Articles:

Christian Schmidt, Karen Rickers, Richard Wirth, Lutz Nasdala, and John M. Hanchar

Low-temperature Zr mobility: An in situ synchrotron-radiation XRF study of the effect of radiation damage in zircon on the element release in H₂O + HCl ± SiO₂ fluids
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1211-1215. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Takeshi Kasama, Mihály Pósfai, Ryan K.K. Chong, Anna P. Finlayson, Peter R. Buseck, Richard B. Frankel, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Magnetic properties, microstructure, composition, and morphology of greigite nanocrystals in magnetotactic bacteria from electron holography and tomography
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1216-1229. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Roberta Oberti, Simona Quartieri, Maria Chiara Dalconi, Federico Boscherini, Gianluca Iezzi, Massimo Boiocchi, and Sigrid Griet Eeckhout

Site preference and local geometry of Sc in garnets: Part I. Multifarious mechanisms in the pyrope-grossular join
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1230-1239. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Simona Quartieri, Roberta Oberti, Massimo Boiocchi, Maria Chiara Dalconi, Federico Boscherini, Olga Safonova, and Alan B. Woodland

Site preference and local geometry of Sc in garnets: Part II. The crystal-chemistry of octahedral Sc in the andradite–Ca₃Sc₂Si₃O₁₂ join
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1240-1248. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Fernando Cámara, Roberta Oberti, Christian Chopin, and Olaf Medenbach

The arrojadite enigma: I. A new formula and a new model for the arrojadite structure
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1249-1259. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Christian Chopin, Roberta Oberti, and Fernando Cámara

The arrojadite enigma: II. Compositional space, new members, and nomenclature of the group
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1260-1270. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Günther J. Redhammer, Georg Amthauer, Georg Roth, Gerold Tippelt, and Werner Lottermoser

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction and temperature dependent ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy on the hedenbergite-aegirine (Ca,Na)(Fe²⁺,Fe³⁺)Si₂O₆ solid solution
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1271-1292. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info][Supplementary Data Info][Supplementary Data Info]  

Toshihiro Kogure, Mayumi Jige, Jun Kameda, Akihiko Yamagishi, Ritsuro Miyawaki, and Ryuji Kitagawa

Stacking structures in pyrophyllite revealed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM)
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1293-1299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Brian G. Rusk, Mark H. Reed, John H. Dilles, and Adam J.R. Kent

Intensity of quartz cathodoluminescence and trace-element content in quartz from the porphyry copper deposit at Butte, Montana
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1300-1312. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Andreas Bauer, Bruno Lanson, Eric Ferrage, Katja Emmerich, Heiner Taubald, Dieter Schild, and Bruce Velde

The fate of smectite in KOH solutions
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1313-1322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Paola Bonazzi, Luca Bindi, Giovanni Pratesi, and Silvio Menchetti

Light-induced changes in molecular arsenic sulfides: State of the art and new evidence by single-crystal X-ray diffraction
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1323-1330. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Siobhan A. Wilson, Mati Raudsepp, and Gregory M. Dipple

Verifying and quantifying carbon fixation in minerals from serpentine-rich mine tailings using the Rietveld method with X-ray powder diffraction data
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1331-1341. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Daisuke Yamazaki, Toru Shinmei, Toru Inoue, Tetsuo Irifune, Akifumi Nozawa, and Kenichi Funakoshi

Generation of pressures to ~60 GPa in Kawai-type apparatus and stability of MnGeO₃ perovskite at high pressure and high temperature
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1342-1345. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Zhenhao Duan and Rui Sun

A model to predict phase equilibrium of CH₄ and CO₂ clathrate hydrate in aqueous electrolyte solutions
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1346-1354. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Boris Kolesov

Raman investigation of H₂O molecule and hydroxyl groups in the channels of hemimorphite
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1355-1362. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Toshihiro Kogure, Jun Kameda, Tomoyuki Matsui, and Ritsuro Miyawaki

Stacking structure in disordered talc: Interpretation of its X-ray diffraction pattern by using pattern simulation and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1363-1370. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Claudia Romano, Brent T. Poe, Nadia Kreidie, and Catherine A. McCammon

Electrical conductivities of pyrope-almandine garnets up to 19 GPa and 1700 °C
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1371-1377. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sergey V. Krivovichev, Dmitrii Yu. Chernyshov, Nicola Döbelin, Thomas Armbruster, Volker Kahlenberg, Reinhard Kaindl, Giovanni Ferraris, Richard Tessadri, and Gerard Kaltenhauser

Crystal chemistry and polytypism of tyrolite
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1378-1384. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

F. Huang, C.C. Lundstrom, and W.F. McDonough

Effect of melt structure on trace-element partitioning between clinopyroxene and silicic, alkaline, aluminous melts
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1385-1400. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Adam J.R. Kent and C.A. "Andy" Ungerer

Analysis of light lithophile elements (Li, Be, B) by laser ablation ICP-MS: Comparison between magnetic sector and quadrupole ICP-MS
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1401-1411. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Edward S. Grew, Thomas Armbruster, Olaf Medenbach, Martin G. Yates, and Christopher J. Carson

Stornesite-(Y), (Y, Ca)₂Na₆(Ca,Na)₈(Mg,Fe)₄₃(PO₄)₃₆, the first terrestrial Mg-dominant member of the fillowite group, from granulite-facies paragneiss in the Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1412-1424. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplementary Data Info]  

Sergiy M. Nokhrin, Yuanming Pan, and Mark J. Nilges

Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic study of carbonate-bearing fluorapatite: New defect centers and constraints on the incorporation of carbonate ions in apatites
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1425-1431. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Farid Juillot, Guillaume Morin, Philippe Ildefonse, Georges Calas, and Gordon E. Brown, Jr.

EXAFS signature of structural Zn at trace levels in natural and synthetic trioctahedral 2:1 phyllosilicates
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1432-1441. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Christophe Tenailleau, Barbara Etschmann, Richard M. Ibberson, and Allan Pring

A neutron powder diffraction study of Fe and Ni distributions in synthetic pentlandite and violarite using ⁶⁰Ni isotope
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1442-1447. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letters:

Matthew S. Sanchez and Mickey E. Gunter

Quantification of amphibole content in expanded vermiculite products from Libby, Montana U.S.A. using powder X-ray diffraction
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1448-1451. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

New Mineral Names:

Paula C. Piilonen, Ralph Rowe, T. Scott Ercit, and Andrew J. Locock

New Mineral Names
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1452-1457. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Reviews:

David Vaniman

UNEARTHING THE DRAGON: THE GREAT FEATHERED DINOSAUR DISCOVERY: by Mark Norell. PI Press, New York 2005. 250 pp. $30 hardcover. ISBN: 0-13-186266-9
American Mineralogist 2006 91: 1458. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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