American Mineralogist

Volume 110, Issue no. 12 : December 2025

Letter

2042 Synthesis and crystal structure of V-rich tourmaline
Tatiana V. Setkova, Liudmila A. Gorelova, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Anna V. Spivak, Polina A. Verchenko, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Vladimir N. Bocharov, and Dmitrii V. Pankin

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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
REGULAR ARTICLES

1954 Formation and transformation of clay minerals influenced by biological weathering in a red soil profile in Yangtze River, China
Yiming Wang, Qian Fang, Hanlie Hong, Lulu Zhao, Anbei Deng, Ke Yin, and Zhong-Qiang Chen

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1877 Synthesis of zircon-hafnon to determine oxygen isotope matrix effects in secondary ionization mass spectrometry
Axel K. Schmitt, Leonid Aranovich, and Ilya Bindeman

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1886 Using multimodal X-ray computed tomography to advance 3D petrography: A non-destructive investigation of olivine inside a carbonaceous chondrite
Matthew J. Pankhurst, Jette Oddershede, Rhian H. Jones, Daniel M. Thorley, Olivia A. Barbee, Nghia T. Vo, Katherine J. Dobson, Andrew Bodey, and David Eastwood

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1898 Pre-eruptive characteristics of "suspect" silicic magmas in Carlin-type Au-forming systems
Celestine N. Mercer, Julie Roberge, Regina M. Khoury, and Albert H. Hofstra

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1919 Accurate XANES determination of microscale Fe redox state in clinopyroxene: A multivariate approach with polarization-dependent Fe K-edge XAFS
Taisuke Ito, Simon R. Wallis, and Yoshio Takahashi

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1936 Apatite geochemistry records crustal anatexis: A case study of metapelites and granitic gneisses from the Cona area in the eastern Himalaya
Min Ji, Xiao-Ying Gao, Cong Tu, and Xuan-Jin Chen

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1967 Mineralogy and precipitation controls on saprolite lithium isotopes during intensive weathering of basalt
Guanhong Zhu, Jinlong Ma, Gangjian Wei, Le Zhang, Wenfeng Deng, Xinyue He, and Zhuoying Zhang

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1977 Texture and geochemistry of multi-stage hydrothermal scheelite in the Dongyuan porphyry-type W-Mo deposit, South China: Implications for the ore-forming process and fluid metasomatism
Jia-Xiang Dong, Xiao-Fei Pan, Shao-Yong Jiang, Zeng-Qian Hou, Yan-Shen Yang, Suo-Fei Xiong, and Yong-Peng Ouyang

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1996 Anoxic and iron-rich seawater conditions facilitated reverse weathering: Evidence from the Mesoproterozoic siliceous rocks
Zhutong Ke, Xiaoying Shi, Longfei Sun, Baozeng Xie, Jinxin Chen, Quan Zhong, Min Wang, Xinqiang Wang, Limin Zhou, Jianbai Ma, Lei Xu, and Dongjie Tang

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2007 The effect of H2O on the crystallization of orthopyroxene in a high-Mg andesitic melt
Lennart Koch, Renat R. Almeev, Stefan A. Linsler, Felix Marxer, and François Holtz

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2017 Bradleyite Na3Mg(PO4)(CO3) inclusion in diamond: Structure and significance
Felix V. Kaminsky, Enrico Mugnaioli, and Sofia Lorenzon

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2029 Revision of Y3+ ionic radii in common minerals based on trace element partitioning
Matthew J. Kohn and Darin M. Schwartz

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2034 Aqueous fluid drives rhenium depletion in the continental crust
Shuo Xue, Hongping He, Ming-Xing Ling, and Xing Ding

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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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

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LETTER

2042

Synthesis and crystal structure of V-rich tourmaline
Tatiana V. Setkova, Liudmila A. Gorelova, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Anna V. Spivak, Polina A. Verchenko, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Vladimir N. Bocharov, and Dmitrii V. Pankin

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Lithium, Beryllium and Boron: Quintessentially Crustal

