Mineralogical Almanac volume 24, issue 1, 2019 - Mineral Observer
Art.Nr.: 910297
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Produktbeschreibung
In this issue, three articles devoted to Mineral Finds: the article by Boris Z. Kantor presents green andradite newly found in Dalnegorsk in the Russian Far East, Mikhail V. Tsyganko describes spectacular pyrite specimens from the Northern Urals, and Tomasz Praszkier writes about new fluorite specimens from Jebel Tirremi in Taourirt, Morocco. The section devoted to the Ontogeny of Minerals presents in three articles: Victor A. Slyotov describes in details the ontogeny of pyrite and some other minerals from the supergene zone at the Mikhailovskoe deposit, Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, in central Russia; Boris Z. Kantor and Vladimir S. Lednev analyze the phenomenon of so-called “quartz bubbles”; and the third article, by Boris Z. Kantor, explaines the origin of so-called frame-like crystals of baryte.
The article by Vladimir I. Pavlishin in the section “Jubilee” is dedicated to Nikolay I. Koksharov, the founder of the Russian school of mineralogical crystallography. Another article in this section is an essay by Vladimir A. Popov devoted to Oleg K. Ivanov, a the famous mineralogist at the Urals. An essay by Victoria V. Chernenko and Leonid S. Nazarov represents an exhibition of lapidary artworks at the Vernadsky State Geological Museum of RAS in Moscow in a section “Museum Exhibition”. A section “Mineral Shows 2018” reviews shows in Moscow in Russia, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines in France, Denver in the United States, and Munich in Germany. Last pages of the Almanac contain an article by Sergey V. Kolisnichenko on the Ozerki meteorite, which fall this year in the Lipetsk Oblast in central Russia, and a traditional Photo Gallery by Stuart Wilensky.
96 pages, 298 illustrations including 214 mineral photos.