Hello PIGs:
Please see this note from Don Baker, editor of American Mineralogist, announcing a "special collection" of articles on the topic of pegmatites. This is not a special issue. Rather, it is a collection of regular and invited papers on the topic, in this case pegmatites and their minerals, that spans several years. One can go to this link:
http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/special-collections.html
and see the special collections and the articles that each contains.
David London
Pegmatite Interest Group: http://www.minsocam.org/msa/Special/Pig/
From: Don Baker, Dr. via MSA-talk msa-talk@minlists.org
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2024 1:13 PM
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Subject: [MSA-talk] Pegmatite Special Collection in the American Mineralogist
Hello all,
One could think that pegmatites exist solely to entice and torment mineralogists, petrologists, and economic geologists. Almost everything about pegmatites challenges our scientific understanding of rock-forming processes, even after more than a century of scrutiny. Exploration for granitic pegmatites as sources of lithium is experiencing a boom cycle, but few rock types present a more difficult target for exploration by concealing their internal ores in seemingly unpredictable ways. This special collection of articles anticipates that pegmatites and their minerals will continue to be an active field of inquiry whereby geoscientists apply old and new methods to solve the pegmatite puzzle.*
The Associate Editor for this special collection is David London.
Wishing you all the best,
Don
--
Melting rocks today for a better tomorrow . . .
Don R. Baker (he/him/his), Editor of American Mineralogist
Professor of Geochemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University
Hello PIGs:
Please see this note from Don Baker, editor of American Mineralogist, announcing a "special collection" of articles on the topic of pegmatites. This is not a special issue. Rather, it is a collection of regular and invited papers on the topic, in this case pegmatites and their minerals, that spans several years. One can go to this link:
http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/special-collections.html
and see the special collections and the articles that each contains.
David London
Pegmatite Interest Group: http://www.minsocam.org/msa/Special/Pig/
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From: Don Baker, Dr. via MSA-talk <msa-talk@minlists.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2024 1:13 PM
To: msa-talk@minlists.org <msa-talk@minlists.org>
Subject: [MSA-talk] Pegmatite Special Collection in the American Mineralogist
Hello all,
One could think that pegmatites exist solely to entice and torment mineralogists, petrologists, and economic geologists. Almost everything about pegmatites challenges our scientific understanding of rock-forming processes, even after more than a century of scrutiny. Exploration for granitic pegmatites as sources of lithium is experiencing a boom cycle, but few rock types present a more difficult target for exploration by concealing their internal ores in seemingly unpredictable ways. This special collection of articles anticipates that pegmatites and their minerals will continue to be an active field of inquiry whereby geoscientists apply old and new methods to solve the pegmatite puzzle.*
The Associate Editor for this special collection is David London.
Wishing you all the best,
Don
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Melting rocks today for a better tomorrow . . .
Don R. Baker (he/him/his), Editor of American Mineralogist
Professor of Geochemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University
