Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2235987
Ron Gibbs
{"title":"Who’s Who in Mineral Names: John C. Ebner Jr. (b. 1931)","authors":"Ron Gibbs","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2235987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2235987","url":null,"abstract":"\"Who’s Who in Mineral Names: John C. Ebner Jr. (b. 1931).\" Rocks & Minerals, 98(6), pp. 558–559 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThanks are extended to Dr. Hexiong Yang, Joan Beyer, and Dr. Anthony R. Kampf for their careful reviews of and helpful suggestions for this article.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRon GibbsRon Gibbs, a retired mining engineer, is a research associate in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson and a past contributor to Rocks & Minerals.","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"83 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2235973
{"title":"Chips from the Quarry","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2235973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2235973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"82 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2235974
Bryan Swoboda, Jordi Fabre i Fornaguera, Carles Manresa PLA
{"title":"Salim Eddé and the Early Influences That Led to the mim Museum","authors":"Bryan Swoboda, Jordi Fabre i Fornaguera, Carles Manresa PLA","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2235974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2235974","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGMENTSMy deepest thanks and admiration to John White for his skillful editing and reviewing of this article; William Besse for his artful and informative map of the region; Jordi Fabre and Carles Manresa for agreeing to help me organize and write this article; photographers James Elliott, Augustin de Valence, Alessandro Clemenza, Federico Picciani, and Jeff Scovil for their wonderfully illustrative photographs; Suzy Hakimian for her immensely helpful assistance in arranging my trip to the mim; Carole Atallah for her companionship as we traveled throughout Lebanon and for her patience in answering my never-ending questions; and, of course, to Salim Eddé for his generous invitation to visit the mim, his incredible availability during our multiple, long conversations, and for his willingness to share the treasures of the mim with the world.Additional informationNotes on contributorsBryan SwobodaBryan Swoboda, founder of mineral film company BlueCap Productions, is dedicated to bringing information, images, and stories from around the world to an eager mineral collecting public.Jordi Fabre i FornagueraJordi Fabre is the founder of Fabre Minerals, fabreminerals.com, Forum Friends of Minerals, Formative Mineralogy Forum (FMF), and minerales.info, all of which are related to minerals and his passion for them in different forms, including collecting them.Carles Manresa PLACarles Manresa Pla is a graduate geologist, cathodic protection technician, mineral collector, and FMF administrator for information on mineralogy.","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"83 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2235992
Quintin Wight
{"title":"Through the 'Scope: The Year in Micromounting 2022 Was a Year of Confusion","authors":"Quintin Wight","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2235992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2235992","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGMENTSIn writing this article, I owe a debt of thanks to the following people who aided me greatly. In general, I have rewritten the information that they provided, although on occasion I have let their own words stand. Nonetheless, if there are errors or omissions, they are clearly mine. Contributing were Neil Cavanagh, Marco Ciriotti, Jim Daly, Jean-Luc Designolle, André Foucart, Jim Glen, Julian Gray, James Hagadorn, Mike Howard, Kathy Hrechka, Mark Jacobson, Christina Johnson, Michel Legros, Tom Mortimer, Robert Pecorini, Pete Richards, Frank Rosenberg, Frank Ruehlicke, David Roe, Jose Santamaria, Mike Seeds, Roy Starkey, Steve Stuart, Jocelyn Thornton, René Vandenbosch, Sue Wearden, and Al Wilkins.Additional informationNotes on contributorsQuintin WightQuintin Wight is the author of The Complete Book of Micromounting (Mineralogical Record, 1993).","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"83 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2235975
Bruce Cairncross, Malcolm Southwood
{"title":"Connoisseur's Choice: Aragonite Part 3: Southern Africa","authors":"Bruce Cairncross, Malcolm Southwood","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2235975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2235975","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGMENTSDave Kershaw and Desmond Sacco loaned their specimens for photography, and Jeff Scovil is thanked for the use of his images. Terry Huizing and John Rakovan reviewed the manuscript and are thanked for their input; William Besse is thanked for preparing the map. Bruce Cairncross acknowledges that this work was partly funded by the NRF (National Research Foundation) and CIMERA (the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and therefore the NRF and DSI-NRF CIMERA do not accept liability in regard thereto.Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce CairncrossDr. Bruce Cairncross, a consulting editor of Rocks & Minerals, is professor emeritus at the University of Johannesburg.Malcolm SouthwoodDr. Malcolm Southwood, a consulting editor of Rocks & Minerals, has collected minerals for forty years and has a special interest in minerals from southern Africa and the United Kingdom.","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"83 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2236001
Dona Lee Leicht
{"title":"In Memoriam: William David Panczner (1938–2023)","authors":"Dona Lee Leicht","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2236001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2236001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"81 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2236003
{"title":"Internet Directory for the Earth Sciences","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2236003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2236003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"84 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2235981
Vachik Hairapetian, Elahe Namnabat
{"title":"Danburite Crystals from Iran","authors":"Vachik Hairapetian, Elahe Namnabat","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2235981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2235981","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWe thank reviewers John Rakovan and Terry Huizing for their constructive and valuable comments. We are also grateful to Marie Huizing, editor-in-chief.Additional informationNotes on contributorsVachik HairapetianVachik Hairapetian is a paleontologist and a lecturer in the Department of Geology, Islamic Azad University of Isfahan (Khorasgan Branch). He began collecting minerals in 1994.Elahe NamnabatElahe Namnabat studied petrology at Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"84 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2235976
Günther Neumeier
{"title":"Bookplates: A Thing of the Past?","authors":"Günther Neumeier","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2235976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2235976","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI am grateful to Joachim Esche for the inspiration to write this article; Dona Dirlam. Rose Tozer, and Robert Weldon from the Gemological Institute of America for inviting me to the Richard T. Liddicoat Gemological Library and Information Center to look through John Sinkankas’s collection of bookplates; John Stimpson from Rocks of Ages for patiently answering my questions and providing samples of bookplates; Kerith Graeber for information on Cal Graeber’s bookplate; Herbert Obodda for opening his bookplate collection; and Ann Frazier for providing a difficult-to-find reference and reviewing an early draft of the article.Additional informationNotes on contributorsGünther NeumeierDr. Günther Neumeier, a consulting editor of Rocks & Minerals, has an eclectic mix of collections with bookplates being the latest addition. As a seasoned editor, he thoroughly enjoys fact checking even the most obscure detail.","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"82 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}