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Article: TIDYING UP MINERAL NAMES: AN IMA-CNMNC SCHEME FOR SUFFIXES, HYPHENS AND DIACRITICAL MARKS
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- Mineralogical Record
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- March 1, 2008
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Mineral names which do not conform to the current nomenclature guidelines of the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification have to be corrected, and in the future a suffix-based nomenclature is to be used for new mineral names.
INTRODUCTION
In 2004, Peter Bayliss successfully proposed (IMA 04-C) to change the two-word mineral name cesium kupletskite to kupletskite-(Cs). In October 2005, Bayliss submitted a proposal to the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) to eliminate the space in all similar two-word cases. This proposal was forwarded to the members for comments, but was not voted on because the CNMMN chairman and vice-chairman were of the opinion that ...