American Mineralogist

Volume 97, Issue no. 0809 : August - September 2012

Letter

1515 Gold-telluride nanoparticles revealed in arsenic-free pyrite
Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Nigel J. Cook, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Masashi Kogagwa, Leonard Green, Sarah Gilbert, and Benjamin Wade

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1519 XAS evidence for the stability of polytellurides in hydrothermal fluids up to 599 °C, 800 bar
Joël Brugger, Barbara E. Etschmann, Pascal V. Grundler, Weihua Liu, Denis Testemale, and Allan Pring

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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

1269 Electron backscatter diffraction from unpolished particulate specimens: Examples of particle identification and application to inhalable mineral particulate identification
Bryan R. Bandli and Mickey E. Gunter

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1274 Petrography and geochronology of the Pele Mountain quartz-pebble conglomerate uranium deposit, Elliot Lake District, Canada
Laura Bergen and Mostafa Fayek

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REGULAR ARTICLES

1291 Thermodynamics of manganese oxides: Effects of particle size and hydration on oxidation-reduction equilibria among hausmannite, bixbyite, and pyrolusite
Nancy Birkner and Alexandra Navrotsky

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1299 Grossular: A crystal-chemical, calorimetric, and thermodynamic study
Edgar Dachs, Charles A. Geiger, Artur Benisek, and Klaus-Dieter Grevel

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1314 Redetermination of high-temperature heat capacity of Mg2SiO4 ringwoodite: Measurement and lattice vibrational model calculation
Hiroshi Kojitani, Madoka Oohata, Toru Inoue, and Masaki Akaogi

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1320 Thermal behavior of realgar As4S4, and of arsenolite As2O3 and non-stoichiometric As8S8+x crystals produced from As4S4 melt recrystallization
Paolo Ballirano

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1330 Thermodynamics of the magnetite-ulv??spinel (Fe3O4-Fe2TiO4) solid solution
Kristina I. Lilova, Carolyn I. Pearce, Christopher Gorski, Kevin M. Rosso, and Alexandra Navrotsky

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1339 Raman spectroscopy of (Ca,Mg)MgSi2O6 clinopyroxenes
Mario Tribaudino, Luciana Mantovani, Danilo Bersani, and Pier Paolo Lottici

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1348 In-situ Raman spectroscopic study of sulfur speciation in oxidized magmatic-hydrothermal fluids
Huaiwei Ni and Hans Keppler

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1354 Structural anisotropy and annealing-induced nanoscale atomic rearrangements in metamict titanite
Tobias Beirau, Boriana Mihailova, Galina Matveeva, Ute Kolb, Thomas Malcherek, Lee A. Groat, and Ulrich Bismayer

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1366 Hydrous fluid as the growth media of natural polycrystalline diamond, carbonado: Implication from IR spectra and microtextural observations
Hidemi Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Kagi, Haruko Sakuai, Hiroaki Ohfuji, and Hirochika Sumino

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1373 Metastable equilibrium in the C-H-O system: Graphite deposition in crustal fluids
Dionysis I. Foustoukos

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1381 Controlled morphogenesis of amorphous silica and its relevance to biosilicification
Jia-Yuan Shi, Qi-Zhi Yao, Xi-Ming Li, Gen-Tao Zhou, and Sheng-Quan Fu

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1394 Structural relaxation in tetrahedrally coordinated Co2+ along the gahnite-Co-aluminate spinel solid solution
Matteo Ardit, Giuseppe Cruciani, and Michele Dondi

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1402 Limitations of Fe2+ and Mn2+ site occupancy in tourmaline: Evidence from Fe2+- and Mn2+-rich tourmaline
Andreas Ertl, Uwe Kolitsch, M. Darby Dyar, John M. Hughes, George R. Rossman, Adam Pieczka, Darrell J. Henry, Federico Pezzotta, Stefan Prowatke, Christian L. Lengauer, Wilfried Körner, Franz Brandstätter, Carl A. Francis, Markus Prem, and Ekkehart Tillma

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1417 Isothermal compression of face-centered cubic iron
Yu Nishihara, Yoichi Nakajima, Akihiko Akashi, Noriyoshi Tsujino, Eiichi Takahashi, Kenen-ichi Funakoshi, and Yuji Higo

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1421 Bonding and structural changes in siderite at high pressure
Gabriela Farfan, Shibing Wang, Hongwei Ma, Razvan Caracas, and Wendy L. Mao

