Articles | Volume 35, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-1027-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-1027-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
New minerals, nomenclature, and classification
| 
23 Nov 2023
New minerals, nomenclature, and classification |
| 23 Nov 2023
| 23 Nov 2023
Changes to the cerite group nomenclature
Daniel Atencio
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Lago, 562, 05508-080 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Andrezza A. Azzi
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Lago, 562, 05508-080 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Tianjin Center, China Geological Survey, Hedong, 300170 Tianjin, China
School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Xixia, 210023 Nanjing, China
Ritsuro Miyawaki
National Museum of Nature and Sciences, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan
Ferdinando Bosi
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Koichi Momma
National Museum of Nature and Sciences, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan
Related authors
No articles found.
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 549–553, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-549-2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-549-2025, 2025
Ferdinando Bosi, Federico Pezzotta, Henrik Skobgy, Riccardo Luppi, Paolo Ballirano, Ulf Hålenius, Gioacchino Tempesta, Giovanna Agrosì, and Jiří Sejkora
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 505–516, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-505-2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-505-2025, 2025
Short summary
Short summary
This study describes the elbaite neotype, found in crystals from a site on Elba island, Italy. Researchers analyzed these nearly colorless crystals and found that their formation was influenced by earlier changes in the surrounding rock. As different minerals formed first, they set the stage for elbaite to develop later in deeper spaces. This work helps us understand how changes in the local environment affect how and when certain minerals grow.
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 337–342, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-337-2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-337-2025, 2025
Erik Jonsson, Ulf Hålenius, Jaroslaw Majka, and Ferdinando Bosi
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 269–277, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-269-2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-269-2025, 2025
Short summary
Short summary
Skogbyite, with the chemical formula Zr(Mg2+2Mn3+4)SiO12, is a new species in the braunite group of minerals. It was discovered in a complex mineral assemblage, essentially a very poor manganese ore, from the Långban Fe–Mn oxide deposit, Värmland County, Bergslagen ore province, Sweden. It is named after the Swedish mineralogist Henrik Skogby (b. 1956). It is a new mineral attesting to the localised mobility and reactivity of zirconium under very special geological conditions.
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 249–255, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-249-2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-249-2025, 2025
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 75–78, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-75-2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-75-2025, 2025
Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Claudia Gori, Henrik Skogby, Ulf Hålenius, Alessandra Altieri, and Ferdinando Bosi
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 1–12, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-1-2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-1-2025, 2025
Short summary
Short summary
The compositional variation in a multi-coloured, zoned tourmaline from the Cruzeiro pegmatite, Brazil, reflects melt chemical evolution during the entire pegmatite differentiation. In uncontaminated granitic pegmatite systems such as that of Cruzeiro, the compositional evolution of tourmaline progresses from schorl to fluor-elbaite, rather than directly from schorl to elbaite, to reflect co-enrichment in Li and F during fractional crystallization.
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 36, 1005–1010, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-1005-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-1005-2024, 2024
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 36, 917–923, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-917-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-917-2024, 2024
Beatrice Celata, Ferdinando Bosi, Kira A. Musiyachenko, Andrey V. Korsakov, and Giovanni B. Andreozzi
Eur. J. Mineral., 36, 797–811, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-797-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-797-2024, 2024
Short summary
Short summary
The discovery of the K-dominant tourmaline maruyamaite with microdiamond inclusions suggested its ultrahigh-pressure formation. We analyzed the role of K in the tourmaline structure, with a special focus on its stability. High pressure is necessary to squeeze the large cation K+ in the stiff framework of tourmaline, although K is the underdog component if Na+ is present in the mineralizing fluid. K-tourmaline is stable at high pressure, overcoming the stereotype of a mere crustal component.
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 36, 599–604, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-599-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-599-2024, 2024
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 36, 525–528, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-525-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-525-2024, 2024
Kai Qu, Xianzhang Sima, Xiangping Gu, Weizhi Sun, Guang Fan, Zeqiang Yang, and Yanjuan Wang
Eur. J. Mineral., 36, 397–409, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-397-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-397-2024, 2024
Short summary
Short summary
In this paper, the full description of the extremely rare [Ag6]4+-cluster-containing new tetrahedrite-group mineral kenoargentotetrahedrite-(Zn) is reported. The structure refinement result confirms the coupling between the site occupancy factor of subvalent hexasilver clusters at the M(2) site and that of the vacancy at the S(2) site. This relationship further substantiates the charge balance substitution mechanism of S-deficiency tetrahedrites: 6M(2)Ag+ + S(2)S2– = M(2)[Ag6]4+ + S(2)□.
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 36, 361–367, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-361-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-361-2024, 2024
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 36, 165–172, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-165-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-165-2024, 2024
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 1073–1078, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-1073-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-1073-2023, 2023
Ian E. Grey, Stephanie Boer, Colin M. MacRae, Nicholas C. Wilson, William G. Mumme, and Ferdinando Bosi
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 909–919, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-909-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-909-2023, 2023
Short summary
Short summary
The paper describes the formal establishment of the paulkerrite group of minerals and its nomenclature. It includes the application of a site-merging procedure, coupled with a site-total-charge analysis, to obtain unambiguous end-member formulae. Application of the procedure has resulted in the revision of the end-member formulae for several of the group members.
