The Mineralogical Record articles from January 2008

The Mineralogical Record archives from January 2008

American Mineral Treasures!(notes from the EDITORS)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... By the time you read this it should be ready--one of the greatest and most interesting "coffee-table" books in the history of mineralogical publishing. I am referring, of course, to American Mineral Treasures, the companion book to what...

Benitoite interviews.(notes from the EDITORS)
January 1, 2008... Readers of the article in this issue on the history of the Benitoite Gem mine will note the portion of the story devoted to the 1935 visit to the mine by collecting buddies Ed Swoboda and Pete Bancroft--then high school students. These two old...

Schuh's Biobibliography.(notes from the EDITORS)(Curtis Schuh )(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The late Curtis Schuh (see previous issue for obituary) chose for his life's work the task of creating a huge, scholarly database of information on authors of mineralogical works, from ancient times to around 1910, and the books they created....

Internet Directory now on Internet!(notes from the EDITORS)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Yes, our Internet Directory is now posted on a new Links page on our website (access it from the Contents page). Instead of typing in the address from our magazine page you can now simply click on the link and go straight to the dealer's...

Vaux specimens.(notes from the EDITORS)(William S. Vaux )(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... After all the hubbub about the William S. Vaux collection, in storage for decades at the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia, Record readers are probably very curious to see what some of those historic specimens actually look like. We...

Tucson mineral museum news.(notes from the EDITORS)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Since the Mineral World comes to Tucson every February, what happens in that city is of particular interest to mineral people, especially with regard to the Mineral Museum at the University of Arizona. Several years ago it was decided that, as...

William Niven's Bisbee cavern.(notes from the EDITORS)(Excerpt)
January 1, 2008... In the July-August 2006 issue we published an article on early mineral dealer William Niven (1850-1937). Niven had become a field agent for New York mineral dealer George L. English in 1890, and in 1891, while on a trip through the Southwest,...

Advice from the past.(notes from the EDITORS)(Charles H. Pennypacker)(Excerpt)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Charles H. Pennypacker (1845-1911) made the following observation in his serialized essay, "The Experiences of a Mineralogist," in the March 1892 issue of The Mineralogists' Monthly. It is timeless advice, as true today as it was 115 years ago....

Died, Joseph A. Mandarino, 78.(notes from the EDITORS)(Obituary)
January 1, 2008... Joseph Anthony Mandarino was born in Chicago on April 20, 1929, the son of Bruno and Rose (Salvo) Mandarino. Even as a young boy he had an interest in the rocks he found in the roadbeds beside railroad tracks on the outskirts of Chicago. In...

Died, William Moller, 87.(notes from the EDITORS)(Obituary)
January 1, 2008... William Peter "Bill" Moller was born May 18, 1920 to Aura (Brown) and William P. Moller Sr. in Santa Barbara, California. Bill, the eldest of three sons, came of age during the Great Depression, and embraced minerals at a very early age, thanks...

Erratum.(Correction notice)
January 1, 2008... The specimen pictured in Figure 8, page 483, of the November-December issue--"brucite crystal cl;usters on matrix, 16 cm, from Wood's Chrome mine, Texas, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; originally from the collection of Jesse Cheyney...

The 100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California.(Report)
January 1, 2008... The Benitoite Gem mine (also known as the Benitoite mine, the Dallas Gem mine or simply the Gem mine) has been known for 100 years as the source of a crystallographically unique and aesthetic mineral and gem species, benitoite. The primary...

The 29th annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical Symposium classic mineral localities of the United States.(Friends of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America, and the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society )
January 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION The 29th Annual Tucson Mineralogical Symposium sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America, Friends of Mineralogy, and the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society will be held on Saturday, February 16, 2008, at the Tucson...

Munich show 2007.(What's New in Minerals)
January 1, 2008... [November 2-4] I will only mention in passing (and hereafter refrain from whining about) the present abysmal dollar-to-Euro exchange rate; on the day I left it took about $1.41 to buy a Euro. Nor will I dwell on how the long flight to...

The museum directory.(Directory)
January 1, 2008... Colburn Earth Science Museum Curator: Phillip M. Potter Tel: (828) 254-7162 Fax: (828) 257-4505 Website: www.colburnmuseum.org Pack Place Education, Arts & Science Center 2 South Pack Square Asheville, NC 28801...

Introduction.(Marc P. Weill's mineral collection )
January 1, 2008... This catalog, depicting beautifully some of the highlights of the Marc P. Weill collection of fine mineral specimens, provides what is destined to be a historically valuable documentation of one of the best private collections of minerals of...

Highlights from the Marc P. Weill collection.(Part 1)
January 1, 2008... Euclas 13.8 cm, Gachala mine, Guavio-Guateque Mining District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. Saying that large and fine euclase specimens are rare is an understatement. Few collectors will ever have the option of owning one. Pierre Vuillet...

Highlights from the Marc P. Weill Collection.(Part 2)
January 1, 2008... Vanadinite 9.6 cm, Mibladen, Khenifra Province, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco. The Mibladen-Midelt district has produced the world's finest vanadinite specimens, with large, sharp, deeply colored crystals in highly attractive groupings...

Marc P. Weill.(Biographical Notes)(Biography)
January 1, 2008... Marc Phillip Weill was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 2, 1956 to Joan (Mosher) and Sanford Weill--one of the most illustrious businessmen of our time. Beginning as a runner for the firm of Bear, Stearns & Company, a leading global...

Daniel J. Trinchillo.(Biographical Notes)(Biography)
January 1, 2008... With characteristic generosity, Marc Weill has requested that biographical notes be included for his two most frequent collaborators as well as for himself. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Daniel Joseph Trinchillo Jr. was born in Long Island,...

Dennis Tanjeloff.(Biographical Notes)(Biography)
January 1, 2008... Dennis Tanjeloff was born in New York City on December 27, 1967, the son of Edgar Tanjeloff (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941) and grandson of the legendary Julio Tanjeloff (1916-1988). Julio, an Argentinian dynamo, had earned a law...

Learn more ...(references on minerals)(Bibliography)
January 1, 2008... The following references provide background information on some of the localities where the minerals pictured in this catalog were found: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ahmednagar district: OTTENS, B. (2003) Minerals of the Deccan Traps....

Some other collections.(books on mineral collections of museums)(Bibliography)
January 1, 2008... American Museum of Natural History: SOFIANIDES, A. S., and HARLOW, G. E. (1990) Gems & Crystals from the American Museum of Natural History. Simon and Schuster, New York, 208 p. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...