[cid:image001.jpg@01D7119D.4DB2F370]March 10 Webinar Every Wednesday this series interviews live a special guest who answers questions in their field of expertise. Mineral collectors, curators, dealers, researchers and reporters are welcomed to this talk show to share experiences and tips on mineral collecting, research and curation. The series takes you to mineral heavens around the world and delivers the vibrant mineral community directly to your home. You are invited to the Zoom webinar: When: March 10, 2021 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Mineral Talks LIVE Register in advance for this webinar: http://go.mineraltalkslive.com/register<https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7qCOP2duTXSPdMSvjJC2Mg> After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. *************** If you have missed a previous episode, they are posted 30 days after the event. Posted so far are Episode 01<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=55d6f77856&e=7aa497567c> - Dr. Eloïse Gaillou; Episode 02<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=3215926c61&e=7aa497567c> - Dr. Robert Lavinsky; Episode 03<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=708eda35fe&e=7aa497567c> - Peter Megaw; Episode 04<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=1b58fb1878&e=7aa497567c> - Thomas Bellicam; Episode 05<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=ee034b54be&e=7aa497567c> - Dr. Raquel Alonso-Perez; Episode 06<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=d73aad94e1&e=7aa497567c> - Diana and Ian Bruce; Episode 07<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=c9d7a9248d&e=7aa497567c> - Patrick Dreher; Episode 08<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=cbb45e15f1&e=7aa497567c> - Prof. John Rakovan; Episode 09<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=822319fa7c&e=7aa497567c> - Dr. Vera Hammer; Episode 10<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=4a922df275&e=7aa497567c> - Ryan Roney; Episode 11<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=bb887c9f3b&e=7aa497567c> - Bill Larson; Episode 12<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=f442148bdb&e=7aa497567c> - Joylan Ralph; Episode 13<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=a4b257e266&e=7aa497567c> - Salim Eddé; Episode 14<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=41c91696b6&e=7aa497567c> - George Rossman; Episode 15<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=39184ebd9a&e=7aa497567c> - The Collector's Edge; Episode 16<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=e65529891d&e=7aa497567c> - Daniel Trinchillo; Episode 17<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=79984bc8fb&e=7aa497567c> - Jack Halpern; Episode 18<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=f5b9b06fae&e=7aa497567c>- Stefan Nicolescu; Episode 19<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=b1950b8dc6&e=7aa497567c> - Sami Makki, Matrix India; Episode 20<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=6739feb789&e=7aa497567c> - Terry Wallace; Episode 21<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=2b54a5b5eb&e=7aa497567c> - Tama Higuchi; Episode 22<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=1fe73f69a9&e=7aa497567c> - Katherine Dunnell; Episode 23<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=7f12c3468e&e=7aa497567c> - Emanuele Marini; Episode 24<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=1ddb08358f&e=7aa497567c> - Gail and Jim Spann; Episode 25<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=13717c3686&e=7aa497567c> - Gloria Staebler; Episode 26<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=59c52d7ad5&e=7aa497567c>- Frank Keutsch; Episode 27<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=bd7c0a8f12&e=7aa497567c>- Tom and Christi, The Min Record; Episode 28<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=2bae6ae475&e=7aa497567c> - Fabian Wildfang; Episode 29<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=2ce2c49c51&e=7aa497567c> - Jordi Fabre; Episode 30<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=32bd8f9387&e=7aa497567c> - Bryan Swoboda; Episode 31<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=f0ca0c65e7&e=7aa497567c> - Gene Meieran; Episode 32<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp74cowHEpE&list=PLYUSEUgiTprl9Vh7ZLXu8x_hHp0dN_TDJ&index=35> - Jeff Scovil; Episode 33<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqA_Zyex0sk> - Federico Pezzotta; Episode 34<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgSVEilHgM> - Paula Crevoshay *************** Webinar Speaker - 10 March 2021 [cid:image002.jpg@01D7119D.4DB2F370] Alexander George ("Alex") Schauss was born in Hamburg, Germany, on July 20, 1948, the son of Anna and Frank A. Schauss, a concert pianist; Frank was the son of Willy Schauss, the renowned Concertmaster of the Leipiz Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1928-1962. Alex and his family immigrated to the U.S. in 1953 and settled New