IMA no. 2025-090

• Magnesiochangesite-(Y)

• (Ca₈Y)□Mg(PO₄)₇

• Mcgs-Y

• Drilled basaltic clast retrieved from the Chang'E-5 mission, the Moon

• Xiangkun Ge, Ziying Li, Chunlai Li, Qin Zhou, Ting Li, Xiangping Gu, Guang Fan^*, Saihong Yang, Tao Wang, Liumin Deng, Jing Tan, Zongyao Tai, Yongzhi He, and Jingxuan Cen

• ^* E-mail: fanguang@briug.cn

• Cerite supergroup

• Trigonal: R3m; structure determined

• a= 10.412(1), c= 18.634(2) Å

• 3.209(59), 2.868(100), 2.757(75), 2.600(90), 2.402(31), 2.028(31), 1.929(30), 1.721(45)

• Type material is deposited in the collections of the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China, catalogue number CE5Z0407YJFM002GP

• How to cite: Ge, X., Li, Z., Li, C., Zhou, Q., Li, T., Gu, X., Fan, G., Yang, S., Wang, T., Deng, L, Tan, J., Tai, Z., He, Y., and Cen, J.: Magnesiochangesite-(Y), IMA 2025-090, in: CNMNC Newsletter 90, Eur. J. Mineral., 38, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-38-231-2026, 2026.

IMA no. 2025-092

• Paulhlavaite

• CaCuTe${}_{\mathrm{4}}^{\mathrm{4}+}$O₁₀

• Plh

• Lone Pine mine, Wilcox Mining District, Catron Co., New Mexico, USA (33°14^′14^′′ N, 108°43^′11^′′ W)

• Hexiong Yang^*, Robert A. Jenkins, Ronald B. Gibbs, and Robert T. Downs

• ^* E-mail: hyang@arizona.edu

• New structure type

• Monoclinic: C2/c; structure determined

• a= 17.2229(5), b= 5.6140(2), c= 10.1951(3) Å,
  β= 98.3211(8)°

• 4.630(64), 3.750(55), 3.299(69), 2.988(100), 2.914(34), 2.671(32), 2.325(29), 2.323(29)

• Type material is deposited in the collections of the University of Arizona Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum, 115 N Church Ave Ste 121, Tucson, AZ 85701, USA, catalogue number 22749 (holotype), and the RRUFF Project, deposition number R250104 (cotype)

• How to cite: Yang, H., Jenkins, R. A., Gibbs, R. B., and Downs, R. T.: Paulhlavaite, IMA 2025-092, in: CNMNC Newsletter 90, Eur. J. Mineral., 38, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-38-231-2026, 2026.

IMA no. 2025-096

• Yulinite

• SrNb₂O₆

• Yul

• Western part of the Bayan Obo deposit, about 90 km north of the city of Baotou, Guyang County, Inner Mongolia, China (41°48^′00^′′ N, 109°53^′00^′′ E)

• Guanghua Liu, Zhixiang Liu, Jianchao Song, Jingyi Wu, Wenyi Wang, Haiyang Wang, Siyun Li, Zhuqing Ding, and Xiangping Gu*

• ^* E-mail: guxp2004@163.com

• Aeschynite group

• Monoclinic: P2₁/c; structure determined

• a= 7.7184(3), b= 5.5954(2), c= 10.9905(4) Å,
  β= 89.772(3)°

• 4.951(18), 3.885(18), 3.056(18), 2.791(60), 2.090(12), 1.926(11), 1.747(14), 1.659(18)

• Type material is deposited in the collections of the Guanghua Liu's Museum of Natural Heritage, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province 330100, People's Republic of China, catalogue number GLMNH-2025-YUL001

• How to cite: Liu, G., Liu, Z., Song, J., Wu, J., Wang, W., Wang, H., Li, S., Ding, Z., and Gu, X.: Yulinite, IMA 2025-096, in: CNMNC Newsletter 90, Eur. J. Mineral., 38, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-38-231-2026, 2026.

