics of martian magmas with implications for magnetite stability
Kevin Righter, Lisa R. Danielson, Kellye Pando, Richard V. Morris, Trevor G. Graff, David G. Agresti, Audrey M. Martin, Stephen R. Sutton, Matt Newville, and Antonio Lanzirotti
629
Hydrogen incorporation and the oxidation state of iron in ringwoodite: A spectroscopic study
Maria Mrosko, Stephan Lenz, Catherine A. McCammon, Michail Taran, Richard Wirth, and Monika Koch-Müller
637
Hydrous ringwoodite to 5 K and 35 GPa: Multiple hydrogen bonding sites resolved with FTIR spectroscopy
Wendy R. Panero, Joseph R. Smyth, Jeffrey S. Pigott, Zhenxian Liu, and Daniel J. Frost
643
Calibration of zircon as a Raman spectroscopic pressure sensor to high temperatures and application to water-silicate melt systems
Christian Schmidt, Matthew Steele-MacInnis, Anke Watenphul, and Max Wilke
651
Computational study of the elastic behavior of the 2M1 muscovite-paragonite series
Noemà Hernández-Haro, JoaquÃn Ortega-Castro, Carlos Pérez Del Valle, Daniel Muñoz-Santiburcio, Claro Ignacio Sainz-DÃaz, and Alfonso Hernández-Laguna
665
Vanadium L2,3 XANES experiments and first-principles multielectron calculations: Impact of second-nearest neighboring cations on vanadium-bearing fresnoites
Thomas Höche, Hidekazu Ikeno, Marisa Mäder, Grant S. Henderson, Robert I.R. Blyth, Brian C. Sales, and Isao Tanaka
671
A time-resolved X-ray diffraction study of Cs exchange into hexagonal H-birnessite
Claire R. Fleeger, Peter J. Heaney, and Jeffrey E. Post
680
Grain-boundary diffusion rates inferred from grain-size variations of quartz in metacherts from a contact aureole
Takamoto Okudaira, Hikaru Bando, and Kenta Yoshida
689
On the use of unpolarized infrared spectroscopy for quantitative analysis of absorbing species in birefringent crystals
Anthony C. Withers
698
A computational model of cation ordering in the magnesioferrite-qandilite (MgFe2O4-Mg2TiO4) solid solution and its potential application to titanomagnetite (Fe3O4-Fe2TiO4)
Richard J. Harrison, Erika J. Palin, and Natasha Perks
709
3T-phlogopite from Kasenyi kamafugite (SW Uganda): EPMA, XPS, FTIR, and SCXRD study
Emanuela Schingaro, Maria Lacalamita, Fernando Scordari, and Ernesto Mesto
718
Revision of the crystal structure and chemical formula of haiweeite, Ca(UO2)2(Si5O12)(OH)2·6H2O
Jakub Plášil, Karla Fejfarová, Jiřà Čejka, Michal Dušek, Radek Škoda, and Jiřà Sejkora
724
Cation arrangement in the octahedral and tetrahedral sheets of cis-vacant polymorph of dioctahedral 2:1 phyllosilicates by quantum mechanical calculations
Elisabeth Escamilla-Roa, Alfonso Hernández-Laguna, and C. Ignacio Sainz-DÃaz
736
High-pressure phase transitions of Fe3–xTixO4 solid solution up to 60 GPa correlated with electronic spin transition
Takamitsu Yamanaka, Atsushi Kyono,Yuki Nakamoto, Yue Meng, Svetlana Kharlamova, Victor V. Struzhkin, and Ho-kwang Mao
745
Hydrogen incorporation in crystalline zircon: Insight from ab initio calculations
Sanda M. Botis, Yuanming Pan, and Rodney C. Ewing
752
The vibrational features of hydroxylapatite and type A carbonated apatite: A first principle contribution
Gianfranco Ulian, Giovanni Valdrè, Marta Corno, and Piero Ugliengo
760
STEM investigation of exsolution lamellae and “c†reflections in Ca-rich dolomite from the Platteville Formation, western Wisconsin
Zhizhang Shen, Hiromi Konishi, Philip E. Brown, and Huifang Xu
767
Karenwebberite, Na(Fe2+,Mn2+)PO4, a new member of the triphylite group from the Malpensata pegmatite, Lecco Province, Italy
Pietro Vignola, Frédéric Hatert, André-Mathieu Fransolet, Olaf Medenbach, Valeria Diella, and Sergio Andò
