[Rockhounds] Changesite-(Y)

Sun Sep 11 21:06:02 PDT 2022

Most likely "a slip of the ... keyboard". ;-)

I assume they did find a new mineral and submitted their data to the IMA
Commission, and in return got an OK for the mineral and the name.
Apparently they were so happy and excited about it, that they did not want
to wait for the "official publication" by that Commission of the new name
and the basic info that comes with it.
And that's (most likely) the reason why more information is not available
yet.
Cheers, Herwig

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Op ma 12 sep. 2022 om 02:23 schreef Peter Richards <rpr at heidelberg.edu>:

> This wording from the announcement seems quite strange:
>
> China's Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC)
> of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) has classified
> Changesite-(Y) as a new mineral.
>
> Is it the IMA’s commission, or is it China’s?
>
> Pete Richards
> ___________________________
> R. Peter Richards, Ph.D.
> rpr at heidelberg.edu
> Morphological Crystallographer
>
> > On Sep 11, 2022, at 8:05 PM, Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yea, I could not find the documenting paper and suspect it is in Chinese.
> > But I found a better article describing how it was discovered.
> > https://english.news.cn/20220909/4303686ad0ad4b4e876c015ec7d80a4d/c.html
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 7:49 PM Murowchick, James <murowchickj at umkc.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Yes—but as Don pointed out, all he (and I) could find are press
> releases.
> >> I’d like to see the peer-reviewed research paper describing the mineral,
> >> its properties, and what distinguishes it from others in the merrillite
> >> group.
> >> Jim
> >>
> >> From: Rockhounds <rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com> on behalf
> of
> >> Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com>
> >> Date: Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 6:44 PM
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> >> Changesite-(Y) is a phosphate mineral in columnar crystal found in lunar
> >> basalt particles.
> >>
> >> From the 140,000 lunar sample particles, researchers from the Beijing
> >> Research Institute of Uranium Geology identified, analyzed, and
> interpreted
> >> a single crystal particle with a radius of around 10 microns using
> >> sophisticated techniques, including X-ray diffraction.
> >>
> >> China's Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification
> (CNMNC)
> >> of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) has classified
> >> Changesite-(Y) as a new mineral.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 6:41 PM Murowchick, James <murowchickj at umkc.edu
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just curious—has “changesite-Y” been accepted as a new mineral by IMA
> >>> CNMNC , or did Xinhua just say it was a “new” mineral?
> >>> “Kind-of-colorless, transparent columnar” is not much of a definitive
> >>> description.
> >>>
> >>> I really appreciate all the mineralogical news you find, Kreigh.
> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Jim
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> >>> The announcement came a day after China said it discovered a new lunar
> >>> mineral, via samples retrieved by its Chang’e-5 mission. Named
> >>> Changesite-(Y), it was described by the state-run Xinhua news agency
> as a
> >>> kind-of colorless transparent columnar crystal. It’s said to contain
> >>> helium-3, an isotype that’s been speculated as a future energy source.
> >>>
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