Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 8 Issue 1…

…is now available here.
This month, in this 76 page full-colour issue we have the following articles:

  • Minerals and Elements: Niobium, used in the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
  • 一石二鳥 (Killing Two Birds with One Stone). Two friends of mine meet up in Japan and go collecting.
  • Mineral Snippet – Gmelinite, a zeolite named in 1825, but there was some early confusion!
  • Illustrated Minerals of Australia Volume 4, Part 5 – Lacroixite to Laumontite.
  • Locality Snippet – Anatomy of a Mineral Specimen collected by Paul van Hee when he visited Australia.
  • Tokyo Science Co. – I find mineral shops in Tokyo. But no Japanese minerals to be seen!
  • Collecting trips to the Morenci Mine, Arizona.