York City. Alex inherited the family musical tendencies, and studied the flute and piccolo at the Julliard School. Alex's life-long interest in minerals (leading later to work on the effects of minerals and trace elements on brain function and behavior) began in 1957 when he and his family lived on 89th Street on the Westside of Manhattan, close to the American Museum of Natural History. He and his friend Sammy Lopez found a rock in Central Park that they thought contained gold or silver, and took it to the museum where they met Dr. Frederick Pough, the Head of the Department of Geology and Mineralogy. He gently informed them that it was a "nice" metamorphic rock, explaining that "nice" was spelled gneiss, which puzzled both of them. Pough encouraged them to return to the museum and learn more about minerals and mineralogy, which Alex did for the next nine years, until Dr. Pough retired from the museum in 1966. Under Pough's supervision Alex learned curatorial skills and an appreciation for the potential health benefits and risks associated with the elements found in mineral specimens. Many years later, while studying history at the University of New Mexico, and later earning a doctorate in psychology, Alex wrote a book on the subject: Minerals, Trace Elements and Human Health (4th edition, 1999). He carried out significant research on zinc and other trace elements, including the discovery of an association between the ingestion of organic germanium compounds and renal toxicity. At the Tucson Show, Alex met numerous prominent and noted mineralogists and dealers, including Ed McDole (and won the Tucson Show's prestigious McDole Trophy in 1999 for his display of thumbnail minerals, an achievement he repeated in 2010 when he won the Paul Desautels Award for his display of thumbnail minerals). These awards in addition to ten American Federation of Mineralogical Societies (AFMS) Master's Trophies for his thumbnails, the Richard Pearl Trophy for Best Mineral at the Denver Gem and Mineral Show, as well as numerous regional AFMS master's trophies earned over four decades, established him as an accomplished collector and connoisseur of thumbnail minerals. Along with Jim Houran, another accomplished thumbnail collector, they brought five cases of African thumbnails to the 2012 Munich Gem and Mineral Show, the first-time thumbnail minerals were featured in the show's 50-year history. Alex has served as a quality judge at the Tucson Show for over two decades. He is a Trustee of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, and a board member and past-President and twice-elected Vice President of the national non-profit, Friends of Mineralogy, founded in Tucson in 1970. He is a Life Member of the Mineralogical Society of Arizona, Senior Fellow (along with his wife, Laura) of The Mineralogical Record, and a member of the Mineralogical Society of America, Arizona Geological Society, Tucson Gem and Mineral Society, Pinal Gem and Mineral Society, and the Flagg Mineral Foundation. From 2013 to 2020, Alex was a member of the University of Arizona Gem and Mineral Museum Advisory Board, and served as the board's Vice President from 2017 to 2020. Alex successfully headed a lobbying drive to have Wulfenite declared the official state mineral of Arizona<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feKk7kD1nII>. In 2017, SB-2092 was passed by the Arizona State Senate proclaiming the tetragonal lead molybdate wulfenite as the official Arizona State Mineral, joining turquoise as the Official State Gem, copper as the Official State Metal, and petrified wood as the Official State Fossil. Professionally, Dr. Schauss is the President and CEO of AIBMR Life Sciences, a scientific and regulatory consulting company he founded in 1978. He is a Certified Food Scientist, a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and a member of the American College of Toxicology, the American College of Nutrition, the American Chemical Society, the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, and the American Society of Nutrition. He has authored 23 books, 40 book chapters, and 185 papers in the scientific literature. One of his most recent co-authored papers is on the morphology of an unusual African diamond discussed in Diamond: The Ultimate Gemstone. [cid:image003.jpg@01D7119D.4DB2F370] Vanadinite from the ACF Mine in Mibladen, Morroco. Alex and Laura Schauss Collection. Mineral Talks LIVE - Brought to you by Bryan Swoboda of BlueCap Productions, Dr. Raquel Alonso-Perez of The Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard University<https://mgmh.fas.harvard.edu/> (MGMH), Dr. Eloïse Gaillou of l’École des Mines de Paris<https://www.musee.minesparis.psl.eu/Home/> and The Society of Mineral Museums Professionals<http://www.smmp.net/> (SMMP). The goal is to keep us all connected through this COVID-19 situation. [cid:image004.png@01D7119D.4DB2F370] Copyright © 2021 MineralTalksLIVE, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: info@mineraltalkslive.com<http://info@mineraltalkslive.com/>