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This new book arrived in the post yesterday - an amazingly comprehensive update to the 2008 version. Stupendous achievement by mineralogical pals Andy Tindle and Dave Green. 381 pages of information, data & beautiful photographs galore 🥰 🤩 🤓 👏 A tribute to the amazing work being done by the wide community of mineralogists: academic, museum-based, "amateur", dealers and collectors. Superb.

Spud looks as though he doesn't want me to take the book away from him. #DogOnSofaGeology #Mineralogy

Beautiful cathode-luminescence images showing trace-element zoning and changes in fluid composition during growth of jadeite.

From: Sorena Sorensen, George E Harlow, Douglas Rumble III (2006) The origin of jadeitite-forming subduction-zone fluids: CL-guided SIMS oxygen-isotope and trace-element evidence. American Mineralogist 91: (7) 979-996

Sorena Sorensen passed away this month.

Sorena was a long-time curator at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. She was also an insightful and talented researcher who studied the role of fluids in metamorphism of subduction-related rocks. She also contributed to understanding the formation of jadeite and jade deposits.

News from Elizabeth Cottrell, also at #NMNH

Working on my next #printerSolstice print for the prompt oxygen- another woman who was there and involved in the chemical revolution and development of the idea that burning might be due to an element that got named oxygen rather than a substance possessed by combustible things called phlogiston.

Chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator Claudine Picardet…

We got our first external contribution to our TACtool software!

TACtool is a desktop GUI tool for planning micro-analysis (e.g. via microprobe or LA-ICP-MS). Users mark the target points, then TACTool produces a CSV of their coordinates to load into the machine.

github.com/BritishGeologicalSu

The merge request adds a user guide to loading the CSV into ESI laser control software.

Ein Rückblick auf unsere Aktion "Mining Colonial Museums: Data, Archives, Storerooms" bei der Berlin Science Week 2022 im Museum für Naturkunde.

Aus einem Video über das Projekt "Museums and Society": youtube.com/watch?v=X_yfLWizyY

Vorgestellt wurden Beiträge von Lennon Mhishi, Mareike Vennen, Yann Le Gall und mir. Meine dort vorgestellte Recherche ist auch auf meinem Blog nachzulesen, als "Data-mining mineralogy" nullmuseum.hypotheses.org/720

Le 39e Salon des minéraux, fossiles et pierres gemmes a lieu les 16 et 17 novembre prochain au Parc Phœnix à Nice.

Lieu de rencontre privilégié des collectionneurs et du grand public, des pros et des amateurs, la manifestation regroupe quelques-uns des meilleurs spécialistes du monde minéral. Le muséum d’Histoire naturelle de Nice exposera pour l’occasion des fossiles issus de ses collections.

Conférence samedi et dimanche à 15 h en salle Linné : « Des dinosaures en Provence ? » par Gérald Lemaître sous l’égide du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Nice en partenariat avec la Ville de Nice.

How did I not know this??? 🤯 🤓 Most ordinary porcelain is basically mullite and glass. 😊 Mullite - first found in nature in samples from Mull, and named by Norman Bowen, and co-workers, in 1924. Although rare in nature, it is a ubiquitous material in industrial and other ceramics. #Mull #Mullite #Mineralogy #Geology #Porcelain #ceramics

PS pdf of Bowen et al's paper available on the superb rruff website: rruff.info/uploads/JWAS14_183.

#MinCup24 dioptase vs kyanite

Vote #kyanite! The cheerful and fascinating messenger from the deep - normally pale to dark blue, but can also be green, or even orange... Because it often grows in solid materials at high pressure, good terminated crystals are not common, but they do occur. Here's one of three pages of kyanite crystals from Goldschmidt's Atlas der Kristallformen... More here: archive.org/details/atlasderkr #Geology #Mineralogy @MineralCup