American Mineralogist
Open AccessSPECIAL COLLECTION: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF EARTH'S DEEP MANTLE AND CORE
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P-V-T equation of state of hydrous phase A up to 10.5 GPa
Cuiping Yang, Toru Inoue, and Takumi Kikegawa
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Elastic properties and structures of pyrope glass under high pressures
Naoki Hisano, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Tomonori Ohashi, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, Yuji Higo, Yuki Shibazaki, and Akio Suzuki
REGULAR ARTICLE
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Effects of pH and Ca exchange on the structure and redox state of synthetic Na-birnessite
Chiara Elmi, Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and Eugene S. Ilton
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A systematic assessment of the diamond trap method for measuring fluid compositions in high-pressure experiments
Greta Rustioni, Andreas Audétat, and Hans Keppler
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Origin, properties, and structure of breyite: The second most abundant mineral inclusion in super-deep diamonds
Frank E. Brenker, Fabrizio Nestola, Lion Brenker, Luca Peruzzo, and Jeffrey W. Harris
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Why Tolbachik diamonds cannot be natural
Konstantin D. Litasov, Hiroyuki Kagi, Tatyana B. Bekker, Yoshiki Makino, Takafumi Hirata, and Vadim V. Brazhkin
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Deciphering the enigmatic origin of Guyana’s diamonds
Roy Bassoo, Kenneth S. Befus, Peng Liang, Steven L. Forman, and Glenn Sharman
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Precipitation of low-temperature disordered dolomite induced by extracellular polymeric substances of methanogenic Archaea Methanosarcina barkeri: Implications for sedimentary dolomite formation
Fangfu Zhang, Huifang Xu, Evgenya S. Shelobolina, Hiromi Konishi, and Eric E. Roden
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Atomic-scale characterization of commensurate and incommensurate vacancy superstructures in natural pyrrhotites
Lei Jin, Dimitrios Koulialias, Michael Schnedler, Andreas U. Gehring, Mihály Pósfai, Philipp Ebert, Michalis Charilaou, Robin E. Schäublin, Chun-Lin Jia, Jörg F. Löffler, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski
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Three-dimensional and microstructural fingerprinting of gold nanoparticles at fluid-mineral interfaces
Haoyang Zhou, Richard Wirth, Sarah A. Gleeson, Anja Schreiber, and Sathish Mayanna
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Seaborgite, LiNa6K2(UO2)(SO4)5(SO3OH)(H2O), the first uranyl mineral containing lithium
Anthony R. Kampf, Travis A. Olds, Jakub Plášil, Joe Marty, Samuel N. Perry, Loretta Corcoran, and Peter C. Burns
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Reheating and magma mixing recorded by zircon and quartz from high-silica rhyolite in the Coqen region, southern Tibet
Shao-Rong Chen, Qing Wang, Di-Cheng Zhu, Roberto F. Weinberg, Liang-Liang Zhang, and Zhi-Dan Zhao
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Crystal chemistry and thermal behavior of Fe-carpholite from the Pollino Massif, southern Italy
Ernesto Mesto, Salvatore Laurita, Maria Lacalamita, Rosa Sinisi, Giovanna Rizzo, Emanuela Schingaro, and Giovanni Mongelli
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New insights into the control of visible gold fineness and deposition: A case study of the Sanshandao gold deposit, Jiaodong, China
Hong-Wei Peng, Hong-Rui Fan, Xuan Liu, Bo-Jie Wen, Yong-Wen Zhang, and Kai Feng
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A comment on “An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kind clustering”
Frédéric Hatert, Stuart J. Mills, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Mike S. Rumsey
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Reply to “A comment on ‘An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kind clustering’”
Robert M. Hazen
NEW MINERAL NAMES
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
DEPOSIT ITEMS
15
Effects of pH and Ca exchange on the structure and redox state of synthetic Na-birnessite
Chiara Elmi, Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Heaney, and Eugene S. Ilton
38
Origin, properties, and structure of breyite: The second most abundant mineral inclusion in super-deep diamonds
Frank E. Brenker, Fabrizio Nestola, Lion Brenker, Luca Peruzzo, and Jeffrey W. Harris
54
Deciphering the enigmatic origin of Guyana’s diamonds
Roy Bassoo, Kenneth S. Befus, Peng Liang, Steven L. Forman, and Glenn Sharman
69
Precipitation of low-temperature disordered dolomite induced by extracellular polymeric substances of methanogenic Archaea Methanosarcina barkeri: Implications for sedimentary dolomite formation
Fangfu Zhang, Huifang Xu, Evgenya S. Shelobolina, Hiromi Konishi, and Eric E. Roden
82
Atomic-scale characterization of commensurate and incommensurate vacancy superstructures in natural pyrrhotites
Lei Jin, Dimitrios Koulialias, Michael Schnedler, Andreas U. Gehring, Mihály Pósfai, Philipp Ebert, Michalis Charilaou, Robin E. Schäublin, Chun-Lin Jia, Jörg F. Löffler, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski
97
Three-dimensional and microstructural fingerprinting of gold nanoparticles at fluid-mineral interfaces
Haoyang Zhou, Richard Wirth, Sarah A. Gleeson, Anja Schreiber, and Sathish Mayanna
105
Seaborgite, LiNa6K2(UO2)(SO4)5(SO3OH)(H2O), the first uranyl mineral containing lithium
Anthony R. Kampf, Travis A. Olds, Jakub Plášil, Joe Marty, Samuel N. Perry, Loretta Corcoran, and Peter C. Burns
112
Reheating and magma mixing recorded by zircon and quartz from high-silica rhyolite in the Coqen region, southern Tibet
Shao-Rong Chen, Qing Wang, Di-Cheng Zhu, Roberto F. Weinberg, Liang-Liang Zhang, and Zhi-Dan Zhao
123
Crystal chemistry and thermal behavior of Fe-carpholite from the Pollino Massif, southern Italy
Ernesto Mesto, Salvatore Laurita, Maria Lacalamita, Rosa Sinisi, Giovanna Rizzo, Emanuela Schingaro, and Giovanni Mongelli
135
New insights into the control of visible gold fineness and deposition: A case study of the Sanshandao gold deposit, Jiaodong, China
Hong-Wei Peng, Hong-Rui Fan, Xuan Liu, Bo-Jie Wen, Yong-Wen Zhang, and Kai Feng
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