IMA no. 2025-045a

• Plechovite

• Ca₂[K(H₂O)]KBe₃Si₁₂O₃₀

• Plc

• In a quarry near Jordanów Śląski, Gogołów-Jordanów Serpentinite Massif, Lower Silesia, Poland (50°52^′16^′′ N, 16°50^′18^′′ E)

• Adam Pieczka^*, Bożena Gołębiowska, Marcin Stachowicz, Jakub Kotowski, Krzysztof Nejbert, and Frank C. Hawthorne

• ^* E-mail: pieczka@agh.edu.pl

• Milarite supergroup

• Hexagonal: P6/mmc; structure determined

• a= 10.4014(2), c= 13.6982(3) Å

• 6.85(26), 5.20(25), 4.50(36), 4.14(46), 3.42(22), 3.30(100), 3.00(45), 2.86(92)

• Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Pr. 18-2, 119071 Moscow, Russia, registration number 6274/1

• How to cite: Pieczka, A., Gołębiowska, B., Stachowicz, M., Kotowski, J., Nejbert, K., and Hawthorne, F. C.: Plechovite, IMA 2025-045, in: CNMNC Newsletter 90, Eur. J. Mineral., 38, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-38-231-2026, 2026.

IMA no. 2025-087

• Xianhuaite-(La)

• K₂LaNb₅O₁₅

• Xhu-La

• Eastern pit of the Bayan Obo deposit, northern margin of the North China Craton (NCC), Inner Mongolia, China (41°48^′01^′′ N, 109°59^′39^′′ E)

• Bo Yang, Yuan Xue, Junfang Yu, Ningyue Sun, Li Yang, Guowu Li^*, Guoying Yan, Jianyong Liu, Yonggang Zhao, Wenxiang Meng, Zhenyu Chen, Liangliang Zhuang, Ting Li, Tao Wang, Liping Zhao, Yunfang Dong, Zhao Yan, Xinyu Hou, Xin Ao, Maosen Shen, and Ze Liu

• ^* E-mail: liguowu@cugb.edu.cn

• The La analogue of xianhuaite-(Ce)

• Tetragonal: P4/mbm; structure determined

• a= 12.5297(4), c= 3.9249(2) Å

• 3.475(38), 3.215(67), 3.039(74), 2.934(37), 2.802(44), 2.788(100), 2.602(23), 1.962(33)

• Type material is deposited in the collections of the Geological Museum of China, no. 16, Yangrou Hutong, Xisi, Beijing 100031, People's Republic of China, catalogue number GMCTM2025012 (holotype), and the Crystal Structure Laboratory, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, catalogue number 2025byeb008 (cotype)

• How to cite: Yang, B., Xue, Y., Yu, J., Sun, N., Yang, L., Li, G., Yan, G., Liu, J., Zhao, Y, Meng, W., Chen, Z., Zhuang, L., Li, T., Wang, T., Zhao, L., Dong, Y., Yan, Z., Hou, X., Ao, X., Shen, M., and Liu, Z.: Xianhuaite-(La), IMA 2025-087, in: CNMNC Newsletter 90, Eur. J. Mineral., 38, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-38-231-2026, 2026.

IMA no. 2025-098

• Changesite-(Ce)

• (Ca₈Ce)□Fe(PO₄)₇

• Cgs-Ce

• Samples returned from the Chang'E-5 (CE-5) mission, northern Oceanus Procellarum, the Moon (holotype); lunar meteorite Pakepake005, discovered in the Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang, China (38°50^′22^′′ N, 83°42^′18^′′ E – cotype)

• Yanjuan Wang^*, Fabrizio Nestola, Kai Qu, Arianna E. Lanza, Jiayang Cong, Xiaochao Che, Zhenyu Chen, Guang Fan, Xiangping Gu, Ze Liu, Cheng Yue, Tao Long, Shuping Yin, Anna Barbaro, Simone Molinari, Ziyao Wang, Zhehao Huang, and Zengqian Hou^*

• ^* E-mail: wangyanjuan_cugb@foxmail.com,
  houzengqian@126.com

• Cerite supergroup

• Trigonal: R3c; structure determined

• a= 10.3513(2), c= 37.0806(5) Å

• 5.173(43), 4.040(16), 3.424(52), 3.182(19), 2.853(100), 2.587(29), 1.918(17), 1.712(15)

• Type material is deposited in the collections of the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China, catalogue number CE5C0800YJYX132GP-589 (holotype), and the Geological Museum of China, No. 16, Yangrou Hutong, Xisi, Beijing 100031, People's Republic of China, catalogue number GMCTM2025017 (cotype)

• How to cite: Wang, Y., Nestola, F., Qu, K., Lanza, A. E., Cong, J., Che, X., Chen, Z., Fan, G., Gu, X., Liu, Z., Yue, C., Long, T., Yin, S., Barbaro, A., Molinari, S., Wang, Z., Huang, Z., and Hou, Z.: Changesite-(Ce), IMA 2025-098, in: CNMNC Newsletter 90, Eur. J. Mineral., 38, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-38-231-2026, 2026.

