American Mineralogist

Volume 110, Issue no. 05 : May 2025

Letter

820 The “breathing” Earth at Solfatara-Pisciarelli, Campi Flegrei, southern Italy (2005—2024): Nature's attenuation of the effects of bradyseism
Annamaria Lima, Robert J. Bodnar, Benedetto De Vivo, Frank J. Spera, and Harvey E. Belkin

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MSA Presidential Address

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

685 Single- and multi-mineral classification using dual-band Raman spectroscopy for planetary surface missions
Timothy K. Johnsen and Virginia C. Gulick

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REGULAR ARTICLES

699 Magnesite formation during nesquehonite decomposition in the presence and absence of retained self-generated gases and the role of X-ray amorphous materials as essential stores for CO2O
Bree Morgan, Sasha Wilson, Ian C. Madsen, Yesim M. Gozukara, Justin A. Kimpton, and Helen E. Maynard-Casely

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709 Formation of bonanza Au-Ag-telluride ores in epithermal systems: Constraints from Cu-O isotopes and modeling
Shen Gao, Albert H. Hofstra, Kezhang Qin, Xinyu Zou, and Hong Xu

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721 Reexamination of the structure of nanomineral opal-CT using synchrotron X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray scattering structure factor, and pair distribution function analyses
Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Hongwu Xu, and Wenqian Xu

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731 Titanium substitutions in garnet at magmatic, granulite facies, and high-pressure granulite facies conditions
Jay J. Ague, Duncan S. Keller, Michael R. Ackerson, and Megan Holycross

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748 Mechanistic understanding of the dehydroxylation reaction of smectites: Insights from reactive force field (ReaxFF) molecular dynamics simulation
Pengyuan Gao, Yingchun Zhang, Xiandong Liu, and Xiancai Lu

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757 Estimating the iron oxidation state of serpentinite using X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy
Kazuki Yoshida, Atsushi Okamoto, Ryosuke Oyanagi, Yasuhiro Niwa, and Masao Kimura

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767 Episodic magmatism contributes to sub-seafloor copper mineralization: Insights from textures and geochemistry of zoned pyrite in the Ashele VMS deposit
Bing Xiao, Huayong Chen, Yuzhou Feng, and Yuanming Pan

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776 Development of oxy-symplectites in a slow-spreading lower oceanic crust: Insights from the Atlantis Bank Gabbro Massif, Southwest Indian Ridge
Archisman Dhar, Biswajit Ghosh, Tomoaki Morishita, Soumi Chattopadhaya, Debaditya Bandyopadhyay, N.V. Chalapathi Rao, Lydéric France, Du K. Nguyen, Sankhadeep Roy, and Manojit Koley

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791 Heterogeneous distribution of Al-hematite regulated by hydrologic regime in a basaltic laterite of Hainan Island, South China: Implications for the aqueous history of Mars
Xiaorong Qin, Wei Tan, Hongping He, Jiacheng Liu, Qi Tao, Jianxi Zhu, Hongyan Wei, Lianying Luo, Keyan Chen, Tianqi Zhang, and Shichao Ji

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808 Allanite-(Sm), CaSm(Al2Fe2+)(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH), the third samarium mineral from Jordanów Śląski, Lower Silesia, Poland
Adam Pieczka, Bożena Gołębiowska, Adam Włodek, Marcin Stachowicz, Petras Jokubauskas, Jakub Kotowski, Krzysztof Nejbert, Adam Szuszkiewicz, and Krzysztof Woźniak

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Supplements

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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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Letters

820

The “breathing” Earth at Solfatara-Pisciarelli, Campi Flegrei, southern Italy (2005—2024): Nature’s attenuation of the effects of bradyseism
Annamaria Lima, Robert J. Bodnar, Benedetto De Vivo, Frank J. Spera, and Harvey E. Belkin

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Pegmatites

665

Atomic-scale visualization and quantification of lithium in lepidolite by AC-TEM-EELS: Implications for pegmatite genesis and advancing lithium extraction techniques
Mao-Wen Yuan, Xiao-Wei Li, Joshua J. Schwartz, Zhi-Dan Zhao, Zhao-Ge Hao, Jia-Wei Liu, Masroor Alam, Guo-Chen Dong, Wan-Ming Yuan, and Zi-Hao Wen

