The Mineralogical Record articles from November 2007

The Mineralogical Record archives from November 2007

Died, Curtis P. Schuh, 48.(notes from the EDITORS)(Obituary)
November 1, 2007... The mineral world lost a dedicated historian and bibliologist with the death of Curtis Schuh. He was born Curtis Paul Schuh in Boulder, Colorado on April 16, 1959, and grew up in Broomfield, north of Denver. His father, George Schuh, a retired...

Biographical Archive.(notes from the EDITORS)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The Biographical Archive at www.MineralogicalRecord.com now contains over 1,000 entries, with over 2,700 labels, portraits and historical advertisements posted. New biographies and labels recently added to the Biographical Archive include the...

Editorial difficulties.(notes from the EDITORS)(Editorial)
November 1, 2007... As readers of this journal know, we like to start off each locality article with a little heraldic crest above the title, representing the country, state, province or city in which the locality is situated. Occasionally this poses a political...

Warehouse discoveries!(notes from the EDITORS)(Michigan Copper Country Issue, the Yukon Phosphates Issue, and the Mineral Books Issue)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... With close to 100,000 back issues in storage, dating back decades, the warehouse where we have it all stored sometimes loses or mislabels boxes that may not come to light again for years. (Picture warehousing scene at the end of the first...

The Mineral Collector sold out!(notes from the EDITORS)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... We are pleased to say that all of the remaining hardbound sets of the Jay Lininger reprint of The Mineral Collector magazine are now sold out. Our congratulations and thanks to all of those who took advantage of the close-out offer to preserve...

Rumpf's Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet (1705) and the first color-plate illustrations of minerals.(Georg Eberhard Rumpf)(Report)
November 1, 2007... Illustrating the beauty and subtlety of the mineral world in published works has been a daunting challenge since the first woodcut engraving of a tourmaline crystal appeared in Conrad Gesner's De omni rerum fossilium in 1565. Representation in...

The Minh Tien tourmaline mine, Luc Yen Mining district Yenbai Province, Vietnam.
November 1, 2007... "It is the touch of French blood in her," I thought as Chien (Ms. Ruby) offered her ruby red cheek for a farewell kiss, "Cam on, Tam bite" (Thank you, Good-bye) I said to her as I left her family's modest home on the outskirts of Luc Yen for...

Tourmaline from the Minh Tien pegmatite, Luc Yen Mining district, Yenbai Province, Vietnam.
November 1, 2007... The Minh Tien pegmatite, located a few kilometers southeast of the town of Luc Yen in northern Vietnam, has yielded large and attractive divergent clusters of pink and raspberry-red to yellow-green and yellow-orange tourmaline (elbaite,...

Notes from the Biographical Archive: John Grieger and Thomas Warner, California mineral dealers and collectors.(Biography)
November 1, 2007... John Grieger started a mineral business from his Pasadena home in 1930 and grew to be one of the principal suppliers of mineral specimens and lapidary materials in southern California. His wealthy friend and collecting partner, Thomas Warner,...

Northeastern United States, 2007 spring shows.(What's New in Minerals)
November 1, 2007... Delaware Show [March 3-4] After a long and frosty winter the Delaware Show in early March is "just what the doctor ordered" for those of us (in the East) who were unable to make it to Tucson this year. The show was held at the Delaware...

Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines show 2007.(What's New in Minerals)
November 1, 2007... [June 21-June 24] My trip to this year's Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines Show was (I hardly need to say) a great experience, especially as it was interspersed with some wonderful side trips to various French museums and collectors' homes, and even a...

Springfield Show 2007.(What's New in Minerals)
November 1, 2007... [August 10-12, 2007] Part of the pleasure inherent in the mineral hobby is the anticipation one feels right before attending a show. As the show day approaches you start fantasizing about what you will find for your own collection (any...

Denver show 2007.(What's New in Minerals)
November 1, 2007... [September 11-September 16] I'm pleased to report that 2007 was the first year since 2001--the year of 9/11--when attendance at the Denver Show increased over the previous year's. Sure enough, at the hotel and "Main" shows alike the crowds...

The museum directory.(Directory)
November 1, 2007... 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...

Gwindel formation theory.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I would like to take this opportunity to provide answers and explanations regarding the "mysteries" referred to in the excellent article "Alpine Quartz Gwindels" by Thomas Moore, published in the March-April (2007) issue of the Mineralogical...

Chumar Bakhoor fluorite.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... In August 1999, at the Seven Brothers House, Askordas, Nagar, Pakistan, I had the opportunity to see and buy pink fluorite specimens from Chumar Bakhoor of similar quality to those in the recent article by Roberto Appiani (vol. 38, no. 2, p....

Rich Kosnar.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I knew Richard Kosnar rather well back in 1967-1969 when I lived and worked in New York. I took him up to Canada and introduced him to collecting at Mont St. Hilaire and Asbestos. There were certainly no pegmatite minerals in his collection at...

Internet sales.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... Regarding the Internet dealer discussion: the following quote from Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of Among the Gently Mad; Perspectives and Strategies for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century (2002), sums it up for me: "... that for all the...

Attack on Rob Smith, African gems & minerals.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... Many mineral collectors and dealers know Rob Smith, the South African mineral and gem dealer. Rob is a regular at the Tucson Show and he is a staunch supporter of local South African mineral shows and local mineral clubs. On Friday...

Photography and museums.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I enjoyed your May-June editorial on museum photographs (and the lack thereof). I raced through everything you had to say, all the while nodding like a bobble-head in agreement. It mirrored many of my own experiences and frustrations: sluggish...