American Mineralogist

Volume 109, Issue no. 03 : March 2024

Letter

624 A simple method for obtaining heat capacity coefficients of minerals
Samuel Bowman, Arkajyoti Pathak, Vikas Agrawal, and Shikha Sharma

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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

408 Halogen fractionation during vapor-brine phase separation revealed by in situ Cl, Br, and I analysis of scapolite from the Yixingzhai gold deposit, North China Craton
Wen-Sheng Gao, Xiao-Dong Deng, Lei Chen, Li-Zhong Zhang, Yu-Xiang Li, Tao Luo, and Jian-Wei Li

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422 The effects of oxygen fugacity and sulfur on the pressure of vapor-saturation of magma
Ery C. Hughes, Philippa Liggins, Lee Saper, and Edward M. Stolper

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439 A revisit to the phase transition behavior of K-feldspar at high-pressure and high-temperature: Implications on metastable K-feldspar in cold subduction
Chengcheng He and Heping Li

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449 Equation of state and structural evolution of manganese dolomite (kutnohorite) under high pressures
Liangxu Xu, Weibin Gui, Kewei Shen, Dongzhou Zhang, Jingui Xu, and Jin Liu

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628 Molybdenum isotopic fractionation in the Panzhihua mafic layered intrusion in the Emeishan large igneous province, southwest China
Le Zhang, Jie Li, Yan Zhang, Bing-Yu Peng, Zhi-Bing Wang, and Zhong-Yuan Ren

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REGULAR ARTICLES

457 A possible origin of the lunar spinel-bearing lithologies as told by the meteorite NWA 13191
Lan F. Xie, Hong Y. Chen, Bing K. Miao, Wen L. Song, Zhi P. Xia, Chuan T. Zhang, Guo Z. Chen, Jin Y. Zhang, Si Z. Zhao, and Xu K. Gao

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471 Vergasovaite to cupromolybdite topotactic transformation with crystal shape preservation
Evgeni V. Nazarchuk, Oleg I. Siidra, Dmitri O. Charkin, Gleb V. Nikolaevich, Artem S. Borisov, and Valery L. Ugolkov

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482 Thermal conductivity of aluminous garnets in Earth's deep interior
Yu-Ping Grace Hung, Yi-Chi Tsao, Chun-Hung Lin, and Wen-Pin Hsieh

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488 Interaction of seawater with (ultra)mafic alkaline rocks— Alternative process for the formation of aegirine
Vladislav Rapprich, Dalibor Matýsek, Ondřej Pour, Jakub Jirásek, Jitka Míková1, and Tomáš Magna

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502 Experimental study on the kinetics of magnesiohornblende dehydration and its implications
Kenan Han, Li Yi, Duojun Wang, Ruixin Zhang, and Peng Chen

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510 Predicting olivine formation environments using machine learning and implications for magmatic sulfide prospecting
Shengchao Xue, Yunyun Niu, Zhuosen Yao, Luyang Wang, Xiaohao Zhang, and Qingfei Wang

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521 Reaction between volatile-bearing eclogite and harzburgite as a function of degree of interaction: Experimental constraints at 4 GPa
Oded Elazar and Ronit Kessel

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533 Thermal behavior of borax, Na2B4O5(OH)4·8H2O
Wataru Nishiyasu and Atsushi Kyono

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540 Multiple magmatic processes revealed by distinct clinopyroxene populations in the magma plumbing system: A case study from a Miocene volcano in West Qinling, Central China
Guo-Kun Zhang, Xiao-Wei Li, Ji-Feng Xu, Fang-Yue Wang, Thomas Bader, Guang-Yue Cao, Feng Huang, Xuan-Xue Mo, Wei Shan, Da-Peng Li, and Guo-Chen Dong

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556 Genetic implications, composition, and structure of trioctahedral micas in xenoliths related to Plinian eruptions from the Somma-Vesuvius volcano (Italy)
Giuseppina Balassone, Emanuela Schingaro, Maria Lacalamita, Ernesto Mesto, Angela Mormone, Monica Piochi, Vincenza Guarino, Annamaria Pellino, and Loredana D'Orazio

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574 Magmatic and hydrothermal controls on diverse Nb mineralization associated with carbonatite-alkaline complexes in the southern Qinling orogenic belt, Central China
Rong-Lin Ma, Wei Terry Chen, and Yan-Wen Tang

