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Procedures involving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, and guidelines on mineral nomenclature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

E. H. Nickel  and
J. A. Mandarino
E. H. Nickel
Affiliation:
Division of Minerals and Geochemistry, CSIRO, Private Bag, P.O., Wembley, W.A., Australia 6014
J. A. Mandarino
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Geology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6
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Topographic and Systematic Mineralogy
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 52 , Issue 365 , April 1988 , pp. 275 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1988

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Vice-chairman

†

chairman, IMA Commission on New Mineral and Mineral Names.

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