Mineral Species and Descriptive Mineralogy

Experimental Mineralogy and Mineral Physics

Mineralogy, structure texture and geochemistry‌ of Fadiheh Cu-Au mineral occurrence, northwestern Torbat Heydariyeh

Fadiheh copper-gold prospect area in northwest of Torbat-e Heydariyeh in Khorasan Razavi Province is located in the central part of the Khaf-Kashmar-Bardaskan magmatic belt. This area includes outcrops of Eocene volcanic-pyroclastic units with felsicـintermediate nature. The lavas are andesite and latite, and pyroclastic units include rhyodacitic tuff, andesitic lithic tuff and ignimbrite. Intr...

Mineralogy. Discovery of bridgmanite, the most abundant mineral in Earth, in a shocked meteorite.

Meteorites exposed to high pressures and temperatures during impact-induced shock often contain minerals whose occurrence and stability normally confine them to the deeper portions of Earth's mantle. One exception has been MgSiO3 in the perovskite structure, which is the most abundant solid phase in Earth. Here we report the discovery of this important phase as a mineral in the Tenham L6 chondr...

Mineralogy and Magic Flute

It is suggested that the story of The Magic Flute owes much to alchemy and related early mineralogy; the operaÕs architectonic structure, including its musical structure, owes much to numerology. The plot is in large part an allegorical account or description of the alchemical process and the production of the PhilosophersÕ Stone from the prima materia stibnite (spiessglanz) (antimony trisulphi...

Optical Mineralogy

II. Polarizing light microscope and geological samples III. Refractive index and its measurement IV. Optical classes-indicatrix theory V. Relationship of optical properties to crystal chemistry VI. Advanced methods in optical mineralogy GLOSSARY anisotropic mineral: A mineral with more than one principal refractive index. birefringence: The mathematical difference between the largest and smalle...