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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 2 Issue 10

This month, in this 72 page full-colour issue, we go to Canada, Denver Colorado, Arizona, and Western Australia, Mildura and Bendigo here in Australia! It includes:

* Dealer Focus: Rory and Dori Hunt
* Small mine in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
* Mildura Show
* Denver Show
* North to the Murchison – field trip in Western Australia
* Bendigo Show
* In Case You Missed It…
* Hattah Lakes, Victoria

You can access here - https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2019/10/13/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-10/

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 2 Issue 11

This month, in this 75 page full-colour issue, we go to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Arizona, and Broken Hill and Melbourne here in Australia! It includes:

* Dealer Focus – M Charlie Brown
* The Texas Arizona Mine, Cochise Co., Arizona
* Waverley Show
* 63rd Annual Paul Desautels Memorial Micromount Symposium
* Nunawading Show
* Line of Lode
* The Australian Fine Mineral Show
* In Case You Missed It

You can access it here - https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2019/11/16/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-11/

[crocoite]

Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 2 Issue 12

This month, in this 70 page full-colour issue, we look at the Munich Show from a mineral dealer’s viewpoint, have articles on post mining and slag minerals, lepidolite from the Type Locality, a Tasmanian zeolite locality, showcase Tasmanian minerals in the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, and more. It includes:

* Munich Show 2019
* In Case You Missed It
* 2019 Geelong Show, Victoria
* Post Mining and Slag Minerals
* Minerals of the Frongoch Mine
* 2019 Zeehan Show, Tasmania
* Lepidolite from type locality Rožná, Czech Republic
* Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania
* Zeolites from the Hellyer River Area, Tasmania

You can access it here - https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2019/12/15/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-12/

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 3 Issue 1 is now out!

This month, in this 69 page full-colour issue, we have lots of pseudomorphs, a couple of Tasmanian mineral localities, Dealer Focus, a show report, showcase minerals in the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, and more. It includes:

* Ligier Marble Quarries Pseudomorphs, Arizona
* Minerals of the Rosebery Mine, Tasmania
* Dealer Focus – Walter Kellogg
* Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, Part 2
* In Case You Missed It…
* Warrnambool Show, Victoria
* Stichtite Hill Tasmania

Available here - https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2020/01/17/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-3-issue-1/

[crocoite]

A Collector’s Guide to the Minerals of Spring Creek, South Australia is now out.

The Spring Creek Copper Mine near Wilmington, South Australia, has produced almost sixty different mineral species, and is the Type Locality (from where the mineral species was first described) for five of those. It was mined from 1860 through to 1874, and again from 1906 to 1916, and is now part of the Mt Remarkable National Park. This 98 page full colour book describes many of the minerals from the mine, and should assist collectors with identifying some of their specimens.

Details here - https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2020/01/21/a-collectors-guide-to-the-minerals-of-spring-creek-south-australia/

[crocoite]

Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 3 Issue 2 has just been published and you can find it here – https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2020/02/13/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-3-issue-2/.

This month, in this 70 page full-colour issue, we have:

* An article on the Last Chance Mine, Courtland, Arizona. Who knew that one mine could produce so many different habits of azurite?
* Retgersite Mineral Snippet.
* A look at the Broken Hill (New South Wales) smelters, and some of the slag minerals that occur there.
* A Collector’s Guide to Paramount Canyon, New Mexico, one of the few localities worldwide that produces red beryl.
* In Case You Missed It
* The Loxton (South Australia) Gem and Mineral Show.

[ALshawani]

Hello
Thank you for this great effort ... but I am asking about the password to download the files, and is it one word or each version with its own word and my respect goes up

[crocoite]

Thanks :)

It is a different password for each issue.

[crocoite]

Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 3 Issue 3 has just been published and you can find it here – https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2020/03/12/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-3-issue-3

This month, in this 135(!) page full-colour issue, we have a number of reports from Tucson.

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 3 Issue 4 is now available.

This month, in this 127 page full-colour issue, we have lots of examples of things you can do while you are isolated. Also, articles on darkfield illumination, the Defiance Mine, Gleeson, Cochise Co., Arizona, the minerals of the Don Hill Cutting, Devonport, Tasmania and reports on the Hobart Mineral Show, Tasmania, the International Mineral Show, Rijswijk, Netherlands, and more on the Tucson Show with Paul Stephen Cyr.

After I received Brian Beyer’s article on darkfield illumination, I had a go at building something using black card. It works quite well.

Available here https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2020/04/14/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-3-issue-4/

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 3 Issue 5 is now available.

This month, in this 50 page full-colour issue, we have the first in a short series of the story of Broken Hill, a report on the 2020 Scottish mineral, fossil and jewellery show, an article on the San Diego Mine, Tombstone District, Cochise Co., Arizona, and more.

Available here - https://sorrellpublications.com/index.php/2020/05/13/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-3-issue-5/

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Vol 3 Issue 6 is now available here https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2020/06/15/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-3-issue-6/

This month, in this 70 page full-colour issue, we have a report on a “candle” quartz locality in Tasmania, the second part of a short series of the story of Broken Hill, an article on fossils from Cochise Co., Arizona, an article on focus stacking and how to deal with its issues, and a Dealer Focus.

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles vol 3 issue 7 is now available here https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2020/07/15/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-3-issue-7/

This month, in this 70 page full-colour issue, we have an article on rare minerals from volcanic fumaroles such as Etna and Tolbachik, the third part of a short series of the story of Broken Hill, an article on the Rowley Mine, Arizona, an article on Wagholi, India, more on focus stacking, a Dealer Focus, and golden barite from Tasmania.

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 3 Issue 8 is now available here - https://sorrellpublications.mineralcollective.com/index.php/2020/08/13/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-3-issue-8/

This month, in this 57 page full-colour issue, we have a short editorial, the following articles: Dobšiná – Flos Ferri Paradise in Slovakia, Greaterville Arizona Gold Search, Part 1 of the Collector’s Guide to the Minerals of Lake Boga, Victoria, and a Mineral Snippet – Allanite.

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 3 Issue 9 is now available here - https://sorrellpublications.com/index.php/2020/09/14/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-3-issue-9

This month, in this 62 page full-colour issue, we have the following articles:

* Minerals from the Renison Bell Tin Mine, Western Tasmania
* The Element of Surprise
* The Johnson Mine, Cochise County, Arizona
* Dealer Focus Alan Benson
* Miller Indices
* Collector’s Guide to the Minerals of Lake Boga Part 2