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26th Mar 2005 15:41 UTCJolyon

Are there any articles you would love to see in the new Mindat Magazine? Here's a few suggestions of my own, things I would like to see written, please comment with your own ideas, or if you'd be interested in writing one of these articles!



My Choices:



1) Meteorite Mineralogy

2) The Great Himmelsfurst Silver Fraud

3) Minerals of Antarctica





What would you choose?

26th Mar 2005 18:43 UTCBob Knox

Greetings Jolyon,



Based on a common topic in several of the message board forums, how about "nature vs. nurture", mans continueing quest to produce artificial minerals and crystals. I think there is enough examples both historic and contemporary to even make this subject a regular column.



Bob

26th Mar 2005 19:56 UTCJolyon

Very good idea.



Jolyon

29th Mar 2005 11:19 UTCPaul bongaerts

how about the presentation from mineral museums from all around the world? not only the big ones but also the smaller and regional collections. I myself am very intrested in the museum history and how the collections are curated etc ..

just a suggestion ;-)

Paul Bongaerts

30th Mar 2005 06:42 UTCEverett

J you going to have photos as well?





KOR

E

30th Mar 2005 12:05 UTCJolyon

Yes, there will be photos and diagrams with articles

4th Apr 2005 20:04 UTCSarahElba

Erm....i got another idea too ;-)

an article about Elba island? hihihihi



Sarah

13th Apr 2005 14:28 UTCbob and a half

I love rocks. My entire existence revolves around rocks. I have a pet rock, a brother rock, and I swear my parents are rocks too. This is a true story.



YAY

13th Apr 2005 16:04 UTCian jones

Hi Jolyon



I agree, I'd really like to see something regarding The Great Himmelsfurst Silver Fraud.



A friend, Don Edwards, wrote a very illuminating letter about his experiments and success in growing wire silver simply using a crucible over a Bunsen burner (see Min Record, Vol 32, No 1, p72 - Jan-Feb 2001). There is also a picture of one 3.5 cm high. An old (1919) German paper regarding the formation of wire silver that was referred to in Dana sparked his initial interest. People that have seen his growths have found it difficult to believe they were "home made". I rather expected his letter to generate a flurry of responses, but MR chose not to publish a letters page in subsequent issues.



It generally appears that the "mineral establishment" has closed ranks, as there are too many vested interests in not proving these very expensive silvers to be fakes. My own feeling is that they may not necessarily have been deliberately manufactured, but may have been formed in cracks in an old smelter that has now been dug up. The are records of wire silver forming this way and it would help explain the flat bases and remarkable purity of the Himmelsfurst pieces!



It would be good to see the debate resurrected and a consensus reached.



ian jones

31st May 2005 23:15 UTCMichael R

how about a mineral of the month type thing... or other monthly changing things for example mine of the month, location to collect minerals of the month, ECT.....

31st May 2005 23:19 UTCMichael R

here is another idea maybe interview proffesionals

7th Jul 2005 19:39 UTCRory Bain

I like the Idea Of Antartic minerals. But here is another idea have a article on rare Barium minerals like Gillespite macdonaldite traskite ? From sites like the esquire claims exspecialy #7 I would try to supply pics

7th Jul 2005 21:01 UTCJolyon Ralph

That sounds good!

8th Jul 2005 02:09 UTCRory Bain

I have another idea Flourite Perhaps English fluorite

8th Jul 2005 18:02 UTCRory Bain

Bob I like your idea I know somone who makes cabashons of quartz and makes tiny cracks in it and fills it with gold and can make $200 American dollars of that.

4th Sep 2005 19:36 UTCDennis W. Haas

Dear Jolyon,

How about an article on Brushy Creek Mine. I went on a field trip recently, August 19, to Brushy Creek Mine in Missouri. Done a search on Mindat.org and you have a lote of information and photos on Brushy Creek lead mine.

Hope you are doing well,

Dennis W. Haas

10th Oct 2005 23:44 UTCJon Harris

Dear Jolyon, I have just broken into rockhounding and i would like to do an article for you on the Manhan mines (aka loudville mine), it seems to have a very spotty history. I live in Easthampton where the mines are located and there are some very extensive dump sites located along the river. There have been some very cool finds there in the past and i hope to find some nice specimens to have for the article too.

11th Oct 2005 01:34 UTCJolyon Ralph

That would be great!



Jolyon

4th Nov 2005 14:16 UTCHans Kloster

There are two important news af historical value, as I have written articles about in danish: se www.stenvennerne.dk Lapidomanen 2003:1 and 2005:2 and 3.

Muschistonite is refered in a german magazin Archäologie 2002 as coming from an Bronze-age mine in Karnab, Uzbekistan and Muschiston, Tadzichistan, first discovered by Litvinsky in 1950, but only published in russia. This article are very important to review the whole conception of the socalled Bronze-age.

Nature 11th February 1999 had an article from France, where they analyses paintings from Egypt 2000-1200 BC and they found Galenite, Cerussite,Laurionite and Phosgenite in the paintings.

6th Jan 2006 19:14 UTCMr. Gail E. Dunning

Hi Jolyon,

I have a completed article that you may be interested in posting on the Mindat website. I have it as a PDF file. The title is: "Ag-Cu-Pb-Bi Sulfosalts New to Darwin, Inyo County, California." The article includes a number of SEM and photomicrographs showing the various sulfosalts in the veins. Also included are microprobe data for the minerals. If you are interested please let me know.


Cheers,

Gail

15th Jan 2006 23:13 UTCGordon Derry

How about a "Mindat Caption Competitions - Best Of" feature?

I know I'm being frivilous, but all the best publications have a frivolous page of some sort don't they?!

Competitions: Spot the Difference, Crossword, Sudoku... How about a resident cartoonist?

Any idea what Jim Davis or Gary Larsson are doing these days?



OK, I'll get my coat!


KOR


GOR

26th Jan 2006 04:50 UTCMark Mauthner Expert

Hi Gail,


I would love to more about your article. It sounds like just the thing we need. Have you publishe dit yet?


Cheers,

Mark

5th May 2006 09:53 UTCRay Hill Expert

If this is going to be an ongoing effort, I found myself being very attracted to having regular articles from various museums, small and/or large, national or regional,from around the world ie: invite a focus from one museum each issue. Let the curator go wild and give us a virtual view of their stuff.


What a way to get international exposure for distant or even local museum collections, that might otherwise not even be known or whose specimens aren't able to be well exposed, since most museums have limitations on displaying due to financial constraints .


The idea of the mineral of the month, normally would turn me off, but if this dimension was added to a museum section, then invites could be given to museums everywhere to show , for example, their best or most unique Erythrite or Pyrite or whatever, that month. Then we would have a window into the best of the best in specific minerals each and every month..


Does this appeal to anyone?

5th May 2006 11:35 UTCLeon Hupperichs Expert

Hi, Jolyon


Antartica Minerals sounds good.

How about an article about famous people (politicains, moviestars, popstars,

sportsmen, etc, etc,) who also are mineral collectors.


Greetings from the Netherlands.

Leon Hupperichs

1st Jul 2006 16:35 UTCPhil B.

text on fluorescence done and sent!
 
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