Monthly Mineral Chronicles

Mineral Matters #392

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This month, in this 65 page full-colour issue we have the following articles:

• Actinolite Find in the 1960s in California. This month, Rolf tells us about an actinolite find from when he was a kid.

• Minerals and Elements: Arsenic - The next in the series, arsenic, a very toxic and potent poison.

• Mineral Snippet – Botallackite, a mineral that was thought to be a variety of atacamite for almost a hundred years.

• Illustrated Minerals of Australia Volume 3, Part 12 – Ianthinite to Ilmenite. The next installment of a significant undertaking documenting the 1,500 or so mineral species recorded in Australia.

• A new book: A Practical Guide to Collecting Minerals and Crystals, by Tony Forsyth.

• Locality Snippet – Bicker’s Quarry, Dargaville, New Zealand. This month, We look at the zeolites and other minerals from a small disused quarry in New Zealand.