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A new monthly electronic newsletter/magazine. now published at https://www.sorrellpublications.com

This is a publication pulled together by a mineral collector for mineral collectors, with content provided by mineral collectors from around the world.

The first is a 26 page full-colour issue that includes:

A Social Media Roundup
Dealer Spotlight 0n Eric Vandusen
In Case You Missed It…
Convoy S2+ UV Torch
Queensland Minerals Heritage Museum
Pyrite Disease
Moving to Bisbee, Arizona – Rolf Luetcke
Shigar Valley, Pakistan
Chiavennite, Article by Ole-Thorstein Ljøstad
Inner Mongolia
Gem Elbaite from the Congo by Paul Cyr
Sainte Marie-aux-Mines 2018 Report by Ed Richard
Publication – A Collector’s Guide to the Minerals of Flinders, Victoria, Australia
Publication – Minerals of the English Midlands
Under the Scope – South Island, New Zealand

Each month, I will bring you mineral-related content from around the world. There will be a range of topics including mineral news and information, show reports, articles on minerals and localities, a spotlight on individual mineral dealers or collectors, and maybe an editorial now and again.

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 1 Issue 2

This 58 page full-colour issue travels through the US, UK, Canada, Czech Republic, Siberia, and Australia, and includes:

A report on the Oxford Summer Show
Tschermigite
Another early Bisbee article – the Higgins and Twilight Mines
In case you missed it
On a different wavelength – more Convoy UV torch
Update on the Minerals Heritage Museum, Queensland
David K Joyce is in the Dealer Spotlight
A report on the Buena Vista Contin Gem and Mineral Show
Trenice Phosphate Locality
In search of barwoodite
Modern crystalline discoveries in Maine’s pegmatite district
Mineralogy of Franklin and Ogdensburg book

New this month, for some images, is the ability to click on the image to bring up a larger version. Not all as yet, although I will move towards that in time.

https://www.sorrellpublications.com
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Flinders is a well-known collecting locality in southern Victoria, Australia, most notable for its zeolite minerals, particularly gmelinite. This 72 page full-colour publication explores the minerals that have been found here.

https://www.sorrellpublications.com/2018/09/21/A-Collectors-Guide-to-the-Minerals-of-Flinders-Victoria-Australia/
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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 1 Issue 3

Issue 3 is now available at https://sorrellpublications.com/2018/10/14/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-1-issue-3

This 78 page full-colour issue travels through the US, New Zealand, Austria, Norway, China, Morocco, and Australia, and includes:

Glen Waverley Show
Solutions and Solution Series
Turquoise Mountain, Courtland, AZ
Glenorchy, New Zealand
Central US Micromineral Symposium
Bramberg Museum
Dealer Focus – Everett Harrington
Eirikite
South Australian Copper Country
Høydalen, Norway
Broken Hill Show
Mineral News from Pristine Minerals

Again this month, for many images, is the ability to click on the image to bring up a larger version.

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 1 Issue 4

Issue 4 is now available at https://sorrellpublications.com/2018/11/13/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-1-issue-4/

This 82 page full-colour issue travels through the US, UK, Germany and Australia, and includes:

Ultraviolation
Blind in one eye
Dealer Focus – Allen Dillwith
Colourless Diamonds
Desautels Micromount Symposium
South Jersey Show
Gypsum, St. David area, Arizona
Nunawading Show
Miller Indices
Bakewell Show
Munich Mineral Show
Adelaide Gem & Mineral Show

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 1 Issue 5

Issue 5 is now available at https://sorrellpublications.com/2018/12/12/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-1-issue-5/

This 81 page full-colour issue travels through the US, Austria, Germany and Australia, and includes:

More on the Munich Show by Zbyněk Buřival!
Zeehan Show, Tasmania
Juniper Flats Mines in Bisbee Arizona, by Rolf Luetcke
Geelong, Victoria, Show
Salt – “The” Austrian Mineral, Gerhard Brandstetter

Again this month, for many of the excellent images, is the ability to click on the image to bring up a larger version. Not only do you get a bigger version, but in some cases, the image you see published may be a cropped version.

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First issue for the new year!

Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 2 Number 1 is now available at https://sorrellpublications.com/2019/01/11/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-1/

This 84 page full-colour issue travels through the US, Japan, Australia, Mexico and New Zealand, and includes:

The 79 Mine, Arizona
Kyoto Mineral Show, Japan
Melbourne Fine Mineral Show
Gem Show, Launceston, Tasmania
Queen Victoria Museum, Tasmania
Mexican Rock Shop
Australian Journal of Mineralogy
Dealer Focus – John Dyer
Geology Museum, Otago, New Zealand
Denver Museum of Nature & Science Micromount Catalogue

Again this month, for many of the excellent images, is the ability to click on the image to bring up a larger version. Not only do you get a bigger version, but in some cases, the image you see published may be a cropped version.

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Second issue for 2019...

Volume 2 Issue 2 of the Monthly Mineral Chronicles has been released.

In this issue, we go chasing large garnets in the Czech Republic, take a look at wulfenite, the mineral theme of this weekend's Tucson Show, find out about some interesting Arizona pseudomorphs, and take a virtual tour around the Linz Show in Austria, and the Illawarra Show in New South Wales, Australia!

https://sorrellpublications.com/2019/02/14/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-2/

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Third issue for 2019...

Volume 2 Issue 3 of the Monthly Mineral Chronicles has been released.

In this issue, all things Tucson!

https://sorrellpublications.com/2019/03/19/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-3/

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 2 Issue 4

This 75 page full-colour issue looks at more shows and symposia, Dealer Focus is back, a museum, fluorescence, and an Arizona mine. It includes:

2019 Gemkhana, Warragul, Victoria
Gold Prince Mine, Arizona
Canberra Rock Swap
Leidy Micromount Symposium
Dealer Focus – Rocky Krichbaum
Oxford Show Report
Heidleberg – 200 Years of Mineralogical History
Mineralogy of Franklin and Ogdensburg
In Case You Missed It…

https://sorrellpublications.com/2019/04/14/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-4/

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 2 Issue 5

This month, this 66 page full-colour issue takes a look at a rock swap that I hadn’t been to for 30 years, superb gem minerals at the NY-NJ show, the San Juan Mine, Arizona, new “Ghost Eye” Chinese fluorite and more! It includes:

Thornton Rockswap
NY-NJ Gem Show
Blast from the Past…
San Juan Mine, Gordon Camp, Dragoon Mts., Arizona
In Case You Missed It…
Dealer Focus – Xueyan Jin and Yanna, chinesemineral.cn
Hobart Gem and Mineral Show

https://sorrellpublications.com/2019/05/18/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-5/

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 2 Issue 6

This month, this 83 page full-colour issue includes an unusual Dealer Focus, plus show reports, locality articles, and mineral news! It includes:

Tourmaline
In Case You Missed It
Mineral News
Palmer Crystal and Craft Fair
Dealer Focus – Cynthia Colvin
Lulu Temple PA Gem Show 2019
Dry Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona Quartz Location
Seattle Mineral Market
Horsham Gem Show
Sýkořice, Czech Republic

https://sorrellpublications.com/2019/06/16/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-6

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 2 Issue 7

This month, this 66 page full-colour issue includes an unusual Dealer Focus, plus show reports, locality articles, and mineral news! It includes:

Johnny Lyon Hills, Cochise County, Arizona
Dealer Focus – Richard Bell
Mount Solo, Washington
2019 International Exposition of Agate, Austin, Texas
2019 Northern California Mineralogical Association Conference
In Case You Missed It
Pseudomorphs: the Mimics of the Mineral World

https://sorrellpublications.com/2019/07/12/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-7-2/

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Volume 2 Issue 8 is now published!

This month, this 82 page full-colour issue includes a Dealer Focus, plus show reports, locality articles, and mineral news! It includes:

St Marie aux Mines Show Report (x2)
Paul Griswold Mineral Collection Story
Dealer Focus – Carl Bjorklund
Twelve States, a few thousand miles, endless new memories, and of course….ROCKS!
In Case You Missed It
Rock Currier Collection Auction
Broken Hill Mineral Show
You can access here - https://sorrellpublications.com/2019/08/15/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-8/

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Monthly Mineral Chronicles Vol 2 Issue 9 is now published.

This month, in this 79 page full-colour issue, we go to the East Coast of the US, Arizona, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Broken Hill and Ballarat here in Australia! It includes:

East Coast Gem & Mineral Show
Small Canyon North of Benson
Newly-Discovered Pegmatite near Broken Hill
Minerals from the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Ballarat Gem and Mineral Show
In Case You Missed It
Rock Currier Collection Auction Revisited
Rožná Opal Field Trip
Ballarat Gold

You can access here - https://sorrellpublications.com/2019/09/15/monthly-mineral-chronicles-volume-2-issue-9/

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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/

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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/

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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/