American Mineralogist

Volume 109, Issue no. 12 : December 2024

Letter

MSA Presidential Address

1   MSA at 100 and why optical mineralogy still matters: The optical properties of talc
Mickey E. Gunter
REGULAR ARTICLES

2037 Evaluation of the Rietveld method for determining content and chemical composition of inorganic X-ray amorphous materials in soils
Sileola Joseph Akinbodunse, Kristian Ufer, Reiner Dohrmann, and Christian Mikutta

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2052 High-pressure phase transition of olivine-type Mg2GeO4 to a metastable forsterite-III type structure and their equations of state
R. Valli Divya, Gulshan Kumar, R.E. Cohen, Sally J. Tracy, Yue Meng, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Rajkrishna Dutta

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2060 The application of "transfer learning" in optical microscopy: The petrographic classification of opaque minerals
Yi-Wei Cai, Kun-Feng Qiu, Maurizio Petrelli, Zhao-Liang Hou, M. Santosh, Hao-Cheng Yu, Ryan T. Armstrong, and Jun Deng

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2073 Mechanisms of fluid degassing in shallow magma chambers control the formation of porphyry deposits
Zixuan Wang, Yuanchuan Zheng, Bo Xu, Zengqian Hou, Yang Shen, Aiping Zhang, Lu Wang, Changda Wu, and Qingfeng Guo

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2086 The OH-stretching region in infrared spectra of the apatite OH-Cl binary system
Robert C. Tacker, John Rakovan, Daniel Harlov, John M. Hughes, and Sarah B. Cichy

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2095 Thermal equation of state of Li-rich schorl up to 15.5 GPa and 673 K: Implications for lithium and boron transport in slab subduction
Wei Chen, Shanrong Zhang, Mengzeng Wu, Qifa Zhong, Shijie Huang, Kai Wang, Wei Zhao, Jingui Xu, Dawei Fan, and Wenge Zhou

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2105 Raman scattering of omphacite at high pressure: Toward its possible application to elastic geothermobarometry
Lisa Baratelli, Mara Murri, Matteo Alvaro, Mauro Prencipe, Boriana Mihailova, and Fernando Cámara

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2116 Interpreting mineral deposit genesis classification with decision maps: A case study using pyrite trace elements
Yu Wang, Kun-Feng Qiu, Alexandru C. Telea, Zhao-Liang Hou, Tong Zhou, Yi-Wei Cai, Zheng-Jiang Ding, Hao-Cheng Yu, and Jun Deng

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2127 Geochemical characteristics of mineral inclusions in the Luobusa chromitite (Southern Tibet): Implications for an intricate geological setting
Fahui Xiong, Basem Zoheir, Xiangzhen Xu, Guolin Guo, Matthias Frische, and Jingsui Yang

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2142 Three new iron-phosphate minerals from the El Ali iron meteorite, Somalia: Elaliite Fe82+Fe3+(PO4)O8, elkinstantonite Fe4(PO4)2O, and olsenite KFe4(PO4)3
Christopher D.K. Herd, Chi Ma, Andrew J. Locock, Radhika Saini, and Erin L. Walton

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2152 Intervalence charge transfer in aluminum oxide and aluminosilicate minerals at elevated temperatures
Helen V. Evans and George R. Rossman

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2162 Electron probe microanalysis of trace sulfur in experimental basaltic glasses and silicate minerals
Anna Johnson, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Gelu Costin, and Kyusei Tsuno

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

Supplements

Welcome to MSA/American Mineralogist Supplemental Materials. These are free to all readers. Discover extra tables, supplemental data, CIFs, appendices, extra figures, and in the future “methods sections”. To find previous issues, go to that Table of Contents and click on the link. We ask that all materials be cited so that credit is given to the authors and American Mineralogist. The pure datasets are not copyrightable. All other material is copyrighted by the authors.

