The Royal Museum Project [O]
Mrs. Vicen Carrio and Mr. Peter Davidson
Natural Sciences, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom;
v.carrio@nms.ac.uk

The importance of mineralogy for deciphering the evolution of alkali-basaltic magmas: a case study of Dotsero volcanics (Eagle County, central Colorado)  [P]
Dr. Anton Chakhmouradian1 and Dr. Peter Modreski2
1 - Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; chakhmou@cc.umanitoba.ca 
2 - U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, USA

Robert B. Ferguson Museum of Mineralogy: past and present [O]
Dr. Anton Chakhmouradian and Ms. Ekaterina Reguir
Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; chakhmou@cc.umanitoba.ca 

Gold-bismuth-tellurium mineralisation at Maldon, Victoria, Australia: a classic locality revisited [O]
Dr. Cristiana Ciobanu1 and Dr. Bill Birch2 [presenter]
1 - South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2 - Geosciences, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; bbirch@museum.vic.gov.au   

Agents of deterioration [O]
Dr. Jean DeMouthe, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA;
jdemouthe@calacademy.org

Collection assessment [P]
Dr. Jean DeMouthe, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA;
jdemouthe@calacademy.org

The Argyle Diamonds Pink Diamond Collection at the Western Australian Museum [O]
Dr. Peter Downes and Prof. Alex Bevan, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia,
Australia; peter.downes@museum.wa.gov.au

Web resources of the mineralogy and gemology collections at the MNHN in Paris [P]
Prof. Francois Farges, Unité Minéralogie et Pétrologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, and Department of Environmental and Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; farges@mnhn.fr 

Scientific valorization of the mineral collections: the MNHN perspective [P]
Prof. Francois Farges1,2, Prof. Giancarlo Parodi1, Prof. Cristiano Ferraris1,3, and Prof. Jean-Pierre Lorand1; farges@mnhn.fr 
1 - Unité Minéralogie et Pétrologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France 2 - Department of Environmental and Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
3 - School of Material Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The current “boom” of mineralogies and their impact on displays [P]
Prof. Francois Farges, Unité Minéralogie et Pétrologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, and Department of Environmental and Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; farges@mnhn.fr 

Expanding collections access: The Online Sample Curation System [O]
Dr. Carl Francis1, Dr. Kerstin Lehnert2, and Prof. Charles H. Langmuir1
1 - Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2 - Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; cfrancis@fas.harvard.edu

Revision of the chemical formula of the dimorphs epididymite and eudidymite: two hydrated sodium beryllium silicates [P]
Dr. Diego Gatta1, Dr. Alessandro Guastoni2 [presenter], and Dr. Fabrizio Nestola2,
1 - Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
2 - Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Veneto, Italy; alessandro.guastoni@unipd.it   

The IMA-CNMNC dominant-constituent rule revisited and extended [O]
Dr. Frédéric Hatert1 and Prof. Ernst A.J. Burke2
1 - Dept. of Geology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; fhatert@ulg.ac.be
2 - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherland

Collections online: Google mapping Geoscience collections at Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [P]
Mr. Dermot Henry, Geosciences Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; dhenry@museum.vic.gov.au

The micromount collections of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science [P]
Mr. James F. Hurlbut and Mr. Larry Havens
Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, USA;   jfhu@earthlink.net

The Afghan Geological Survey Museum – a phoenix rising from the ashes [O]
Mr. Brian Jackson, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom;
b.jackson@nms.ac.uk

The color origin and quantitative characterization of the turquoise in Zhushan, China [P]
Ms. Lili Jin and Prof. Ying Guo, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China; li9984@163.com

The inside-water impact on turquoise’s blue and green [P]
Ms. Lili Jin and Prof. Ying Guo, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China; li9984@163.com

Synthetic, simulated, and treated gems in your collection: implications and examples [P]
Dr. Mary Johnson, Mary Johnson Consulting, San Diego, California, USA; mlj@cox.net   

The relationship between phosphofibrite and meurigite [O]
Dr. Anthony Kampf1 and Dr. Uwe Kolitsch2; akampf@nhm.org
1 - Mineral Sciences, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2 - Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abtl., Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria

Gemstones for teaching - the historic collection of Duke Carl August bought and compiled under the guidance of J.W. Goethe [P]
Dr. Birgit Kreher-Hartmann, Institute of Geoscience, Mineralogical Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany; cbk@uni-jena.de

New minerals related to tourmaline and possible implications on nomenclature [P]
Dr. Stuart Mills and Prof. Lee Groat, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; smills@eos.ubc.ca

Geopark and museum in Itoigawa, central Japan [O]
Mr. Hiroshi Miyajima, Dr. Ko Takenouchi, and Mr. Yousuke Ibaraki
Fossa Magna Museum, Itoigawa, Niigata, Japan; mac314@mac.com

Barium- and lead-rich orthoclase with unusual Fe-Pb-Al-Ti and Mn-Fe-Ti oxide inclusions from the Andover iron mine, Sussex County, New Jersey [P]
Dr. Peter J. Modreski, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, USA;  pmodreski@usgs.gov

