06 Jun 2025
IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 85
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 | 2,081 views
25 Apr 2025
Mineralogy of the human brain: a review
Giulia Pia Servetto, Carissa Maria Root, Reto Gieré, and Ruggero Vigliaturo
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 279–304, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-279-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-279-2025, 2025 | 1,867 views
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14 Apr 2025
IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 84
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 | 1,556 views
22 Jul 2025
Elbaite, the neotype material from the Rosina pegmatite, San Piero in Campo, Elba island, Italy
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 | 1,432 views
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28 Jul 2025
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When colour makes minerals unique: the case of the green dolomite from Malentrata (Pomarance, Tuscany, Italy)
Luca Adami, Matteo Ardit, Costanza Bonadiman, Michele Dondi, Maura Mancinelli, Giovanni Orazio Lepore, Elena Spagnoli, Luca Nodari, Renzo Tassinari, Alfonso Zoleo, Giordano Montegrossi, and Francesco Di Benedetto
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 517–533, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-517-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-517-2025, 2025 | 1,377 views
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17 Jun 2025
Moabite, NiFe3+(PO4)O, a new natural oxyphosphate
Sergey N. Britvin, Mikhail N. Murashko, Maria G. Krzhizhanovskaya, Yevgeny Vapnik, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Dmitrii V. Pankin, and Evgeny A. Vasiliev
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 353–363, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-353-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-353-2025, 2025 | 1,323 views
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21 Jul 2025
Chrysoberyl from the Sabatini Volcanic Complex (Latium, Italy): chemical and petrological peculiarities
Giuseppe Illuminati, Silvia Musetti, Fabio Bellatreccia, Cristian Biagioni, Enrico Caprilli, Ahmad Rabiee, and Marco E. Ciriotti
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 483–504, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-483-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-483-2025, 2025 | 1,298 views
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20 Mar 2025
Sulfide mineralogy of igneous basic rocks (ophites) from the external zone of the Betic Cordillera
José M. González-Jiménez, Idael F. Blanco-Quintero, Lola Yesares, Claudio Marchesi, Amira R. Ferreira, Igor González-Pérez, Erwin Schettino, Francisco Abel Jiménez Cantizano, and Fernando Gervilla
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 191–220, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-191-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-191-2025, 2025 | 1,265 views
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21 Jul 2025
Garnet growth across the quartz–coesite transition in metapelites: equilibrium vs. kinetics
Paola Manzotti, Federica Schiavi, Michel Ballèvre, and Francesco Nosenzo
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 455–482, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-455-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-455-2025, 2025 | 1,258 views
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30 Jun 2025
Carbonatite metasomatism overprinted by silicate melt metasomatism in the mantle beneath the West Eifel volcanic field
Beatrice E. Bromley, Shuai Ma, and Cliff S. J. Shaw
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 365–384, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-365-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-365-2025, 2025 | 1,254 views
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04 Jul 2025
Vesiculation dynamics – Part 1: Decompression-induced H2O vesicle formation in the Lower Laacher See phonolitic melt
Patricia Louisa Marks and Marcus Nowak
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 385–412, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-385-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-385-2025, 2025 | 1,238 views
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14 Aug 2025
IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 86
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 | 1,198 views
07 Oct 2025
The magmatic–hydrothermal transition record in zircon: implications for zircon texture, composition and rare-metal granite dating (Beauvoir granite, French Massif Central)
Nicolas Esteves, Pierre Bouilhol, Urs Schaltegger, Maria Ovtcharova, André Navin Paul, and Lydéric France
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 667–693, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-667-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-667-2025, 2025 | 1,196 views
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17 Jun 2025
Non-conventional pressure estimates by using transmission electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (TEM-EDS): testing on submicrometer white mica from low-grade metapelites
Edoardo Sanità, Maria Di Rosa, and Enrico Mugnaioli
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 343–352, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-343-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-343-2025, 2025 | 1,179 views
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19 Aug 2025
