| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | this topic, and I want to comment briefly about two of them. With some exceptions, many mineral lovers consider...established by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical...must reflect this. I disagree with the usefulness of such a statement as “when I see a black, prismatic...Leonard 1953) and is still accurate. We cannot call all of the minerals from the amphibole group “hornblende”...statement because we owe our respect to the group of scientists who worked MARIAN LUPULESCU very hard | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Crystal-chemistry and short-range order of fluoro-edenite and fluoro-pargasite: a combined X-ray diffraction...crystal chemistry of a set of five samples of F-rich amphiboles from the Franklin marble (USA), using a combination...combination of microchemical (Electron microprobe analysis (EMPA)), single-crystal refinement (SREF) and...three samples fall into the compositional field of fluoro-edenite (Hawthorne et al., 2012), whereas two samples...F-rich compositions. The FTIR spectra show a triplet of intense and sharp components at ~3690, 3675 and 3660 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | populated area of Campania around the Somma-Vesuvius volcanic complex (Italy) was performed by means of a multi-methodological...tools to the identification of fibrous natural phases, to improve the knowledge of both geochemical, petrogenetic...and regional mineralogy of Somma-Vesuvius area, and to emphasize the presence of minerals with fibrous...also fits well in the calls of health and environment of Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission...years towards the identification and distribution of minerals characterized by fibrous habit. However | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse. MAJOR NEW YORK STATE M I N E...T I E S N ew York State is rich in minerals of interest to collectors. A number of lists have been...published, starting with Samuel Robinsons A Catalogue of American Minerals with Their Localities in 1825....publications of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana contained geographical listings of important...Whitlock published a New York State list in 1903. The most recent comprehensive treatment of mineral localities | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Downloaded by [University of York] at 16:17 04 June 2016 A NEW APPARATUS FOR COLOR COMPARISON IN FLUORESCENT... The problem of color description has been a bane to mineralogists. Although the use of spectrophotometers...systems to be practical. In addition, the renderings of color in print, on monitors, and by the human eye...in the realm of fluorescent minerals. The fluorescent hue, saturation, and intensity of a mineral under...be powerful aids in identification. The mechanisms of fluorescence have applications in television, fluorescent | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 2006, 18, 503-508 Fluoro-magnesiohastingsite from Dealul Uroi (Hunedoara county, Romania): Mineral data...structure of a new amphibole end-member HANS-PETER BOJAR1,* and FRANZ WALTER2 1Department 2Institute of Mineralogy...Landesmuseum Joanneum, Raubergasse 10, A-8010 Graz, Austria of Earth Sciences, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Universitätsplatz...Universitätsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria Abstract: The new mineral fluoro-magnesiohastingsite, ideally (Na,K,Ca)Ca2(Mg...Ti)5(Si,Al)8O22F2, a member of the calcic-amphibole-group, occurs in small cavities of an altered hematite-rich | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | FRANK C. HAWTHORNE§ Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, 125 Dysart Road, Winnipeg...Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada ABSTRACT The crystal structure of pargasite from a cut gem from Myanmar, (K0.094Na0...group C2/m, Z = 2, has been refined to an R1 index of 1.9% using MoKα single-crystal X-ray diffraction...diffraction. The unit formula (calculated from the results of electron-microprobe analysis), the refined site-scattering...minor K assigned to the A(m) site. The frequencies of short-range ion arrangements over the configuration | | Locock, A. J., Piilonen, P. C., Ercit, T. S., Rowe, R., Kolitsch, U. (2006) New mineral names. American Mineralogist, 91 (4) 710-715 doi:10.2138/am.2006.463 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | American Mineralogist, Volume 91, pages 710–715, 2006 New mineral names* ANDREW J. LOCOCK,1 PAULA C. PIILONEN...ERCIT,2‡ RALPH ROWE,2 AND UWE KOLITSCH3 1 Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s...2C6, Canada 2 Research Division, Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Stn. D, Ottawa, Ontario K1P...Bystřicí, northern Moravia, Czech Republic, a new mineral species of the mixite group. Can. Mineral., 43, 1393–1400...> 1.739 (~1.75) in Na light (590 nm). An average of eight electron microprobe analyses gave K2O 0.09 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | An Excel spreadsheet to classify chemical analyses of amphiboles following the IMA 2012 recommendations...An Excel spreadsheet to classify chemical analyses of amphiboles following the IMA 2012 recommendations...org/10.1016/j.cageo.2013.09.011 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for...version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting...An Excel spreadsheet to classify chemical analyses of amphiboles 2 following the IMA 2012 recommendations | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MINERALS FROM THE IRON DEPOSITS OF NEW YORK STATE T he principal goal of this article is to present the...the important minerals from the New York State iron deposits. Not all the minerals identified in these...others are not aesthetically impressive, making them of limited collector interest. In general, these will...To write an article about the iron deposits of New York State and their minerals is a difficult task... There are also some excellent papers about some of the deposits, and I do not want to repeat what those | | | Book (volume) | MSc, PhD, FRS Emeritus Professor of Mineralogy & Petrology University of Cambridge R. A. Howie, MA, ScD...Emeritus Professor of Mineralogy University of London J. Zussman, MA, PhD Emeritus Professor of Geology University...University of Manchester The Geological Society London 1997 THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY The Society was founded...founded in 1807 as the Geological Society of London and is the oldest geological society in the world...Charter in 1825 for the purpose of ‘investigating the mineral structure of the Earth’. The Society is Britain’s | | | Report (volume) | Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY Series Editor: Jodi J...was jointly published by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei...(ANL). The chapters represent an extensive review of the material presented by the invited speakers at...look for a forth-coming special issue of the European Journal of Mineralogy containing original papers...Washington August 2007 Over 25 years ago, Volume 9 of Reviews in Mineralogy: Amphiboles and Other Hydrous | | | Book (edition) | !f Mineral Species 2008 FLEISCHER'S GLOSSARY OF MINERAL SPECIES 2008 Michael Fleischer 1908-1998...Tucson This is an alphabeticallist, as of December I, 2007. of the names, symmetry. and chemical compositionsof...writc thc prcfacc to thc I 0th edition of The Fleischer s Glossary of Mineral Species, I do so with somc...including the International Encyclopedia of Minerals and the next edition of the Glossary, Joe asked me if I would...would be willing to take on the responsibility of the Glossary for him. He wanted to spend as much time | | | Book (edition) | This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support...phorographed specimens are fivm the collectio11s of both authors as ire!/ as from many other collections...Te~in 14/02/03/0 I All rights reserved•• ·o pan of thh. work may be reproduced by any mechanical. photographic...photographic, or electronic process, or in the fonn of a phonogrciphicrecording. nor may it be ,torcd in...public or private U<,e. without written penni,,ion of the publi,her. ISBN 80-7296-039-3 CONTENTS Preface |
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