Journal/NDM42 2007 eng

New Data on Minerals, vol.42, 2007

New Data on Minerals. volume 42. Мoscow: Аltum Ltd, 2007. 168 pages, 137 photos, and drawings.
Editor: Margarita I. Novgorodova, Doctor in Science, Professor.
Publication of Fersman Mineralogical Museum of Russian Academy of Science

Summary

This volume contains articles on new mineral species, among them – Faizievite, Guimarã esite, a rocherite-group mineral from Brazil, and Ferroskuterudite, arsenide of iron and cobalt from the Norilsk ore field; the description of new finds of recently discovered minerals – Pertsevite and Megacyclite with the structure of the last one; new data on mineralogical assemblages with bituminous matter in pegmatites of the Khibiny massif, on the features of occurrence of noble metals in ores and oxidized zone of the Onega deposits in South Karelia; the results of studying of Grossular, Vesuvianite and Achtrandite of the Talnakh region; the results of research of transformation of mineral paragenetic assemblages from copper sulfide ores of the Krasnov hydrotermal field; the nomenclature of the Loellingitegroup diarsenides.
The paper of the chairman and vicechairman, Subcommittee for Unnamed Minerals, IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification, published earlier in Canadian Mineralogist journal, is reproduced here in brief version by request of the Commission in order to introduce the new and approved coding system as widely as possible.
"Mineral Museums and Collections" section contains information on mineral collections of Fersman Mineralogical Museum: on art things of masters from the Urals on mineral collections of the Tsesarevichs and of General G.P. Chernik; on the story of one exhibit from the Museum – a black basalt with a golden monogram; and also there is in this section a description of the mineralogical collection of the GeoMuseum, Cologne University, Germany.
"Personalities" section includes the article on the exhibition "Jubilees and Their Heroes"; this exhibition was devoted to 290 years of Fersman Mineralogical Museum and other jubilees concerning with the Museum. Two more articles are devoted to Professors Alexander A. Godovikov and Georgiy P. Barsanov who had leaded this Museum in different periods.
In "Mineralogical Notes" section two articles are published. First, on carbonates in metakimberlite, Zarnitsa pipe, and second, on the twisted filiform magnesian calcite from rocks at Russian platform. The volume is interesting for mineralogists, geochemists, geologists, curators of Natural History museums, and collectors.

Editorial Board

• Editor-in-Chief Margarita I. Novgorodova, Doctor in Science, Professor
• Executive Editor Elena A. Borisova, Ph. D.
• Evgeniy I. Semenov, Doctor in Science
• Svetlana N. Nenasheva, Ph. D.
• Elena N. Matvienko, Ph. D.
• Marianna B. Chistyakova, Ph. D.

Publishing group

• Photo: Michael B. Leybov
• Leader of Publishing Group Michael B. Leybov
• Executive Editor Ludmila A. Cheshko
• Art Editor Nikolai O. Parlashkevich
• Editor Alexander A. Prokubovsky
• Translators Il’ya Anisimov, Maria S. Alferova,
• Ivan S. Baksheev, Mark V. Fed’kin,
• Boris Z. Kantor, Alexander S. Yakubchuk
• Editors of Style(English) Peter Modreski, Patricia A.S. Gray, Frank C. Hawthorne
• Design (idea) Dmitrii Ershov
• Layout Ivan A. Glazov and Alexey A. Ludin

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