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D.J. Vaughan (editor) Sulfide Mineralogy and Geochemistry.

Chantilly, VA and Washington, D.C., USA (Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemical Society), 2006, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Volume 61, 714 pp. ISBN 0-939950-73-1. US $40.

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With Ribbe’s 1974 Sulfide Mineralogy looking rather dog-eared on my bookshelf, how timely to be invited to review this state of the science update 60 volumes on.

After a short introduction and overview by the editor, we head straight into a 118 page chapter by Makovicky on the ‘Crystal structure of sulfides and other chalcogenides’. His classification scheme adopts the following headings: Fibrous sulfides; Layer-like structures; Structures with three-dimensional frameworks; Channel- and cage-structures; Selected cation-specific structures; and, Selected larger sulfosalt families. The author gives preference to recent, accurate structure determinations and acknowledges the impossibility of quoting all the relevant studies in this review. Lacking an index, it is difficult to find particular minerals of interest and some are lost in long lists of synthetic non-minerals. I noticed just a single mistake, the inclusion of the doubtful mineral prassoite as having preference over miassite with the formula Rh₁₇S₁₅, but this is so widely quoted in the literature that it can be excused.

Chapter 3 is on the ‘Electrical and . . . [Full Text of this Article]