Minerals: Structure, Properties, Methods of Investigation

Considerable attention is paid to the latest advances in and applications of physical methods of investigation for mineral structure and composition, in particular, X-Ray diffraction, spectroscopic (optical, vibrational, ESR, Moessbauer, etc.) and microscopic (SEM, TEM, AFM, etc.) studies, as well as chemical and isotopic analysis methods.

1. ZONED OLIVINES IN METALLURGICAL SLAGS OF THE BRONZE AGE: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND RAMAN MAPPING Maksim N. Ankushev, Elizaveta A. Pankrushina, Ivan A. Blinov 2. -PARAMETERS OF THE EGITINSKY FLUORITE DEPOSIT(TRANS-BAIKALIA, RUSSIA)Natalia N. Ankusheva, Roza A. Badmatsyrenova, Sayana B. Tsydypova 3. XRF ANALYSIS OF ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION OF ARCHAEOLOGICALCOINS FROM MANGUP, CRIMEAAnna V. Antipenko, Igor A. Nauhatsky, Elena M. Maksimova, Tatiana N. Smekalova,Valeriy E. Naumenko 4. INFLUENCE OF SEYMCHAN METEORITE STRUCTURE ON THE GROWTHAND PROPERTIES OF CARBON NANOTUBESAnastasia S. Begunova, Grigoriy A. Yakovlev, Robert V. Kamalov, Elizaveta A.Pankrushina, Victor I. Grokhovsky 5. SCANDIUM, YTTRIUM AND LANTHANOIDS IN BERYL FROM THE SHERLOVA GORA (SCHORL MOUNTAIN) Alena A. Borzenko, Georgiy A. Yurgenson 6. A SPECIAL ROLE OF SPECTROPHOTOMETRY IN THE STUDY OF ASTEROIDSAND METEORITE ANALOGSVladimir V. Busarev, Andrey M. Sobolev, Victor I. Grohovsky,Nikolai A. Kruglikov 7. APATITE SATURATION THERMOMETRY OF THE KOZHIM GRANITE MASSIF (THE SUBPOLAR URALS) Yulia V. Denisova 8. THE NATURE OF THE ENSTATITE RIM IN REFRACTORY FORSTERITE-RICH INCLUSIONS: AN EBSD STUDYK seniya A. Dugushkina, Stepan V. Berzin, Dmitry A. Zamyatin 9. MAGNETIC MICROSPHERULES IN IMPACTITES AND SEDIMENTARY ROCKS Mikhail S. Glukhov, Vladimir A. Tsel'movich, Rafael Kh. Sungatullin, Rail I. Kadyrov, Evgeniy O. Statsenko 10. PHASE AND ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS OF MARSA ALAM 009 ORDINARYCHONDRITESvetlana S. Hontsova, Elena M. Maksimova, Igor A. Nauhatsky 11. ANTHROPOGENIC PARTICLES IN THE SNOW COVER IN THE AREA OF THE ICE RACE TRACK Ekaterina O. Ilgasheva, Ilya V. Yarmoshenko, Georgy P. Malinovsky, Andrian A. Seleznev 12. REE-Zr-U-Th-Nb-F MINERALIZATION IN PERALUMINOUS Li-F AMAZONITEGRANITES OF THE TURGA MASSIF: A NEW GEOCHEMICAL TYPE OF RARE-METAL GRANITES FOR EASTERN TRANSBAIKALIAAnna A. Ivanova, Elena V. Badanina, Liudmila F. Syritso, Evgenia B. Borisova 13. FTIR, XRF AND POWDER XRD EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CHAROITE:CRYSTAL CHEMICAL FEATURES OF TWO ASSOCIATED GENERATIONSEkaterina V. Kaneva, Tatiana A. Radomskaya, Roman Yu. Shendrik, Victor M.Chubarov, Alena A. Amosova, Mikhail A. Mitichkin 14. SOLID SOLUTION OF GLOBERITE-ANHYDRITE FROM TENORITOVAYA FUMAROLE (TOLBACHIK VOLCANOE, KAMCHATKA) Dmitry A. Khanin, Valery M. Chubarov 15. CONCENTRICALLY-ZONED MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC MARINKIN MASSIF, MIDDLE VITIM HIGHLAND, BAIKAL REGION, RUSSIA: INCLUSIONS IN CHROME SPINEL - KEY TO MINERAL FORMATION PROCESSES Evgeniy V. Kislov, Vadim S. Kamenetsky, Alexey V. Malyshev, Vladislav V. Vanteev 16. PRELIMINARY STUDY OF COMPOSITION AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NWA 12370 METEORITEAndrey Kocherov, Sergey Voropaev, Alexander Korochantsev, IlmirNugmanov 17. STUDY OF CALCITES OF THE CRIMEAN CAVE EMINE-BAYIR-KHOSAR AND ITS SURROUNDINGSGleb S. Maksimov, Igor A. Nauhatsky, Elena M. Maksimova, Elizaveta I. Timohina 18. GALLSTONES: CHEMICAL AND AMINO