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591 Potassium isotope fractionation during silicate-carbonatite melt immiscibility and phlogopite fractional crystallization
Ben-Xun Su, Qi-Qi Pan, Yang Bai, Wen-Jun Li, Meng-Meng Cui, and Kwan-Nang Pang

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599 Yuchuanite-(Y), Y2(CO3)3·H2O, a new hydrous yttrium carbonate mineral from the Yushui Cu deposit, South China
Wei Yao, Peng Liu, Guowu Li, Ningyue Sun, Wenqiang Yang, Chengyao Jiang, Wei Du, Chao Zhang, Wenlei Song, Nigel J. Cook, and Jingwen Mao

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606 Nature and timing of Sn mineralization in southern Hunan, South China: Constraints from LA-ICP-MS cassiterite U-Pb geochronology and trace element composition
Tao Ren, Huan Li, Thomas J. Algeo, Musa Bala Girei, Jinghua Wu, and Biao Liu

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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
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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

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82    A Rayleigh model of cesium fractionation in granite-pegmatite systems
David London
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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LETTERS

624

A simple method for obtaining heat capacity coefficients of minerals
Samuel Bowman, Arkajyoti Pathak, Vikas Agrawal, and Shikha Sharma

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: ISOTOPES, MINERALS, AND PETROLOGY: HONORING JOHN VALLEY

628

Molybdenum isotopic fractionation in the Panzhihua mafic layered intrusion in the Emeishan large igneous province, southwest China
Le Zhang, Jie Li, Yan Zhang, Bing-Yu Peng, Zhi-Bing Wang, and Zhong-Yuan Ren

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REVIEW

401

The composition of mackinawite
David Rickard

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: EXPERIMENTAL AND PETROLOGIC INVESTIGATION OF HALOGENS, SULFUR, AND OTHER VOLATILE SPECIES IN IGNEOUS SYSTEMS IN HONOR OF JIM WEBSTER

408

Halogen fractionation during vapor-brine phase separation revealed by in situ Cl, Br, and I analysis of scapolite from the Yixingzhai gold deposit, North China Craton
Wen-Sheng Gao, Xiao-Dong Deng, Lei Chen, Li-Zhong Zhang, Yu-Xiang Li, Tao Luo, and Jian-Wei Li

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422

The effects of oxygen fugacity and sulfur on the pressure of vapor-saturation of magma
Ery C. Hughes, Philippa Liggins, Lee Saper, and Edward M. Stolper

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SPECIAL COLLECTION: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF EARTH'S DEEP MANTLE AND CORE

439

A revisit to the phase transition behavior of K-feldspar at high-pressure and high-temperature: Implications on metastable K-feldspar in cold subduction
Chengcheng He and Heping Li

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449

Equation of state and structural evolution of manganese dolomite (kutnohorite) under high pressures
Liangxu Xu, Weibin Gui, Kewei Shen, Dongzhou Zhang, Jingui Xu, and Jin Liu

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

REGULAR ARTICLE

457

A possible origin of the lunar spinel-bearing lithologies as told by the meteorite NWA 13191
Lan F. Xie, Hong Y. Chen, Bing K. Miao, Wen L. Song, Zhi P. Xia, Chuan T. Zhang, Guo Z. Chen, Jin Y. Zhang, Si Z. Zhao, and Xu K. Gao

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471

Vergasovaite to cupromolybdite topotactic transformation with crystal shape preservation
Evgeni V. Nazarchuk, Oleg I. Siidra, Dmitri O. Charkin, Gleb V. Nikolaevich, Artem S. Borisov, and Valery L. Ugolkov

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

482

Thermal conductivity of aluminous garnets in Earth’s deep interior
Yu-Ping Grace Hung, Yi-Chi Tsao, Chun-Hung Lin, and Wen-Pin Hsieh

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488

Interaction of seawater with (ultra)mafic alkaline rocks— Alternative process for the formation of aegirine
Vladislav Rapprich, Dalibor Matýsek, Ondřej Pour, Jakub Jirásek, Jitka Míková1, and Tomáš Magna

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502

Experimental study on the kinetics of magnesiohornblende dehydration and its implications
Kenan Han, Li Yi, Duojun Wang, Ruixin Zhang, and Peng Chen