Natrolitised nepheline-bearing Teschenite Association rocks from the Podbeskydí area (Czech Republic): a testimony from selected accessory minerals
Dalibor Matýsek, Jakub Jirásek, Štěpán Chládek, and Ondřej Pour
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 555–576, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-555-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-555-2025, 2025 | 1,178 views
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04 Jul 2025
Vesiculation dynamics – Part 2: Decompression-induced H2O vesicle growth, onset, and progression of coalescence
Patricia Louisa Marks and Marcus Nowak
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 413–435, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-413-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-413-2025, 2025 | 1,157 views
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10 Jul 2025
Fibrous tourmaline from San Piero in Campo (Elba, Italy)
Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Dario Di Giuseppe, Alessandro F. Gualtieri, Valentina Scognamiglio, Laura Fornasini, Danilo Bersani, Tommaso Giovanardi, Federico Lugli, and Federico Pezzotta
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 437–453, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-437-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-437-2025, 2025 | 1,129 views
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21 May 2025
Ginelfite, Ag2(Ag0.5Fe0.5)TlPb24.5(Sb,As)32.5S75.5, a new boxwork sulfosalt from Jas Roux, France: occurrence and crystal structure
Cristian Biagioni, Jiří Sejkora, Yves Moëlo, Georges Favreau, Vincent Bourgoin, Jean-Claude Boulliard, Elena Bonaccorsi, Daniela Mauro, Silvia Musetti, Marco Pasero, Natale Perchiazzi, and Jana Ulmanová
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 319–335, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-319-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-319-2025, 2025 | 1,121 views
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01 Aug 2025
The oxidation of Fe in riebeckite at 0.7 GPa
Giancarlo Della Ventura, Roberta Oberti, Valeria Misiti, Francesco Radica, Gunther J. Redhammer, Simone Bernardini, Massimo Boiocchi, and Boriana Mihailova
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 535–547, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-535-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-535-2025, 2025 | 1,115 views
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10 Sep 2025
Chromites in ordinary-chondrite fusion crusts
Manlio Bellesi, Giovanni Pratesi, Alessandro Di Michele, Sabrina Nazzareni, Lidia Pittarello, Steven Goderis, Carlo Santini, and Gabriele Giuli
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 617–626, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-617-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-617-2025, 2025 | 1,097 views
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08 Sep 2025
The 8 Å crystal structure and new crystal chemical data of rouxelite from the Monte Arsiccio mine, Apuan Alps, Italy
Dan Topa, Berthold Stoeger, Frank N. Keutsch, and Gheorghe Ilinca
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 591–616, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-591-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-591-2025, 2025 | 1,084 views
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14 Apr 2025
Compressibility of single-crystal zircon up to 19 GPa: implications for the partitioning coefficient of trace elements
Shuhou Maitani, Ryosuke Sinmyo, Hikaru Higuchi, Tomoko Ikeda-Fukazawa, and Saori Kawaguchi-Imada
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 257–267, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-257-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-257-2025, 2025 | 1,071 views
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20 May 2025
H and D ∕ H analysis in olivine and wadsleyite with a multi-analytical approach combining Raman spectroscopy and ion and nuclear probes
Adrien Gautier, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Bertrand Moine, Hélène Bureau, Hicham Khodja, Anthony C. Withers, and Laurette Piani
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 305–318, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-305-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-305-2025, 2025 | 1,028 views
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09 Oct 2025
IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 87
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 695–698, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-695-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-695-2025, 2025 | 1,003 views
01 Oct 2025
Origin and evolution of the Variscan Léon eclogites: insights from zircon and garnet petrochronology
Lorraine Tual, Christine Authemayou, Caroline Lotout, Matthijs A. Smit, Kira Musiyachenko, Denise Bussien Grosjean, Ellen Kooijman, and Emilie Bruand
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 639–666, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-639-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-639-2025, 2025 | 997 views
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25 Aug 2025
Cation disordering in ankerite as a function of Fe content
Azzurra Zucchini, Matteo Masotta, Manuela Nazzari, Maximiliano Fastelli, and Paola Comodi
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 577–589, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-577-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-577-2025, 2025 | 989 views
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16 Dec 2025
