Welcome to volume 9 issue 6 of Monthly Mineral Chronicles. This is a publication pulled together by a mineral collector for mineral collectors.

This month, in this 75 page full-colour issue we have the following articles:

  • Illustrated Minerals of Australia Volume 5, Part 13 – Natrolite to Neotocite.
  • Locality Snippet – Matra Mine, Corsica, France, a mine that became a strategic military hub for chemical agents during the World Wars.
  • The Complexity of Agardite, the difficulties in identifying agardite and its related species.
  • Minerals and Elements: Tungsten, a transition metal valued for its strategic industrial importance and record-breaking melting point.
  • Locality Snippet – Summit Rock, Oregon, a location where the rare mineral, cuprorivaite, a mineral chemically identical to the ancient pigment “Egyptian Blue“ can be found.
  • Mineral Snippet – Wavellite. a relatively common aluminium phosphate.

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

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