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The Mineralogical Record articles from March 2000
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The Mineralogical Record archives from March 2000
CURATORS IN GLASS CAGES.
March 1, 2000... There can be no doubt that the museum world has changed profoundly in the late 20th century. It used to be that museum curators answered to no one, except perhaps their immediate superiors. Major decisions with respect to the creation of new...
ELONGATED TWINS OF SODALITE AND OTHER ISOMETRIC MINERALS.
March 1, 2000... Sodalite family minerals frequently form pseudo-hexagonal twins elongated parallel to their [111] twin axes. This habit, which is almost unique to these minerals, is caused by (a) the predominance of dodecahedral faces on their crystals and (b)...
THE PEZINOK ANTIMONY MINE MALE KARPATY MOUNTAINS, SLOVAKIA.
March 1, 2000... The Pezinok mine, an antimony deposit mined since 1940, has yielded hundreds of specimens of some of the world's finest kermesite, excellent valentinite and stibnite, and rare species such as chapmanite and garavellite. Nearly 50 species are...
THE MINERALS OF ALUM CAVE BLUFF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNESSEE.
March 1, 2000... Alum Cave Bluff, a Dana locality for apjohnite, epsomite, melanterite and potash alum, has yielded good microcrystals of several rare sulfate minerals, including three new rare-earth sulfates, and is the first North American occurrence of...
ABATRACTS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL FM-TGMS-MSA MINERALOGICAL SYMPOSIUM THE MINERALS of BRAZIL.
March 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION
The 21st Annual Tucson Mineralogical Symposium, sponsored by the Friends of Mineralogy, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society, and the Mineralogical Society of America, was held in conjunction with the 46th Tucson Gem and Mineral...
Factors in Assessing a Museum Gallery.
March 1, 2000... Everyone will look at a mineral/gem gallery differently. Each person has preconceptions as to what should be found there, and those preconceptions greatly influence assessment of the success of the gallery. Mineral collectors do not enter such...
Munich Show 1999.
March 1, 2000... [October 28-31]
Munich is a great place to be in the Fall--the leaves are turning, great food, seeing old friends and wonderful minerals and it's a lot cooler than Phoenix. Europe's largest, most prestigious show was held at the new...
Pasadena Show 1999.
March 1, 2000... [November 20-21]
The Pasadena Show has been reincarnated once again. After several years in partnership with Martin Zinn Productions as what was popularly known as the Pomona Show, the Mineralogical Society of Southern California has...
ABSTRACTS OF NEW MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS.
March 1, 2000... Chloromenite Monoclinic
[Cu.sub.9][O.sub.2][(Se[O.sub.3]).sub.4][CI.sub.6]
Locality: The North Breakthrough of the Great Fissure Tolbachik eruption (1975-1976), Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. The mineral was found in the "new" (1977)...
Letters.
March 1, 2000... THE EARTH GALLERIES
Your recent review of our Earth's treasury exhibition (vol. 30, no. 5, p. 373) was so overwhelmingly negative that it would serve little purpose to respond to it point by point. As with any complex exhibition project,...