A system of codification for unnamed minerals: Report of the subcommittee for unnamed minerals of the IMA Commission on new minerals, nomenclature and classification

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 983-1055

  Smith, Dorian G W ^a   Nickel, Ernest H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Commission on New Minerals; International Mineralogical Association; Nomenclature and Classification; Unnamed minerals

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; PUBLISHING; TERMINOLOGY;

CODIFICATION; INTERNATIONAL MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION (CO); UNNAMED MINERALS;

MINERALOGY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLASSIFICATION; MINERALOGY; NEW MINERAL; NOMENCLATURE; STANDARD (REFERENCE);

EID: 35648996941     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.45.4.983     Document Type: Article

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