THE NEW 《FLEISHER'S GLOSSARY OF MINERAL SPECIES》 BY J. MANDARINO (ON THE PROBLEM OF MINERALS FORMULAE UNIFICATION)

摘要

It is a critical review of the glossary. The bookcontains about 3600 mineral names and is the best, convenientand up-to-date guide in the world of minerals. But becauseformulas of minerals are not unified, users often cannot get afull and right information on a chemical composition of someminerals and on limits of variations of their compositions. Acharge disbalance and a traversity of isomorphic substitutionsof elements are most common imperfectnesses in formulas.Formulas of warwickite, manjiroite, coronadite, cryptomelane,bariandite, elbaite, ilmajokite, landauite, bariomicrolite,franciscanite, wenkite, sicklerite, charoite, yoshiokaite,corvusite, hibschite, katoite are under consideration and newversions of them are given by reviewers to be discussed.