Mineralogical Society of America
@mineralsocamerica.bsky.social
Founded in 1919, the MSA’s mission is to diligently work on the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industry, and the arts. Website: msaweb.org
American Mineralogist: Origin of tin-specialized granites constrained from fluid-absent metapelite melting experiments Yongchao Liu, et al. The results demonstrate that biotite-dehydration melting is the key process for generating Sn-specialized granites. doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Dear Mineral Sciences Community Members: Please consider presenting your interesting mineral-related research at MSA Tucson 2027! The meeting starts on Sunday, 14 February, with a day of overlap with the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show®, followed by three days of talks, posters, and other events.
American Mineralogist: Effect of Fe content on reduced partition function ratios of Ni isotopes in olivine: A first-principles study Anwen Hou, Jiaxin Liang, Huiquan Tian, Shanqi Liu, Yongbing Li doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
MSA at GSA Part 1: Mineralogical Sightings By Clem Hamelin MSA was at the Geological Society of America @geosociety Annual Meeting in Denver recently! We're highlighting some exciting MSA at GSA26 mineralogical sightings in Denver. #MSACommunications #MineralMonday #geosociety
Coming up fast - the deadline to submit abstracts for the 2027 MSA Tucson Meeting! Submit by October 31, 2026. Join us for a great meeting in Tucson in February.
American Mineralogist: Disentangling magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of highly fractionated granite through the integration of zircon and monazite U-Th-Pb and Hf/Nd-O isotopes Xing Zhang, Rui Li, Wen-Xiang Zhang, Bin Fu, Guangyan Zhou, Zhaochu Hu, Yuanbao Wu doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Thin Section Thursday! Andesite from Indonesia with a twinned pyroxene in the center. Taken under cross-polarized light. Contributed by Bernhard W. Seubert. You can contribute too! Send image(s) and short caption to akoziol1 (at) udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday
American Mineralogist: High-resolution Raman spectroscopy of calcium phosphate apatite along the F-OH, F-Cl, and Cl-OH binaries Kyle Ashley, Matthew Steele-MacInnis, Daniel Harlov, John Hughes, Robert Bodnar doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
MSA Tucson 2027 abstracts portal open, and abstract deadline is October 31, 2026! Submission portal: www.abstractscorecard.com/cfp/submit/login.asp?EventKey=GFOIIHTS Meeting webpage: msaweb.org/annualmeeting/ Join us in Tucson Feb. 14 – 18, 2027!
American Mineralogist: The periclase-wüstite stability field and the exsolution of coherent nanocrystalline spinel ferrite at 0.1 MPa Caterina Melai, et al. (Open Access) doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Mineral Monday! Graphites of the Ticonderoga Area, New York By William Peck, Colgate University Graphite was mined in the Adirondacks from 1850-1920. It formed from organic and igneous carbon sources during 2 orogenies. #MSACommunications #MineralMonday #graphite #carbon #Adirondacks
American Mineralogist: Fluid assimilation-fractional crystallization drives heavy zinc isotope enrichment in Himalayan leucogranites Cuihua Luo, Gengxin Deng, Shubin Fang, Xiao Chi Liu, Fang Huang doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Thin Section Thursday! Upper image: XPL. Lower image: Cathodoluminescence. 2.8 Ga tonalite from the Beartooth Mtns, MT with anti-perthitic exsolution of microcline (blue in CL) in a plagioclase host. Contributed by Darrell Henry. Contact akoziol1 (at) udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday
American Mineralogist: Iron phyllosilicates: Targeted removal by acid treatment and their differing potential to immobilize aqueous sulfide Spencer Bingham, Peter Solheid, Alon McCormick, R. Lee Penn doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
American Mineralogist: K+/Na+-smectite indicates a lake 3500 million years ago in Gale crater on Mars Xiaorong Qin, Jianxi Zhu, Hongping He, Yi-Liang Li The extent and persistence of liquid water in Gale crater are central to understanding Mars’ past habitability. doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Today is #MINERALSDAY! 💎⛏️🚨 Where would we be without minerals? They impact every aspect of our life! So why not take some time today to explore minerals on mineralsday.org? @mineralsocamerica.bsky.social #ESW2026 #EarthScienceWeek2026 #MineralsDay #Minerals #Mineralogy #Geology
Mineral Monday! Minerals Day Around the World By Fernando Núñez Useche October 12, 2026 is Minerals Day, part of Earth Science Week. Here we share an educational event taking place in Mexico. #MSACommunications #MineralMonday #MineralsDay #EarthScienceWeek #education
American Mineralogist: Electrical conductivity of MgCO3 under thermodynamic conditions of Earth's interior: a first-principles investigation Samuel Santos, João Francisco Filho, Lucy Vitória Assali doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Thin Section Thursday! Holmquistite in Mica Schist Crossed polars, horizontal length: 7 mm Xinjiang, Uygur Autonomous Region #ThinSectionThursday You can contribute too. Send images and captions to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu.
American Mineralogist: Synthesis of K- and Fe-rich davemaoite Oliver Tschauner, Shichun Huang, Justin Hardin, Michael Michael Petaev, Logan Magad-Weiss, Erinna Tschauner, Melanie White, Ashkan Salamat, Nicholas Dygert, Ping Wang (Open Access) doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
American Mineralogist: Sunshuite, FeBi2S4, a new member of the pavonite homologous series from the Jiawula-Chaganbulagen Ag-Pb-Zn ore field, Inner Mongolia, China Kaixuan Hui, Ke-Zhang Qin, Guowu Li, Ningyue Sun, Mingjian Cao, Lihui Jia, Li Ting, Yuan Xue doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
MSA Tucson 2027 meeting: Feb. 14 - 18 2027 The abstract deadline: Oct. 31, 2026! The link to the abstract submission portal is available on the main page of the MSA website: msaweb.org. --> You can also donate to the student travel fund via the "Donate" button on the MSA website.
No #MineralMonday today. Without contributions from people like you, I have nothing to post. Would you like to feature your research, field photos, a neat mineral, a recent publication? Please send information and up to 4 images to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu.
We are pleased to announce the results of our recent election for Officers and Councilors for 2027. They are: President: Professor Marc Hirschmann Vice-President: Professor Paul Tomascak Councilor I: Professor Emily Chin Councilor II: Professor G. Diego Gatta
American Mineralogist: New insights into antimony isotopic fractionation mechanisms from experimental investigations Da Wang, Ryan Mathur, Hong-Jie Wu, Wayne Powell, Peter Baran, Zi-An Liu, Huchao Ma doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Thin Section Thursday: A. oolite-bearing sample (PPL). B. in (XPL). The sample of black talc is from the late Neoproterozoic Dengying Formation in Guangfeng County, Jiangxi Province, southeastern China. (DOI: dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2...). Contributed by Huifang Xu. #thinsectionthursday
MSA will be hosting several events at GSA's Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. If you are attending, we hope to see you at one or more of these. Exhibit Hall: Our booth number is 725. The Awards Luncheon & Awards Lectures: Tuesday, October 13. MSA/GIA Joint Reception: Tickets are $10.
American Mineralogist: Juxingite, Bi6Cu140Fe30S125, a new copper sulfide mineral from the Jiama porphyry-skarn Cu-polymetallic deposit, Tibet, China Feng-Hua Gu, et al. Juxingite is a complex metal sulfide, cubic, space group F43m, with a Mohs hardness of approximately 3. doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
