American Mineralogist

Volume 110, Issue no. 08 : August 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

1171 Viscosity measurements of selected lunar regolith simulants
Simon Stapperfend, Donald B. Dingwell, Kai-Uwe Hess, Jennifer Sutherland, Axel Müller, Dirk Müller, Michael Eitel, Julian Baasch, Stefan Linke, and Enrico Stoll

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1186 Formation of nano-CdS solid solution: A mechanism for Cd enrichment in sphalerite
Lei Yan, Yu Fan, Jun Huang, Tong Zuo, Fangyue Wang, and Taofa Zhou

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1197 Identification of the nature of recycled carbonates in the mantle: Insights from the Mo-Mg isotopic pair
Ming Lei, Zhengfu Guo, Donald B. Dingwell, Jie Li, and Jianlin Chen

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1209 Discriminating ionic mobility between diffusivity and electrical conductivity experiments on EarthÕs silicate materials
Xiaozhi Yang

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1226 Morphological approach to understanding mineral alteration and nanoparticle formation under alkaline conditions using granitic rock thin sections
Eungyeong Kim, Sung Pil Hyun, and Ho Young Jo

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1238 Identification of hydroandradite in CM carbonaceous chondrites: A product of calc-silicate alteration on C-complex asteroids
Laura E. Jenkins, Martin R. Lee, Luke Daly, Ashley J. King, Peter Chung, Sammy Griffin, and Shijie Li

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1249 Growth and crystallographic features of interpenetrant twins in natural diamonds
Kaiyue Sun, Taijin Lu, Mingyue He, Zhonghua Song, Jian Zhang, and Jie Ke

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1257 Determination of the oxidation state of iron in calcic pyroxene using the electron microprobe flank method
Yonghua Cao, Chang-Ming Xing, Christina Yan Wang, and Xianquan Ping

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1269 Formation mechanism of boehmite and diaspore in karstic bauxites: Trace element geochemistry in source materials using a large sample geochemical dataset and a random forest model
Hui Qi, Sheng-Qiang Zhang, Kai-Ning Lv, Guo-Li Yuan, Pei-Pei Dong, Ying-Jie Li, Jun Li, and Xue-Fei Liu

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1280 High-temperature Raman spectroscopy of K2Ca(CO3)2 bütschliite and Na2Ca2(CO3)3 shortite
Garrett Zeff and Quentin Williams

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1291 Effects of high-temperature annealing and low-temperature metamictization on Archean zircon: Constraints from U-Pb isotopes, trace elements, and Raman dating
Carlos V.A. Ribeiro, Elton L. Dantas, and Reinhardt A. Fuck

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1303 Nanoscale insights into weathering of Ti-bearing minerals and heterogeneous crystal growth mechanisms of nano Ti oxides in altered volcanic ash
Chen Liu, Qian Fang, Hanlie Hong, Lulu Zhao, Yanling Yang, and Shuling Chen

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1318 High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy of boltwoodite, K0.63Na0.37[(UO2)(SiO3OH)] (H2O)1.5
Carmen E. Chamberlain, Jennifer E.S. Szymanowski, and Peter C. Burns

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1329 Nanoscale characterization of chrysocolla, black chrysocolla, and pseudomalachite from supergene copper deposits of Atacama Desert in northern Chile
Zia Steven Kahou, Anne-Magali Seydoux-Guillaume, Pierre-Marie Zanetta, StŽphanie Duchne, StŽphanie Brichau, and Eduardo Campos

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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
AM-22-17609.zip zipped


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
CIF and Online Material
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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
CIF and Online Material
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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

1161

Hematite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry unveils uniquev exhumation history: An example from the Dexing porphyry copper deposit, Southern China
Hong Zhang, Yu Wang, Fang An, Honglin Yuan, and Jianfeng Gao

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Regular Article

1171

Viscosity measurements of selected lunar regolith simulants
Simon Stapperfend, Donald B. Dingwell, Kai-Uwe Hess, Jennifer Sutherland, Axel Müller, Dirk Müller, Michael Eitel, Julian Baasch, Stefan Linke, and Enrico Stoll

Open Access

1186

Formation of nano-CdS solid solution: A mechanism for Cd enrichment in sphalerite
Lei Yan, Yu Fan, Jun Huang, Tong Zuo, Fangyue Wang, and Taofa Zhou

Open Access     Deposit Item

1197

Identification of the nature of recycled carbonates in the mantle: Insights from the Mo-Mg isotopic pair
Ming Lei, Zhengfu Guo, Donald B. Dingwell, Jie Li, and Jianlin Chen

Abstract     Members Full Text Download      

1209

Discriminating ionic mobility between diffusivity and electrical conductivity experiments on EarthÕs silicate materials
Xiaozhi Yang

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1226

Morphological approach to understanding mineral alteration and nanoparticle formation under alkaline conditions using granitic rock thin sections
Eungyeong Kim, Sung Pil Hyun, and Ho Young Jo

