Welcome to volume 8 issue 1 of Monthly Mineral Chronicles. This is a publication pulled together by a mineral collector for mineral collectors.
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.
Again this month, for many of the excellent images, is the ability to click on the image to bring up a larger version. Not only do you get a bigger version, but in some cases, the image you see published may be a cropped version.
This issue is now available at Kofi.
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I hope you continue to enjoy the journey.
Steve Sorrell