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510

Predicting olivine formation environments using machine learning and implications for magmatic sulfide prospecting
Shengchao Xue, Yunyun Niu, Zhuosen Yao, Luyang Wang, Xiaohao Zhang, and Qingfei Wang

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521

Reaction between volatile-bearing eclogite and harzburgite as a function of degree of interaction: Experimental constraints at 4 GPa
Oded Elazar and Ronit Kessel

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533

Thermal behavior of borax, Na2B4O5(OH)4·8H2O
Wataru Nishiyasu and Atsushi Kyono

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540

Multiple magmatic processes revealed by distinct clinopyroxene populations in the magma plumbing system: A case study from a Miocene volcano in West Qinling, Central China
Guo-Kun Zhang, Xiao-Wei Li, Ji-Feng Xu, Fang-Yue Wang, Thomas Bader, Guang-Yue Cao, Feng Huang, Xuan-Xue Mo, Wei Shan, Da-Peng Li, and Guo-Chen Dong

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

556

Genetic implications, composition, and structure of trioctahedral micas in xenoliths related to Plinian eruptions from the Somma-Vesuvius volcano (Italy)
Giuseppina Balassone, Emanuela Schingaro, Maria Lacalamita, Ernesto Mesto, Angela Mormone, Monica Piochi, Vincenza Guarino, Annamaria Pellino, and Loredana D’Orazio

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

574

Magmatic and hydrothermal controls on diverse Nb mineralization associated with carbonatite-alkaline complexes in the southern Qinling orogenic belt, Central China
Rong-Lin Ma, Wei Terry Chen, and Yan-Wen Tang

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

591

Potassium isotope fractionation during silicate-carbonatite melt immiscibility and phlogopite fractional crystallization
Ben-Xun Su, Qi-Qi Pan, Yang Bai, Wen-Jun Li, Meng-Meng Cui, and Kwan-Nang Pang

Abstract     Members Full Text Download     

599

Yuchuanite-(Y), Y2(CO3)3·H2O, a new hydrous yttrium carbonate mineral from the Yushui Cu deposit, South China
Wei Yao, Peng Liu, Guowu Li, Ningyue Sun, Wenqiang Yang, Chengyao Jiang, Wei Du, Chao Zhang, Wenlei Song, Nigel J. Cook, and Jingwen Mao

Abstract     Members Full Text Download          Deposit Item

606

Nature and timing of Sn mineralization in southern Hunan, South China: Constraints from LA-ICP-MS cassiterite U-Pb geochronology and trace element composition
Tao Ren, Huan Li, Thomas J. Algeo, Musa Bala Girei, Jinghua Wu, and Biao Liu

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

401

The composition of mackinawite
David Rickard

Item#AM-24-38943
Online Material
AM-24-38943.zip zipped

408

Halogen fractionation during vapor-brine phase separation revealed by in situ Cl, Br, and I analysis of scapolite from the Yixingzhai gold deposit, North China Craton
Wen-Sheng Gao, Xiao-Dong Deng, Lei Chen, Li-Zhong Zhang, Yu-Xiang Li, Tao Luo, and Jian-Wei Li

Item#AM-24-38826
Online Material
AM-24-38826.zip zipped

422

The effects of oxygen fugacity and sulfur on the pressure of vapor-saturation of magma
Ery C. Hughes, Philippa Liggins, Lee Saper, and Edward M. Stolper

Item#AM-24-38739
Online Material
AM-24-38739.zip zipped

439

A revisit to the phase transition behavior of K-feldspar at high-pressure and high-temperature: Implications on metastable K-feldspar in cold subduction
Chengcheng He and Heping Li

Item#AM-24-38877
Online Material
AM-24-38877.zip zipped

457

A possible origin of the lunar spinel-bearing lithologies as told by the meteorite NWA 13191
Lan F. Xie, Hong Y. Chen, Bing K. Miao, Wen L. Song, Zhi P. Xia, Chuan T. Zhang, Guo Z. Chen, Jin Y. Zhang, Si Z. Zhao, and Xu K. Gao

Item#AM-24-38728
Online Material
AM-24-38728.zip zipped

471

Vergasovaite to cupromolybdite topotactic transformation with crystal shape preservation
Evgeni V. Nazarchuk, Oleg I. Siidra, Dmitri O. Charkin, Gleb V. Nikolaevich, Artem S. Borisov, and Valery L. Ugolkov

