American Mineralogist
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
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
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
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
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
1299
Grossular: A crystal-chemical, calorimetric, and thermodynamic study
Edgar Dachs, Charles A. Geiger, Artur Benisek, and Klaus-Dieter Grevel
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
1320
Thermal behavior of realgar As4S4, and of arsenolite As2O3 and non-stoichiometric As8S8+x crystals produced from As4S4 melt recrystallization
Paolo Ballirano
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
1339
Raman spectroscopy of (Ca,Mg)MgSi2O6 clinopyroxenes
Mario Tribaudino, Luciana Mantovani, Danilo Bersani, and Pier Paolo Lottici
1348
In-situ Raman spectroscopic study of sulfur speciation in oxidized magmatic-hydrothermal fluids
Huaiwei Ni and Hans Keppler
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
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
1373
Metastable equilibrium in the C-H-O system: Graphite deposition in crustal fluids
Dionysis I. Foustoukos
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
1394
Structural relaxation in tetrahedrally coordinated Co2+ along the gahnite-Co-aluminate spinel solid solution
Matteo Ardit, Giuseppe Cruciani, and Michele Dondi
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
1417
Isothermal compression of face-centered cubic iron
Yu Nishihara, Yoichi Nakajima, Akihiko Akashi, Noriyoshi Tsujino, Eiichi Takahashi, Kenen-ichi Funakoshi, and Yuji Higo
1421
Bonding and structural changes in siderite at high pressure
Gabriela Farfan, Shibing Wang, Hongwei Ma, Razvan Caracas, and Wendy L. Mao
1427
Energetics and kinetics of carbonate orientational ordering in vaterite calcium carbonate
Jianwei Wang and Udo Becker
1437
Growth process and crystallographic properties of ammonia-induced vaterite
Qiaona Hu, Jiaming Zhang, Henry Teng, and Udo Becker
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
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
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
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.
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
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
1505
Molecular models of birnessite and related hydrated layered minerals
Randall T. Cygan, Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and James D. Kubicki
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1523
New Mineral Names
Dmitry Belakovskiy, Mark D. Welch, Fernando Cámara, G. Diego Gatta, and Kimberly T. Tait
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
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
1299
Grossular: A crystal-chemical, calorimetric, and thermodynamic study
Edgar Dachs, Charles A. Geiger, Artur Benisek, and Klaus-Dieter Grevel
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
1394
Structural relaxation in tetrahedrally coordinated Co2+ along the gahnite-Co-aluminate spinel solid solution
Matteo Ardit, Giuseppe Cruciani, and Michele Dondi
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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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