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
AM-22-17811.zip zipped


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
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-17818.zip zipped


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
Online Material
AM-22-17731.zip zipped


82    A Rayleigh model of cesium fractionation in granite-pegmatite systems
David London
Item #AM-22-17855
Online Material
AM-22-17855.zip zipped


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
AM-22-17651.zip zipped


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
Online Material
AM-22-17904.zip zipped


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
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-17875.zip zipped


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
CIF and Online Material
AM-22-17747.zip zipped


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

Isotopes, Minerals, and Petrology: Honoring John Valley

2013

Fluids in the shallow mantle of southeastern Australia: Insights from phase equilibria
William M. Lamb, Lindsey E. Hunt, and Robert K. Popp

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2026

Compositional effects on the etching of fossil confined fission tracks in apatite
Hongyang Fu, Florian Trilsch, Raymond Jonckheere, and Lothar Ratschbacher

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

Regular Article

2037

Evaluation of the Rietveld method for determining content and chemical composition of inorganic X-ray amorphous materials in soils
Sileola Joseph Akinbodunse, Kristian Ufer, Reiner Dohrmann, and Christian Mikutta

Open Access     Deposit Item

2052

High-pressure phase transition of olivine-type Mg2GeO4 to a metastable forsterite-III type structure and their equations of state
R. Valli Divya, Gulshan Kumar, R.E. Cohen, Sally J. Tracy, Yue Meng, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Rajkrishna Dutta

Open Access     Deposit Item

2060

The application of “transfer learning” in optical microscopy: The petrographic classification of opaque minerals
Yi-Wei Cai, Kun-Feng Qiu, Maurizio Petrelli, Zhao-Liang Hou, M. Santosh, Hao-Cheng Yu, Ryan T. Armstrong, and Jun Deng

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2073

Mechanisms of fluid degassing in shallow magma chambers control the formation of porphyry deposits
Zixuan Wang, Yuanchuan Zheng, Bo Xu, Zengqian Hou, Yang Shen, Aiping Zhang, Lu Wang, Changda Wu, and Qingfeng Guo

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2086

The OH-stretching region in infrared spectra of the apatite OH-Cl binary system
Robert C. Tacker, John Rakovan, Daniel Harlov, John M. Hughes, and Sarah B. Cichy

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2095

Thermal equation of state of Li-rich schorl up to 15.5 GPa and 673 K: Implications for lithium and boron transport in slab subduction
Wei Chen, Shanrong Zhang, Mengzeng Wu, Qifa Zhong, Shijie Huang, Kai Wang, Wei Zhao, Jingui Xu, Dawei Fan, and Wenge Zhou

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

2105

Raman scattering of omphacite at high pressure: Toward its possible application to elastic geothermobarometry
Lisa Baratelli, Mara Murri, Matteo Alvaro, Mauro Prencipe, Boriana Mihailova, and Fernando Cámara

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2116

Interpreting mineral deposit genesis classification with decision maps: A case study using pyrite trace elements
Yu Wang, Kun-Feng Qiu, Alexandru C. Telea, Zhao-Liang Hou, Tong Zhou, Yi-Wei Cai, Zheng-Jiang Ding, Hao-Cheng Yu, and Jun Deng

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2127

Geochemical characteristics of mineral inclusions in the Luobusa chromitite (Southern Tibet): Implications for an intricate geological setting
Fahui Xiong, Basem Zoheir, Xiangzhen Xu, Guolin Guo, Matthias Frische, and Jingsui Yang

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2142

Three new iron-phosphate minerals from the El Ali iron meteorite, Somalia: Elaliite Fe82+Fe3+(PO4)O8, elkinstantonite Fe4(PO4)2O, and olsenite KFe4(PO4)3
Christopher D.K. Herd, Chi Ma, Andrew J. Locock, Radhika Saini, and Erin L. Walton

Open Access

2152

Intervalence charge transfer in aluminum oxide and aluminosilicate minerals at elevated temperatures
Helen V. Evans and George R. Rossman

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

2162

Electron probe microanalysis of trace sulfur in experimental basaltic glasses and silicate minerals
Anna Johnson, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Gelu Costin, and Kyusei Tsuno

