The Mineralogical Record articles from July 2005

The Mineralogical Record archives from July 2005

The Mineralogical Record Museum of Art.(notes from the EDITORS)(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... Many collectors these days have an interest in collectible mineral art and also in mining art. Mineral art has been a feature of the cultural landscape of the mineralogist since Conrad Gesner's De omni reum fossilium was published in 1565. The...

Recently posted on axis.(notes from the EDITORS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... MARONG, D. M. (2005) The development of precision in locality notations: some classical and some modern methods. Axis, volume 1, number 4, pages 1-9. Field collectors today can learn from the mistakes of the past when recording the sites...

Warikahnite: some background on the cover specimen.
July 1, 2005... Every year at Tucson I am always looking for that one killer specimen that will make my whole show. Some years that one specimen never seems to turn up, but this year (2005) it turned up in a rather unexpected place. Early in the show I was at...

Famous mineral localities: Klein Spitzkoppe, Namibia.
July 1, 2005... Klein Spitzkoppe has been producing topaz crystals for over 100 years. Since the discovery of the pegmatite in 1889, many fine crystals have been collected and thousands of carats of gemstones have been faceted from colorless, transparent,...

The Clear Creek mine, San Benito County, California: a unique mercury locality.
July 1, 2005... From the first discovery in 1959 until the present, the abandoned Clear Creek mine has yielded an exceptional suite of rare and unusual mercury-bearing minerals unequaled in the world. Among those recently described as new are aurivilliusite,...

Micromineral photography with multifocus processing.
July 1, 2005... Throughout the history of photomicrography, depth of field has been strictly limited by the laws of optics, and no amount of refinement in physical instrumentation could change those laws. Now, in the age of digital photography, software...

Nifontovite from Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
July 1, 2005... Extraordinary crystals of the rare hydroxy-hydrated borate mineral, nifontovite, previously known only as tiny grains, have been discovered at Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Two specimens have been recorded from this locality, but the...

The museum directory.(Directory)
July 1, 2005... New York State Museum Curator (Geol.): Dr. William Kelly Tel: 518-474-7559 Collections Mgr. (Geol.): Michael Hawkins Tel: 518-486-2011 Fax: 518-486-3696 3140 Cultural Education Ctr. Albany, NY 12230-0001 ...

The purpose of museums.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I was delighted to see Bill Smith's guest editorial last year (It's The Artifacts, Stupid!) in the Mineralogical Record decrying what has been happening to all too many natural history museums. It was a statement that is more than timely....

Philadelphia Academy.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... [Note: The Friends of Mineralogy sent the following letter to the Philadelphia Academy of Science in response to their announced plan to liquidate their entire mineral collection by public auction. We reprint the letter here by request of FM...

Bull Creek celestine.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I would like to make some corrections and additions to the information on the Bull Creek celestine from Austin written up on page 144 in the Mar-Apr Issue of MR. The celestine from Bull Creek, like all the other celestine occurrences in central...

Thanks, MR.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... My lifelong interest in minerals had no direction until the summer of 1980 when I accidentally discovered the Arizona-I special issue of The Mineralogical Record in a rock shop. As a petroleum geologist I was initially unfamiliar with many...

Field collecting.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... The recent letter from William Hunt blaming sports for a decline in the number of young collectors may have some merit. But I feel that unless young people can actually get out and dig for their specimens in mines, quarries, dumps, road-cuts,...

50-year history of the TGMS.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... Bob Jones and the entire staff at Mineralogical Record did a remarkable job putting together the Fifty-Year History of the Tucson Show! Your book enabled me to go back through the years, prior to my first visit in 1978, and then to reminisce...

Butte notes.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I enjoyed very much reading the Butte special issue back in January-February 2002. The well-written articles brought back vivid memories of my first job in mining as a mining engineering trainee with the Anaconda Company in Butte in the summer...

Chinese practices.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... Having read the Tucson Mineralogical Symposium abstracts, I can easily say that, although the attitudes and practices of the Chinese mineral dealers may seem new and puzzling to the rest of the world mineral collector market, they are an old,...

Mineral Specimen Mortality.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... Your recent article on Mineral Specimen Mortality (July-August issue) brought to mind an early paper I found by John Mawe (1764-1829) in the 1818 edition of the Journal of Science and The Arts, London. In it Mawe describes the circumstances...

Museum support groups.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... I am writing to you regarding something that has bothered me for a long time: the lack of support groups for most of the museums listed in The Mineralogical Record's "Museum Directory." The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and the...

Photo caption errata.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2005... In producing the recent article on the Cripple Creek district, Colorado (vol. 36, no. 2, p. 143-185), several errors involving figures and figure captions occurred; these are listed below. In particular, photographs of two specimens from the...