Rocks and Minerals Magazine

25/10/2022

The new issue is out, don’t miss it! Volume 97 number 6 has some fantastic articles you won’t want to miss, including mining sculptures as fine art, worldwide malachite after azurite occurrences, glendonite, and much more!

30/10/2020

We are lucky to share close friendships with the editors and publishers of other mineralogical journals around the world. Here's a photo of Marie and Terry Huizing of R&M (center) with part of the Mineralogical Almanac team from Moscow, Russia at the Tucson show a few years ago. If you don't know about Mineralogical Almanac, check it and it's English-language sister publication Mineral Observer out, they are wonderful! Michael Leybov photo.

30/10/2020

While this year unfortunately many shows have been cancelled due to the global covid-19 pandemic, normally you can find us at gem and mineral shows around the world, selling back issues and subscriptions and telling collectors and the public about the magazine! Here's a photo of executive editor Marie Huizing at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show back in 2014. Herschel Friedman/Minerals.Net photo.

30/10/2020

Here's a photo of mineral collector and scientist Chris Emproto in the latest issue of the magazine. Chris has a deep passion and knowledge for rare minerals, crystallography, and geochemistry. He is currently pursuing a PhD in geology at the University of Michigan, and we are sure he is destined for great things!

30/10/2020

Dr. Steven Chamberlain, widely considered one of the preeminent experts on the mineralogy of New York State, has contributed many fine articles to the magazine, including this article on the Rose Road localities in St. Lawrence County in the latest issue!

30/10/2020

Our regular contributors to the magazine are often leaders in their field! R. Peter Richards, who is featured in a separate article in this issue, is one of the leading "amateur" crystallographers in the world, and greatly contributed his knowledge of crystallography to the excellent article on the minerals of Ohio's Suever Quarry.

30/10/2020

This beautiful photo by the talented mineral photographer and researcher John Jaszczak of pyrite inclusions in a fluorite crystal illustrates that amazing crystals can come in small packages! See the full article on Ohio's Delphos quarry in our latest issue!

30/10/2020

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22/10/2020

The Young Mineral Collectors group don't just speculate on the future of the hobby, they quantify it! See the full article in the new issue of the magazine!

22/10/2020

We love mineral collectors of all ages but especially the young mineral collectors group, and we are thrilled to have a wonderful article on this group by their very own Matt McGill in the latest issue of the magazine!

22/10/2020

Pandemic styles for the mineral and fossil enthusiast! Some of our readers shared their mineral and fossil-inspired facemasks with us in the latest issue of the magazine.

22/10/2020

Who are those strapping young mineralogists? Why, only three of the Midwestern USA's premier mineral experts! John Jaszczak (L), Pete Richards (M) and John Rakovan (R) in 1991 (left) and last year (right) at the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium! This issue has a very nice article on Richards and his long career in mineralogy and crystallography, check it out!

22/10/2020

The Mineralogical Record - Label Archive

Read a bit about our founder, Peter Zodac, on the Mineralogical Record website!

https://mineralogicalrecord.com/labels.asp?colid=720

The highly respected, award-winning Mineralogical Record magazine is the premier journal for serious mineral collectors, specimen-oriented mineralogists and mineral museum curators worldwide. It features authoritative and interesting articles on every aspect of specimen mineralogy, including in-dept...

22/10/2020

Here are the table of contents for the November-December 2020 issue of the magazine, looks like it's going to be a great issue! Subscribe online if you're not already a subscriber!

22/10/2020

Here's a sneak peak of the November-December 2020 issue of the magazine, coming soon to a mailbox or newsstand near you!! This issue features an article on the Delphos quarry in Ohio, as well as an article on the online Young Mineral Collectors group, don't miss it!

28/09/2020

One of our most read articles online is this great 2011 article by Polish mineral dealer and geologist Tomasz Praszkier on traveling through the country of Morocco in search of minerals, titled "Morocco: Tea and Minerals." Check it out online, available to all subscribers!

27/09/2020

You don't want to miss this fantastic article on New Mexico fluorite on our latest issue, by New Mexico field collector, mineral dealer, and mining engineer Phil Simmons!

27/09/2020

Rocks & Minerals

95 Years of Content!

Rocks & Minerals, now in its 95th year, is a gold mine of information; and now that archive can be electronically searched. The Rocks and Minerals website, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vram20/current, allows one to browse the table of contents of back issues (currently back to V.5 issue 4, 1930). A first page preview of articles is available to all and full PDF copies of articles are available to subscribers with online access (see subscription details on the webpage). There is also a search function that allows one to search back issues based on authors, titles, key words, etc. This website resource puts most of R&M’s 95 years of content at the tip of your fingers.

Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 0035-7529 eISSN: 1940-1191 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00357529.2020.1771150

27/09/2020

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A Short History of Rocks & Minerals!

(reproduced with permission from 'Minerals' issue 7 by Tomasz Praszkier):
https://www.spiriferminerals.com/147,MINERALS---The-Collectors-Newspaper--7.html


“Rocks & Minerals was founded in 1926 by Peter Zodac in Peekskill, New York, as a small-format (15x22 cm), black and white publication. Two issues (the first at 20 cents, the second at 30 cents) were published the first year.