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674

The use of X-ray micro-computed tomography to visualize and quantify lithium-bearing silicate minerals in pegmatites: Examples from the Tanco Pegmatite, Manitoba, Canada
Catriona M. Breasley, Ivan R. Barker, Robert L. Linnen, Tânia Martins, and Lee A. Groat

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Regular Article

699

Magnesite formation during nesquehonite decomposition in the presence and absence of retained self-generated gases and the role of X-ray amorphous materials as essential stores for CO2O
Bree Morgan, Sasha Wilson, Ian C. Madsen, Yesim M. Gozukara, Justin A. Kimpton, and Helen E. Maynard-Casely

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709

Formation of bonanza Au-Ag-telluride ores in epithermal systems: Constraints from Cu-O isotopes and modeling
Shen Gao, Albert H. Hofstra, Kezhang Qin, Xinyu Zou, and Hong Xu

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721

Reexamination of the structure of nanomineral opal-CT using synchrotron X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray scattering structure factor, and pair distribution function analyses
Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Hongwu Xu, and Wenqian Xu

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731

Titanium substitutions in garnet at magmatic, granulite facies, and high-pressure granulite facies conditions
Jay J. Ague, Duncan S. Keller, Michael R. Ackerson, and Megan Holycross

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748

Mechanistic understanding of the dehydroxylation reaction of smectites: Insights from reactive force field (ReaxFF) molecular dynamics simulation
Pengyuan Gao, Yingchun Zhang, Xiandong Liu, and Xiancai Lu

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757

Estimating the iron oxidation state of serpentinite using X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy
Kazuki Yoshida, Atsushi Okamoto, Ryosuke Oyanagi, Yasuhiro Niwa, and Masao Kimura

Open Access     Deposit Item

767

Episodic magmatism contributes to sub-seafloor copper mineralization: Insights from textures and geochemistry of zoned pyrite in the Ashele VMS deposit
Bing Xiao, Huayong Chen, Yuzhou Feng, and Yuanming Pan

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776

Development of oxy-symplectites in a slow-spreading lower oceanic crust: Insights from the Atlantis Bank Gabbro Massif, Southwest Indian Ridge
Archisman Dhar, Biswajit Ghosh, Tomoaki Morishita, Soumi Chattopadhaya, Debaditya Bandyopadhyay, N.V. Chalapathi Rao, Lydéric France, Du K. Nguyen, Sankhadeep Roy, and Manojit Koley

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791

Heterogeneous distribution of Al-hematite regulated by hydrologic regime in a basaltic laterite of Hainan Island, South China: Implications for the aqueous history of Mars
Xiaorong Qin, Wei Tan, Hongping He, Jiacheng Liu, Qi Tao, Jianxi Zhu, Hongyan Wei, Lianying Luo, Keyan Chen, Tianqi Zhang, and Shichao Ji

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808

Allanite-(Sm), CaSm(Al2Fe2+)(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH), the third samarium mineral from Jordanów Śląski, Lower Silesia, Poland
Adam Pieczka, Bożena Gołębiowska, Adam Włodek, Marcin Stachowicz, Petras Jokubauskas, Jakub Kotowski, Krzysztof Nejbert,
Adam Szuszkiewicz, and Krzysztof Woźniak

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: EARTH ANALOGS FOR MARTIAN GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND PROCESSES

685

Single- and multi-mineral classification using dual-band Raman spectroscopy for planetary surface missions
Timothy K. Johnsen and Virginia C. Gulick

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

826

NEW MINERAL NAMES

Full Text     

DEPOSIT ITEMS

665

Atomic-scale visualization and quantification of lithium in lepidolite by AC-TEM-EELS: Implications for pegmatite genesis and advancing lithium extraction techniques
Mao-Wen Yuan, Xiao-Wei Li, Joshua J. Schwartz, Zhi-Dan Zhao, Zhao-Ge Hao, Jia-Wei Liu, Masroor Alam, Guo-Chen Dong, Wan-Ming Yuan, and Zi-Hao Wen

