American Mineralogist
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
146 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
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1 Mertieite, a new palladium mineral from Goodnews Bay, Alaska
11 Balkanite, Cu9Ag5HgS8, a new mineral from the Sedmochislenitsi mine, Bulgaria
16 Absorption of iron by platinum capsules in high pressure rock melting experiments
21 Electron population analysis of accurate diffraction data. V. Structure and one-center charge refinement of the light-atom mineral kernite, Na2B4O6(OH)2·3H2O
32 Bracelets and pinwheels: A topological-geometrical approach to the calcium orthosilicate and alkali sulfate structures
43 The crystal structures of the humite minerals. IV. Clinohumite and titanoclinohumite
50 Synthesis and unit cell parameters of Ca-Mg-Fe pyroxenes
60 Pyroxene stoichiometry and the breakdown of omphacite
64 The stability of talc
73 X-ray diffraction aspects of montmorillonites
81 Crystallographic data and refractive indices of scapolites
93 Analcime and K-feldspar in tuffs of the Green River formation, Wyoming
106 The crystal structure of elpidite
110 The crystal structure of ezcurrite
116 Kogarkoite, a new natural phase in the system Na2SO4-NaF-NaCl
128 “Critical evaluation of “”statistical best fits”” to Moessbauer spectra”
134 Determination of structural state of calcic plagioclases by an X-ray powder technique
137 “Addenda to “”The effect of cation substitutions on the physical properties of trioctahedral micas”””
138 Zunyite: A Comparison of Neutron- and X-ray-diffraction studies
NEW MINERAL NAMES
139 NEW MINERAL NAMES
MINERALOGICAL NOTES
132 MINERALOGICAL NOTES Prehnite from the contact metamorphic aureole of the Whin Sill intrusion, Northern England
NOTES
144 NOTICES
BOOK REVIEW
142 BOOK REVIEWS
PROCEEDINGS
151 LIST OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
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