Mineralogical Almanac

07/03/2024

03/02/2024

Rocks and Minerals and Mineralogical Almanac are waiting for prominent collectors and our dear friends at the tent near La Fuente de Piedras in The Mineral City Show

11/09/2022

Today is Marie Huizing birthday. We wish Her and all Rocks and Minerals Magazine team great day at the HardRock Summit show! Come to see new magazine issues and say hello to Marie and Terry Huizing, Francis, and Francis! Today is last day of the show.
Thank you Anosov for photo from Denver.

04/04/2022

Our latest issues

11/02/2022

Dear Friends! Please come to
Mineralogical Almanac booth 1217-1219 at the TGMS 2022!
Our newest issue devotes to Minerals of Vishnevye Gory Mts. (S. Ural) with very interesting mineralogy. Also you can see back issues.

Don't miss chance to say hello to Diane and Carl Francis, Terry and Marie Huizing, who are running our booth because we coldn't come to Tucson this year. We miss you and hope to meet you next Show. Stay safe, please!

29/01/2022

Dear Friends, don't miss possibility to buy new Almanac issues in Tuscon 2022.
Please make a stop at the Rocks and Minerals Magazine booth, chat to Marie Huizing, Carl and Diane Francis on Oracle Rd at the La Fuente.
We find a lot of excellent issues of both our magazine
with very usefull information for mineral collectors, museum curators, mineral dealers,and for all mineral amateurs.

16/12/2021

Best news of last week - new issue has been published!!
Minerals of Vishnevye Mountains (South Urals, Russia) by Valentina Popova, Vladimir Popov, Eugene Makagonov, Sergey Nikandrov, Anatoly Kasatkin, and Alexey Kuznetsov //
Mineralogical Almanac, vol. 25, issue 3, 2021.
136 pages, 289 illustrations, including 182 mineral photos, 17 tables.
This issue of the Mineralogical Almanac is an overview focused on mineralogy of the famous Vishnevye Mountains in the South
Urals, Russia. It contains information about 234 minerals described at different levels of detail including 85 minerals species,
which were found by the authors for the first time in the Vishnevye Mountains. The brief description of geology and petrology
of the Vishnevye Mountains is given; various mineral types of alkaline pegmatites, carbonatites, and hydrothermal veins are described.
Special chapter is devoted to the 140-years study of geology, petrography, and mineralogy of the Vishnevye Mountains
mineral deposits.

05/12/2021

Today, is a great day -
Birthday of Terry Huizing, our GREAT FRIEND!

Dear Terry,
Happy BIRTHDAY to you!
From the bottom of all Mineralogical Almanac team hearts
we wish good health to YOU, Marie, and all your close people!

We wish you a good day, and happiness for many years!

Michael Leybov, Anna Scherbina, Ludmila Cheshko and
all members of our editorial team

05/11/2021

Several photos on the Mineralogical Almanac website about our visit to the Museum of the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels (Musée Royal Des Sciences Naturelles De Belgique).
Thanks to Marleen de Ceukelaire, museum curator for the opportunity to make photo for a new publication in forthcoming issue, author: Natalia Borovkova (@Наталья Боровкова), photo: Michael Leybov. We would like to thank Simon Philippo and Peter Berg for their help with organizing this photo session.
http://www.minbook.com/museum_of_royal_institute_of_natural_science,_brussels,_belgium.html

01/11/2021

New books including issues of Mineralogical Almanac😀!

25/10/2021

Our kabinet for morning busyness. We love house where we have stayed for more than 10 years. Our hosts love minerals too... October 25, 2021. Mineralientage München /The Munich Show is over yesterday. We are happy to participate in this show and represented two great magazines - Rocks and Minerals Magazine, oldest American magazine for mineral collectors together with only Russian magazine Mineralogical Almanac. Happy to be in publishers block with The Mineralogical Record, Mineralienmagazin Lapis, Le Règne Minéral, Rivista Mineralogica Italiana. We are sorry that our friends - Terry and Huizing, and couldn't come this year, and hope to work together next year - September 30 - October 2, 2022.

23/10/2021

Best wishes from Munich!!

23/10/2021

October 23, 2021 -second day of The Munich Show - Mineralientage München. Good time to meet friends, authors, subscribers, and colleagues.

22/10/2021

The second day of The Munich Show - Mineralientage München 2021 was ve­ry busy. A lot of mi­neral amateurs and professionals filled the halls of the Sho­w. We met many of our friends and saw a lot of nice specimen­s.

