Scientific program • Monday, 27 August

   
08.30 - 08.45 Opening Ceremony
08.30 - 08.35 IMA President
  E. Tillmanns (Vienna/AT)
   
08.35 - 08.40 DMG Working Group Mineralogical Museums and Collections
  J. Schlüter (Hamburg/DE)
   
08.40 - 08.45 Conference Chair
  K. Thalheim (Dresden/DE)
   
08.45 - 10.15 Session 1: Museums and research
Chair P. A. Williams (Penrith/AU)
   
08.45 - 09.15 IMA-CNMNC: future prospects for mineralogy and the work of the Commission
  P. A. Williams (Penrith/AU)
   
09.15 - 09.35 CNMNC guidelines for the use of suffixes and prefixes in mineral nomenclature, and for the preservation of historical names
  F. Hatert (Liège/BE), S. J. Mills (Melbourne/AU), M. Pasero (Pisa/IT), P. A. Williams (Penrith/AU)
   
09.35 - 09.55 Pseudotypes
  A. Kampf (Los Angeles/US), S. J. Mills (Melbourne/AU), M. Rumsey (London/GB), F. Colombo (Córdoba/AR)
   
09.55 - 10.15 Nomenclature of the hydrotalcite supergroup and new minerals related to fougèrite found in gleysols
  S. J. Mills (Melbourne/AU), J.-M. Génin (Nancy/FR), A. Christy (Canberra/AU), O. Guérin (Dinard/FR), A. Herbillon (Louvain/BE), E. Kuzmann (Budapest/HU), T. Kameda (Sendai /JP), F. Colombo (Córdoba/AR)
   
10.15 - 11.00 Coffeebreak and Poster
   
11.00 - 12.40 Session 1: Museums and research
Chair R. Hochleitner (Munich/DE)
   
11.00 - 11.20 On the peculiarities of Australian and Venezuelan pink diamonds: influence of the geologic settings
  E. Gaillou (Los Angeles/US), J. E. Post, J. Butler (Washington, DC, US)
   
11.20 - 11.40 Boron in the Hope Diamond and other natural type IIb blue diamonds
  J. E. Post (Washington DC/US), E. Gaillou (Los Angeles/US), D. Rost (Chicago/US), J. Butler (Washington DC/US)
   
11.40 - 12.00 New discoveries about the great blue gems of King Louis XIV of France: the "French Blue" and the "Grand Saphir"
  F. Farges (Paris/FR), J. E. Post (Washington/US), M. Guiraud (Paris/FR)
   
12.00 - 12.20 Characterising variations in lapis lazuli mineralogy by XRD: use as an archaeologial provenancing tool
  J. Horák, T. Cotterell (Cardiff/GB)
   
12.20 - 12.40 Calcite - interpretation of star-shaped intergrowths with other minerals
  S. F. Herting-Agthe (Berlin/DE)
   
12.40 - 13.40 Lunchbreak
   
13.40 - 15.25 Session 1: Museums and research
Chair J. Schlüter (Hamburg/DE)
   
13.40 - 14.10 Meteorites, the oldest rocks of the solar system
  H. Palme (Frankfurt/DE)
   
14.10 - 14.30 Searching for meteorites in Arabia
  B. A. Hofmann (Bern/CH), E. Gnos (Geneva/CH)
   
14.30 - 14.50 Biomineralization and fungi
  C. Santelli (Washington/US), C. Hansel (Cambridge/US)
   
14.50 - 15.10 Samarskite from the Spinelli prospect (Glastonbury, CT, USA): its composition and significance
  S. Nicolescu (New Haven/US), F. Davis (Hamden/US)
   
15.10 - 15.25 Correlative Microscopy: Measurable Efficiency Enhancement in Microscopical Analysis
  M. Hiltl (Oberkochen/DE)
   
15.25 - 16.15 Coffeebreak and Poster
   
16.15 - 17.55 Session 1: Museums and research
Chair M. Kaliwoda (Munich/DE)
   
16.15 - 16.35 Secondary minerals in tungsten deposits in Victoria, Australia: potential for new and rare minerals
  W. Birch , S. J. Mills (Melbourne/AU), I. Grey (Clayton South/AU)
   
16.35 - 16.55 What is paratacamite?
  M. Sciberras , P. Leverett, P. A. Williams (Sydney/AU), T. Malcherek (Hamburg/DE), J. Schlüter (Hamburg/DE)
   
16.55 - 17.15 Veatchite polytypes used to interpret geological conditions of formation
  J. Grice (Ottawa/CA), A. Pring (Adelaide/AU)
   
17.15 - 17.35 Silica clathrate minerals from Boso Peninsula, Japan
  K. Momma (Tsukuba/JP), T. Ikeda, T. Nagase (Sendai/JP), N. Takahashi (Chiba/ JP), M. Takada (Kyoto/ JP), K. Nishikubo (Ichikawa/ JP), C. Honma (Tateyama/ JP), M. Koda (Chiba/ JP), Y. Furukawa (Sendai/ JP), R. Miyawaki, S. Matsubara (Tsukuba/Japan)
   
17.35 - 17.55 Rediscovery (?) and History of Plumbonacrite
  M. Rumsey (London/GB), O. Siidra, S. Krivovichev (St. Petersburg/RU), J. Spratt, C. Stanley (London/GB), R. Turner (Salisbury/GB)
   
17.55 - 18.15 Group Photo, Coffeebreak and Poster
   
18.15 - 18.55 Session 1: Museums and research
Chair J. Schlüter (Hamburg/DE)
   
18.15 - 18.35 A new occurrence of jade from the Dominican Republic: first description, analytical data and archeological implications
  H.-P. Schertl, W. Maresch, A. Hertwig (Bochum/DE), S. Knippenberg (Leiden/Netherlands), A. Lopez (Santo Domingo/DO)
   
18.35 - 18.55 Ophiolithes and related platinum group minerals in the Taurus Mountains (South eastern part of Turkey)
  M. Kaliwoda (Munich/DE), I. Uysal (Trabzon/TR), R. Hochleitner, K.-T. Fehr (Munich/DE)
   
19.00 - 20.00 Meetings IMA-CM open & closed meeting
Venue Marta-Fraenkel-Saal
   
19.00 - 20.00 IMA-CNMNC
Venue Freiberger Schankhaus – Salomonis-Room