1865

Ertlite, NaAl3Al6(Si4B2O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Jan Cempírek, Erik Jonsson, Lenka Skřápková, Radek Škoda, Uwe Kolitsch, Renata Čopjakova, Lee A. Groat, Anthony R. Kampf, Aaron J. Lussier, Frank C. Hawthorne, Jakub Haifler, Markéta Holá, and Martin Ende

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1877

Synthesis of zircon-hafnon to determine oxygen isotope matrix effects in secondary ionization mass spectrometry
Axel K. Schmitt, Leonid Aranovich, and Ilya Bindeman

Open Access     Deposit Item

1886

Using multimodal X-ray computed tomography to advance 3D petrography: A non-destructive investigation of olivine inside a carbonaceous chondrite
Matthew J. Pankhurst, Jette Oddershede, Rhian H. Jones, Daniel M. Thorley, Olivia A. Barbee, Nghia T. Vo, Katherine J. Dobson, Andrew Bodey, and David Eastwood

Open Access     Deposit Item

1898

Pre-eruptive characteristics of “suspect” silicic magmas in Carlin-type Au-forming systems
Celestine N. Mercer, Julie Roberge, Regina M. Khoury, and Albert H. Hofstra

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1919

Accurate XANES determination of microscale Fe redox state in clinopyroxene: A multivariate approach with polarization-dependent Fe K-edge XAFS
Taisuke Ito, Simon R. Wallis, and Yoshio Takahashi

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1936

Apatite geochemistry records crustal anatexis: A case study of metapelites and granitic gneisses from the Cona area in the eastern Himalaya
Min Ji, Xiao-Ying Gao, Cong Tu, and Xuan-Jin Chen

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1954

Formation and transformation of clay minerals influenced by biological weathering in a red soil profile in Yangtze River, China
Yiming Wang, Qian Fang, Hanlie Hong, Lulu Zhao, Anbei Deng, Ke Yin, and Zhong-Qiang Chen

Abstract     Members Full Text Download      

1967

Mineralogy and precipitation controls on saprolite lithium isotopes during intensive weathering of basalt
Guanhong Zhu, Jinlong Ma, Gangjian Wei, Le Zhang, Wenfeng Deng, Xinyue He, and Zhuoying Zhang

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1977

Texture and geochemistry of multi-stage hydrothermal scheelite in the Dongyuan porphyry-type W-Mo deposit, South China: Implications for the ore-forming process and fluid metasomatism
Jia-Xiang Dong, Xiao-Fei Pan, Shao-Yong Jiang, Zeng-Qian Hou, Yan-Shen Yang, Suo-Fei Xiong, and Yong-Peng Ouyang

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

1996

Anoxic and iron-rich seawater conditions facilitated reverse weathering: Evidence from the Mesoproterozoic siliceous rocks
Zhutong Ke, Xiaoying Shi, Longfei Sun, Baozeng Xie, Jinxin Chen, Quan Zhong, Min Wang, Xinqiang Wang, Limin Zhou, Jianbai Ma, Lei Xu, and Dongjie Tang

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2007

The effect of H2O on the crystallization of orthopyroxene in a high-Mg andesitic melt
Lennart Koch, Renat R. Almeev, Stefan A. Linsler, Felix Marxer, and François Holtz

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

2017

Bradleyite Na3Mg(PO4)(CO3) inclusion in diamond: Structure and significance
Felix V. Kaminsky, Enrico Mugnaioli, and Sofia Lorenzon

Abstract     Members Full Text Download           Deposit Item

2029

Revision of Y3+ ionic radii in common minerals based on trace element partitioning
Matthew J. Kohn and Darin M. Schwartz

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2034

Aqueous fluid drives rhenium depletion in the continental crust
Shuo Xue, Hongping He, Ming-Xing Ling, and Xing Ding

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

1865

Ertlite, NaAl3Al6(Si4B2O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Jan Cempírek, Erik Jonsson, Lenka Skřápková, Radek Škoda, Uwe Kolitsch, Renata Čopjakova, Lee A. Groat, Anthony R. Kampf, Aaron J. Lussier, Frank C. Hawthorne, Jakub Haifler, Markéta Holá, and Martin Ende

Item#: AM-25-129816
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-129816.zip zipped

