Carbon mineral ecology: Predicting the undiscovered minerals of carbon

Hazen, Robert M.; Hummer, Daniel R.; Hystad, Grethe; Downs, Robert T.; Golden, Joshua J.

doi:10.2138/am-2016-5546

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“…Hystad et al (2015) discovered that the distribution of all terrestrial minerals conforms to a LNRE frequency distribution. This distribution pattern was later reported for the minerals of carbon, boron, cobalt, chromium, and other elements (Hazen et al 2016a(Hazen et al , 2016bGrew et al 2016;2016b;Liu et al, 2017). We modeled the frequency distribution of vanadium minerals based on the numbers of known localities for each of the 219 approved vanadium minerals.…”

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“…By contrast, the 11 most common vanadium minerals account for more than 70% of all species-locality data. This pattern of species distribution among localities, with a few common species and many more rare ones, is typical for the whole set, as well as for various subsets of minerals (Hazen et al 2015a(Hazen et al , 2016aHystad et al 2015b;Grew et al 2016).…”

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“…Characteristics of these mineral species, including their physical properties, chemical compositions, and their localities of occurrence, have been parsed into large mineral databases (e.g., rruff.info/ima and mindat.org). These mineralogical "big data" reveal diversity and spatial distribution of all terrestrial minerals (Hazen et al 2015a(Hazen et al , 2015b(Hazen et al , 2016a(Hazen et al , 2016bHystad et al 2015aHystad et al , 2015bHystad et al , 2016, facilitate network analysis of existing minerals (Morrison et al, 2017), and lead to predictions of Earth's "missing" minerals (Hazen et al 2016a;Grew et al 2016;Liu et al, 2016).…”

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Analysis and visualization of vanadium mineral diversity and distribution

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We employ large mineralogical data resources to investigate the diversity and spatial distribution of vanadium minerals. Data for 219 approved species (rruff.info/ima, as of 15 April 2016), representing 5437 mineral species-locality pairs (mindat.org and other sources, as of 15 April 2016), facilitate statistical evaluation and network analysis of these vanadium minerals. V minerals form a sparse, moderately centralized and transitive network, and they cluster into at least 7 groups, each of which indicates distinct paragenetic process. In addition, we construct the V mineral-locality bipartite network to reveal mineral diversity at each locality. It shows that only a few V minerals occur at more than 3 localities, while most minerals occur at 1 or 2 localities, conforming to a This is a preprint, the final version is subject to change, of the American Mineralogist (MSA) Cite as Authors (Year) Title. American Mineralogist, in press.

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Analysis and visualization of vanadium mineral diversity and distribution

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“…The increased interest in the origin and fate of different forms of carbon on Earth has recently sparked 'The Carbon Mineral Challenge' (CMC, see also https://www.mineralchallenge.net), an initiative dedicated to the discovery of new carbon-mineralogical crystallography containing mineral species. This initiative, that has led to the discovery of 15 new carbon minerals since its inception in 2015, was inspired by the work of a team of researchers based at the Carnegie Institute, Purdue University and the University of Arizona, who applied a statistical model known as 'Large Number of Statistical Events' (LNRE) to a database containing the 403 carbon-containing minerals known at the time (Hazen et al, 2016). This model predicted that at least an additional 145 carbon-bearing minerals should exist on Earth (Fig.…”

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“…The vertical dashed line indicates data recorded. Images taken with permission fromHazen et al (2016).…”

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Understanding geology through crystal engineering: coordination complexes, coordination polymers and metal–organic frameworks as minerals

Huskić

Friščić

2018

Acta Crystallogr Sect B

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Recent structural studies of organic minerals, coupled with the intense search for new carbon-containing mineral species, have revealed naturally occurring structures analogous to those of advanced materials, such as coordination polymers and even open metal-organic frameworks exhibiting nanometre-sized channels. While classifying such 'non-conventional' minerals represents a challenge to usual mineral definitions, which focus largely on inorganic structures, this overview highlights the striking similarity of organic minerals to artificial organic and metal-organic materials, and shows how they can be classified using the principles of coordination chemistry and crystal engineering.

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Structures and Crystal Chemistry of Carbonate at Earth's Mantle Conditions

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Maurice

2020

Geophysical Monograph Series

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We report an overview of the crystal structures of carbonates determined ab-initio with X-ray single crystal diffraction techniques at mantle conditions. The determined crystal structures of high-pressure polymorphs of CaCO 3 have revealed that structures denser than aragonite can exist at upper and lower mantle pressures. These results have stimulated the computational and experimental research of thermodynamically stable polymorphs. At lower mantle conditions, the carbonates transform into new structures featuring tetrahedrally coordinated carbon. The identification of a systematic class of carbonates, nesocarbonates, cyclocarbonates, and inocarbonates reveals a complex crystal chemistry, with analogies to silicates. They provide fundamental input for the understanding of deep carbonatite melt physical properties. The possible polymerization of carbonate units will affect viscosity, and the reduced polymerization in crystal structures as a function of oxidation state could suggest that also oxidation state may affect the mobility of deep carbonatitic magmas. Finally, we report two high-pressure structures of mixed alkali carbonates, which reveal that these compounds may form wide solid solutions and incorporate a sensible amount of vacancies, which would allow incorporation of high-strength elements and therefore play an important role for geochemical element partitioning in the mantle.

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Carbon mineral ecology: Predicting the undiscovered minerals of carbon

Cited by 47 publications

References 57 publications

Analysis and visualization of vanadium mineral diversity and distribution

Analysis and visualization of vanadium mineral diversity and distribution

Understanding geology through crystal engineering: coordination complexes, coordination polymers and metal–organic frameworks as minerals

Structures and Crystal Chemistry of Carbonate at Earth's Mantle Conditions

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