Mineral Observer:
Mineral News from Russia and beyond

Alexander I. Tishchenko Pervomaisky Quarry (Crimea, Ukraine)	4	(see a fragment, PDF)
Victoria V. Chernenko, Irina P. Andreeva, Nina N. Samsonova Vladimir I. Vernadsky and Mineralogical Collection of the Emperor's Moscow University	24	(see a fragment, PDF)
Nikolay P. Yushkin A Mineralogical Message from the Russian Tsarevna Alexandra Pavlovna Romanova, the Palatine of Hungary	34	(see a fragment, PDF)
Peter Davidson Scotland and Russia – Historical and Mineralogical Connections	42	(see a fragment, PDF)
Zoya A. Bessudnova, Irina P. Andreeva Emerald from the Vernadsky State Geological Museum	46	(see a fragment, PDF)
John S. White, Jesse Fisher, Mark Mauthner, Tomasz Praszkier and Joanna Gajowniczek, Jessica Simonoff, Will Larson Tucson-2012: Impression of Participants	50	(see a fragment, PDF)
Jacques Touret Orbicular Granites, or when Petrology becomes Art	67	(see a fragment, PDF)
Michael B. Leybov “Gemma” – 2012: Notes from the Moscow Show	70	(see a fragment, PDF)
John W. White The Italian Sulfur Mines: an Exhibition in Bologna	78	(see a fragment, PDF)
Оlga V. Rogozina The “World of Stone”: Educating through Entertainment	80	(see a fragment, PDF)
Аlexander А. Evseev Ten Years of the Moscow Club of Friends of Mineralogy	82	(see a fragment, PDF)
Stuart Wilensky Treasures from China	86	(see a fragment, PDF)