American Mineralogist
REGULAR ARTICLE
709 Kinoite, anew hydrous copper calcium silicate mineral from Arizona
716 Crystal structure of the calcium silicoborate howlite
729 The crystal structure of ransomite
735 Implications of hydroxyl-oxygen juxtaposition in layer silicates
742 Origin, mechanism, and consequences of compositional sector-zoning in staurolite
767 Interference colors in flash figures
776 Mineralogical studies of the nitrate deposits of Chile I. The identity of nitroglauberite with darapskite
784 A study of phoenicochroite – its structure and properties
793 Chemical composition and physical properties of magnetite from the ejected plutonic blocks of the Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent, West Indies
808 New electron probe and optical data on gold tellurides
815 High pressure mid-infrared studies of calcium carbonate
825 An infrared study of water in heulandite and clinoptilolite
841 Kinetics of dehydroxyiation and of OH-OD exchange in macrocrystalline micas
854 Synthetic fibrous fluoramphiboles and their properties
864 Rhönite from Big Bend National Park, Texas
875 Compositions of natural osumilites
880 Idocrase: Synthesis, phase relations and crystal chemistry
913 “An occurrence of the assemblage, native sulfur-covellite-“”Cu5.5xFexS6.5x””, Aucanquilcha, Chile”
919 Livingstonite, HgSb4S8: Synthesis and stability
925 Maghemite in the Sydney duricrusts
934 The oxygen fugacity-temperature relationships of manganese oxide and nickel oxide buffers
953 The eclogite-amphibolite transition at 650°C and 6.5 kbar pressure, as exemplified by basic rocks of the Uzerche area, central France
975 Fassaite from a calc-silicate skarn vein near Gondivalasa, Orissa, India
981 Composition of a pegmatite, Keystone, South Dakota
1003 How to recognize O2-, OH-, and H2O in crystal structures determined by x-rays
1017 Suggested outline for new mineral descriptions
1019 Native zinc and α-Cu,Zn from Mina Dulcinea de Llampos, Copiapó, Chile
1021 Cuprian sphalerite and a probable copper-zinc sulfide, Cachiyuyo de Llampos, Copiapó, Chile
1025 “Chemical differences among the serpentine “”polymorphs””: A discussion”
1048 An iron-sensitive stain for iron-rich sphalerite
1051 Scandium content of ore and skarn minerals at Franklin, New Jersey
1055 Topotactic thermal change of artinite into magnesium oxide
1058 Scandium-rich minerals from rhyolite in the Thomas Range, Utah
1061 Coexisting glaucophane and riebeckite–arfvedsonite from New Caledonia
1065 Mounting and polishing small quantities of minerals in the micrometer range
1066 A survey of chemical bonding in silicate minerals by X-ray emission spectroscopy: Errata
NEW MINERAL NAMES
1067 New Mineral Names
MINERALOGICAL NOTES
1016 MINERALOGICAL NOTES: Procedure of the International Mineralogical Association on New Minerals and Mineral Names
NOTES
1079 Notices
BOOK REVIEW
1074 Book Reviews
PROCEEDINGS
1081 List of Officers and Committees
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