These are my phosphates, arsenates, and vanadates. There are hundreds of phosphates but only a relative few of them are common. For some reason the current mineral classification scheme limits ...

The studied minerals show wide-range isomorphous substitutions at all these sites except of O atoms coordinating T . Maxwellite NaFe 3+ (AsO 4 )F and durangite NaAl (AsO 4 )F form a solid-solution ...

Knowing that thousands still urgently need help in areas surrounding Mindat, and tens of thousands in broader Chin State, where fighting continues to the west, much more remains to be done. Work is ...

With most of its human inhabitants now gone, pigs roam the streets of Mindat in search of food. (Chin World) Mindat, a small town in a remote and mountainous region of southern Chin State, is more ...

Mindat put up tenacious resistance to the Burmese army but is now in desperate need of help.

Mindat is one of several towns where opponents of the military have armed themselves. Nearly 800 people have died in mainly unarmed protests at February's coup which ousted the elected government.

Both maxwellite and tilasite form a continuous series with durangite NaAl (3+) (AsO4)F. We have used the combination of scanning electron microscopy with EDS and vibrational spectroscopy to chemically ...