MINERAL OBSERVER: Mineral News From Russia and Beyond

Mineralogical Almanac, volume 14, issue 1, 2009

Alexander P. Khomyakov
On the Number of Mineral Species in Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Elena N. Matvienko
Pseudomorphs and Other Oddities
from Fersman Mineralogical Museum RAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Mineral Oddities from Saint-Petersburg Mining Museum . . . . . . . . . . .14

Nikita V. Chukanov
Coprolites in Mineralogical Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Boris Z. Kantor
Skeletal Growth or Autoepitaxy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

New Finds 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 (see a fragment, PDF)

Ralf-Thomas Schmitt
Russian Imperial Dynasty and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin . .24 (see a fragment, PDF)

Zoya A. Bessudnova
Mikhail Alexandrovich Tolstopyatov
as Experimental Mineralogist and a “Poet of Science” . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Victor V. Ponomarenko
Calcite from Dalnegorsk: Review of 2003–2008 Findings . . . . . . . .. . .41 (see a fragment, PDF)

Igor V. Pekov
Sixth International Conference on Mineralogy and Museums . . . . . . .55 (see a fragment, PDF)

Jacques Touret
Denver Gems and Minerals Show-2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..58

Peter Lyckberg
Munich Show 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Michael B. Leybov
Terra Mineralia:
a New Exposition of Minerals in the Freiberg Mining Academy . . . . . . .69

Books Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

Internet Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

Olga V. Rogozina
“Jewelry Olympus-2008”, Saint-Petersburg, December, 2008 . . . . . . .80 (see PDF)

Olga V. Rogozina
Tauromania of Sergey Falkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

In Search of Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .86

Advertizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 (see PDF)