The Mineralogical Record articles from May 2006

The Mineralogical Record archives from May 2006

Cresson vug photo found!(notes from the EDITORS)
May 1, 2006... Readers may recall the story of the wondrous "Cresson Vug," discovered on the 12th level of the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Colorado in 1914 (see "The Cresson Vug, Cripple Creek," by Art Smith, Ed Raines and Leland Feitz back in vol....

The Mineral Collector--last chance!(notes from the EDITORS)
May 1, 2006... Twenty years ago the late Jay Lininger, publisher of Matrix, did the mineral world a tremendous service: He found a very rare, complete, 15-volume set of the early journal The Mineral Collector (1894-1909), disbound it, photographed every page...

Struve book.(notes from the EDITORS)
May 1, 2006... Heinrich Christoph Gottfried Struve (1772-1851) was a prominent member of the Russian Diplomatic Service in Hamburg, Germany, a well-known mineral collector, and the namesake of the mineral struvite. His mineral collection is preserved in the...

Label Archive.(notes from the EDITORS)
May 1, 2006... We continue to load more dealers' and collectors' biographies and label images onto the Label Archive portion of our website at www.MineralogicalRecord.com. Remember, if readers can add any information to what we have for any of those dealers...

Died, Frederick H. Pough, 99.(notes from the EDITORS)(Obituary)
May 1, 2006... Frederick H. Pough was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 26, 1906, the son of Francis H. Pough, a chemist and manager of the Union Sulfur Company's refinery, and Alice Hooper Backler. His parents had met at the Massachusetts Institute of...

Mineralogical Record forum: Internet mineral sales.
May 1, 2006... Introduction This year marks the tenth anniversary of Internet mineral sales, that is, of the founding of the first three websites devoted primarily to the direct sale of mineral specimens to the public. The pioneering three dealers were...

Memoirs of a mineral collector--Part 2: fifty-nine treasure hunts in Minas Gerais, 1969-2005.(Biography)
May 1, 2006... The author has been visiting mines and mineral occurrences in Brazil for 36 years, and has seen many now-famous discoveries. Fifty-nine (and counting) mineralogical tours have taken him from his home in Austria to such enticing localities as...

The sapphire and spinel deposit of An Phu: Luc Yen mining district, Yenbai province, Vietnam.
May 1, 2006... The An Phu mine near An Phu village in the Luc Yen mining district, Vietnam has been the source of attractive specimens of ruby corundum and large purple to red spinel crystals, as well as phlogopite, pyrite, dravite and green edenite crystals...

Tucson Show 2006.(What's New in Minerals)
May 1, 2006... [January 28-February 12] Sometime during the early hotel-show period, we Tucsonans had our hundredth consecutive day without rainfall. Already in Arizona's back country there are forest fires, and although temperatures in town remained in...

Francon revisited.(Editorial)
May 1, 2006... A Note from the Editors: As readers may have noticed, we had a color reproduction problem involving some photos in the January-February issue in the article on the Francon quarry. Because that is such an important article, the definitive...

The museum directory.(Directory)
May 1, 2006... 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...