Mineralogy of alkaline pegmatites of the Kovdor massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia [P]
Mr. Mikhail Moiseev1 and Dr. Nikita Chukanov2
1 - Fersman Mineralogical Museum RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation; Kovdor05@mail.ru 
2 - Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russian Federation

The role of digital photography in mineral collections management at the American Museum of Natural History [P]
Ms. Jamie Newman, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA jamien@amnh.org

Varieties and formula of vishnevite [P]
Ms. Liudmila Olysych1, Dr. Igor Pekov1, Dr. Nikita Chukanov2, and Dr. Marina Vigasina1
1 - Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation; milusia@mail.ru
2 - Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, Russian Federation

The Italian minerals in the Philadelphia Academy collection [P]
Dr. Renato Pagano1, Dr. Federico Pezzotta1, and Dr. Alessandro Guastoni2
1 - Mineralogia e Petrografia, Museo di Scienza Naturali, Milano, Italy; renpagan@tin.it 
2 - Università degli Studi, Padova, Italy

Nomenclature of apatites: problems related to splitted site occupancies [P]
Prof. Marco Pasero1 and Prof. Igor V. Pekov2
1 - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; pasero@dst.unipi.it
2 - Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Amazing new minerals: freak of nature or the key for solution of nature enigmas? [O]
Dr. Igor Pekov, Mineralogy, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation; igorpekov@mail.ru 

The Camillo Gualteroni collection: a time- capsule from one century ago [O]
Dr. Federico Pezzotta1, Dr. Renato Pagano1, and Dr. Alessandro Guastoni2
1 - Mineralogia e Petrografia, Museo di Scienza Naturali, Milano, Italy; renpagan@tin.it 
2 - Università degli Studi, Padova, Italy

Natural History Museum in Magadan, Russia and its role in region’s life [O]
Mrs. Anna A. Plyashkevich1 and Ms. Lidia A. Trushnina2 [presenter]
1 - Geology and Mineralogy, NEISRI FEB RAS, Magadan, Russian Federation
2 - University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA; lidia.trushnina@colorado.edu

Mineralogical and geochemical features of Romanian gold [O]
Dr. Dana Pop1, Dr. Bogdan  Constantinescu2, Prof. Mihály Pósfai3, Mr. Péter Pekker4, Dr. Adrian Vasilescu2, and Dr. Daniele Ceccato5
1 - Museum of Mineralogy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 2 - Dept.of Applied Nuclear Physics, “Horia Hulubei” National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Engineering, Bucharest, Romania; 3 - Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary; 4 - Dept. of Mineralogy, Eötvös L. University, Budapest, Hungary; 5 - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy; danapop@bioge.ubbcluj.ro  

Synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of the structures and behaviors of phyllomanganates [O]
Dr. Jeffrey Post1 and Prof. Peter Heaney2
1 - Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., USA; postj@si.edu
2 - Pennyslvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

Building stones in the city of Bonn – a project of the Mineral Museum of Bonn, Germany [O]
Dr. Renate Schumacher and Dr. Ingo Braun, Mineral Museum at the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; R.Schumacher@uni-bonn.de

Zhangpeishanite, BaFCl, a new mineral in fluorite from Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia, China [P]
Prof. Hidehiko Shimazaki1, Dr. Ritsuro Miyawaki2 [presenter], Dr. Kazumi Yokoyama2, Dr. Satoshi Matsubara2, and Prof. Zhuming Yang3
1 - University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2 - Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan; 3 - Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; miyawaki@kahaku.go.jp

Evolution of a museum gemstone research project, over 35 years of technological advancement: the story of Barrington ruby mine, Australia [O]
Dr. Frederick Lin Sutherland and Ms. Gayle Webb; Lin.Sutherland@austmus.gov.au
Geoscience (Mineralogy), Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;

Influence of clay in pyrite oxidation/hydrolysis and implications for storage [O]
Dr. Chris Tacker, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, USA;
christopher.tacker@ncmail.net

Minerals named in honour of persons and geoscientists from Saxony [P]
Prof. Klaus Thalheim, Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie, Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Saxony, Germany; klaus.thalheim@snsd.smwk.sachsen.de   

Contrast on display effects of ruby in illuminant D65 and illuminant U30 [P]
Ms. Li Tian and Prof. Ying Guo, China University of Geoscience, Beijing, China; eleven_100@163.com

Quantitative nomenclature for colour of ruby in uniform color space [P]
Ms. Li Tian and Prof. Ying Guo, China University of Geoscience, Beijing, China; eleven_100@163.com

Remarkable mineral finds at the Afrikanda alkaline-ultrabasic complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia [P]
Dr. Anna Turchkova and Dr. Igor Pekov, Mineralogy, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation; annaturchkova@rambler.ru 

Ensuring the survival of important new mineralogical materials [O]
Mr. Rick Turner, Salisbury, England; rturner@imbuia-holdings.com

Moving specimens [O]
Ms. Penny Williamson, Curator, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; pennyw@uow.edu.au