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1427 Energetics and kinetics of carbonate orientational ordering in vaterite calcium carbonate
Jianwei Wang and Udo Becker

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1437 Growth process and crystallographic properties of ammonia-induced vaterite
Qiaona Hu, Jiaming Zhang, Henry Teng, and Udo Becker

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1446 Argesite, (NH4)7Bi3Cl16, a new mineral from La Fossa Crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy: A first example of the [Bi2Cl10]4− anion
Francesco Demartin, Italo Campostrini, Carlo Castellano, and Carlo Maria Gramaccioli

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1452 Experimental study of mineral equilibria in the system K2O(Li2O)-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O-HF at 300 to 600 °C and 100 MPa with application to natural greisen systems
Yu.B. Shapovalov and T.V. Setkova

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1460 Tobelite and NH4+-rich muscovite single crystals from Ordovician Armorican sandstones (Brittany, France): Structure and crystal chemistry
Ernesto Mesto, Fernando Scordari, Maria Lacalamita, and Emanuela Schingaro

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1469 The enigmatic iron oxyhydroxysulfate nanomineral schwertmannite: Morphology, structure, and composition
Rebecca A. French, Manuel A. Caraballo, Bojeong Kim, J.D. Rimstidt, Mitsuhiro Murayama, and Michael F. Hochella Jr.

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1483 Ferric iron and water incorporation in wadsleyite under hydrous and oxidizing conditions: A XANES, Mössbauer, and SIMS study
Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Manuel Muñoz, Catherine McCammon, Etienne Deloule, Anais Férot, Sylvie Demouchy, Lydéric France, Denis Andrault, and Sakura Pascarelli

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1494 Kircherite, a new mineral of the cancrinite-sodalite group with a 36-layer stacking sequence: Occurrence and crystal structure
Fernando Cámara, Fabio Bellatreccia, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Mickey E. Gunter, Marco Sebastiani, and Andrea Cavallo

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1505 Molecular models of birnessite and related hydrated layered minerals
Randall T. Cygan, Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and James D. Kubicki

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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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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
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CIF and Online Material
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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

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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
AM-22-17851.zip zipped


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
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Online Material
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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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CIF and Online Material
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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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CIF and Online Material
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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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CIF and Online Material
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LETTER

1515

Gold-telluride nanoparticles revealed in arsenic-free pyrite
Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Nigel J. Cook, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Masashi Kogagwa, Leonard Green, Sarah Gilbert, and Benjamin Wade

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1519

XAS evidence for the stability of polytellurides in hydrothermal fluids up to 599 °C, 800 bar
Joël Brugger, Barbara E. Etschmann, Pascal V. Grundler, Weihua Liu, Denis Testemale, and Allan Pring

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: ACTINIDES IN GEOLOGY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

1274

Petrography and geochronology of the Pele Mountain quartz-pebble conglomerate uranium deposit, Elliot Lake District, Canada
Laura Bergen and Mostafa Fayek

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: MINERALS IN THE HUMAN BODY

1269

Electron backscatter diffraction from unpolished particulate specimens: Examples of particle identification and application to inhalable mineral particulate identification
Bryan R. Bandli and Mickey E. Gunter

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1291

Thermodynamics of manganese oxides: Effects of particle size and hydration on oxidation-reduction equilibria among hausmannite, bixbyite, and pyrolusite
Nancy Birkner and Alexandra Navrotsky

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1299

Grossular: A crystal-chemical, calorimetric, and thermodynamic study
Edgar Dachs, Charles A. Geiger, Artur Benisek, and Klaus-Dieter Grevel

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1314

Redetermination of high-temperature heat capacity of Mg2SiO4 ringwoodite: Measurement and lattice vibrational model calculation
Hiroshi Kojitani, Madoka Oohata, Toru Inoue, and Masaki Akaogi

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1320

Thermal behavior of realgar As4S4, and of arsenolite As2O3 and non-stoichiometric As8S8+x crystals produced from As4S4 melt recrystallization
Paolo Ballirano

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1330

Thermodynamics of the magnetite-ulv??spinel (Fe3O4-Fe2TiO4) solid solution
Kristina I. Lilova, Carolyn I. Pearce, Christopher Gorski, Kevin M. Rosso, and Alexandra Navrotsky

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1339

Raman spectroscopy of (Ca,Mg)MgSi2O6 clinopyroxenes
Mario Tribaudino, Luciana Mantovani, Danilo Bersani, and Pier Paolo Lottici