773
The crystal structure of ramdohrite, Pb5.9Fe0.1Mn0.1In0.1Cd0.2Ag2.8Sb10.8S24: A new refinement
Emil Makovicky, William G. Mumme, and Robert W. Gable
780
Static disorders of atoms and experimental determination of Debye temperature in pyrope: Low- and high-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction study—Discussion
Charles A. Geiger
783
Static disorders of atoms and experimental determination of Debye temperature in pyrope: Low- and high-temperature single-crystal X‑ray diffraction study—Reply
Akihiko Nakatsuka, Mami Shimokawa, Noriaki Nakayama, Osamu Ohtaka, Hiroshi Arima, Maki Okube, and Akira Yoshiasa
IMA REPORT
785
Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup
Edward S. Grew (Chair), Andrew J. Locock, Stuart J. Mills (Vice-Chair), Irina O. Galuskina, Evgeny V. Galuskin, and Ulf HŒlenius
NEW MINERAL NAMES
811
NEW MINERAL NAMES
Dmitriy Belakovskiy Dorian G.W. Smith and Mark Welch
ERRATUM
816
ERRATUM: The IR vibrational properties of six members of the garnet family: A quantum mechanical ab initio study by R. Dovesi, M. De La Pierre, A.M. Ferrari, F. Pascale, L. Maschio, C.M. Zicovich-Wilson (November-December, vol. 96, p. 1787–1798, 2011)
816
ERRATUM: Phosphovanadylite-Ca, Ca[V4+4P2O8(OH)8]·12H2O, the Ca analogue of phosphovanadylite-Ba by Anthony R. Kampf, Barbara P. Nash, and Thomas A. Loomis (February-March, vol. 98, p. 439–44)
DEPOSIT ITEMS
530
Remobilization of U and REE and the formation of secondary minerals in oxidized U deposits
Susanne Göb, Jan-Erik Gühring, Michael Bau, and Gregor Markl
549
Revision of the symmetry and the crystal structure of Äejkaite, Na4(UO2)(CO3)3
Jakub Plášil, Karla Fejfarová, Michal DuÅ¡ek, Radek Å koda, and Jan RohlÃÄek
554
Characterization of ferric arsenate-sulfate compounds: Implications for arsenic control in refractory gold processing residues
Dogan Paktunc, Juraj Majzlan, Lukáš Palatinus, John Dutrizac, Mariana Klementová, and Glenn Poirier
566
Crystal structure and chemistry of skarn-associated bismuthian vesuvianite
Ulf HÃ¥lenius, Ferdinando Bosi, and Kjell Gatedal
588
Synthesis and characterization of amphiboles along the tremolite–glaucophane join
David M. Jenkins, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Roberta Oberti, and Krassimir Bozhilov
643
Calibration of zircon as a Raman spectroscopic pressure sensor to high temperatures and application to water-silicate melt systems
Christian Schmidt, Matthew Steele-MacInnis, Anke Watenphul, and Max Wilke
651
Computational study of the elastic behavior of the 2M1 muscovite-paragonite series
Noemà Hernández-Haro, JoaquÃn Ortega-Castro, Carlos Pérez Del Valle, Daniel Muñoz-Santiburcio, Claro Ignacio Sainz-DÃaz, and Alfonso Hernández-Laguna
709
3T-phlogopite from Kasenyi kamafugite (SW Uganda): EPMA, XPS, FTIR, and SCXRD study
Emanuela Schingaro, Maria Lacalamita, Fernando Scordari, and Ernesto Mesto
718
Revision of the crystal structure and chemical formula of haiweeite, Ca(UO2)2(Si5O12)(OH)2·6H2O
Jakub Plášil, Karla Fejfarová, Jiřà Čejka, Michal Dušek, Radek Škoda, and Jiřà Sejkora
767
Karenwebberite, Na(Fe2+,Mn2+)PO4, a new member of the triphylite group from the Malpensata pegmatite, Lecco Province, Italy
Pietro Vignola, Frédéric Hatert, André-Mathieu Fransolet, Olaf Medenbach, Valeria Diella, and Sergio Andò
785
Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup
Edward S. Grew (Chair), Andrew J. Locock, Stuart J. Mills (Vice-Chair), Irina O. Galuskina, Evgeny V. Galuskin, and Ulf HŒlenius
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