Tag: mineralogy

The IMA's mineral nomenclature commission has approved thirteen new mineral species in June and July 2026, including an ammonium-bearing apophyllite ...

A newly approved mineral species from central China's Haopinggou deposit, fengruiite hosts nearly 67 weight percent silver in a layered ...

A new hydrated calcium manganese arsenate named belmonteite has been identified from specimens collected more than 30 years ago at ...

Researchers have developed calibration equations that let a simple ATR-FTIR spectrometer quantify strontianite and witherite in aragonite mixtures without sample ...

Chinese researchers have tracked the hydrothermal transformation of needle-shaped iron oxyhydroxide into nano-porous ellipsoidal hematite, showing that dehydration-driven lattice rearrangement ...

A statistical analysis of 223 Pokémon card illustrations reveals a dominant universal crystal template that distorts public perceptions of real ...

Brazilian researchers show that reactive silica released from clay minerals during dolostone calcination sequesters calcium and magnesium oxides into silicate ...

A light ball milling technique separates easily pulverized steel slag into a fine fraction that carbonates faster and stronger than ...

Researchers fine-tuned a Stable Diffusion model on more than 43,000 paired images and attribute descriptions from the Mindat database to ...

New high-pressure experiments suggest iron oxyhydroxide phases may transport water into the Earth's lower mantle, reshaping our understanding of the ...