American Mineralogist

Volume 110, Issue no. 06 : June 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

845 An experimental study of the breakdown of dolomite in H2O at 700 °C, 100 MPa
Theodore C. Labotka, David R. Cole, and Michael T. DeAngelis

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856 Atomistic mechanism of Al substitution effects on the poststishovite transition by high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Yanyao Zhang, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Takuo Okuchi, and Jung-Fu Lin

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866 Cathodoluminescence textures and trace elements in quartz: Constraints on Ag mineralization in adulariasericite epithermal systems
Shen Gao, Xinyu Zou, Albert H. Hofstra, Liangliang Huang, Haijun Yang, Kezhang Qin, Erin E. Marsh, Kaixuan Hui, Jing Xu, Le Wang, Zhenzhen Li, Junxing Zhao, Ri Han, and Guangming Li

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886 Binding mechanisms of Y and HREE sorption on birnessite: New insights into the formation and sustainable development of regolith-hosted REE deposits
Yuzhou Feng, Huayong Chen, Yuanming Pan, Reza Deevsalar, Leo Ka Long Cheung, Ayetullah Tunc, Kenan Cao, Yuxiang Zhu, Renfei Feng, Mohsen Shakouri, Qunfeng Xiao, Ning Chen, Bing Xiao, and Hui Zheng

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901 Structural rationale for twinning in galena and a possible relation with the lillianite homologous series
Massimo Nespolo and Mahamadou Diallo

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908 Influence of cation disorder on the mineral physics of ankerite
Azzurra Zucchini, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Maximiliano Fastelli, Davide Comboni, Michael Hanfland, Francesco Frondini, and Paola Comodi

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919 Formation of giant copper deposits driven by rapid uplift and sudden depressurization
Rui Wang, Chenhao Luo, Yingcai Sun, Shaochen Wu, Xiao-Ping Xia, Xiaolin Wang, and Wenjie Xia

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933 Thermal expansion of ršmerite under low-temperature conditions
Eli Bird, Olivia S. Pardo, Nina Gilkyson, and Jennifer M. Jackson

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941 Ezochiite and shiranuiite are cuprorhodsite and are not new mineral species
Louis J. Cabri and Andrew M. McDonald

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945 Progressive change in dislocation microstructures in shocked calcite with pressure: Characterization of micrometeoroid bombardment on asteroid Ryugu
Naotaka Tomioka, Kosuke Kurosawa, Akira Miyake, Yohei Igami, Takayoshi Nagaya, Takaaki Noguchi, Toru Matsumoto, Masaaki Miyahara, and Yusuke Seto

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956 Hanswilkeite, KFeS2, a new peralkaline sulfide mineral
Sergey N. Britvin, Mikhail N. Murashko, Maria G. Krzhizhanovskaya, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Yevgeny Vapnik, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Yulia S. Shelukhina, and Vladimir N. Bocharov

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966 Porphyry Cu-Mo mineralization at Anabama Hill, Delamerian Orogen, South Australia: Fertility assessment implied from epidote and chlorite chemistry
Wei Hong, Adrian Fabris, Sarah Gilbert, Stacey Curtis, Tom Wise, andAlan S. Collins

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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

Item #AM-22-17811
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
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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

Item #AM-22-17731
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82    A Rayleigh model of cesium fractionation in granite-pegmatite systems
David London
Item #AM-22-17855
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mineral Informatics: Revolutionizing Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry

833

Mindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research
Jolyon Ralph, David Von Bargen, Pavel Martynov, Jiyin Zhang, Xiang Que, Anirudh Prabhu, Shaunna M. Morrison, Wenjia Li, Weilin Chen, and Xiaogang Ma

Open Access

Regular Article

845

An experimental study of the breakdown of dolomite in H2O at 700 °C, 100 MPa
Theodore C. Labotka, David R. Cole, and Michael T. DeAngelis

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856

Atomistic mechanism of Al substitution effects on the poststishovite transition by high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Yanyao Zhang, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Takuo Okuchi, and Jung-Fu Lin

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866

Cathodoluminescence textures and trace elements in quartz: Constraints on Ag mineralization in adulariasericite epithermal systems
Shen Gao, Xinyu Zou, Albert H. Hofstra, Liangliang Huang, Haijun Yang, Kezhang Qin, Erin E. Marsh, Kaixuan Hui, Jing Xu, Le Wang, Zhenzhen Li, Junxing Zhao, Ri Han, and Guangming Li