IMA no. 2025-100

• Alexshubnikovite

• Ca₂Cu₉(AsO₄)₄(OH)₉Cl(H₂O)₈ ⋅ 2H₂O

• Axs

• Khovu-Aksy deposit, Chedi-Kholskiy District, Tuva Republic, eastern Siberia, Russia (51°09^′35^′′ N, 93°41^′09^′′ E)

• Anatoly V. Kasatkin^*, Jakub Plášil, Kshitij Gurung, Radek Škoda, Nikita V. Chukanov, Atali A. Agakhanov, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, and Vladislav V. Gurzhiy

• ^* E-mail: anatoly.kasatkin@gmail.com

• Isotypic with tyrolite and tangdanite

• Monoclinic: P2/c; structure determined

• a= 27.112(6), b= 5.523(1), c= 10.433(3) Å,
  β= 92.327(4)°

• 27.31(100), 13.62(73), 4.839(11), 4.634(12), 4.060(7), 4.012(7), 2.665(12), 2.647(8)

• Type material is deposited in the collections of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Pr. 18-2, 119071 Moscow, Russia, registration number 6305/1

• How to cite: Kasatkin, A. V., Plášil, J., Gurung, K., Škoda, R., Chukanov, N. V., Agakhanov, A. A., Belakovskiy, D. I., and Gurzhiy, V. V.: Alexshubnikovite, IMA 2025-100, in: CNMNC Newsletter 90, Eur. J. Mineral., 38, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-38-231-2026, 2026.

Not yet published new minerals

We list here those new minerals that have been approved by the CNMNC for more than 5 years and have not yet been published. According to our guidelines any new mineral should be published within 2 years of its approval; otherwise it may be withdrawn. Authors are encouraged to fill the gaps in the mineralogical systematics for which they are responsible as soon as possible. The entries are sorted by date and have the following format:

• Date of approval: mineral (corresponding author)

• Dec 2012: Erzwiesite (Dan Topa)

• Dec 2012: Lopatkaite (Dan Topa)

• Feb 2013: Arsenquatrandorite (Dan Topa)

• Nov 2013: Caesiumpharmacosiderite (Stuart J. Mills)

• Dec 2013: Strontiopharmacosiderite (Stuart J. Mills)

• Mar 2014: Thalliumpharmacosiderite (Mike Rumsey)

• Jul 2014: Znamenskyite (Ilya V. Chaplygin)

• Nov 2014: Hedegaardite (Thomas Witzke)

• Nov 2014: Lefontite (Hexiong Yang)

• Aug 2015: Lislkirchnerite (Herta S. Effenberger)

• Jan 2016: Marklite (Jakub Plášil)

• Jan 2016: Zincobriartite (Andy McDonald)

• Feb 2016: Verbierite (Nicolas Meisser)

• Mar 2016: Kalgoorlieite (Kirsten Rempel)

• Apr 2016: Braunerite (Jakub Plášil)

• Jun 2016: Marinaite (Ilya V. Chaplygin)

• Aug 2016: Argentodufrénoysite (Dan Topa)

• Aug 2016: Fleisstalite (Hans-Peter Bojar)

• Aug 2016: Incomsartorite (Dan Topa)

• Aug 2016: Khorixasite (Stuart J. Mills)

• Sep 2016: Molinelloite (Uwe Kolitsch)

• Nov 2016: Magnesiohatertite (Igor V. Pekov)

• Mar 2017: Lagalyite (Thomas Witzke)

• Apr 2017: Betpakdalite-FeFe (Stuart J. Mills)

• Oct 2017: Dekatriasartorite (Dan Topa)

• Nov 2017: Wuyanzhiite (Xiangping Gu)

• Apr 2018: Vaniniite (Nicolas Meisser)

• Sep 2018: Crowningshieldite (Fabrizio Nestola)

• Oct 2018: Ekebergite (Johan Kjellman)

• Oct 2018: Ramaccioniite (Christian Lengauer)

• Nov 2018: Escheite (Fernando Cámara)

• Jan 2019: Llantenesite (Christian Lengauer)

• Apr 2019: Scorticoite (Cristian Biagioni)

• Jun 2019: Sangenaroite (Dan Topa)

• Oct 2019: Drechslerite (Dan Topa)

• Jan 2020: Ramosite (Frank N. Keutsch)

• Feb 2020: Dutkevichite-(Ce) (Atali A. Agakhanov)

• Jul 2020: Anastasenkoite (Sergey N. Britvin)

• Aug 2020: Bahariyaite (Hassan M. Helmy)

• Sep 2020: Argentopearceite (Jiří Sejkora)

• Oct 2020: Vargite ((Jörgen Langhof)