Item#: AM-25-59436
Online Material
AM-25-59436.zip zipped

674

The use of X-ray micro-computed tomography to visualize and quantify lithium-bearing silicate minerals in pegmatites: Examples from the Tanco Pegmatite, Manitoba, Canada
Catriona M. Breasley, Ivan R. Barker, Robert L. Linnen, Tânia Martins, and Lee A. Groat

Item#: AM-25-59439
Online Material
AM-25-59439.zip zipped

685

Single- and multi-mineral classification using dual-band Raman spectroscopy for planetary surface missions
Timothy K. Johnsen and Virginia C. Gulick

Item#: AM-25-59072
Online Material
AM-25-59072.zip zipped

699

Magnesite formation during nesquehonite decomposition in the presence and absence of retained self-generated gases and the role of X-ray amorphous materials as essential stores for CO2O
Bree Morgan, Sasha Wilson, Ian C. Madsen, Yesim M. Gozukara, Justin A. Kimpton, and Helen E. Maynard-Casely

Item#: AM-25-59202
Online Material
AM-25-59202.zip zipped

709

Formation of bonanza Au-Ag-telluride ores in epithermal systems: Constraints from Cu-O isotopes and modeling
Shen Gao, Albert H. Hofstra, Kezhang Qin, Xinyu Zou, and Hong Xu

Item#: AM-25-59278
Online Material
AM-25-59278.zip zipped

721

Reexamination of the structure of nanomineral opal-CT using synchrotron X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray scattering structure factor, and pair distribution function analyses
Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu, Hongwu Xu, and Wenqian Xu

Item#: AM-25-59333
Online Material
AM-25-59333.zip zipped

731

Titanium substitutions in garnet at magmatic, granulite facies, and high-pressure granulite facies conditions
Jay J. Ague, Duncan S. Keller, Michael R. Ackerson, and Megan Holycross

Item#: AM-25-59442
Online Material
AM-25-59442.zip zipped

748

Mechanistic understanding of the dehydroxylation reaction of smectites: Insights from reactive force field (ReaxFF) molecular dynamics simulation
Pengyuan Gao, Yingchun Zhang, Xiandong Liu, and Xiancai Lu

Item#: AM-25-59445
Online Material
AM-25-59445.zip zipped

757

Estimating the iron oxidation state of serpentinite using X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy
Kazuki Yoshida, Atsushi Okamoto, Ryosuke Oyanagi, Yasuhiro Niwa, and Masao Kimura

Item#: AM-25-59571
Online Material
AM-25-59571.zip zipped

767

Episodic magmatism contributes to sub-seafloor copper mineralization: Insights from textures and geochemistry of zoned pyrite in the Ashele VMS deposit
Bing Xiao, Huayong Chen, Yuzhou Feng, and Yuanming Pan

Item#: AM-25-59250
Online Material
AM-25-59250.zip zipped

776

Development of oxy-symplectites in a slow-spreading lower oceanic crust: Insights from the Atlantis Bank Gabbro Massif, Southwest Indian Ridge
Archisman Dhar, Biswajit Ghosh, Tomoaki Morishita, Soumi Chattopadhaya, Debaditya Bandyopadhyay, N.V. Chalapathi Rao, Lydéric France, Du K. Nguyen, Sankhadeep Roy, and Manojit Koley

Item#: AM-25-59350
Online Material
AM-25-59350.zip zipped

808

Allanite-(Sm), CaSm(Al2Fe2+)(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH), the third samarium mineral from Jordanów Śląski, Lower Silesia, Poland
Adam Pieczka, Bożena Gołębiowska, Adam Włodek, Marcin Stachowicz, Petras Jokubauskas, Jakub Kotowski, Krzysztof Nejbert,
Adam Szuszkiewicz, and Krzysztof Woźniak

Item#: AM-25-59453
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AM-25-59453.zip zipped
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