Honorary Title “Mineral of the Year”
- Authors: Pushcharovsky D.Y.1
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Affiliations:
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: No 9 (2023)
- Pages: 3-12
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/0032-874X/article/view/627834
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S0032874X23090016
- ID: 627834
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Abstract
The article considers main specifi c features of the minerals, winners and awardees of the competition “Mineral of the Year” introduced by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) in 2014. The corresponding publications contain the detailed description of the phenomena which complicate the real structure (merelanite), the analysis of the uncommon combination of chemical elements (seaborgite), the occurrence in minerals of structure elements earlier well-known only in synthetic inorganic phases (ophirite, chanabayaite, and bojarite). A special attention is addressed to the indicative role of these minerals in the reconstruction of the physical and chemical conditions of their crystallization as well as to their position in the corresponding transformational-genetic series.
About the authors
D. Yu Pushcharovsky
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: dmitp01@mail.ru
Moscow, Russia
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