• Nov 2020: Kenoargentotennantite-(Fe) (Cristian Biagioni)

• Nov 2020: Nakkaalaaqite (Henrik Friis)

Since a similar list was published a year ago (see CNMNC Newsletter 84), we are pleased to provide an account of those new minerals mentioned in that list and published since then:

• May 2014: Spaltiite (Stefan Graeser)

• Graeser, S., Topa, D., Effenberger, H., Makovicky, E., Paar, W. H., and Dincă, G.: Spaltiite, Tl₂Cu₂As₂S₅, one more new thallium sulfosalt mineral from Lengenbach quarry, Binn, Switzerland, European Journal of Mineralogy, 38, 27–37, 2026.

• Jul 2014: Keutschite (Dan Topa)

• Topa, D., Fredrickson, R. T., Stanley, C., and Din, G.: Keutschite, Cu₂AgAsS₄, a new mineral with a stannite structure from the Uchucchacua polymetallic deposit, Lima Department, Peru, European Journal of Mineralogy, 38, 1–7, 2026.

• Aug 2017: Gorbunovite (Atali A. Agakhanov)

• Agakhanov, A. A., Pautov, L. A., Pekov, I. V., Karpenko, V. Y., Siidra, O. I., Sokolova, E. V., Hawthorne, F. C., Muftakhov, V. A., and Kasatkin A. V.: Gorbunovite CsLi₂(Ti,Fe³⁺)(Si₄O₁₀)(F,OH,O)₂ – a new mica supergroup mineral from the Darai-Pioz alkaline massif, Tajikistan, Mineralogical Magazine, 89, 694–699, 2025.

• Aug 2017: Zoharite (Irina O. Galuskina)

• Jun 2019: Gmalimite (Irina O. Galuskina)

• Galuskina, I. O., Krüger, B., Galuskin, E. V., Krüger, H., Vapnik, Y., Murashko, M., Banasik, K., and Agakhanov, A. A.: Zoharite, (Ba,K)₆(Fe,Cu,Ni)₂₅S₂₇, and gmalimite, K₆□Fe${}_{\mathrm{24}}^{\mathrm{2}+}$S₂₇ – new djerfisherite group minerals from gehlenite–wollastonite Paralava, Hatrurim Complex, Israel, Minerals, 15, 564, 2025.

• May 2018: Achyrophanite (Igor V. Pekov)

• Pekov, I. V., Zubkova, N. V., Koshlyakova, N. N., Belakovskiy, D. I., Vigasina, M. F., Agakhanov, A. A., Britvin, S. N., Turchkova, A. G., Sidorov, E. G., Zhegunov, P. S., and Pushcharovsky, D. Y.: Achyrophanite, (K,Na)₃(Fe³⁺,Ti,Al,Mg)₅O₂(AsO₄)₅, a new mineral with the novel structure type from fumarolic exhalations of the Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia, Minerals, 15, 706, 2025.

• Oct 2019: Esdanaite-(Ce) (Thomas E. Gore)

• Gore, T. E. and Mcdonald, A. M.: Esdanaite-(Ce), NaMnCe(PO₄)₂ ⋅ 4H₂O, a new mineral from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec: Characterization, crystal structure determination, and origin, Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 63, 569–579, 2025.

• Oct 2019: Grokhovskyite (Victor V. Sharygin)

• Sharygin, V. V., Yakovlev, G.A., Seryotkin, Y. V., Karmanov, N. S., Novoselov, K. A., and Karabanalov, M. S.: Grokhovskyite, CuCrS₂, a new chromium disulfide in Uakit iron meteorite (IIAB), Buryatia, Russia, Minerals, 15, 1295, 2025.

• Oct 2019: Polyarsite (Igor V. Pekov)

• Pekov, I. V., Zubkova, N. V., Agakhanov, A. A., Belakovskiy, D. I., Vigasina, M. F., Yapaskurt, V. O., Britvin, S. N., Turchkova, A. G., Sidorov, E. G., Zhitova, E. S., and Pushcharovsky, D. Y.: Polyarsite, Na₇CaMgCu₂(AsO₄)₄F₂Cl, a new mineral with unique complex layers in the novel-type crystal structure, Minerals, 16, 122, 2026.

• Nov 2019: Suenoite (Cristian Biagioni)

• Biagioni, C., Bonaccorsi, E., Pasero, M., Hålenius, U., and Bosi, F.: Suenoite, □Mn₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂, a new member of the amphibole supergroup from the Scortico–Ravazzone ore deposit (Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy), European Journal of Mineralogy, 37, 761–772, 2025.