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 891–895, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-891-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-891-2023, 2023
Alessandra Altieri, Federico Pezzotta, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Henrik Skogby, and Ferdinando Bosi
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 755–771, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-755-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-755-2023, 2023
Short summary
Short summary
Elba tourmaline crystals commonly display a sharp transition to dark colors at the analogous termination, but the mechanisms leading to the formation of such terminations are unclear. Here we propose a general genetic model in which, as a consequence of a pocket rupture event, chemical alteration of early formed Fe-/Mn-rich minerals in the enclosing pegmatite was responsible for the release of Fe and/or Mn in the geochemical system, allowing the formation of the late-stage dark terminations.
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 659–664, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-659-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-659-2023, 2023
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 397–402, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-397-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-397-2023, 2023
Yanjuan Wang, Fabrizio Nestola, Huaikun Li, Zengqian Hou, Martha G. Pamato, Davide Novella, Alessandra Lorenzetti, Pia Antonietta Antignani, Paolo Cornale, Jacopo Nava, Guochen Dong, and Kai Qu
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 361–372, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-361-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-361-2023, 2023
Short summary
Short summary
In this work we have applied the elastic geobarometry approach to a Chinese diamond in order to determine the depth of formation of an olivine-bearing diamond. Together with the temperature of residence at which the diamond resided in the mantle, we were able to discover that the diamond was formed at about 190 km depth. Beyond the geological meaning of our results, this work could be a reference paper for future works on Chinese diamonds using elastic geobarometry.
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 285–293, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-285-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-285-2023, 2023
Cristian Biagioni, Ferdinando Bosi, Daniela Mauro, Henrik Skogby, Andrea Dini, and Federica Zaccarini
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 81–94, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-81-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-81-2023, 2023
Short summary
Short summary
Dutrowite is the first tourmaline supergroup minerals having Ti as a species-defining chemical constituent. Its finding improves our knowledge on the crystal chemistry of this important mineral group and allows us to achieve a better picture of the mechanisms favouring the incorporation of Ti.
Ferdinando Bosi, Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 75–79, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023
Yanjuan Wang, Fabrizio Nestola, Zengqian Hou, Xiangping Gu, Guochen Dong, Zhusen Yang, Guang Fan, Zhibin Xiao, and Kai Qu
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 65–74, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-65-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-65-2023, 2023
Short summary
Short summary
Bobtraillite is an extremely rare cyclosilicate with a unique composition and complex structure. In this paper, we describe the second occurrence of the extremely rare complex zirconium silicate. The results suggest that the ideal formula of bobtraillite could be written as (Na, □)12(□, Na)12Sr12Zr14(Si3O9)10[Si2BO7(OH)2]6·12H2O.
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 591–601, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-591-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-591-2022, 2022
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 463–468, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-463-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-463-2022, 2022
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 385–391, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-385-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-385-2022, 2022
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 359–364, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-359-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-359-2022, 2022
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 253–257, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-253-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-253-2022, 2022
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 143–148, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-143-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-143-2022, 2022
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 1–6, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-1-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-1-2022, 2022
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 639–646, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-639-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-639-2021, 2021
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 479–484, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-479-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-479-2021, 2021
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 299–304, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-299-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-299-2021, 2021
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 203–208, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-203-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-203-2021, 2021
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 139–143, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-139-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-139-2021, 2021
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 645–651, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-645-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-645-2020, 2020
Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 495–499, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-495-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-495-2020, 2020
Cited articles
Atencio, D. and Azzi A. A.: Cerite: a new supergroup of minerals and cerite-(La) renamed ferricerite-(La), Mineral. Mag., 84, 928–931, 2020.
Bosi, F., Hatert, F., Hålenius, U., Pasero, M., Miyawaki, R., and Mills, S. J.: On the application of the IMA–CNMNC dominant-valency rule to complex mineral compositions, Mineral. Mag., 83, 627–632, 2019.
Britvin, S. N., Pakhomovskii, Y. A., Bogdanova, A. N., and Skiba, V. I.: Strontiowhitlockite, Sr9Mg(PO3OH)(PO4)6, a new mineral from the Kovdor deposit Kola Peninsula U.S.S.R, Can. Mineral., 29, 87–93, 1991.
Britvin, S. N., Krivovichev, S. V., and Armbruster, T.: Ferromerrillite, Ca9NaFe2+(PO4)7, a new mineral from the Martian meteorites and some insights into merrillite–tuite transformation in shergottites, Eur. J. Mineral., 28, 125–136, 2016.
Britvin, S. N., Galuskina, I. O., Vlasenko, N. S., Vereshchagin, O. S., Bocharov, V. N., Krzhizhanovskaya, M. G., Shilovskikh, V. V., Galuskin, E. V., Vapnik, E. V., and Obolonskaya, E. V.: Keplerite, Ca9(Ca0.5□0.5)Mg(PO4)7, a new meteoritic and terrestrial phosphate isomorphous with merrillite, Ca9NaMg(PO4)7, Am. Mineral., 106, 1917–1927, 2021.
