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Clarification of status of species in the pyrochlore supergroup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

A. G. Christy*
Affiliation:
Centre for Advanced Microscopy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
D. Atencio
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Lago, 562, 05508-080, São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

After careful consideration of the semantics of status categories for mineral species names, minor corrections and disambiguations are presented for a recent report on the nomenclature of the pyrochlore supergroup. The names betafite, elsmoreite, microlite, pyrochlore and roméite are allocated as group names within the pyrochlore supergroup. The status of the names bindheimite, bismutostibiconite, jixianite, monimolite, partzite, stetefeldtite and stibiconite is changed from 'discredited' to 'questionable' pending further research.

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Letter
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2013

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