After that, the number of issues varied from four to twelve issues per year. Zodac, a “one-man band,” continued as editor, publisher, circulation and advertising manager, and frequent author until his death in 1967. Family members unsuccessfully tried to maintain the magazine but finally, in 1975, sold it to the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation (HELDREF) in Washington, D.C. Under HELDREF’s ownership, Rocks & Minerals went to its present peer review system, was redesigned into a larger (20x28 cm) format, and became a bimonthly publication.

Marie Huizing, of Cincinnati, Ohio, became the managing editor in 1978, a position she continues to hold to this day, although her title is now editor-in-chief. Based on her work as managing editor, she received the Cincinnati Mineral Society’s Educational Foundation Award in 1979, the Carnegie Mineralogical Award in 1996, and the Mineralogical Society of America Public Service Medal in 2007.

In the summer of 2009, Rocks & Minerals was purchased by Taylor & Francis, an internationally acclaimed UK-based publishing company with more than two centuries’ experience and over seventeen hundred journals in its portfolio. A leader in the industry, Taylor & Francis has a well-established tradition of excellence in academic publishing and provides a strong support staff for Rocks & Minerals. Taylor & Francis has expanded the number of pages per issue and increased circulation, promotion, advertising, and funding for color photography. The magazine continues to thrive under its banner.

It is interesting to note that Rocks & Minerals had its origin as a spin-off from the American Mineralogist, which was founded in 1916 under the auspices of the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society, the New York Mineralogical Club, and the Mineral Collectors’ Association. In 1919 the fledgling American Mineralogist, which at that time was principally a collectors’ journal designed to replace The Collector (which ceased publication in 1909), was given to the newly established Mineralogical Society of America (MSA). At the organizational meeting of the MSA, those present voted overwhelmingly to take over the American Mineralogist as the official journal of the new society. It was also decided that the journal would be devoted to mineralogy, crystallography, and the allied sciences and would include original research papers and abstracts “but at the same time retain the valuable features of this publication which has become recognized as of permanent interest to such collectors and amateurs who are eligible for membership but not fellowship [in the MSA]”. By the mid-1920s it was clear that the American Mineralogist would be evolving into a more scientific journal. Peter Zodac recognized that with this new direction the American Mineralogist would no longer fulfill the need for a publication geared toward the mineral enthusiast community, so in 1926 he started publication of Rocks & Minerals.”

27/09/2020

We love the annual Rochester Mineralogical Symposium in Rochester, New York every April, which brings together both amateur and professional mineral enthusiasts from around the world. This year due to the global covid-19 pandemic, regrettably the in-person symposium had to be cancelled, but a lively and enjoyable "virtual symposium" was organized instead. Here's a photo of symposium organizer and Rocks and Minerals editor Dr. John Rakovan during the 2020 "E-RMS." See this month's issue for more on how this event went. John Rakovan photo.

27/09/2020

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We are currently the only major mineralogy and mineral collecting journal aimed at the needs of both the amateur and the professional where a subscription gets you not only a physical copy of the magazine, but access to decades of online back issues in highly-quality PDF format. Subscribe now online!

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Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 0035-7529 eISSN: 1940-1191 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00357529.2020.1771150

27/09/2020

The Mineralogical Record - Label Archive

A great bio of Rocks & Minerals Magazine Founder Peter Zodac can be found here on the Mineralogical Record website!

https://mineralogicalrecord.com/labels.asp?colid=720

The highly respected, award-winning Mineralogical Record magazine is the premier journal for serious mineral collectors, specimen-oriented mineralogists and mineral museum curators worldwide. It features authoritative and interesting articles on every aspect of specimen mineralogy, including in-dept...

27/09/2020

Peter Zodac was born in Peekskill New York on September 24th 1894. A child of poor European immigrants, he pursued his passion for earth science and mineral collecting from an early age, and established Rocks and Minerals magazine in 1926. By 1932, the magazine was doing well enough for him to quit his job with the local county park commission and devote himself to publishing full time. By the time of his death in 1967, Rocks and Minerals magazine was well-known and respected around the world, and we continue to build on Mr. Zodac's legacy today!

27/09/2020

Meet the team! Executive Editor Marie Huizing has been an editor of Rocks and Minerals Magazine since 1978. A fixture at mineral shows and events around the world, Marie is known for her dedication to the magazine and warm, friendly demeanor. She is a recipient of the Cincinnati Mineral Society Educational Foundation Award (1978), the Carnegie Mineralogical Award (1995), and the Mineralogical Society of America's Distinguished Public Service Award (2007). The magazine has prospered under her direction, now consisting of 96 full-color pages full of interesting articles and gorgeous photographs. Say hi to Marie at the next gem and mineral event and ask her about the magazine and it's exceptional history, she'd love to talk to you about it!

27/09/2020

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27/09/2020

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24/09/2020

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24/09/2020

Hi All, here are the Table on Contents for the September-October 2020 Issue! If you're not a subscriber, see the subscription link in our bio!

24/09/2020

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