Item#AM-24-38753
CIF and Online Material
AM-24-38753.zip zipped

482

Thermal conductivity of aluminous garnets in Earth’s deep interior
Yu-Ping Grace Hung, Yi-Chi Tsao, Chun-Hung Lin, and Wen-Pin Hsieh

Item#AM-24-38953
Online Material
AM-24-38953.zip zipped

488

Interaction of seawater with (ultra)mafic alkaline rocks— Alternative process for the formation of aegirine
Vladislav Rapprich, Dalibor Matýsek, Ondřej Pour, Jakub Jirásek, Jitka Míková1, and Tomáš Magna

Item#AM-24-38928
Online Material
AM-24-38928.zip zipped

510

Predicting olivine formation environments using machine learning and implications for magmatic sulfide prospecting
Shengchao Xue, Yunyun Niu, Zhuosen Yao, Luyang Wang, Xiaohao Zhang, and Qingfei Wang

Item#AM-24-38893
Online Material
AM-24-38893.zip zipped

521

Reaction between volatile-bearing eclogite and harzburgite as a function of degree of interaction: Experimental constraints at 4 GPa
Oded Elazar and Ronit Kessel

Item#AM-24-38799
Online Material
AM-24-38799.zip zipped

533

Thermal behavior of borax, Na2B4O5(OH)4·8H2O
Wataru Nishiyasu and Atsushi Kyono

Item#AM-24-38970
CIF and Online Material
AM-24-38970.zip zipped

540

Multiple magmatic processes revealed by distinct clinopyroxene populations in the magma plumbing system: A case study from a Miocene volcano in West Qinling, Central China
Guo-Kun Zhang, Xiao-Wei Li, Ji-Feng Xu, Fang-Yue Wang, Thomas Bader, Guang-Yue Cao, Feng Huang, Xuan-Xue Mo, Wei Shan, Da-Peng Li, and Guo-Chen Dong

Item#AM-24-38744
Online Material
AM-24-38744.zip zipped

556

Genetic implications, composition, and structure of trioctahedral micas in xenoliths related to Plinian eruptions from the Somma-Vesuvius volcano (Italy)
Giuseppina Balassone, Emanuela Schingaro, Maria Lacalamita, Ernesto Mesto, Angela Mormone, Monica Piochi, Vincenza Guarino, Annamaria Pellino, and Loredana D’Orazio

Item#AM-24-38782
CIF and Online Material
AM-24-38782.zip zipped

574

Magmatic and hydrothermal controls on diverse Nb mineralization associated with carbonatite-alkaline complexes in the southern Qinling orogenic belt, Central China
Rong-Lin Ma, Wei Terry Chen, and Yan-Wen Tang

Item#AM-24-38651
Online Material
AM-24-38651.zip zipped

599

Yuchuanite-(Y), Y2(CO3)3·H2O, a new hydrous yttrium carbonate mineral from the Yushui Cu deposit, South China
Wei Yao, Peng Liu, Guowu Li, Ningyue Sun, Wenqiang Yang, Chengyao Jiang, Wei Du, Chao Zhang, Wenlei Song, Nigel J. Cook, and Jingwen Mao

Item#AM-24-38971
CIF and Online Material
AM-24-38971.zip zipped

606

Nature and timing of Sn mineralization in southern Hunan, South China: Constraints from LA-ICP-MS cassiterite U-Pb geochronology and trace element composition
Tao Ren, Huan Li, Thomas J. Algeo, Musa Bala Girei, Jinghua Wu, and Biao Liu

Item#AM-24-38823
Online Material
AM-24-38823.zip zipped

624

A simple method for obtaining heat capacity coefficients of minerals
Samuel Bowman, Arkajyoti Pathak, Vikas Agrawal, and Shikha Sharma

Item#AM-24-39109
Online Material
AM-24-39109.zip zipped

628

Molybdenum isotopic fractionation in the Panzhihua mafic layered intrusion in the Emeishan large igneous province, southwest China
Le Zhang, Jie Li, Yan Zhang, Bing-Yu Peng, Zhi-Bing Wang, and Zhong-Yuan Ren

Item#AM-24-39154
Online Material
AM-24-39154.zip zipped
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