Calvo, C. and Gopal, R.: The crystal structure of whitlockite from the Palermo quarry, Am. Mineral., 60, 120–133, 1975.
Campostrini, I., Demartin, F., Finello, G., and Vignola, P.: Aluminotaipingite-(CeCa), (Ce6Ca3)Al(SiO4)3[SiO3(OH)]4F3, a new member of the cerite-supergroup minerals, Mineral. Mag., 87, 741–747, https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2023.51, 2023.
Cooper, M. A., Hawthorne, F. C., Abdu, Y. A., Ball, N. A., Ramik, R. A., and Tait, K. T.: Wopmayite, ideally Ca6Na3Mn(PO4)3(PO3OH)4, a new phosphate mineral from the Tanco Mine Bernic Lake Manitoba: description and crystal structure, Can. Mineral., 51, 93–106, 2013.
Galuskin, E. V., Stachowicz, M., Galuskina, I. O., Woźniak, K., Vapnik, Y., Murashko, M. N., and Zieliński, G.: Deynekoite, Ca9Fe3+(PO4)7 – a new mineral of the merrillite group from phosphide-bearing contact facies of paralava, Hatrurim Complex, Daba-Siwaqa, Jordan. Mineral. Mag., https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2023.71, online first, 2023.
Hatert, F. and Burke, E. A. J.: The IMA-CNMNC dominant-constituent rule revisited and extended, Can. Mineral., 46, 717–728, 2008.
Hatert, F., Mills, S. J., Pasero, M., and Williams P. A.: CNMNC guidelines for the use of suffixes and prefixes in mineral nomenclature, and for the preservation of historical names, Eur. J. Mineral., 25, 113–115, https://doi.org/10.1127/0935-1221/2013/0025-2267, 2013.
Hawthorne, F. C.: The use of end-member charge-arrangements in defining new mineral species and heterovalent substitutions in complex minerals, Can. Mineral., 40, 699–710, 2002.
Hwang, S. L., Shen, P., Chu, H. T., Yui, T. F., Varela, M. E., and Iizuka, Y.: New minerals tsangpoite Ca5(PO4)2(SiO4) and matyhite Ca9(Ca0.5□0.5)Fe(PO4)7 from the D'Orbigny angrite, Mineral. Mag., 83, 293–313, 2019.
Li, T., Li, Z., Huang, Z., Zhong, J., Fan, G., Guo, D., Qin, M., Zhang, J., Li, J., Liu, H., Qiu, L., Wang, F., He, S., Yu, A., Liu, R., Wu, Y., Deng, L., Tai, Z., He, Y., and Lin, Y.: Changesite-(Y), IMA 2022-023, in: CNMNC Newsletter 69, Eur. J. Mineral., 34, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-463-2022, 2022.
Moore, P. B. and Shen, J. C.: Cerite, RE9 (Fe3+,Mg)(SiO4)6(SiO3OH)(OH)3: Its crystal structure and relation to whitlockite, Am. Mineral., 68, 996–1003, 1983.
Nestola, F., Guastoni, A., Cámara, F., Secco, L., Dal Negro, A., Pedron, D., and Beran, A.: Aluminocerite-Ce: A new species from Baveno, Italy: Description and crystal-structure determination, Am. Mineral., 94, 487–493, 2009.
Nickel, E. H. and Grice, J. D.: The IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names: procedures and guidelines on mineral nomenclature, Can. Mineral., 36, 913–926, 1998.
Pakhomovsky, Y. A., Men'Shikov, Y. P., Yakovenchuk, V. N., Ivanyuk, G. Y., Krivovichev, S. V., and Burns, P. C.: Cerite-(La), (La,Ce,Ca)9(Fe,Ca,Mg)(SiO4)3[SiO3(OH)]4(OH)3, a new mineral species from the khibina alkaline massif: occurrence and crystal structure, Can. Mineral., 40, 1177–1184, 2002.
Qu, K., Sima, X. Z., Fan, G., Li, G. W., Shen, G. F., Chen, H. K., Liu, X., Yin, Q. Q., Li, T., and Wang, Y. J.: Taipingite-(Ce), (Ce7Ca2)∑9Mg(SiO4)3[SiO3(OH)]4F3, a new mineral from the Taipingzhen REE deposit, North Qinling Orogen, Central China, Geosci. Front., 11, 2339–2346, 2020.
Xie, X., Yang, H., Gu, X., and Downs, R. T.: Chemical composition and crystal structure of merrillite from the Suizhou meteorite, Am. Mineral., 100, 2753–2756, 2015.
Witzke, T., Phillips, B. L., Woerner, W., Coutinho, J. M. V., Färber, G., and Contreira Filho, R. R.: Hedegaardite, IMA 2014-069, in: CNMNC Newsletter 23, Mineral. Mag., 79, 51–58, 2015.
Short summary
This article introduces a new nomenclature system for the cerite group minerals. This system was necessary to allow the nomenclature of new species of minerals that are currently being described.
This article introduces a new nomenclature system for the cerite group minerals. This system was...
