NEW MINERALS RECENTLY APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION ON NEW MINERALS AND MINERAL NAMES - INTERNATIONAL-MINERALOGICAL-ASSOCIATION

Some time ago the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names decided that we could do a distinct service to the mineralogical community if we published very short descriptions of newly approved mineral specie s without, of course, their names. The purpose of this is to assist mi neralogists who are working on new minerals which may be the same as t hese approved species, which have not been published yet. The frequenc y of multiple proposals for the same species is increasing and it is h oped that this service will alert prospective proposers to the existen ce of these new species and thus save them some time and frustration i n coming in second or third with the same mineral.