We are pleased to inform you that the Mineralogical Almanac  presented a special issue titled “Russian Mineral Classics” at the Denver Show (September 16 – 18) that was compiled to support the 2011 Denver Show theme of Russian Minerals.

This full-color, 156-page issue is designed as a photo album in which photographs of fine specimens from famous Russian localities are published wherever possible as full-page images. We hope you will like this special issue as much as we enjoyed preparing it for you.   

 Sketch map of the classic localities of Russia  (see a map, PDF)

European presentation will occur at 

Mineralientage in Munich October, 28-30.

We will be so glad to meet you there and you can pick up your personal copy of this special issue. 

Our booth number is A6.625 which we share with Rocks & Minerals magazine.

 

 

 

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Latest Publications

Russian Mineral Classics
Mineralogical Almanac, volume 16, issue 3, 2011

Russian Mineral Classics | Классические минералы России
(English + Russian)
Mineralogical Almanac, volume 16, issue 3, 2011. Moscow: Mineral-Almanac Ltd. 156 pages, 114 mineral photos, 5 maps, in English and Russian.
This issue of Mineralogical Almanac is photo album and contains images of classical mineral specimens from famous Russian localities of Urals, Kola Peninsula, Siberia and Far East. Ural Emerald Mines, Murzinka, Ilmeny, Lovozero, Khibiny, Dalnegorsk and many others are among them. Full-page photos show 79 mineral specimens which comprise the top of Russian mineral world. The issue has been published on special occasion of 44th Denver Gem and Mineral Show-2011 devoted to Russian Minerals.

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Price: $50.00 (USD)

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MINERAL OBSERVER
Mineralogical Almanac, volume 16, issue 2, 2011

MINERAL OBSERVER: Mineral News from Russia and beyond.
Mineralogical Almanac, volume 16, issue 2, 2011
Moscow: Mineral-Almanac LTd. There are 96 pages, with 290 illustrations including 150 mineral photos. This issue of Mineralogical Almanac contains reviews of several mineral Shows held in different countries since autumn 2010 up to April 2011 as well as special articles: Russian minerals in Vienna Natural History Museum by Vera Hammer, curator of the collection; “Person behind the Mineral name cancrinite” – a story by German mineralogists – Joachim A. Lorenz, Ralf T. Schmitt & Andreas G. Völker. In our ”Onthogeny“ section Boris Kantor discusses the “druse” phenomenon. News from Rubtsovskoye deposit and recent finds in Moscow region have included in the issue.

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RUBTSOVSKOE
Mineralogical Almanac volume 16, issue 1, 2011

Rubtsovskoe Deposit (North-West Altai, Russia): Mineralogy of the Oxidation Zone

Igor V. Pekov, Inna S. Lykova (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geology)

FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES SERIES
Mineralogical Almanac volume 16, issue 1, 2011. Moscow: Mineral-Almanac LTd. There are 96 pages, with 167 illustrations including 153 mineral photos and 44 chemical analyses of 17 minerals.

This issue of the Mineralogical Almanac is devoted to the mineralogy of the oxidation zone of the Rubtsovskoe base-metal deposit
located in the north-west part of Rudnyi Altai (Altai Krai, Russia). This deposit, that has been operated as the Rubtsovsky mine of
Siberia-Polymetals OJSC since 2005, became famous due to remarkable finds of supergene minerals. Uniquely rich iodide mineralization was discovered here. Rubtsovskoe is also a source of top-level specimens of native copper, cuprite, marshite, miersite, and iodargyrite.

The issue contains the results of original mineralogical studies of the oxidation zone of the Rubtsovskoe deposit; 40 supergene
minerals are described.



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Price: $45.00 (USD)

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