American Mineralogist

Volume 110, Issue no. 11 : November 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

1728 Nanoscale mapping of ZrSiO4 phases in naturally shocked zircon using electron energy loss spectroscopy
Vladimir Roddatis, Elizaveta Kovaleva, Marcin D. Syczewski, Anja Schreiber, and Richard Wirth

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1737 Nanogeochemistry of Ni, Co, and Cu in zoned marcasitepyrite crystals
Amira R. Ferreira, José María González-Jiménez, Lola Yesares, Idael F. Blanco-Quintero, Rubén Piña, and Fernando Gerv

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1756 Genetic types of Zn-Pb deposits revealed by sphalerite geochemistry
Qingwen Zeng, Qihai Shu, Qingfei Wang, Qian Zhang, Zhonghai Zhao, Xudong Niu, Fan Yu, Litian Zhang, and Jun Deng

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1770 Contribution of Te-Bi melts in gold enrichment at the giant Jiaodong gold province, North China Craton: Insights from the Taishang deposit
Zhong-Zheng Yuan, Zhan-Ke Li, Andrew G. Tomkins, Xiao-Ye Jin, Shao-Rui Zhao, Gao-Hua Fan, and Hua-Shan Sun

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1787 Nb-Ta mineralization in a metaluminous-weakly peraluminous magmatic system: Constraints from the chemical compositions and Hf isotopes of columbite-group minerals in China
Zhi-Min Tang, Xu-Dong Che, Ru-Cheng Wang, Yue-Heng Yang, Fu-Yuan Wu, Robert L. Linnen, Fei Deng, Huan Hu, and Jian-Jun Lu

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1803 In situ observation of the subsolidus reactions between petalite and spodumene + quartz in a hydrothermal diamond-anvil cell
Qiang Liu, Jiankang Li, Yongchao Liu, and Peng Li

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1815 Structural behavior and magnetic properties of coquimbite AlFe33+(SO4)6(H2O)12á6H2O over a wide temperature range
Veronika R. Abdulina, Artem S. Borisov, Oleg I. Siidra, Victoria A. Ginga, Nicolas Sanchez, Annette Setzer, and Astrid Holzheid

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1825 The transformation of magnesium phosphate minerals at atmospheric conditions: Mechanisms, kinetics, and environmental applications
Rebecca Volkmann, Roberts Blukis, Christian Schmidt, Pablo Forjanes, and Liane G. Benning

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1835 Native tin as solidified molten-metal droplets in a hydrothermal fluid from the epithermal Pukanec deposit (Slovakia)
Juraj Majzlan, Ingo Horn, Stefan Weyer, Tomáš Mikuš, Jozef Vlasáč, and Adrián Biroň

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1844 Wangyanite, PdNi8S8, a new Pd end-member mineral of the pentlandite group from the J-M reef, Stillwater Complex, Montana, U.S.A.
Chen Chen, Haiyang Xian, M. Christopher Jenkins, Zhuosen Yao, Yiping Yang, Xiaoju Lin, Shan Li, Jiaxin Xi, Yuhuan Yuan, Jianxi Zhu, and Hongping He

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1854 Crystal chemistry and high-temperature behavior of Al-bearing stishovite and Al-rich phase D: Implications for water storage in the deep mantle
Li Zhang, Joseph R. Smyth, and Chaowen Xu

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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

Item #AM-22-17811
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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
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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
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
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
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-18056.zip zipped

Earth Analogs for Martian Geological Materials and Processes

1689

High-resolution analysis of clay minerals and amorphous materials in martian analog environments
Michael T. Thorpe, Elizabeth B. Rampe, Juergen Thieme, Eric Dooryhee, Seungyeol Lee, and Roy Christoffersen

Open Access     Deposit Item

Pegmatites

1702

Origin and evolution of granitic pegmatite rare metal deposits in the northern Mufushan batholith, South China: Insights from muscovite chemistry
Shuai Zheng, Jian-Hui Su, Jian Wang, Shuai-Jie Liu, and Xin-Fu Zhao

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Spectroscopy in geology: a decade of breakthroughs

