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I have been serving as a moderator for the English version of FMF Forum now since 2007. This does not seem possible, but one cannot deny the facts. It has been a lot of fun for me and I hope that visitors to the Forum are enjoying it as well.

We are now (Dec. 2009) adding a new face as an additional moderator - Peter Megaw. Actually Peter is not new to regular visitors to the Forum as he has been one of the most prolific contributors to many of the threads. He brings awesome credentials to this role, all of which I do not have space to detail here. He is a Consulting Geologist and co-founder of IMDEX/Cascabel and MAG Silver. He got his B.A. and M.A. in geology at the University of Texas and a Ph.D. in economic geology from the University of Arizona. He has explored Mexico for 30 years and has made important ore discoveries at Juanicipio-Fresnillo, Zacatecas; Platosa, Durango; and Cinco de Mayo, Chihuahua.

Peter has been a dedicated mineral collector since 1977. Living in Tucson, Arizona, he has served as exhibits chairman for the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show™ every year since 1984. His minerals have won many trophies for him in various competitive displays. He was recently named a consulting editor for Rocks & Minerals Magazine. There is much more that can be written about Peter but space here is somewhat limited.

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This section gathers all of the memorial tributes to those who were part of the mineral world and sadly are no longer with us. Although we greatly mourn their passing, we also rejoice in celebrating their accomplishments and having had the chance to spend time with them.      
In memoriam - John Medici, the best digger (Jordi Fabre) Jan 30, 2023 16:16 Replies: 1 Views: 10448
In Memoriam - R.I.P - Mike New - we lost a legend (bob kerr) Jul 26, 2022 16:04 Replies: 1 Views: 8814
In memoriam - Eloïsa Artola (Elo) (Jordi Fabre) Jun 15, 2022 14:48 Replies: 5 Views: 9453
In Memoriam: Charlie Key (Mary FongWalker) Dec 30, 2021 07:37 Replies: 5 Views: 10709
In Memoriam - Tracy has left us (Jordi Fabre) Nov 09, 2021 16:29 Replies: 8 Views: 12294
In Memoriam - Peter Seroka (Joan Martinez Bruguera) May 24, 2020 00:53 Replies: 3 Views: 14724
In Memoriam - José Ramón García left us (Jordi Fabre) Jan 01, 2020 16:11 Replies: 3 Views: 25089
Death of Heimo Hellwig (Pierre Joubert) Apr 27, 2019 03:38 Replies: 19 Views: 39285
Jim Robison has passed away (Jordi Fabre) Dec 03, 2018 15:39 Replies: 4 Views: 23822
In Memoriam - John Veevaert - Album of greetings cards (Jordi Fabre) Oct 29, 2018 11:58 Replies: 18 Views: 45495
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The FMF Forum has an anti-spam system that means that you cannot add links to messages. To give you an idea, each day we get about 20 attempts to post ‘rubbish publicity’ on themes that have nothing to do with minerals. So this system keeps the forum...

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Sadly I could not make Tucson this year. I have read your reports (thank you very much) and also some of the other ones on the web and it seems to me that the Tucson world is made up of two very different groups:
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We have created a section on the forum: "Collection photos and Collector's page" whose aim is to allow all collectors who wish to publish pictures of specimens in their collection. The idea is for each collector/collection to have a single ...

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One thing that troubles me greatly about the mineral hobby today is that very few collectors appear to have much, if any, intellectual curiosity about minerals. The focus for most collectors appears to be only beauty and perfection, rather than rari...

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