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Footemineite, the Mn-analog of atencioite, from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its relationship with other roscheritegroup minerals
Daniel Atencio, Paulo A. Matioli, Jason B. Smith, Nikita V. Chukanov, José M.V. Coutinho, Ramimiza K. Rastsvetaeva, and Steffen Möckel

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Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 1. Supergene dissolution of Pt-bearing chromite
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, François Chabaux, Chantal Peiffert, Jean-Claude Parisot, Jean-Paul Ambrosi, and Fabrice Colin

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Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 2. Dissolution vs. accumulation of platinum group minerals
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, Thierry Augé, Jean Claude Parisot, Fabrice Colin, and Michel Cathelineau

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A low-pressure–high-temperature technique for the piston-cylinder
Gordon Moore, Kurt Roggensack, and Stan Klonowski

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Metamorphic vanadian-chromian silicate mineralization in carbon-rich amphibole schists from the Malé Karpaty Mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia
Pavel Uher, Martin Kováčik, Michal Kubiš, Alexander Shtukenberg, and Daniel Ozdín

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Menezesite, the first natural heteropolyniobate, from Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil: Description and crystal structure
Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Antonio C. Doriguetto, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, Javier Ellena, and Viviane C. Ferrari

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Direnzoite, [NaK₆MgCa₂(Al₁₃Si₄₇O₁₂₀)·36H₂O], a new zeolite from Massif Central (France): Description and crystal structure
E. Galli and A.F. Gualtieri

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Analytical transmission electron microscopy study of a natural MORB sample assemblage transformed at high pressure and high temperature
Angèle Ricolleau, Guillaume Fiquet, Ahmed Addad, Nicolas Menguy, Christian Vanni, Jean-Philippe Perrillat, Isabelle Daniel, Hervé Cardon, and Nicolas Guignot

210

Synthesis and characterization of low-OH–fluor-chlorapatite: A single-crystal XRD and NMR spectroscopic study
Francis M. McCubbin, Harris E. Mason, Hyunsoo Park, Brian L. Phillips, John B. Parise, Hanna Nekvasil, and Donald H. Lindsley

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BOOK REVIEW: WILLS’ MINERAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ORE TREATMENT AND MINERAL RECOVERY, Seventh edition, by B.A. Wills and T.J. Napier-Munn. (2006) Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier), Burlington, Massachusetts. 456 p. ISBN: 978-0-7506-4450-1.
Vincent J. Van Hinsberg

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Toward a thermal model for the Skaergaard liquidus
S.A. Morse

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Environments around Al, Si, and Ca in aluminate and aluminosilicate melts by X-ray absorption spectroscopy at high temperature
D.R. Neuville, L. Cormier, D. de Ligny, J. Roux, A-M. Flank, and P. Lagarde

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Element mobility and scale of mass transport in the formation of quartz veins during regional metamorphism of the Waits River Formation, east-central Vermont
Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland and John M. Ferry

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Comparative Raman spectroscopic study on ilmenite-type MgSiO₃ (akimotoite), MgGeO₃, and MgTiO₃ (geikielite) at high temperatures and high pressures
Taku Okada, Toshiharu Narita, Takaya Nagai, and Takamitsu Yamanaka

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Pressure-induced structural deformation and elastic behavior of wairakite
Silvia Ori, Simona Quartieri, Giovanna Vezzalini, and Vladimir Dmitriev

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High-temperature deformation of volcanic materials in the presence of water
G. Robert, J.K. Russell, D. Giordano, and C. Romano

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Single-crystal X-ray and Raman investigation on melanophlogite from Varano Marchesi (Parma, Italy)
Mario Tribaudino, Andrea Artoni, Christian Mavris, Danilo Bersani, Pier Paolo Lottici, and Daniele Belletti

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On twinning and microstructures in calcite and dolomite
Ann-Kristin Larsson and Andrew G. Christy

114

Density functional calculations of the electronic structure and optical properties of aluminosilicate polymorphs (Al₂SiO₅)
Sitaram Aryal, Paul Rulis, and W.Y. Ching

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Crystal-size distribution and composition of garnets in eclogites from the Dabie orogen, central China
Hao Cheng, Zuyi Zhou, and Eizo Nakamura

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Cation order/disorder behavior and crystal chemistry of pyrope-grossular garnets: An ¹⁷O 3QMAS and ²⁷Al MAS NMR spectroscopic study
Kimberly E. Kelsey, Jonathan F. Stebbins, Lin-Shu Du, Jed L. Mosenfelder, Paul D. Asimow, and Charles A. Geiger

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Barioperovskite, BaTiO₃, a new mineral from the Benitoite Mine, California
Chi Ma and George R. Rossman

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The nature of unusual luminescence in natural calcite CaCO₃
Michael Gaft, Lev Nagli, Gerard Panczer, Glenn Waychunas, and Naomi Porat

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Carbonate in igneous and metamorphic fluorapatite: Two type A and two type B substitutions
R. Chris Tacker

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The crystal structure of diopside at pressure to 10 GPa
Richard M. Thompson and Robert T. Downs

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Electron backscatter diffraction analysis of zircon: A systematic assessment of match unit characteristics and pattern indexing optimization
Steven M. Reddy, Nicholas E. Timms, and Bruce M. Eglington

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Compressibility trends of the clinopyroxenes, and in-situ high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite
Andrew C. McCarthy, Robert T. Downs, and Richard M. Thompson

217

Pressure dependence of the hydrogen-bond geometry in topaz-OD from neutron powder diffraction
K. Komatsu, H. Kagi, W.G. Marshall, T. Kuribayashi, J.B. Parise, and Y. Kudoh

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The origin of S⁴⁺ detected in silicate glasses by XANES
Max Wilke, Pedro J. Jugo, Kevin Klimm, Jean Susini, Roman Botcharnikov, Simon C. Kohn, and Markus Janousch

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Effects of ionizing radiation on the hollandite structure-type: Ba_0.85Cs_0.26Al_1.35Fe_0.77Ti_5.90O₁₆
Abdesselam Abdelouas, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Tomo Suzuki, Bernd Grambow, Thierry Advocat, Florence Bart, and Rodney C. Ewing

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NEW MINERAL NAMES
Kim Tait, Glenn Poirier, Ralph Rowe and Paula C. Piilonen

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