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1348

In-situ Raman spectroscopic study of sulfur speciation in oxidized magmatic-hydrothermal fluids
Huaiwei Ni and Hans Keppler

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1354

Structural anisotropy and annealing-induced nanoscale atomic rearrangements in metamict titanite
Tobias Beirau, Boriana Mihailova, Galina Matveeva, Ute Kolb, Thomas Malcherek, Lee A. Groat, and Ulrich Bismayer

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1366

Hydrous fluid as the growth media of natural polycrystalline diamond, carbonado: Implication from IR spectra and microtextural observations
Hidemi Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Kagi, Haruko Sakuai, Hiroaki Ohfuji, and Hirochika Sumino

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1373

Metastable equilibrium in the C-H-O system: Graphite deposition in crustal fluids
Dionysis I. Foustoukos

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1381

Controlled morphogenesis of amorphous silica and its relevance to biosilicification
Jia-Yuan Shi, Qi-Zhi Yao, Xi-Ming Li, Gen-Tao Zhou, and Sheng-Quan Fu

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1394

Structural relaxation in tetrahedrally coordinated Co2+ along the gahnite-Co-aluminate spinel solid solution
Matteo Ardit, Giuseppe Cruciani, and Michele Dondi

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1402

Limitations of Fe2+ and Mn2+ site occupancy in tourmaline: Evidence from Fe2+– and Mn2+-rich tourmaline
Andreas Ertl, Uwe Kolitsch, M. Darby Dyar, John M. Hughes, George R. Rossman, Adam Pieczka, Darrell J. Henry, Federico Pezzotta, Stefan Prowatke, Christian L. Lengauer, Wilfried Körner, Franz Brandstätter, Carl A. Francis, Markus Prem, and Ekkehart Tillma

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1417

Isothermal compression of face-centered cubic iron
Yu Nishihara, Yoichi Nakajima, Akihiko Akashi, Noriyoshi Tsujino, Eiichi Takahashi, Kenen-ichi Funakoshi, and Yuji Higo

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1421

Bonding and structural changes in siderite at high pressure
Gabriela Farfan, Shibing Wang, Hongwei Ma, Razvan Caracas, and Wendy L. Mao

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1427

Energetics and kinetics of carbonate orientational ordering in vaterite calcium carbonate
Jianwei Wang and Udo Becker

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1437

Growth process and crystallographic properties of ammonia-induced vaterite
Qiaona Hu, Jiaming Zhang, Henry Teng, and Udo Becker

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1446

Argesite, (NH4)7Bi3Cl16, a new mineral from La Fossa Crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy: A first example of the [Bi2Cl10]4− anion
Francesco Demartin, Italo Campostrini, Carlo Castellano, and Carlo Maria Gramaccioli

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1452

Experimental study of mineral equilibria in the system K2O(Li2O)-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O-HF at 300 to 600 °C and 100 MPa with application to natural greisen systems
Yu.B. Shapovalov and T.V. Setkova

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1460

Tobelite and NH4+-rich muscovite single crystals from Ordovician Armorican sandstones (Brittany, France): Structure and crystal chemistry
Ernesto Mesto, Fernando Scordari, Maria Lacalamita, and Emanuela Schingaro

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1469

The enigmatic iron oxyhydroxysulfate nanomineral schwertmannite: Morphology, structure, and composition
Rebecca A. French, Manuel A. Caraballo, Bojeong Kim, J.D. Rimstidt, Mitsuhiro Murayama, and Michael F. Hochella Jr.

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1483

Ferric iron and water incorporation in wadsleyite under hydrous and oxidizing conditions: A XANES, Mössbauer, and SIMS study
Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Manuel Muñoz, Catherine McCammon, Etienne Deloule, Anais Férot, Sylvie Demouchy, Lydéric France, Denis Andrault, and Sakura Pascarelli

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1494

Kircherite, a new mineral of the cancrinite-sodalite group with a 36-layer stacking sequence: Occurrence and crystal structure
Fernando Cámara, Fabio Bellatreccia, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Mickey E. Gunter, Marco Sebastiani, and Andrea Cavallo

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1505

Molecular models of birnessite and related hydrated layered minerals
Randall T. Cygan, Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and James D. Kubicki

