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PUBLICATIONS
2025
Curtolo, A., Day, M. C., Innocenzi, F., Bolfan-Casanova, N., Pamato, M. G., Falvard, S., Nestola, F., Harris, J. W., & Novella, D. (2025). H₂O in nominally anhydrous mineral inclusions in diamonds and the volatile composition of diamond-forming media. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 658, 119311.
Nestola, F., Zaffiro, G., Mastrobuono-Battisti, A., Nimis, P., Novella, D., & Prencipe, M. (2025). RamanCrystalHunter: A new program and database for processing, analysis, and identification of Raman spectra. American Mineralogist, 110(4), 513–524.
Day, M. C., Jollands, M. C., Innocenzi, F., Novella, D., Nestola, F., & Pamato, M. G. (2025). Infrared spectroscopy of natural Type Ib diamond: Insights into the formation of Y-centers and the early aggregation of nitrogen. American Mineralogist. Advance online publication.
Agakhanov, A. A., Day, M. C., Sokolova, E., Karpenko, V. Y., Hawthorne, F. C., Pautov, L. A., Kasatkin, A. V., Pekov, I. V., Belakovskiy, D. I., Agakhanova, V. A., & Britvin, S. N. (2025). Nacareniobsite-(Nd), Ca₂(CaNd)Na₃Nb(Si₂O₇)₂(OF)F₂, a new rinkite-group (seidozerite-supergroup) mineral from the Darai-Pioz alkaline massif, Tajikistan: Description and crystal structure. The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 63(2), 179–190.
2024
2023
Agakhanov, A. A., Day, M. C., Sokolova, E., Karpenko, V. Y., Hawthorne, F. C., Pautov, L. A., Kasatkin, A. V., Pekov, I. V., & Agakhanova, V. A. (2024). Rundqvistite-(Ce), Na₃(Sr₃Ce)(Zn₂Si₈O₂₄), a new mineral from the Darai-Pioz alkaline massif, Tien‑Shan Mountains, Tajikistan: Mineral description and crystal structure. Mineralogical Magazine, 88(5), 594–601.
Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., & Rostami, A. (2024). Bond topology of chain, ribbon and tube silicates. Part II. Geometrical analysis of infinite one-dimensional arrangements of (TO₄)ⁿ⁻ tetrahedra. Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances, 80(3), 258–281.
Kasatkin, A. V., Nestola, F., Day, M. C., Gorelova, L. A., Škoda, R., Vereshchagin, O. S., Anosov, M. Y., & Krivovichev, S. V. (2024). Fluor-rossmanite, □(Al₂Li)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃F, a new tourmaline supergroup mineral from Malkhan pegmatite field, Western Siberia, Russia. Mineralogical Magazine, 88(6), 668–676.
Day, M. C., Novella, D., Innocenzi, F., Curtolo, A., Pamato, M. G., & Nestola, F. (2024). Hydrogen-related defects in diamond: A comparison between observed and calculated FTIR spectra. Diamond and Related Materials, 143, 110866.
Agakhanov, A. A., Day, M. C., Sokolova, E., Karpenko, V. Y., Hawthorne, F. C., Pautov, L. A., … Agakhanova, V. A. (2023). Two rinkite-group (Seidozerite-supergroup) minerals: Nacareniobsite-(Y), a new mineral from the Darai-Pioz alkaline massif, Tajikistan, and crystal-structure refinement of Nacareniobsite-(Ce). The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 61(6), 1123–1136.
Curtolo, A., Novella, D., Logvinova, A., Sobolev, N. V., Davies, R. M., Day, M. C., & Nestola, F. (2023). Petrology and geochemistry of Canadian diamonds: An up-to-date review. Earth-Science Reviews, 246, 104588.
Day, M. C., Pamato, M. G., Novella, D., & Nestola, F. (2023). Imperfections in natural diamond: The key to understanding diamond genesis and the mantle. La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 46(7), 381–471.
2022
Bosi, F., Hålenius, U., Pasero, M., Reznitskii, L., Skogby, H., & Ciriotti, M. E. (2022). Uvite, CaMg₃(Al₅Mg)(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH), a new, but long-anticipated mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup from San Piero in Campo, Elba Island, Italy. Mineralogical Magazine, 86(5), 767–776.
Whattam, J. L., Sharpe, R., Skelton, S., Day, M. C., Fayek, M., & Hawthorne, F. C. (2022). Mass bias corrections for hydrogen and oxygen isotope analysis of tourmaline by secondary ion mass spectrometry. The Canadian Mineralogist, 60(5), 775–786.
Day, M. C., Sokolova, E., Hawthorne, F. C., Horváth, L., & Pfenninger‑Horváth, E. (2022). Bortolanite, Ca₂(Ca₁.₅Zr₀.₅)Na(NaCa)Ti(Si₂O₇)₂(FO)F₂, a new rinkite‑group (Seidozerite supergroup) TS‑block mineral from the Bortolan Quarry, Poços de Caldas Massif, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Canadian Mineralogist, 60(4), 699–712.
Sokolova, E., Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., & Cámara, F. (2022). From structure topology to chemical composition. XXXI. Refinement of the crystal structure and chemical formula of selivanovaite, NaFe³⁺Ti₄(Si₂O₇)₂O₄(H₂O)₄, a murmanite‑group (Seidozerite supergroup) TS‑block mineral from the Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. The Canadian Mineralogist, 60(3), 513–531.
