The information given in the files mentioned below is provided by the IMA-CNMNC for comparative purposes and as a service to mineralogists working on new species.
The names of these approved species are considered confidential information until the authors have published their descriptions or released information themselves. No other information will be released by the Commission.
The CNMNC chairman published a column with the title 'New Minerals: Help or Hindrance?'
in the magazine Elements, Vol. 1 (2005), p. 178.
The CNMNC chairman published a column with the title 'Missing Minerals'
in the magazine Elements, Vol. 3 (2007), p. 360.