American Mineralogist

Volume 94, Issue no. 10 : October 2009

Letter

1487 Steric hindrance and the enhanced stability of light rare-earth elements in hydrothermal fluids
Robert A. Mayanovic, Alan J. Anderson, William A. Bassett, and I-Ming Chou

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1491 Grossmanite, CaTi3+AlSiO6, a new pyroxene from the Allende meteorite
Chi Ma and George R. Rossman

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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

1293 Evolution of uranium and thorium minerals
Robert M. Hazen, Rodney C. Ewing, and Dimitri A. Sverjensky

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1325 The crystal structure, origin, and formation of idrialite (C22H14): Inferences from the microbeam and bulk analyses
Takuya Echigo, Mitsuyoshi Kimata, Teruyuki Maruoka, Masahiro Shimizu, and Norimasa Nishida

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1333 Structural and spectroscopic characterization of a suite of fibrous amphiboles with high environmental and health relevance from Biancavilla (Sicily, Italy)
Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Paolo Ballirano, Antonio Gianfagna, Simona Mazziotti-Tagliani

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1341 Bulk and key surface structures of hematite, magnetite, and goethite: A density functional theory study
Gary J. Martin, Richard S. Cutting, David J. Vaughan, and Michele C. Warren

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1351 A crystal-chemical investigation of clinozoisite synthesized along the join Ca2Al3Si3O12(OH)-Ca2Al2CrSi3O12(OH)
Mariko Nagashima, Charles A. Geiger, and Masahide Akasaka

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1371 Liquidus temperatures of the Skaergaard magma
Peter Thy, Christian Tegner, and Charles E. Lesher

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1377 Optimizing experimental design, overcoming challenges, and gaining valuable information from the Sb K-edge XANES region
Skya E. Fawcett, Robert A. Gordon, and Heather E. Jamieson

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1392 Effect of lattice topology on the adsorption of benzyl alcohol on kaolinite surfaces: Quantum chemical calculations of geometry optimization, binding energy, and NMR chemical shielding
Bum Han Lee and Sung Keun Lee

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1405 The crystal structure of a naturally occurring 5C pyrrhotite from Sudbury, its chemistry, and vacancy distribution
Johan P.R. de Villiers, David C. Liles, and Megan Becker

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1411 Finding the layer scattering origin of rectorite for basal peak calculations
Il Mo Kang, Myung Hun Kim, and Hi-Soo Moon

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1428 General model for the aqueous precipitation of rough-surface nanocrystals and application to ferrihydrite genesis
Philippe Marchand and Denis G. Rancourt

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1440 Sursassite: Hydrogen bonding, cation order, and pumpellyite intergrowth
Mariko Nagashima, Masahide Akasaka, Tetsuo Minakawa, Eugen Libowitzky, and Thomas Armbruster

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1479 Kushiroite, CaAlAlSiO6: A new mineral of the pyroxene group from the ALH 85085 CH chondrite, and its genetic significance in refractory inclusions
Makoto Kimura, Takashi Mikouchi, Akio Suzuki, Masaaki Miyahara, Eiji Ohtani, and Ahmed El Goresy

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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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LETTER

1312

Tazieffite, Pb20Cd2(As,Bi)22S50Cl10, a new chloro-sulfosalt from Mutnovsky volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Federation
Michael Zelenski, Anna Garavelli, Daniela Pinto, Filippo Vurro, Yves Moëlo, Luca Bindi, Emil Makovicky, and Elena Bonaccorsi

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1361

Kumtyubeite Ca5(SiO4)2F2—A new calcium mineral of the humite group from Northern Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia
Irina О. Galuskina, Biljana Lazic, Thomas Armbruster, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Viktor M. Gazeev, Aleksander E. Zadov, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Lidia Jeżak, Roman Wrzalik, and Anatoly G. Gurbanov

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1388

Equation of state of γ-tricalcium phosphate, γ-Ca3(PO4)2, to lower mantle pressures
Shuangmeng Zhai, Xi Liu, Sean R. Shieh, Lifei Zhang, and Eiji Ito

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1417

Prediction of the environmental impact of modern slags: A petrological and chemical comparative study with Roman age slags
Antonio M. Álvarez-Valero, Rafael Pérez-López, and José M. Nieto