Sokolova, E., Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., & Cámara, F. (2022). From structure topology to chemical composition. XXX. Refinement of the crystal structure and chemical formula of shkatulkalite, Na₂Nb₂Na₃Ti(Si₂O₇)₂O₂(FO)(H₂O)₄(H₂O)₃, a lamprophyllite‑group (Seidozerite supergroup) TS‑block mineral from the Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. The Canadian Mineralogist, 60(3), 493–512.
Day, M. C., & Hawthorne, F. C. (2022). Bond topology of chain, ribbon and tube silicates. Part I. Graph‑theory generation of infinite one‑dimensional arrangements of (TO₄)ⁿ⁻ tetrahedra. Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances, 78(3), 212–233.
Pautov, L. A., Mirakov, M. A., Sokolova, E., Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., Shodibekov, M. A., Karpenko, V. Y., Makhmadsharif, S., & Faiziev, A. R. (2022). Shakhdaraite‑(Y), ScYNb₂O₈, from the Leskhozovskaya granitic pegmatite, the valley of the Shakhdara River, southwestern Pamir, Gorno‑Badakhshanskii Autonomous Region, Tajikistan: New mineral description and crystal structure. The Canadian Mineralogist, 60(2), 369–382.
Hawthorne, F. C., Day, M. C., Fayek, M., Linthout, K., Lustenhouwer, W. J., & Oberti, R. (2022). Ferro‑papikeite, ideally NaFe₂²⁺(Fe₃²⁺Al₂)(Si₅Al₃)O₂₂(OH)₂, a new orthorhombic amphibole from Nordmark (Western Bergslagen), Sweden: Description and crystal structure. American Mineralogist, 107(2), 306–312.
2021
Callegari, A. M., Boiocchi, M., Day, M. C., & Hawthorne, F. C. (2021). Crystal structure, EMPA and FTIR spectroscopy of green yoderite: (Mg₂.₀₂Al₅.₆₈Fe³⁺₀.₃₅)Σ8.05 (Si₃.₉₃P⁵⁺₀.₀₃)Σ3.96O₁₈(OH)₂; from Mautia Hill, Tanzania. Periodico di Mineralogia, 90(2), 371–381.
Sokolova, E., Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., Agakhanov, A. A., Cámara, F., Uvarova, Y. A., & Della Ventura, G. (2021). From structure topology to chemical composition. XXIX. Revision of the crystal structure of perraultite, NaBaMn₄Ti₂(Si₂O₇)₂O₂(OH)₂F, a seidozerite‑supergroup TS‑block mineral from the Oktyabr’skii Massif, Ukraine, and discreditation of surkhobite. The Canadian Mineralogist, 59(2), 365–379.
Zwaan, J. C., Day, M. C., & Hawthorne, F. C. (2021). Pargasite from Lajuar Madan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Journal of Gemmology, 37(7), 675–678.
2020
Day, M. C., Sokolova, E., Hawthorne, F. C., & Downs, R. T. (2020). From structure topology to chemical composition. XXVIII. Titanium silicates: Jinshajiangite from the Oktyabr’skii Massif, Donetsk region, Ukraine, a new occurrence. Canadian Mineralogist, 57(2), 201–213.
Day, M. C., & Hawthorne, F. C. (2020). A structure hierarchy for silicate minerals: Chain, ribbon, and tube silicates. Mineralogical Magazine, 84(2), 165–244.
2019
Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., Susta, U., Della Ventura, G., & Harlow, G. E. (2019). Gem amphiboles from Mogok, Myanmar: Crystal-structure refinement, infrared spectroscopy and short-range order–disorder in gem pargasite and fluoro-pargasite. Mineralogical Magazine, 83(3), 361–371.
Sokolova, E., Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., Kasatkin, A. V., Downs, R. T., Horváth, L., & Pfenninger-Horváth, E. (2019). Laverovite, K₂NaMn₇Zr₂(Si₄O₁₂)₂O₂(OH)₄F, a new astrophyllite-supergroup mineral from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57(2), 201–213.
Agakhanov, A. A., Pautov, L. A., Kasatkin, A. V., Karpenko, V. Y., Sokolova, E., Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., Muftakhov, V. A., Pekov, I. V., Cámara, F., & Britvin, S. N. (2019). Fluorapophyllite-(Cs), CsCa₄(Si₈O₂₀)F(H₂O)₈, a new apophyllite-group mineral from the Darai-Pioz Massif, Tien-Shan, Northern Tajikistan. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57(6), 965–971.
2018
Susta, U., Della Ventura, G., Hawthorne, F. C., Abdu, Y. A., Day, M. C., Mihailova, B., & Oberti, R. (2018). The crystal-chemistry of riebeckite, ideally Na₂Fe²⁺₃Fe³⁺₂Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂: A multi-technique study. Mineralogical Magazine, 82(4), 837–852.
Zwaan, J. C., Hawthorne, F. C., Day, M. C., & Laurs, B. M. (2018). Cat’s-eye tremolite from Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Journal of Gemmology, 36(1), 14–15.
Sokolova, E., Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., & Kristiansen, R. (2018). Heyerdahlite, Na₃Mn₇Ti₂(Si₄O₁₂)₂O₂(OH)₄F(H₂O)₂, a new mineral of the astrophyllite supergroup from the Larvik Plutonic Complex, Norway: Description and crystal structure. Mineralogical Magazine, 82(2), 243–255.
Day, M. C., Hawthorne, F. C., Susta, U., Della Ventura, G., & Harlow, G. E. (2018). Short-range order–disorder in gem-quality amphiboles along the richterite–pargasite join from Afghanistan: Crystal-structure refinement and infrared spectroscopy. The Canadian Mineralogist, 56(6), 939–950.