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Journal/NDM46 2011 eng
New Data on Minerals. 2011. Volume 46. 168 pages, 138 photos, drawings and schemes.
Publication of Institution of Russian Academy of Sciences, FersmanMineralogicalMuseum RAS.
Summary
This issue includes the articles about new mineral species found from rocks of the Dara-i-Pioz alkaline massif, Tajikistan:
byzantievite, Ba, Ca, REE, Ti, and Nb silico-phospho-borate with complex structure and orlovite, titanium analogue of
polylithionite, which is a new member of mica group. Rare minerals, rooseveltite and preisingerite from the Oranzhevoye ore
f ield, Verkhne-Kalganinsky massif, Magadan region, Russia, mannardite from carbonaceous-siliceous schists, South
Kirgizstan and Kazakhstan, and palladoarsenide and mayakite from sulfide of ores of Norilsk field are described. The new data
of fahlores and secondary minerals at the Labedinoe deposit, Central Aldan, Li mineralization from the Glubostrovskoye
granitic pegmatite, South Urals, and mineralogy of wood tin at the Dzhalinda deposit, Khingan-Oloi tin district are given. The
published and novel data of uranium oxides and hydroxides are reviewed. The experimental study of crystallization products
of chalcopyrite solid solution was carried out.
In section “Mineralogical museums and collections”, stone-cutting articles of the Peterhof lapidary factory in the collection of
the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences are described. The other two articles are devoted to the
history of first catalogues of the museum collections and the attribution of marble specimens of Florentine marble mosaic and
ruin marble involved in the first Mineral catalogue by M.V. Lomonosov. The exhibition “Amazing stone” held in 2011 in the
Fersman Mineralogical Museum and the new acquisitions to the museum 2009–2010 are also reported in this section.
An article about Yu.L. Orlov, talented mineralogist, the head of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum from 1976 to 1980, is
placed in section “Persons”.
A section “Mineralogical notes” briefly informs about the new data of the process of formation of skeletal crystals of calcite
from carst cavities, reports bilibinskite from the cementation zone of gold-telluride deposits (Aginskoe, Kamchatka and
Pionerskoe, Syan Mountains), and the minerals from metakimberlites of the Udachnaya-Vostochnaya Pipe, Northern Yakutia.
This journal is interest for mineralogists, geochemists, geologists, workers of natural history museums, collectors, and amateurs
of stone.