Rocks and MineralsPub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2213151
P. Rustemeyer
{"title":"Fascinating Structures within Slices from Dark Tourmaline Crystals","authors":"P. Rustemeyer","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2213151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2213151","url":null,"abstract":"Our world is full of hidden treasures waiting to be discovered. Every researcher knows that new dimensions can open if one looks at the world with curiosity and perhaps in new ways. An example of this happened when the fantastic internal morphologies of dark tourmaline crystals were first discovered. It has been observed that outwardly black tourmalines become beautifully colored if you simply grind them thin enough (Black 1971). The first report about the discovery of color in a thin section of a dark tourmaline, from Zillertal in Austria, was by von Zallinger in 1779. The preparation of a thin section of a dark tourmaline is an exciting endeavor. You have to cut the tourmaline (fig. 1) into millimeter-thick slices with a diamond saw and then carefully grind them thinner. Again and again the initially pitch-black slice is held in front of a strong lamp to see if something becomes visible. Tension increases until the magical moment when the first colors and structures emerge from the dark. This moment remains a moving one for me, within Slices from Dark Tourmaline Crystals","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"98 1","pages":"418 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48895862","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 : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2213154
J. Lowry
{"title":"The Turquoise Museum In Albuquerque, New Mexico A Rich Repository of All Things Turquoise!","authors":"J. Lowry","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2213154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2213154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"98 1","pages":"449 - 454"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45088095","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 : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2213608
Ron Gibbs
{"title":"Who’s Who in Mineral Names: Ramon S. DeMark (b. 1937)","authors":"Ron Gibbs","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2213608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2213608","url":null,"abstract":"\"Who’s Who in Mineral Names: Ramon S. DeMark (b. 1937).\" Rocks & Minerals, 98(5), pp. 479–480 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThanks are extended to Mike Sanders, Joan Beyer, Dr. Hexiong Yang, and Dr. John Rakovan for their reviews of this article and helpful suggestions.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRon GibbsRon Gibbs is a retired mining engineer, a research associate with 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":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830861","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 : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2213150
P. Carr, Malcolm Southwood, Brian Jones, Graeme Dowton
{"title":"Opal Pineapples from White Cliffs New South Wales, Australia","authors":"P. Carr, Malcolm Southwood, Brian Jones, Graeme Dowton","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2213150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2213150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"98 1","pages":"404 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46460460","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 : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2213611
R. Cook
{"title":"How to Read a Rock—Our Planet’s Hidden Secrets by Jan Zalasiewicz. Smithsonian Books. 224 pages; 2022; $34.95 (hardbound).","authors":"R. Cook","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2213611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2213611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"98 1","pages":"481 - 481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45988948","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 : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2213607
Tom Rosemeyer
{"title":"Collector’s Note: Collectors of Tiny Mineral Treasures In the Keweenaw of Michigan: Thirty-first in a series of articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country","authors":"Tom Rosemeyer","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2213607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2213607","url":null,"abstract":"Figure 1. Map showing the localities represented by the specimens pictured; prepared by William Besse. THE FOCUS OF THIS ARTICLE is on mineral collectors who include microcrystals that occur in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula as one facet of their collecting interests. Many of the collectors do not live in the Copper Country but are scattered across the country and make extended trips to the area in summer months. of Tiny Mineral Treasures TOM ROSEMEYER 57647 Caledonia Street Calumet, Michigan 49913 datolite@charter.net","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"98 1","pages":"468 - 478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46827065","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 : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2213153
M. Mauthner
{"title":"Denver-Area Mineral Artist Brittany MacRostie (b. 1986)","authors":"M. Mauthner","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2213153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2213153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"98 1","pages":"446 - 448"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48227829","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 : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2192656
M. Mauthner
{"title":"Émeraudes, Tout un Monde! Gaston Giuliani, chief editor. Les Éditions du Piat, France. 448 pages; 2022; €55.00 (hardbound). In French.","authors":"M. Mauthner","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2192656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2192656","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"98 1","pages":"386 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48240643","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 : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2192165
P. Piilonen, I. Lykova, G. Poirier, R. Rowe, Kieran Shepherd, Michael Bainbridge, Reni Barlow, Sovanny Ly
{"title":"The Mineralogy of the Gem-Bearing Miarolitic Pegmatites And Hydrothermal Veins At Phnom Bayong, Kirivong, Takeo Province, Cambodia","authors":"P. Piilonen, I. Lykova, G. Poirier, R. Rowe, Kieran Shepherd, Michael Bainbridge, Reni Barlow, Sovanny Ly","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2192165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2192165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"98 1","pages":"310 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46767199","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 : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/00357529.2023.2192160
{"title":"Chips from the Quarry","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00357529.2023.2192160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00357529.2023.2192160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39438,"journal":{"name":"Rocks and Minerals","volume":"98 1","pages":"305 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42895142","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}