Cap Garonne!

Mineral Matters #364

The latest issue of Le Cahier des Micromonteurs arrived! A special issue on Cap Garonne, France. 176 pages with the subject: 10 years of mineralogical research on Cap Garonne (in French).

I joined the Association Française de Microminéralogie a couple of years ago. The association also has a Facebook Group, Les Amis de l'Association Française de Microminéralogie.

The publications that they produce are exceptionally good, with four issues per year. One of these issues is a Special Edition. Membership is available for just €35 for a year.

My French is pretty limited, but because it is a subject matter that I know about, with the assistance of tools like Google Lens, I can translate and understand the articles pretty well. I am certainly going to enjoy this one!

This latest issue includes the following sections:

• Les recherches de 2014 à 2024 (Research from 2014 to 2024)

• Recherches dans les zones uranifères (Research in uranium-bearing areas)

• Recherches dans les zones plombifères (Research in lead-bearing areas)

• Espèces inédites pour le gisement (Undescribed species for the deposit)

• Nouvelles espèces (New species)

• Compléments sur les espèces déjà connues (Additional information on already known species) 

• Espèces complémentaires (Supplementary species)

• Inconnus (Unknowns)

• Liste récapitulative des espèces (Comprehensive list of species)

• Conclusion/remerciements/crédits photos (Conclusion, acknowledgments, photo credits) 

• Bibliographie (Bibliography)

I only have seven specimens from this deposit (I thought there might have been more!), and three of them are perroudites!

Below: Front cover of the latest issue.