Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 8 Issue 8

Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 8 Issue 8 is now available here.

This month, in this 61 page full-colour issue we have the following articles:

Illustrated Minerals of Australia Volume 5, Part 3 – Malanite to Marcasite.

  • Locality Snippet – Searles Lake, California, an area where evaporite minerals, which form the bulk of Searles Lake’s deposits, originate from the precipitation of dissolved mineral ions from saline solutions.
  • The Mascot Mine, Gorham, New Hampshire. Rolf tells us about some interesting secondary minerals from an old abandoned lead, zinc and copper mine.
  • Minerals and Elements: Indium
  • Mineral Snippet – Andradite – a mineral of incredible contrasts with a history connected to both Russian Czars and Victorian mourning.