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