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1450

Ivanyukite-Na-T, ivanyukite-Na-C, ivanyukite-K, and ivanyukite-Cu: New microporous titanosilicates from the Khibiny massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia) and crystal structure of ivanyukite-Na-T
Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Alexander P. Nikolaev, Ekaterina A. Selivanova, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Julia A. Korchak, Dar’ya V. Spiridonova, Oleg A. Zalkind, and Sergey V. Krivovichev

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1459

Ferritchromite and chromian-chlorite formation in mélange-hosted Kalkan chromitite (Southern Urals, Russia)
Anna Merlini, Giovanni Grieco, and Valeria Diella

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1468

Multistage boron metasomatism in the Alamo Complex (Central Iberian Zone, Spain): Evidence from field relations, petrography, and 40Ar/39Ar tourmaline dating
Alfonso Pesquera, José Torres-Ruiz, Pedro P. Gil-Crespo, and Encarnación Roda-Robles

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1483

Calcium Tschermak’s pyroxene, CaAlAlSiO6, from the Allende and Murray meteorites: EBSD and micro-Raman characterizations
Chi Ma, Steven B. Simon, George R. Rossman, and Lawrence Grossman

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1487

Steric hindrance and the enhanced stability of light rare-earth elements in hydrothermal fluids
Robert A. Mayanovic, Alan J. Anderson, William A. Bassett, and I-Ming Chou

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1491

Grossmanite, CaTi3+AlSiO6, a new pyroxene from the Allende meteorite
Chi Ma and George R. Rossman

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1293

Evolution of uranium and thorium minerals
Robert M. Hazen, Rodney C. Ewing, and Dimitri A. Sverjensky

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1325

The crystal structure, origin, and formation of idrialite (C22H14): Inferences from the microbeam and bulk analyses
Takuya Echigo, Mitsuyoshi Kimata, Teruyuki Maruoka, Masahiro Shimizu, and Norimasa Nishida

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1333

Structural and spectroscopic characterization of a suite of fibrous amphiboles with high environmental and health relevance from Biancavilla (Sicily, Italy)
Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Paolo Ballirano, Antonio Gianfagna, Simona Mazziotti-Tagliani

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1341

Bulk and key surface structures of hematite, magnetite, and goethite: A density functional theory study
Gary J. Martin, Richard S. Cutting, David J. Vaughan, and Michele C. Warren

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1351

A crystal-chemical investigation of clinozoisite synthesized along the join Ca2Al3Si3O12(OH)-Ca2Al2CrSi3O12(OH)
Mariko Nagashima, Charles A. Geiger, and Masahide Akasaka

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1371

Liquidus temperatures of the Skaergaard magma
Peter Thy, Christian Tegner, and Charles E. Lesher

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1377

Optimizing experimental design, overcoming challenges, and gaining valuable information from the Sb K-edge XANES region
Skya E. Fawcett, Robert A. Gordon, and Heather E. Jamieson

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1392

Effect of lattice topology on the adsorption of benzyl alcohol on kaolinite surfaces: Quantum chemical calculations of geometry optimization, binding energy, and NMR chemical shielding
Bum Han Lee and Sung Keun Lee

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1405

The crystal structure of a naturally occurring 5C pyrrhotite from Sudbury, its chemistry, and vacancy distribution
Johan P.R. de Villiers, David C. Liles, and Megan Becker

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1411

Finding the layer scattering origin of rectorite for basal peak calculations
Il Mo Kang, Myung Hun Kim, and Hi-Soo Moon

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1428

General model for the aqueous precipitation of rough-surface nanocrystals and application to ferrihydrite genesis
Philippe Marchand and Denis G. Rancourt

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1440

Sursassite: Hydrogen bonding, cation order, and pumpellyite intergrowth
Mariko Nagashima, Masahide Akasaka, Tetsuo Minakawa, Eugen Libowitzky, and Thomas Armbruster

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1479

Kushiroite, CaAlAlSiO6: A new mineral of the pyroxene group from the ALH 85085 CH chondrite, and its genetic significance in refractory inclusions
Makoto Kimura, Takashi Mikouchi, Akio Suzuki, Masaaki Miyahara, Eiji Ohtani, and Ahmed El Goresy

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

1495

NEW MINERAL NAMES
Paula C. Piilonen, Glenn Poirier, and Kimberly T. Tait

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BOOK REVIEW

1502

BOOK REVIEW:NEUTRON SCATTERING IN EARTH SCIENCES. Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Editor. (2006) Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, vol. 63, 471 p. ISBN: 978-0-939950-75-1.
T.W. Darling

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