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1238

Identification of hydroandradite in CM carbonaceous chondrites: A product of calc-silicate alteration on C-complex asteroids
Laura E. Jenkins, Martin R. Lee, Luke Daly, Ashley J. King, Peter Chung, Sammy Griffin, and Shijie Li

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1249

Growth and crystallographic features of interpenetrant twins in natural diamonds
Kaiyue Sun, Taijin Lu, Mingyue He, Zhonghua Song, Jian Zhang, and Jie Ke

Abstract     Members Full Text Download      

1257

Determination of the oxidation state of iron in calcic pyroxene using the electron microprobe flank method
Yonghua Cao, Chang-Ming Xing, Christina Yan Wang, and Xianquan Ping

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1269

Formation mechanism of boehmite and diaspore in karstic bauxites: Trace element geochemistry in source materials using a large sample geochemical dataset and a random forest model
Hui Qi, Sheng-Qiang Zhang, Kai-Ning Lv, Guo-Li Yuan, Pei-Pei Dong, Ying-Jie Li, Jun Li, and Xue-Fei Liu

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1280

High-temperature Raman spectroscopy of K2Ca(CO3)2 bütschliite and Na2Ca2(CO3)3 shortite
Garrett Zeff and Quentin Williams

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1291

Effects of high-temperature annealing and low-temperature metamictization on Archean zircon: Constraints from U-Pb isotopes, trace elements, and Raman dating
Carlos V.A. Ribeiro, Elton L. Dantas, and Reinhardt A. Fuck

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1303

Nanoscale insights into weathering of Ti-bearing minerals and heterogeneous crystal growth mechanisms of nano Ti oxides in altered volcanic ash
Chen Liu, Qian Fang, Hanlie Hong, Lulu Zhao, Yanling Yang, and Shuling Chen

Abstract     Members Full Text Download      

1318

High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy of boltwoodite, K0.63Na0.37[(UO2)(SiO3OH)] (H2O)1.5
Carmen E. Chamberlain, Jennifer E.S. Szymanowski, and Peter C. Burns

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1329

Nanoscale characterization of chrysocolla, black chrysocolla, and pseudomalachite from supergene copper deposits of Atacama Desert in northern Chile
Zia Steven Kahou, Anne-Magali Seydoux-Guillaume, Pierre-Marie Zanetta, StŽphanie Duchne, StŽphanie Brichau, and Eduardo Campos

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

1186

Formation of nano-CdS solid solution: A mechanism for Cd enrichment in sphalerite
Lei Yan, Yu Fan, Jun Huang, Tong Zuo, Fangyue Wang, and Taofa Zhou

Item#: AM-25-89524
Online Material
AM-25-89524.zip zipped

1226

Morphological approach to understanding mineral alteration and nanoparticle formation under alkaline conditions using granitic rock thin sections
Eungyeong Kim, Sung Pil Hyun, and Ho Young Jo

Item#: AM-25-89261
Online Material
AM-25-89261.zip zipped

1238

Identification of hydroandradite in CM carbonaceous chondrites: A product of calc-silicate alteration on C-complex asteroids
Laura E. Jenkins, Martin R. Lee, Luke Daly, Ashley J. King, Peter Chung, Sammy Griffin, and Shijie Li

Item#: AM-25-89389
Online Material
AM-25-89389.zip zipped

1257

Determination of the oxidation state of iron in calcic pyroxene using the electron microprobe flank method
Yonghua Cao, Chang-Ming Xing, Christina Yan Wang, and Xianquan Ping

Item#: AM-25-89467
Online Material
AM-25-89467.zip zipped

1269

Formation mechanism of boehmite and diaspore in karstic bauxites: Trace element geochemistry in source materials using a large sample geochemical dataset and a random forest model
Hui Qi, Sheng-Qiang Zhang, Kai-Ning Lv, Guo-Li Yuan, Pei-Pei Dong, Ying-Jie Li, Jun Li, and Xue-Fei Liu

Item#: AM-25-89499
Online Material
AM-25-89499.zip zipped

1280

High-temperature Raman spectroscopy of K2Ca(CO3)2 bütschliite and Na2Ca2(CO3)3 shortite
Garrett Zeff and Quentin Williams

Item#: AM-25-89500
Online Material
AM-25-89500.zip zipped

1291

Effects of high-temperature annealing and low-temperature metamictization on Archean zircon: Constraints from U-Pb isotopes, trace elements, and Raman dating
Carlos V.A. Ribeiro, Elton L. Dantas, and Reinhardt A. Fuck

Item#: AM-25-89502
Online Material
AM-25-89502.zip zipped

1318

High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy of boltwoodite, K0.63Na0.37[(UO2)(SiO3OH)] (H2O)1.5
Carmen E. Chamberlain, Jennifer E.S. Szymanowski, and Peter C. Burns

Item#: AM-25-89531
Online Material and CIF
AM-25-89531.zip zipped
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