Exploring the unusual occurrence, chemistry, and structural topology of åsgruvanite-(Ce), Ce16Ca5Al(SiO4)6(AsO3)8(CO3)2Cl3(ClF3)(OH)2, a new rare earth element (REE) mineral from Västmanland, Sweden
Alice Taddei, Dan Holtstam, Erik Jonsson, Hans-Jürgen Förster, Stefan S. Andersson, Oona Appelt, and Luca Bindi
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 937–951, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-937-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-937-2025, 2025 | 973 views
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19 Dec 2025
The crystal structure of launayite from Taylor Pit, Madoc, Ontario, Canada: crystal chemistry, modulated superstructures, and parent modular structure compared with rouxelite
Dan Topa, Berthold Stoeger, Frank Norman Keutsch, and Gheorghe Ilinca
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 971–994, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-971-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-971-2025, 2025 | 965 views
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06 Nov 2025
IMA-CNMNC guidelines for assessing the natural geological origin of minerals
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Nicolas Meisser, Marco Pasero, and Stuart Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 871–876, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-871-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-871-2025, 2025 | 940 views
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22 Oct 2025
Changing magma dynamics and plumbing system architecture at an explosive–effusive transition: the case of Nisyros volcano (Greece)
Eleonora Braschi, Francesca Giannetti, Filippo Mastroianni, Andrea Orlando, Riccardo Avanzinelli, Simone Tommasini, Georges Enea Vougioukalakis, and Lorella Francalanci
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 793–817, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-793-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-793-2025, 2025 | 896 views
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04 Nov 2025
Formation of the Ertelien and Langedalen magmatic Ni–Cu sulfide deposits in Norway: investigating the evolution of platinum-group-element-depleted systems at convergent margins
Eduardo Mansur, Alf Andre Orvik, Iain Henderson, Ana Carolina Miranda, Trond Slagstad, Sarah Dare, Terje Bjerkgård, and Jan Sverre Sandstad
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 841–869, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-841-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-841-2025, 2025 | 887 views
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23 Apr 2025
Skogbyite, Zr(Mg2Mn3+4)SiO12, a new zirconium mineral in the braunite group from Långban, Bergslagen, Sweden
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 | 875 views
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14 Oct 2025
Marioantofilliite, [Cu4Al2(OH)12](CO3) ⋅ 3H2O, a new member of the hydrotalcite supergroup from Liguria (Italy)
Cristian Biagioni, Jiří Sejkora, Natale Perchiazzi, Enrico Mugnaioli, Daniela Mauro, Donato Belmonte, Radek Škoda, and Zdeněk Dolníček
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 733–746, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-733-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-733-2025, 2025 | 808 views
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26 Mar 2025
The fate of an old Mn–Fe amphibole species: description of clino-ferro-suenoite, □Mn2Fe2+5Si8O22(OH)2
Dan Holtstam, Fernando Cámara, Henrik Skogby, Andreas Karlsson, and Alessandro De Leo
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 221–231, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-221-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-221-2025, 2025 | 804 views
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15 Sep 2025
Vielleaureite-(Ce), a new epidote of the dollaseite group, coexisting with Mn-dominant hellandite in Mn deposits of the central Pyrenees
Alain Ragu, Luca Bindi, Paola Bonazzi, Laurent Remusat, and Christian Chopin
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 627–638, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-627-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-627-2025, 2025 | 797 views
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21 Oct 2025
Jonlarsenite, Al4Cu9, a new intermetallic phase in the Al–Cu system discovered in a micrometeorite from Oslo, Norway
Luca Bindi, Jan B. Kihle, Guangming Cheng, Jinping Hu, Nan Yao, Chi Ma, Yunbin Guan, Paul D. Asimow, and Paul J. Steinhardt
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 783–791, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-783-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-783-2025, 2025 | 768 views
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17 Mar 2025
Fluormacraeite, [(H2O)K]Mn2(Fe2Ti)(PO4)4[OF](H2O)10  ⋅  4H2O, the first type mineral from the Plößberg pegmatite, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Ian E. Grey, Christian Rewitzer, Rupert Hochleitner, Anthony R. Kampf, Stephanie Boer, William G. Mumme, Nicholas C. Wilson, and Cameron J. Davidson
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 169–179, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-169-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-169-2025, 2025 | 755 views
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16 Dec 2025
Analyzing trace element distribution and purification of vein quartz: a case study of Qianqi Furong mine in Inner Mongolia
Shaoyiqing Qu, Xiaoyong Yang, Mei Xia, Zhenhui Hou, and Yicun Wang
