American Mineralogist
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
181 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
REGULAR ARTICLE
1 Stability of Fe-Mg amphiboles with respect to oxygen fugacity
13 Stability of Fe-Mg amphiboles with respect to sulfur fugacity
31 The structure of slawsonite, a strontium analog of paracelsian
36 Vibrational spectra of the alkaline earth double carbonates
51 Gerstmannite, a new zinc silicate mineral and a novel cubic close-packed oxide structure
60 Melonjosephite, calcium iron hydroxy phosphate: its crystal structure
67 An X-ray and neutron diffraction study of hydrous low cordierite
79 Orientation relationships of augite exsolution lamellae in pigeonite hosts
89 Hellandite: a new type of silicoborate chain
100 Chemistry and mineralogy of wood-tin, Black Range, New Mexico
107 Electron diffraction study of phase transformations in copper sulfides
115 The crystal structure of synthetic Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4, a polymorph of pseudomalachite
122 Surface structures of trigonal bipyramidal faces of natural quartz crystals
127 Angular relationships between host and exsolution lamellae and the use of the Mohr circle
132 Scapolite veins in a quartz monzodiorite stock from Los Molles, Mendoza, Argentina
136 A comparison of silicon-oxygen bonding in quartz and magnesian olivine from X-ray spectra and molecular orbital calculations
142 The crystal structure of lanthanite
147 Hydrochlorborite from Antofagasta, Chile
151 The spectra of iron in orthopyroxene revisited: the splitting of the ground state
158 Burbankite from the Green River Formation, Wyoming
164 Blue amphibole from Precambrian metabasalts, Savage River, Tasmania
167 Barylite, BaBe2Si2O7: its space group and crystal structure
170 Achrematite discredited
171 A stain test for fluorite
NEW MINERAL NAMES
173 NEW MINERAL NAMES
NOTES
179 NOTICES
BOOK REVIEW
177 BOOK REVIEWS
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American Mineralogist is an international journal that publishes mineralogical papers of broad interest to the geoscience and materials science community.