1719

High-energy resolution X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of the state of Pt in pyrite
Olga Filimonova, Elena Bazarkina, Ruben Pi–a Garcia, Mauro Rovezzi, and Didier Wermeille

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1728

Nanoscale mapping of ZrSiO4 phases in naturally shocked zircon using electron energy loss spectroscopy
Vladimir Roddatis, Elizaveta Kovaleva, Marcin D. Syczewski, Anja Schreiber, and Richard Wirth

Open Access     Deposit Item

1737

Nanogeochemistry of Ni, Co, and Cu in zoned marcasitepyrite crystals
Amira R. Ferreira, José María González-Jiménez, Lola Yesares, Idael F. Blanco-Quintero, Rubén Piña, and Fernando Gerv

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1756

Genetic types of Zn-Pb deposits revealed by sphalerite geochemistry
Qingwen Zeng, Qihai Shu, Qingfei Wang, Qian Zhang, Zhonghai Zhao, Xudong Niu, Fan Yu, Litian Zhang, and Jun Deng

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1770

Contribution of Te-Bi melts in gold enrichment at the giant Jiaodong gold province, North China Craton: Insights from the Taishang deposit
Zhong-Zheng Yuan, Zhan-Ke Li, Andrew G. Tomkins, Xiao-Ye Jin, Shao-Rui Zhao, Gao-Hua Fan, and Hua-Shan Sun

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1787

Nb-Ta mineralization in a metaluminous-weakly peraluminous magmatic system: Constraints from the chemical compositions and Hf isotopes of columbite-group minerals in China
Zhi-Min Tang, Xu-Dong Che, Ru-Cheng Wang, Yue-Heng Yang, Fu-Yuan Wu, Robert L. Linnen, Fei Deng, Huan Hu, and Jian-Jun Lu

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1803

In situ observation of the subsolidus reactions between petalite and spodumene + quartz in a hydrothermal diamond-anvil cell
Qiang Liu, Jiankang Li, Yongchao Liu, and Peng Li

Abstract     Members Full Text Download      

1815

Structural behavior and magnetic properties of coquimbite AlFe33+(SO4)6(H2O)12á6H2O over a wide temperature range
Veronika R. Abdulina, Artem S. Borisov, Oleg I. Siidra, Victoria A. Ginga, Nicolas Sanchez, Annette Setzer, and Astrid Holzheid

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1825

The transformation of magnesium phosphate minerals at atmospheric conditions: Mechanisms, kinetics, and environmental applications
Rebecca Volkmann, Roberts Blukis, Christian Schmidt, Pablo Forjanes, and Liane G. Benning

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1835

Native tin as solidified molten-metal droplets in a hydrothermal fluid from the epithermal Pukanec deposit (Slovakia)
Juraj Majzlan, Ingo Horn, Stefan Weyer, Tomáš Mikuš, Jozef Vlasáč, and Adrián Biroň

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1844

Wangyanite, PdNi8S8, a new Pd end-member mineral of the pentlandite group from the J-M reef, Stillwater Complex, Montana, U.S.A.
Chen Chen, Haiyang Xian, M. Christopher Jenkins, Zhuosen Yao, Yiping Yang, Xiaoju Lin, Shan Li, Jiaxin Xi, Yuhuan Yuan, Jianxi Zhu, and Hongping He

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1854

Crystal chemistry and high-temperature behavior of Al-bearing stishovite and Al-rich phase D: Implications for water storage in the deep mantle
Li Zhang, Joseph R. Smyth, and Chaowen Xu

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

DEPOSIT ITEMS

1689

High-resolution analysis of clay minerals and amorphous materials in martian analog environments
Michael T. Thorpe, Elizabeth B. Rampe, Juergen Thieme, Eric Dooryhee, Seungyeol Lee, and Roy Christoffersen

Item#: AM-25-119290
Online Material
AM-25-119290.zip zipped

1702

Origin and evolution of granitic pegmatite rare metal deposits in the northern Mufushan batholith, South China: Insights from muscovite chemistry
Shuai Zheng, Jian-Hui Su, Jian Wang, Shuai-Jie Liu, and Xin-Fu Zhao

