Field Workshop in the French Massif Central

The Societé Française de Minéralogie et Cristallographie, the Université Jean-Monnet (Saint-Étienne, France) and the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (CNRS) are organizing a field-based workshop in the French Massif Central, which is a Variscan inlier located in South Central France. This fieldtrip will examine the Variscan nappe stack in the Moldanubian core zone of the Variscan […]

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Euroclay 2019 / Call for sessions

EUROCLAY 2019 – Paris The next quadrennial Euroclay meeting of the European Clay Groups Association (ECGA) will be held in Paris (France) 1st-5th July 2019 (Jussieu Campus, Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie) jointly with the 56th annual meeting of The Clay Minerals Society (CMS), and the 6th Mediterranean Clay Meeting. Call for sessions To make […]

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Three new EMU books available for sale

Three new (2017) books are available in the EMU-MinSoc Notes in Mineralogy Series: Vol. 16 (2017) Mineral reaction kinetics: Microstructures, textures, chemical and isotopic signatures (W. Heinrich and R. Abart, editors) Vol. 17 (2017) Redox-reactive minerals: Properties, reactions and applications in clean technologies (I.A.M. Ahmed and K.A. Hudson-Edwards, editors) Vol. 18 (2017) Mineral fibres: Crystal […]

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Appeal to former authors of Bulletin de Minéralogie and Bulletin de la Société française de Minéralogie et Cristallographie or their beneficiaries

We are pleased to inform all authors that SFMC is about to make the entire content of Bulletin de Minéralogie (and former titles) since 1878 freely available on the Persée portal. This platform is maintained with the support of the French Ministery for Higher Education and Research and hosts French-language scientific journals in an open-access […]

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Zdeněk Johan (1935-2016)

Zdeněk Johan, Honorary Inspector-General of the Bureau of Mines and Geology (BRGM), died at Orléans (France) on February, 13th 2016. Zdeněk Johan was born on November, 18th 1935 at Lomnice nad Popelkou in the North of Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia). He studied mineralogy at Charles de Prague University, where he graduated in 1958. In 1961, […]

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Raymond Kern (1928 – 2014)

President of the Mineralogy and Crystallography French Society (1981)   Professor Raymond Kern passed away on November 6th 2014, after losing his last battle against several cancers. The Science of Crystal Growth has probably lost one of its best leaders, but Kern’s rich personality is what we will miss most.   With an academic background […]

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Robert Andrew Howie

Professor R.A. Howie, honour member of the SFMC left us on Saturday, March 10th 2012. His name is still associated on the one hand to his work as a writer of Mineralogical Abstracts, an unrivalled tool until the generalization of online publication and of search engines, and on the other hand associated to “Rock-forming Mineral” […]

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