The center of Hall A6 is occupied by an exposition from Mine­ralogical and Geolog­ical Museum of Harva­rd University, Cambr­idge, MA, USA (curator Alonso-Perez). The exposition titled ​ as “The Magic of Ston­es” is presented in a very smart and art­istically very attra­ctive design. Mineral specimens in cases look like “Kings” of the Mineral Kingdom due to excellent positioning and light­ing.

Nice photographs of “Mother Nature” used as background tunes visitors as good or­chestra.

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Людмила Чешко

21/10/2021

At Last! Mineralogical Almanac attends Mineralientage Munich-2021. We are happy to be among our friends from all over the world​ again. This year we authorized by our American colleagues and friends from and Minerals magazine to run their stand together with our’s. Please come to renew your subscription - stands A6.442 and A6. 544!

16/10/2021

The deadline for papers is coming up soon! If you are interested in speaking at the 2022 Tucson Mineral Symposium, please visit https://www.friendsofmineralogy.org/call-for-papers/ for more details!

11/09/2021

Remarkable Platinum Minerals of the Konder Massif (Khabarovsk Krai, Russia) Mineralogical Almanac, volume 23, issue 3, 2019 Famous Mineral Localities of Russia Alexander Gennadievich Mochalov.

This issue of Mineralogical Almanac is devoted to the Konder alkaline-ultramafic complex, a remarkable mineralogical and geological object in the Russian Far East. The specific topic of this work is a unique platinum mineralization of Konder massif, the only source in the world of large and perfect isoferroplatinum crystals and twins, sometimes with gold coatings. It also yielded other very interesting specimens of Platinum-group minerals, e.g., unique crystals of zvyagintsevite, huge isoferroplatinum nuggets, as well as samples of sulfides of all six Platinum-group elements. Dr. Alexander G. Mochalov, the author of this issue, is a well-known Russian geologist and mineralogist, a specialist in platinummineralization, and one of the discoverers of the Konder platinumdeposit. He works there formore than thirty years. The readers will find the data on history of discovery, prospecting, geological study and exploitation of the placer platinum deposits located in the valley of the Konder and Uorgalan rivers. There is an information on the geology and genetic features of both Konder complex and related platinum-bearing placers and, surely, on the remarkable platinum, palladium, gold and silver minerals. Numerous color photographs cover a very wide diversity of Konder platinum minerals, first of all, on different types of crystals and crystal clusters of isoferroplatinum, including unique specimens from special collection of the Russian State Fund of Precious Metals and Precious Stones.

2019, Moscow
Paperback
290 x 270 mm
128 pp. with 328 figures, including 11 schems and 259 mineral photos
Price USd 45.00

04/09/2021

Carved Art Masterpieces in the Fersman Mineralogical Museum by Marianna B. Chistyakova

This is the first most complete publication on carved art masterpieces collection of this famous museum.

Collection includes about 8,000 exhibits: stone-cut products, jewelry, cuts of precious and semi-precious stones, mosaics, inserts from ornamental stones, etc.

Over 1,500 exhibits are on museum displays now. Great photos of most of them are included to the book.

The history of collection is very interesting: some masterpieces came from the royal chambers and mansions of noble lords, other - from private collections and as donation to museum

Author of this book Marianna B. Chistyakova is museum expert who was curator and researcher this collection for many years.

2019, Moscow,
hard cover, new non used copy
290 x 240 mm
264 pp.
Only two copies are available. Published on Russian.
Price on request.

On your request we will bring this rare book to HardRockMineralSummit 2021 Show.

22/08/2021

The unusual sculptural portrait of Alexander E. Fersman, outstanding mineralogist, installs in the Museon Park, Moscow.
Work by E.B. Preobrazhenskaya, granite, 1991

16/07/2021

Excellent place to see minerals and mining city - Freiberg, with famous Freiberg University of Mining and Technology.
Happy to visit and for sure wish to be back!

10/05/2021

Don't miss meeting with Nicolai Medvedev, great intarsia artist well-known around the world.
May 12, Wednesday at 1 p.m. (New York) or 7 p.m. (Paris) Mineral Talks LIVE starts as usual.
You can participate in this talk. Free registration at: https://go.MineralTalksLIVE.com/register.
Other serial are published on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/bluecapproductions/videos.
Authors: Bryan Swoboda, President of BlueCap Productions, Raquel Alonso Perez, Curator of the Mineralogical & Geological Museum at Harvard University, Eloïse Gaillou (Elo EG), President of the Society of Mineral Museum Professionals.