1877

Synthesis of zircon-hafnon to determine oxygen isotope matrix effects in secondary ionization mass spectrometry
Axel K. Schmitt, Leonid Aranovich, and Ilya Bindeman

Item#: AM-25-129886
Online Material
AM-25-129886.zip zipped

1886

Using multimodal X-ray computed tomography to advance 3D petrography: A non-destructive investigation of olivine inside a carbonaceous chondrite
Matthew J. Pankhurst, Jette Oddershede, Rhian H. Jones, Daniel M. Thorley, Olivia A. Barbee, Nghia T. Vo, Katherine J. Dobson, Andrew Bodey, and David Eastwood

Item#: AM-25-129213
Online Material
AM-25-129213.zip zipped

1898

Pre-eruptive characteristics of “suspect” silicic magmas in Carlin-type Au-forming systems
Celestine N. Mercer, Julie Roberge, Regina M. Khoury, and Albert H. Hofstra

Item#: AM-25-129372
Online Material
AM-25-129372.zip zipped

1919

Accurate XANES determination of microscale Fe redox state in clinopyroxene: A multivariate approach with polarization-dependent Fe K-edge XAFS
Taisuke Ito, Simon R. Wallis, and Yoshio Takahashi

Item#: AM-25-129712
Online Material
AM-25-129712.zip zipped

1936

Apatite geochemistry records crustal anatexis: A case study of metapelites and granitic gneisses from the Cona area in the eastern Himalaya
Min Ji, Xiao-Ying Gao, Cong Tu, and Xuan-Jin Chen

Item#: AM-25-129685
Online Material
AM-25-129685.zip zipped

1967

Mineralogy and precipitation controls on saprolite lithium isotopes during intensive weathering of basalt
Guanhong Zhu, Jinlong Ma, Gangjian Wei, Le Zhang, Wenfeng Deng, Xinyue He, and Zhuoying Zhang

Item#: AM-25-129515
Online Material
AM-25-129515.zip zipped

1977

Texture and geochemistry of multi-stage hydrothermal scheelite in the Dongyuan porphyry-type W-Mo deposit, South China: Implications for the ore-forming process and fluid metasomatism
Jia-Xiang Dong, Xiao-Fei Pan, Shao-Yong Jiang, Zeng-Qian Hou, Yan-Shen Yang, Suo-Fei Xiong, and Yong-Peng Ouyang

Item#: AM-25-129716
Online Material
AM-25-129716.zip zipped

1996

Anoxic and iron-rich seawater conditions facilitated reverse weathering: Evidence from the Mesoproterozoic siliceous rocks
Zhutong Ke, Xiaoying Shi, Longfei Sun, Baozeng Xie, Jinxin Chen, Quan Zhong, Min Wang, Xinqiang Wang, Limin Zhou, Jianbai Ma, Lei Xu, and Dongjie Tang

Item#: AM-25-129543
Online Material
AM-25-129543.zip zipped

2007

The effect of H2O on the crystallization of orthopyroxene in a high-Mg andesitic melt
Lennart Koch, Renat R. Almeev, Stefan A. Linsler, Felix Marxer, and François Holtz

Item#: AM-25-129593
Online Material
AM-25-129593.zip zipped

2017

Bradleyite Na3Mg(PO4)(CO3) inclusion in diamond: Structure and significance
Felix V. Kaminsky, Enrico Mugnaioli, and Sofia Lorenzon

Item#: AM-25-129704
CIF and Online Material
AM-25-129704.zip zipped

2029

Revision of Y3+ ionic radii in common minerals based on trace element partitioning
Matthew J. Kohn and Darin M. Schwartz

Item#: AM-25-129771
Online Material
AM-25-129771.zip zipped

2034

Aqueous fluid drives rhenium depletion in the continental crust
Shuo Xue, Hongping He, Ming-Xing Ling, and Xing Ding

Item#: AM-25-129774
Online Material
AM-25-129774.zip zipped

2042

Synthesis and crystal structure of V-rich tourmaline
Tatiana V. Setkova, Liudmila A. Gorelova, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Anna V. Spivak, Polina A. Verchenko, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Vladimir N. Bocharov, and Dmitrii V. Pankin

Item#: AM-25-129882
Online Material
AM-25-129882.zip zipped
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