The SFMC jury has decided to award the 2025 Haüy-Lacroix Prize jointly to Jeanne Caumartin and Timmo Weidner.
First SFMC Photo Contest – 2025
A photograph is a technical medium that can be important for Science, but it is also an aesthetic object that shows structure, colours, and composition, open to several levels of understanding and appreciation. This first SFMC photo competition is open to a wide range of mineralogical subjects, covering both macroscopic and microscopic photographs. For microscopic […]
SFMC MERIT AWARD 2024
Professor Isabelle Daniel is the recipient of the 2024 SFMC Merit Award.
2024 Haüy-Lacroix Prize
The SFMC jury has decided to award the Haüy-Lacroix 2024 prize to Chloé TRUONG.
SFMC Officers And Councillors (2024)
BOARD PRESIDENT Nathalie BOLFAN-CASANOVA Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova is director at the CNRS within the Experimental Petrology Team of the Magmas and Volcanoes Laboratory (Clermont-Ferrand). She is an experimentalist who makes samples representative of the deep Earth and other planets in order to study the incorporation of point defects, such as hydrogen or ferric iron. She is […]
2023 Haüy-Lacroix Prize
The SFMC jury has decided to award the 2023 Haüy-Lacroix prize jointly to Clément HERVIOU and Rémy PIERRU.
International Workshop on Lithium
The international Workshop on the Characterisation and Quantification of Lithium, from the Micro- to the Nano-Scale, from Mining to Energy will take place in Paris on 26-27 June 2023. The aim of the workshop is to gather researchers, engineers and students interested in the local, at the macro- and nano-scales, characterization of the lithium element […]
SFMC MERIT AWARD 2022
The French society of mineralogy and crystallography is honored to present its 2022 Merit Award to Dr. Christian Chopin.
SFMC Officers And Councillors (2022)
SFMC OFFICERS PRESIDENT Michel GREGOIRE Michel Grégoire is a CNRS director of research working in Toulouse in the “Géosciences Environnement Toulouse » (GET) laboratory. Michel is a petrologist interested in the origin and evolution of mantle, magmatic and metamorphic rocks with mafic and ultramafic composition, in continental and oceanic domains. To carry out his research, he uses […]
Elements – December 2021
Elements 17(6) – December 2021 – Heavy Stable Isotopes: From Crystals to Planets