The Mineralogical Record articles from July 2002

The Mineralogical Record archives from July 2002

Notes from the editors.
July 1, 2002... John Sinkankas (1915-2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas, 87. Everyone in the mineral world knew John Sinkankas, through his achievements as an author, artist, mineralogist,...

Jeremejevite from Namibia.
July 1, 2002... Jeremejevite is among the rarest of gem minerals. Some of the best crystals, water-clear and cornflower-blue, have come from a small oceanside occurrence in Namibia discovered in 1973. The site was reworked for specimens in 1999, but yielded...

Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy.
July 1, 2002... The Perticara mine area in northern Italy has long been famous among mineralogists as a source of superb crystallized sulfur. Mined since Roman times, it has yielded the world's largest known crystals of sulfur. INTRODUCTION The...

The Lord Brassey Mine, Tasmania. (Famous Mineral Localities).
July 1, 2002... The Lord Brassey Mine is a world-famous mineral locality situated in northwestern Tasmania, Australia. This former nickel mine is the type locality for heazlewoodite and hellyerite, and the source of many rare minerals, including awaruite,...

Microminerals.
July 1, 2002... LIGHTS Travel can be illuminating. I discovered that recently in England at the University of Leicester, where the British Micromount Society (BrMS) members hold their annual symposium. The British have always had the reputation of being...

Murzinka. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Peter Lyckberg * Murzinka By Valentina I. Popova, Vladimir A. Popov, A. Kanonerov. Editor Igor V. Pekov, Mineralogical Almanac, Volume 5, 2002 (www.webcentr.ru/~minbooks). Volume 5 of Mineralogical Almanac, the Murzinka issue,...

Madagascar, A Mineral and Gemstone Paradise. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... by Federico Pezzotta. Published (2001) by Lopis International LLC, available from the Mineralogical Record, P.O. Box 35565, Tucson, AZ 85740; e-mail order: minrec@aol.com. Stiff softcover, 8.25 x 11.7 inches, 98 pages, price: $25 postpaid in...

Mineral Treasure of the French Natural History Museum. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Mineral Treasure of the French Natural History Museum by Henri-Jean Schubnel, Pierre-Jacques Chiappero and Erik Gonthier. Published (ca. 2001) by Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France and available from the Mineralogical Record, P.O....

Barren Lands: an Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Barren Lands: an Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic By Kevin Krajick. Published (2001) by Tunes Books, Henry Holt & Company New York Hardcover, 442 pages, ISBN 0-7167-4026-5. $26.00. This book covers literally a very...

Letters.
July 1, 2002... BOTALLACKITE--A LOCALITY CORRECTION A fair quantity of superbly crystallized botallackite reached the market during and after the mid 1960's via the late Cornish mineral dealer Richard (Dick) W. Barstow. It is invariably listed and labeled...

Abstracts of new mineral descriptions.
July 1, 2002... J.A. Mandarino Chairman Emeritus of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association and Curator Emeritus Department of Mineralogy Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario,...