10/05/2021

The newest issue of MA26-1, 2021 features an article on the Mineral Talks LIVE program - these weekly zoom-meetings for friends of mineralogy around the world. Each Wednesday at 1 p.m. (New York) or 7 p.m. (Paris). You can participate in this talk. Free registration at: https://go.MineralTalksLIVE.com/register.
Other serial are published on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/bluecapproductions/videos.
Authors: Bryan Swoboda, President of BlueCap Productions, Raquel Alonso Perez, Curator of the Mineralogical & Geological Museum at Harvard University, Eloïse Gaillou (Elo EG), President of the Society of Mineral Museum Professionals.

07/05/2021

96 pages, 247 illustrations including 134 mineral photos. The paper by Igor V. Pekov and Dmitry I. Belakovskiy presents the new exhibition “Remarkable Minerals of the Khibiny and Lovozero Alkaline Massifs (Kola Peninsula)” at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum.
Boris Z. Kantor devotes his traditional column "Guide to the Ontogeny of Minerals" to the splitting of crystals and, as usual, convincingly and gracefully resolves some complicated puzzles of nature. The column "Speaking in the First Person" is given to Georgiy A. Yurgenson, one of the veterans of Soviet and Russian geology and a wellknown researcher of mineral resources of Transbaikalia. The opening of the “Planeta”, a new private mineralogical museum in Ekaterinburg is promoted in a paper by Mikhail V. Tsyganko. A brief article by Michael B. Leybov is devoted to the collection of Boris A. Yatskevich, which was recently donated to the Chernyshev Central Geological Research Museum by his widow. Interesting finds of minerals in the Plast district (South Urals) in 2018–2019 are described in the paper by Sergey V. Kolisnichenko. The essay by Ludmila A. Budrina and Sergey E. Vinokurov sheds light onto a fairly unusual subject: it describes a collection of "Azbuka" (alphabet) ancient postcards with Siberian minerals. Interesting pages of stone carving art in Russia are covered in the paper "Ural Jasper Masterpieces by Russian Carvers: Collection of the State Hermitage Museum" by Elena A. Olkhovaya and Natalia M. Mavrodina. Intenational events that occurred in 2020 are elucidated in two papers: Carles Manresa Pla and Carles Curto Mila write about the virtual mineral shows by Jordi Fabre, and Raquel Alonso-Perez, Eloïse Gaillou and Bryan Swoboda attract attention to the "Mineral Talks LIVE" meetings.

23/02/2021

Great news: last weekend Mineralogical Almanac took part in the Mineral Show in Moscow (the first in the last 14 months). The number of participants and visitors was less than in previous Mineral Shows but everyone was joyful and happy. We are very glad that we met with many “mineralogical” friends and shared with them new issues published in the past 14 months. The buyers were very satisfied and very pleased.
Life is getting better! We are waiting for new Mineral Shows!
Photo by Maria Glazova (Мария Глазова).

11/02/2021

Today (February 10) is the birthday of Adriana Pagano, our wonderful friend, a sweet charming, very intelligent and knowledgeable woman. We miss you Adrian ... We will meet in Heaven.
Birthday cake to Adriana Pagano from friends:
Scherbina, Marie Huizing, Michael Leybov, Ludmila Cheshko, Renato Pagano, . Photo by Bryan Swoboda, TGMS-2016,

30/01/2021

We are open! First official day! Come visit!
It's a excellent place to communicate! https://therock.show/room/2/57/152/

30/01/2021

We are proud to announce that Mineralogical Almanac team are at 15:50-26:40 in What's Hot In Tucson: 2021 - Day 2 of 8 , project of BlueCap Productions (Bryan Swoboda).
Here several pages of MA activities of 2020. No time to be bored.
Great project which helps mineralogical society to gather together.
Despite the fact that the coronavirus has shut down most of the Tucson shows, the show must go on! here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_5MSqvlIcQ&t=6s

22/10/2020

Table of content of Mineralogical Almanac volume 25 issue 2, 2020.

22/10/2020

Tucson Show became history and we want to save bright moments of this great Show on pages of Mineralogical Almanac!

22/10/2020

New Mineralogical Almanac issue is on the way to subscribers and readers! Don't miss to look!