Item#: AM-25-119636
Online Material
AM-25-119636.zip zipped

1719

High-energy resolution X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of the state of Pt in pyrite
Olga Filimonova, Elena Bazarkina, Ruben Pi–a Garcia, Mauro Rovezzi, and Didier Wermeille

Item#: AM-25-119596
Online Material
AM-25-119596.zip zipped

1728

Nanoscale mapping of ZrSiO4 phases in naturally shocked zircon using electron energy loss spectroscopy
Vladimir Roddatis, Elizaveta Kovaleva, Marcin D. Syczewski, Anja Schreiber, and Richard Wirth

Item#: AM-25-119455
Online Material
AM-25-119455.zip zipped

1737

Nanogeochemistry of Ni, Co, and Cu in zoned marcasitepyrite crystals
Amira R. Ferreira, José María González-Jiménez, Lola Yesares, Idael F. Blanco-Quintero, Rubén Piña, and Fernando Gerv

Item#: AM-25-119508
Online Material
AM-25-119508.zip zipped

1756

Genetic types of Zn-Pb deposits revealed by sphalerite geochemistry
Qingwen Zeng, Qihai Shu, Qingfei Wang, Qian Zhang, Zhonghai Zhao, Xudong Niu, Fan Yu, Litian Zhang, and Jun Deng

Item#: AM-25-119575
Online Material
AM-25-119575.zip zipped

1770

Contribution of Te-Bi melts in gold enrichment at the giant Jiaodong gold province, North China Craton: Insights from the Taishang deposit
Zhong-Zheng Yuan, Zhan-Ke Li, Andrew G. Tomkins, Xiao-Ye Jin, Shao-Rui Zhao, Gao-Hua Fan, and Hua-Shan Sun

Item#: AM-25-119597
Online Material
AM-25-119597.zip zipped

1787

Nb-Ta mineralization in a metaluminous-weakly peraluminous magmatic system: Constraints from the chemical compositions and Hf isotopes of columbite-group minerals in China
Zhi-Min Tang, Xu-Dong Che, Ru-Cheng Wang, Yue-Heng Yang, Fu-Yuan Wu, Robert L. Linnen, Fei Deng, Huan Hu, and Jian-Jun Lu

Item#: AM-25-119668
Online Material
AM-25-119668.zip zipped

1815

Structural behavior and magnetic properties of coquimbite AlFe33+(SO4)6(H2O)12á6H2O over a wide temperature range
Veronika R. Abdulina, Artem S. Borisov, Oleg I. Siidra, Victoria A. Ginga, Nicolas Sanchez, Annette Setzer, and Astrid Holzheid

Item#: AM-25-119776
CIF
AM-25-119776.zip zipped

1825

The transformation of magnesium phosphate minerals at atmospheric conditions: Mechanisms, kinetics, and environmental applications
Rebecca Volkmann, Roberts Blukis, Christian Schmidt, Pablo Forjanes, and Liane G. Benning

Item#: AM-25-119578
Online Material
AM-25-119578.zip zipped

1835

Native tin as solidified molten-metal droplets in a hydrothermal fluid from the epithermal Pukanec deposit (Slovakia)
Juraj Majzlan, Ingo Horn, Stefan Weyer, Tomáš Mikuš, Jozef Vlasáč, and Adrián Biroň

Item#: AM-25-119522
Online Material
AM-25-119522.zip zipped

1844

Wangyanite, PdNi8S8, a new Pd end-member mineral of the pentlandite group from the J-M reef, Stillwater Complex, Montana, U.S.A.
Chen Chen, Haiyang Xian, M. Christopher Jenkins, Zhuosen Yao, Yiping Yang, Xiaoju Lin, Shan Li, Jiaxin Xi, Yuhuan Yuan, Jianxi Zhu, and Hongping He

Item#: AM-25-119640
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-119640.zip zipped

1854

Crystal chemistry and high-temperature behavior of Al-bearing stishovite and Al-rich phase D: Implications for water storage in the deep mantle
Li Zhang, Joseph R. Smyth, and Chaowen Xu

Item#: AM-25-119665
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-119665.zip zipped
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