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Important Dates in April


April 3, Lev Andreevich Suzdaltsev was born. He graduated from the is a mineralogist and collector, living in Chelyabinsk. He graduated from the St.-Petersburg University. During recent 20 years, he gifted several outstanding specimens to the university and other museums. These are epidote and perovskite from the Zelentsovskaya Mine in the South Urals, record pyrochlore crystals from the Tartar massif in Siberia.

April 8, 1765, Vasily Mikhailovich Severgin, a prominent chemist and mineralogist, was born (died 1826). He was a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, an author of the first compilation on the minerals of Russia (1809), and one of the founders of the St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society (1817).

April 8, 1960, Victor Ponomarenko was born. He graduathed from the Moscow State Mining Academy. He is a geologist, collector, and connoisseur of mineralogy of Dalnegorsk and Zhezkazghan. He worked on the abandoned pegmatites of Akzhailyau in eastern Kazakhstan where he collected outstanding crystals of pink apatite with alexandrite effect.

April 10, 1927, Alexander Alexandrovich Godovikov was born (died 1995). He is a famous Russian mineralogist. Mineral godovikovite is named in his honor.

April 13, 1923, Anatoly Ivanovich Kuvarzin was born. He is a geologist and a connoisseur of gemstones who worked for many years on the deposits of peuso-optic raw materials and gemstones for the Eksportsamotsvety Expedition. In the 1970s, he was a director of the “Colored Stones” shop in Moscow. He is one of the enthusiastic supporters of the Geopark Project. Together with Godovikov, he worked in the Vernadsky State Geological Museum after its opening in 1988.

April 17, 1834, Nils Gustaf Nordenskiold discovered alexandrite on the birth day of the future Emperor Alexander II. This jewelry variety of chrysoberyl originated from Izumrudnye Mines in the Middle Urals.

April 19, 1765,

April 19, 1957, Vladimir Krikov was born. This geologist and collector graduated from the Moscow State Mining Academy. He worked on the famous deposits of Kazakhstan (Altyn-Tyube, Kara-Oba, Akchatau). The main subject of his outstanding collection is micro-inclusions in quartz. These specimens attracted special attention in the Friends of Mineralogy Club in January-March 2003.

April 24, 1902, Georgy Alexeevich Krutov, a mineralogist and a geologist, was born (died 1989). He was a Professor of the Mineralogy Chair, Moscow University, and specialized in studies of cobalt deposits. Mineral krutovite was named in his honor.

Latest Publications

Murzinskoe Gold Deposit: Phosphatno-Arsenatnaya Vein
Mineralogical Almanac, volume 29, issue 2, 2024

Series: New Mineral Localities of Russia

Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Vladimir S. Lednev, Maria D. Milshina

120 pages, 11 Tables, 185 Figures, including 162 mineral photographs and 10 SEM-photos.

This issue of Mineralogical Almanac focuses on the mineralogy of the Phosphatno-Arsenatnaya vein at the Murzinskoe gold deposit in Altai Krai, Russia. Discovered in 2023, the vein has quickly gained recognition as one of Russia’s notable mineralogical locations. The paper presents the results of an extensive mineralogical study of the vein, describing 104 identified minerals, 72 of which are supergene. Among these, arsenates and phosphates are particularly prominent. The oxidation zone of the vein has produced a wealth of remarkable specimens, including azurite, bayldonite, beudantite, carminite, corkite, duftite, gartrellite, kintoreite, malachite, mottramite, phosphohedyphane, pseudomalachite, segnitite, vauquelinite, and others. Notably, a new mineral – stibiosegnitite – has been first discovered in the oxidized ores of the Phosphatno-Arsenatnaya vein. Additionally, the minerals chenevixite, joëlbruggerite, kettnerite, mawbyite, molybdofornacite, and yancowinnaite have been reliably described for the first time on the territory of Russia. The paper includes geological data for the Murzinskoe deposit and provides a comprehensive list of its known minerals, which currently includes 247 mineral species. 

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Mineral Observer
Mineralogical Almanac, volume 29, issue 1, 2024

80 pages, 140 illustrations including 67 mineral photos.

This issue of the Mineralogical Almanac titled “Mineral Observer” opens with an article by Andrey O. Karpov highlighting intriguing specimens from the recent acquisitions to the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, RAS. Following this, a comprehensive article explores the life and contributions of the outstanding mineralogist, Professor Andrey Glebovich Bulakh (1933–2020) by Vladimir G. Krivovichev, Aleksey I. Brusnitsyn, Anatoliy N. Zaitsev, and Anatoliy A. Zolotarev, his students and colleagues from the Mineralogy department of the Saint Petersburg State University. Lyubov V. Badyanova presents an article on quartz from the Belorechenskoe deposit, North Caucasus, Russia. In the section of “Mineral Shows 2023”, Maria D. Milshina shares her impressions on the “Gemma” mineral show held in Moscow in December. Polina V. Nikitina’s article delves into the poetic essence of stone as captured in the works of the renowned sculptor and stonecutter Sergey Falkin. Maria D. Milshina summarizes the results of the 6th All-Russian photo contest “Minerals Through the Lens”. In the “New Book for Mineral Collectors” section, Artem S. Borisov offers a review of the “Mines et Minéraux du Dôme de Barrot” book by Gilbert Mari devoted to the mineralogy, geology, and historical development of the Dôme de Barrot massif in France, one of the oldest copper ore mining sites.

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