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

NEW MINERAL NAMES

2173

NEW MINERAL NAMES

Full Text     

BOOK REVIEWS

2176

BOOK REVIEW

Full Text     

DEPOSIT ITEMS

2013

Fluids in the shallow mantle of southeastern Australia: Insights from phase equilibria
William M. Lamb, Lindsey E. Hunt, and Robert K. Popp

Item#: AM-24-128735
Online Material
AM-24-128735.zip zipped

2026

Compositional effects on the etching of fossil confined fission tracks in apatite
Hongyang Fu, Florian Trilsch, Raymond Jonckheere, and Lothar Ratschbacher

Item#: AM-24-129331
Online Material
AM-24-129331.zip zipped

2037

Evaluation of the Rietveld method for determining content and chemical composition of inorganic X-ray amorphous materials in soils
Sileola Joseph Akinbodunse, Kristian Ufer, Reiner Dohrmann, and Christian Mikutta

Item#: AM-24-129240
Online Material
AM-24-129240.zip zipped

2052

High-pressure phase transition of olivine-type Mg2GeO4 to a metastable forsterite-III type structure and their equations of state
R. Valli Divya, Gulshan Kumar, R.E. Cohen, Sally J. Tracy, Yue Meng, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Rajkrishna Dutta

Item#: AM-24-129208
CIF and Online Material
AM-24-129208.zip zipped

2060

The application of “transfer learning” in optical microscopy: The petrographic classification of opaque minerals
Yi-Wei Cai, Kun-Feng Qiu, Maurizio Petrelli, Zhao-Liang Hou, M. Santosh, Hao-Cheng Yu, Ryan T. Armstrong, and Jun Deng

Item#: AM-24-129092
Online Material
AM-24-129092.zip zipped

2073

Mechanisms of fluid degassing in shallow magma chambers control the formation of porphyry deposits
Zixuan Wang, Yuanchuan Zheng, Bo Xu, Zengqian Hou, Yang Shen, Aiping Zhang, Lu Wang, Changda Wu, and Qingfeng Guo

Item#: AM-24-129091
Online Material
AM-24-129091.zip zipped

2086

The OH-stretching region in infrared spectra of the apatite OH-Cl binary system
Robert C. Tacker, John Rakovan, Daniel Harlov, John M. Hughes, and Sarah B. Cichy

Item#: AM-24-129059
Online Material
AM-24-129059.zip zipped

2105

Raman scattering of omphacite at high pressure: Toward its possible application to elastic geothermobarometry
Lisa Baratelli, Mara Murri, Matteo Alvaro, Mauro Prencipe, Boriana Mihailova, and Fernando Cámara

Item#: AM-24-129140
CIF and Online Material
AM-24-129140.zip zipped

2116

Interpreting mineral deposit genesis classification with decision maps: A case study using pyrite trace elements
Yu Wang, Kun-Feng Qiu, Alexandru C. Telea, Zhao-Liang Hou, Tong Zhou, Yi-Wei Cai, Zheng-Jiang Ding, Hao-Cheng Yu, and Jun Deng

Item#: AM-24-129254
Online Material
AM-24-129254.zip zipped

2127

Geochemical characteristics of mineral inclusions in the Luobusa chromitite (Southern Tibet): Implications for an intricate geological setting
Fahui Xiong, Basem Zoheir, Xiangzhen Xu, Guolin Guo, Matthias Frische, and Jingsui Yang

Item#: AM-24-129273
Online Material
AM-24-129273.zip zipped

2152

Intervalence charge transfer in aluminum oxide and aluminosilicate minerals at elevated temperatures
Helen V. Evans and George R. Rossman

Item#: AM-24-129343
Online Material
AM-24-129343.zip zipped
TABLE OF CONTENTS
&
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Table of Contents

AmMin submission to acceptance/”first publication” is at a record average of about three to four months. Our acceptance to “final” publication is presently another 13 months on average.

Special Collections

American Mineralogist is an international journal that publishes mineralogical papers of broad interest to the geoscience and materials science community.