Mineral Matters (2005-2011 )
The Mineral Matters column presents discussions and updates on recent mineralogical studies that focus on or are relevant to the materials applications of minerals. Also included are articles on mineral nomenclature.
A Brief History of Mineral Symbols
By Laurence N. Warr | June, 2021
At some stage you may have abbreviated the name of a mineral when writing a thesis, report, or publication. This could have been for a common mineral such as quartz (Qz) or muscovite (Ms). But there are some more noto riously long mineral names for which a short ened version can be rather useful. Take, for example, the 34 letter long potassicmagnesio fluoroarfvedsonite (usefully abbreviated to “Pmfarf”, where “arf” represents “arfvesonite”)…