Mineral Observer

Mineralogical Almanac, volume 26, issue 1, 2021

CONTENT

News from Mineral World	Igor V. Pekov, Dmitriy I. Belakovskiy New Exhibition at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum: “Remarkable Minerals of the Khibiny and Lovozero Alkaline Massifs (Kola Peninsula)”	4	(see PDF)
Guide to the Ontogeny of Minerals	Boris Z. Kantor On the Splitting of Crystals	10	(see PDF)
Speaking in the First Person	Georgiy A. Yurgenson My Sixty Years in Mineralogy	26	(see PDF)
News from Mineral World	Mikhail V. Tsyganko The Birth of “Planeta”: New Private Mineralogical Museum in the Urals	42	(see PDF)
News from Mineral World	New Acquisitions at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum	50	(see PDF)
News from Mineral World	Michael B. Leybov A Generous Donation: B. Yatskevich's Collection at the Chernyshev Central Geological Research Museum	52	(see PDF)
Interesting Mineral Finds	Sergey V. Kolisnichenko Interesting Mineral Finds in the Plast District (South Urals) in 2018–2019	58	(see PDF)
Ancient Postcards with Minerals	Ludmila A. Budrina, Sergey E. Vinokurov “Siberian Stones for Every Letter of the Alphabet” in the ABC-postcards by Elisabeth Boehm	66	(see PDF)
Stone-carved Masterpieces of the Hermitage	Elena A. Olkhovaya, Natalia M. Mavrodina Ural Jasper Masterpieces by Russian Stone Carvers: Collection of the State Hermitage Museum	78	(see PDF)
Mineral Shows of 2020	2020: A Year without Mineral Shows	84	(see PDF)
	1. Carles Manresa Pla and Carles Curto Mil? On-line shows vs in-person shows?	85
	2. Raquel Alonso-Perez, Eloïse Gaillou, Bryan Swoboda Mineral Talks LIVE	88
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