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886

Binding mechanisms of Y and HREE sorption on birnessite: New insights into the formation and sustainable development of regolith-hosted REE deposits
Yuzhou Feng, Huayong Chen, Yuanming Pan, Reza Deevsalar, Leo Ka Long Cheung, Ayetullah Tunc, Kenan Cao, Yuxiang Zhu, Renfei Feng, Mohsen Shakouri, Qunfeng Xiao, Ning Chen, Bing Xiao, and Hui Zheng

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901

Structural rationale for twinning in galena and a possible relation with the lillianite homologous series
Massimo Nespolo and Mahamadou Diallo

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908

Influence of cation disorder on the mineral physics of ankerite
Azzurra Zucchini, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Maximiliano Fastelli, Davide Comboni, Michael Hanfland, Francesco Frondini, and Paola Comodi

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919

Formation of giant copper deposits driven by rapid uplift and sudden depressurization
Rui Wang, Chenhao Luo, Yingcai Sun, Shaochen Wu, Xiao-Ping Xia, Xiaolin Wang, and Wenjie Xia

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933

Thermal expansion of ršmerite under low-temperature conditions
Eli Bird, Olivia S. Pardo, Nina Gilkyson, and Jennifer M. Jackson

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941

Ezochiite and shiranuiite are cuprorhodsite and are not new mineral species
Louis J. Cabri and Andrew M. McDonald

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945

Progressive change in dislocation microstructures in shocked calcite with pressure: Characterization of micrometeoroid bombardment on asteroid Ryugu
Naotaka Tomioka, Kosuke Kurosawa, Akira Miyake, Yohei Igami, Takayoshi Nagaya, Takaaki Noguchi, Toru Matsumoto, Masaaki Miyahara, and Yusuke Seto

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956

Hanswilkeite, KFeS2, a new peralkaline sulfide mineral
Sergey N. Britvin, Mikhail N. Murashko, Maria G. Krzhizhanovskaya, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Yevgeny Vapnik, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Yulia S. Shelukhina, and Vladimir N. Bocharov

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966

Porphyry Cu-Mo mineralization at Anabama Hill, Delamerian Orogen, South Australia: Fertility assessment implied from epidote and chlorite chemistry
Wei Hong, Adrian Fabris, Sarah Gilbert, Stacey Curtis, Tom Wise, andAlan S. Collins

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

845

An experimental study of the breakdown of dolomite in H2O at 700 °C, 100 MPa
Theodore C. Labotka, David R. Cole, and Michael T. DeAngelis

Item#: AM-25-69368
Online Material
AM-25-69368.zip zipped

856

Atomistic mechanism of Al substitution effects on the poststishovite transition by high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction
Yanyao Zhang, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Takuo Okuchi, and Jung-Fu Lin

Item#: AM-25-69257
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-69257.zip zipped

866

Cathodoluminescence textures and trace elements in quartz: Constraints on Ag mineralization in adulariasericite epithermal systems
Shen Gao, Xinyu Zou, Albert H. Hofstra, Liangliang Huang, Haijun Yang, Kezhang Qin, Erin E. Marsh, Kaixuan Hui, Jing Xu, Le Wang, Zhenzhen Li, Junxing Zhao, Ri Han, and Guangming Li

Item#: AM-25-69415
Online Material
AM-25-69415.zip zipped

908

Influence of cation disorder on the mineral physics of ankerite
Azzurra Zucchini, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Maximiliano Fastelli, Davide Comboni, Michael Hanfland, Francesco Frondini, and Paola Comodi

Item#: AM-25-69495
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-69495.zip zipped

919

Formation of giant copper deposits driven by rapid uplift and sudden depressurization
Rui Wang, Chenhao Luo, Yingcai Sun, Shaochen Wu, Xiao-Ping Xia, Xiaolin Wang, and Wenjie Xia

Item#: AM-25-69425
Online Material
AM-25-69425.zip zipped

933

Thermal expansion of ršmerite under low-temperature conditions
Eli Bird, Olivia S. Pardo, Nina Gilkyson, and Jennifer M. Jackson

Item#: AM-25-69432
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-69432.zip zipped

956

Hanswilkeite, KFeS2, a new peralkaline sulfide mineral
Sergey N. Britvin, Mikhail N. Murashko, Maria G. Krzhizhanovskaya, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Yevgeny Vapnik, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Yulia S. Shelukhina, and Vladimir N. Bocharov

Item#: AM-25-69494
CIF
AM-25-69494.zip zipped

966

Porphyry Cu-Mo mineralization at Anabama Hill, Delamerian Orogen, South Australia: Fertility assessment implied from epidote and chlorite chemistry
Wei Hong, Adrian Fabris, Sarah Gilbert, Stacey Curtis, Tom Wise, andAlan S. Collins

Item#: AM-25-69471
Online Material
AM-25-69471.zip zipped
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