First SFMC Photo Contest – 2025

Pierre Lanari

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 […]

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SFMC Officers And Councillors (2024)

Pierre Lanari

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 […]

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International Workshop on Lithium

Pierre Lanari

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 […]

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SFMC Officers And Councillors (2022)

Pierre Lanari

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 […]

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