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S.Mills

Stuart Mills
 Post-Doctoral Fellow
Mineralogy & Crystallography
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2007-

Post-doctoral research and teaching fellow, The Univeristy of British Columbia, Canada.

Teaching: EOSC 220 & EOSC 328.

 

2007

Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Thesis: Geochronology and crystal chemistry of secondary minerals from the Broken Hill deposit, New South Wales.

 

2003

BSc.(Honours), The University of Melbourne

Thesis: U geochemistry and geochronology of the Lake Boga Granite, northwestern Victoria.

Research Interests

Mineralogy and Crystallography of: New minerals; uranium-bearing minerals, in particular phosphates and arsenates; granites and granite pegmatites; REE primary accessory minerals, in particular the monazite series; superstructures and modulated structures in minerals; silicophosphates; and borosilicates.

Hydrothermal synthesis of arsenates and phosphates containing heavy elements e.g. Pb, Ge and Ga.

Mineral nomenclature: Including the alunite and hydromagnesite groups.

Secretary of the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) http://pubsites.uws.edu.au/ima-cnmnc/

New mineral species: IMA 2005-034a, IMA 1986-036a, IMA 2007-001, IMA 2007-057, IMA 2008-008, IMA 2008-034, IMA 2008-063, IMA 2009-037, IMA 2009-044, IMA 2009-045, IMA 2009-046, IMA 2009-047, IMA 2009-057, IMA 2009-063, IMA 2009-064 & IMA 2009-065.  

 

Selected Publications

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