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 953–970, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-953-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-953-2025, 2025 | 753 views
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18 Mar 2025
The thermal expansion of monticellite and olivine
Guy Hovis and Mario Tribaudino
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 181–190, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-181-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-181-2025, 2025 | 751 views
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14 Oct 2025
Crystal chemistry and trace-element behaviour in tourmalines from Minas Gerais, Brazil
Florent Bomal, Frédéric Hatert, Simon Philippo, Maël Guennou, Martin Depret, Hao Wang, Pierre Lefèvre, and Muriel Erambert
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 709–731, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-709-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-709-2025, 2025 | 751 views
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01 Apr 2025
Average structure and microstructure of synchysite-(Ce) from Cuasso al Monte (Varese, Italy)
Roberto Conconi, Marco Merlini, Patrizia Fumagalli, Enrico Mugnaioli, Luigi Folco, and Giancarlo Capitani
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 233–247, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-233-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-233-2025, 2025 | 745 views
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17 Oct 2025
Ankaramite from Tenerife: a novel geothermobarometric approach to gain insights into the depth of a magma plumbing system
Lorenzo Barni, Simone Tommasini, Marta Morana, Riccardo Avanzinelli, Tiziano Catelani, and Luca Bindi
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 747–760, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-747-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-747-2025, 2025 | 692 views
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03 Nov 2025
Kayupovaite, Na2Mn10[(Si14Al2)O38(OH)8] ⋅ 7H2O – a new stilpnomelane-related mineral from the Ushkatyn-III deposit, Kazakhstan
Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Sergey N. Britvin, Aleksey I. Brusnitsyn, Anastasiia K. Shagova, Elena N. Perova, Igor V. Pekov, Vladimir V. Shilovskikh, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Evgeniya Y. Avdontseva, Natalia V. Platonova, and Vladimir N. Bocharov
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 829–840, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-829-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-829-2025, 2025 | 657 views
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05 Dec 2025
IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 88
Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 921–925, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-921-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-921-2025, 2025 | 646 views
11 Dec 2025
Coesite in garnet-quartzite of Orco Valley (Western Alps): an additional UHP unit in the records of deeply subducted meta-ophiolites
Federica Boero, Stefano Ghignone, Mattia Gilio, Alessia Borghini, Emanuele Scaramuzzo, Ivano Gasco, and Marco Bruno
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 927–936, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-927-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-927-2025, 2025 | 633 views
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21 Oct 2025
Elasticity of CaSiO3–CaTiO3 perovskite at lower-mantle pressures
Ye Wu
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 773–781, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-773-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-773-2025, 2025 | 620 views
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01 Dec 2025
Empirical electronic polarizabilities of iodine (I) and bromine (Br, Br7+) for the prediction of refractive indices
Shaghayegh Nezamabadi, Patrick A. Fuzon, Florian Kraus, and Reinhard X. Fischer
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 889–907, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-889-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-889-2025, 2025 | 594 views
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10 Oct 2025
High-pressure behaviour of a CaIrO3 perovskite-type structure
Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Kanchana Kularatne, and Reidar G. Trønnes
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 699–708, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-699-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-699-2025, 2025 | 590 views
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23 Oct 2025
The M2(PO4)2Φ8 cyclic tetramer – a flexible structure-building unit – Part 1: Primary pegmatite phosphate minerals
Ian Edward Grey
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 819–828, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-819-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-819-2025, 2025 | 572 views
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20 Oct 2025
Suenoite, □Mn2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2, a new member of the amphibole supergroup from the Scortico–Ravazzone ore deposit (Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy)
Cristian Biagioni, Elena Bonaccorsi, Marco Pasero, Ulf Hålenius, and Ferdinando Bosi
Eur. J. Mineral., 37, 761–772, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-761-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-37-761-2025, 2025 | 515 views
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