Titanium silicate minerals encompass a diverse class of compounds in which titanium occupies coordination environments that can functionally substitute for silicon in the silicate framework. The ...

Volumes 2B, 3B published by The Geological Society; London, 1997. Volume 5A published by The Geological Society; London, 2011. v. 1A. Orthosilicates -- v. 1B. Disilicates and ring silicates -- v. 2A.

China has discovered a new silicate mineral, known as Nipeiite-(Ce), with the highest cerium content found so far, in a rare-earth mine in Central China's Henan Province. The mineral has been ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few ...

Looking at the mineral kingdom through the lens of deep time leads to a startling conclusion: most mineral species owe their existence to life Once upon a time there were no minerals anywhere in the ...