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

1523

New Mineral Names
Dmitry Belakovskiy, Mark D. Welch, Fernando Cámara, G. Diego Gatta, and Kimberly T. Tait

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BOOK REVIEW

1531

Book Review: CHEMICAL BIOMARKERS IN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS: By T. Bianchi and E. Canuel. (2011) Princeton University Press. 392 pp. Kindle available. ISBN: 978-0691134147
Josef P. Werne

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

1291

Thermodynamics of manganese oxides: Effects of particle size and hydration on oxidation-reduction equilibria among hausmannite, bixbyite, and pyrolusite
Nancy Birkner and Alexandra Navrotsky

Item#: AM-12-080
Supplemental information.
AM-12-080.zip zipped

1299

Grossular: A crystal-chemical, calorimetric, and thermodynamic study
Edgar Dachs, Charles A. Geiger, Artur Benisek, and Klaus-Dieter Grevel

Item#: AM_12_059
CIFs, Appendices 1 and 2, Supplementary Tables 1Ð3, and Figures 1, 2, 3, 9, 15, 16, and 17.
AM_12_059.zip zipped

1320

Thermal behavior of realgar As4S4, and of arsenolite As2O3 and non-stoichiometric As8S8+x crystals produced from As4S4 melt recrystallization
Paolo Ballirano

Item#: AM-12-063
Crystallographic Information Files
AM-12-063.zip zipped

1394

Structural relaxation in tetrahedrally coordinated Co2+ along the gahnite-Co-aluminate spinel solid solution
Matteo Ardit, Giuseppe Cruciani, and Michele Dondi

Item#: AM-12-053
Deposit Table and Crystallographic Information Files
AM-12-053.zip zipped

1402

Limitations of Fe2+ and Mn2+ site occupancy in tourmaline: Evidence from Fe2+– and Mn2+-rich tourmaline
Andreas Ertl, Uwe Kolitsch, M. Darby Dyar, John M. Hughes, George R. Rossman, Adam Pieczka, Darrell J. Henry, Federico Pezzotta, Stefan Prowatke, Christian L. Lengauer, Wilfried Körner, Franz Brandstätter, Carl A. Francis, Markus Prem, and Ekkehart Tillma

Item#: AM-12-057
Tables 6 and 7; CIFs.
AM-12-057.zip zipped

1446

Argesite, (NH4)7Bi3Cl16, a new mineral from La Fossa Crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy: A first example of the [Bi2Cl10]4− anion
Francesco Demartin, Italo Campostrini, Carlo Castellano, and Carlo Maria Gramaccioli

Item#: AM-12-052
Crystallographic Information File
AM-12-052.zip zipped

1460

Tobelite and NH4+-rich muscovite single crystals from Ordovician Armorican sandstones (Brittany, France): Structure and crystal chemistry
Ernesto Mesto, Fernando Scordari, Maria Lacalamita, and Emanuela Schingaro

Item#: AM-12-054
Crystallographic Information Files
AM-12-054.zip zipped

1469

The enigmatic iron oxyhydroxysulfate nanomineral schwertmannite: Morphology, structure, and composition
Rebecca A. French, Manuel A. Caraballo, Bojeong Kim, J.D. Rimstidt, Mitsuhiro Murayama, and Michael F. Hochella Jr.

Item#: AM-12-060
13 supplemental figures and a video file
AM-12-060.zip zipped

1483

Ferric iron and water incorporation in wadsleyite under hydrous and oxidizing conditions: A XANES, Mössbauer, and SIMS study
Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Manuel Muñoz, Catherine McCammon, Etienne Deloule, Anais Férot, Sylvie Demouchy, Lydéric France, Denis Andrault, and Sakura Pascarelli

Item#: AM-12-069
Supplementary Figures 1 and 2
AM-12-069.zip zipped

1494

Kircherite, a new mineral of the cancrinite-sodalite group with a 36-layer stacking sequence: Occurrence and crystal structure
Fernando Cámara, Fabio Bellatreccia, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Mickey E. Gunter, Marco Sebastiani, and Andrea Cavallo

Item#: AM-12-062
Structure factors and Crystallographic Information File
AM-12-062.zip zipped

1515

Gold-telluride nanoparticles revealed in arsenic-free pyrite
Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Nigel J. Cook, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Masashi Kogagwa, Leonard Green, Sarah Gilbert, and Benjamin Wade

Item#: AM-12-080
Deposit Items 1Ð5
AM-12-080.zip zipped
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