ACID COMPOSITIONSEkaterina V. Mashina, Olga E. Amosova, Svetlana N. Shanina 19. ABOUT THE NATURE OF BERYL COLOR FROM THE SHERLOVA GORA DEPOSITAngelina D. Mikheeva, Anatoliy G. Nikolaev, Georgiy A. Yurgenson, Alena A. Borzenko 20. THE CHRONO LIST OF "BAD" METEORITES Lev A. Muravyev, Viktor I. Grokhovsky 21. USE OF MODERN SPECTROSCOPY METHODS IN APPLIED GEMOLOGYAnatoliy G. Nikolaev 22. CONDITIONS OF THE VOLGA-URAL REGION DOMANIKITS FORMATION AND THEIR PROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENTAigul V. Nizamova, Vladimir P. Morozov, Alexey A. Eskin 23. THE STUDY OF FLUID INCLUSION SALINITY IN MINERALS BY RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY REVISITED Elizaveta A. Pankrushina, Mikhail T. Krupenin, Yuliya V. Shchapova, Aleksander S. Kobuzov, Asya A. Garaeva, Sergei L. Votyakov 24. RUSSIAN-MONGOLIAN METEORITE EXPEDITION TO THE GOBI DESERT. A.Iu. Pastukhovich, S. Demberel, V. I. Grokhovsky, V. V. Sharygin, S. V. Berzin, K. A. Dugushkina, M. Yu. Larionov, L. A. Muravyev, T. Nasan-Ochir, E.V. Petrova, G. A. Yakovlev 25. MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AND HEAVY METAL IN URBAN SOIL (KHVALYNSK, SARATOV REGION, RF) Mikhail V. Reshetnikov, Aleksandr S. Sheshnev, Vitaly N. Eremin, Dler S.M. Majeed, Aleksandr S. Sheudzhen 26. THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF SULFUR AND OXYGEN OF SULFATE MINERALS IN KUNGUR AND KINDERLINSKAYA CAVES OF THE URALSSergey A. Sadykov, Sergey S. Potapov, Olga. Ya. Chervyatsova 27. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION FEATURES OF GARNETS FROM THE BERGEN ARCS ECLOGITES (SOUTHERN NORWAY) Liaisan I. Salimgaraeva, Alexei V. Berezin, Sergey G. Skublov 28. MAGMATIC HORNBLENDE IN THE GABBRONORITES OF THE KUSA INTRUSIONEvgeny S. Shagalov, Vladimir V. Kholodnov, Tatyana D. Bocharnikova 29. ATOMIC AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF ZIRCON ACCORDING TO HIGH-RESOLUTION X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS Yuliya V. Shchapova, Dmitry A. Zamyatin, Sergei L. Votyakov, I.S. Zhidkov, A.I. S.O. Cholah 30. MINERAL COMPOSITION OF THE ZUN-TOREY LAKE (EASTERN SIBERIA) BOTTOM SEDIMENTS STUDIED BY X-RAY DIFFRACTION Roman V. Smelyy, Ekaterina V. Kaneva, Anastasia V. Oshchepkova, Tatiana S. Aisueva, Aleksandr L. Finkelstein 31. CRYSTAL CHEMICAL FEATURES AND COLORNATURE OF SAPPHIRE FROM THE NARYN-GOL DEPOSIT (BURYATIYA)Vasilina F. Sotnikova, Anatoliy G. Nikolaev, Evgeny V. Kislov, Vladislav V. Vanteev, Anna V. Aseeva 32. BHVO-2, AGV-2 AND BCR-2 CERTIFIED REFERENCE MATERIALS IN THE METHOD VALIDATION FOR ZINC STABLE ISOTOPE ANALISIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES Maria V. Streletskaya, Maria V. Chervyakovskaya, Tatyana G. Okuneva, Daria V. Kiseleva 33. CRYSTAL-CHEMICAL FEATURES AND NATURE OF THE COLOR OF EMERALD FROM THE HENCH DEPOSIT (AFGHANISTAN)Valeria I. Tarakanova, Anatoliy G. Nikolaev, Georgiy A. Yurgenson 34. FEATURES OF THE MINERAL COMPOSITION OF THE SEDIMENTS AT SARADJ-CHUKO GROTTO Vladimir A. Tselmovich, Anastasiia S. Korzinova, Ekaterina V. Doronicheva, Liubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev 35. THE MORPHOLOGYCAL TYPES OF ZIRCONS FROM GRANITES OF THE POLAR URALSNataliya S. Ulyasheva 36. CAPACITY OF FULLERENES FOR DOPING ATOMS Yury L. Voytekhovsky, Dmitry G. Stepenshchikov 37. ACCESSORY SULFIDES FROM THE CHROMITITES OF THE ERGAKSKY ULTRAMAFIC MASSIF (THE WESTERN SAYAN) Alexey N. Yurichev 38. VISUALIZATION OF ELASTIC ANISOTROPY IN CRYSTALSAnastasia I. Zamkovskaya, Elena M. Maksimova