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These "Latest News" were complemented in October 2008 by informations provided from e-mails received from April to June at the IMA Secretariat.
From the Council
Items to be discussed or voted during the IMA council meeting in Vancouver were discussed by mails between the councillors. A provisional Agenda for the Council Meeting was proposed on the 7th of May 2008 and revised in June. Kari Kojonen and Marcello Mellini, IMA councillors, who could not go to Vancouver, have express their opinions on the different items of the council agenda.
1. Opening and Welcome
2. Approval of the Agenda
3. Administrative matters
Approval of minutes of the Council Meeting in Cambridge, England
Information from EMU and IUGS
4. Executive committee's reports
5. The medal committee proposal for the first IMA medallist
6. Future meetings
IMA 2010 General Meeting in Budapest
IMA 2014 General Meeting (Brazil, South Africa and India)
IMA 2009 Council meeting
7. The RRUFF project - Mineral database
8. The outreach committe
IMA communication
Elements
IMA website
9. Commission and Working Group evolution
10. Creation of a new Working group on "Solid Earth Composition and Evolution"
11. IMA constitution : Proposal for the executive members
12. IMA archives
13. Closure of the meeting.
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Commission
and Working Group news
Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Mineral Names: It is the intention of Ernst Burke and Bill Birch to retire as Chairman and Secretary, respectively. The replacement will be effective from the dates of the 6th Mineralogy and Museums Conference in Golden, Colorado (September 7-9), where the business meeting of the commission will be held.
Ernst Burke has a new e-mail address
The new Chairman of CNMNC will be Professor Peter Williams, and the Secretary will be Dr Stuart Mills. Contact details for both are provided below.
Professor Peter Williams
School of Natural Sciences
BCRI Parramatta Campus
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC
New South Wales 1797
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9685 9977
Fax: +61 2 9685 9915
Email: P.Williams@uws.edu.au
Dr Stuart Mills
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Canada, V6T 1Z4
Phone: (604) 822-4525
Fax: (604) 822-6088
Email: smills@eos.ubc.ca
A report on the CNMNC activities was prepared by Joel Grice, IMA council correspondent (June 2008).
Commission on Applied Mineralogy: Dogan Paktunc has sent informations on a workshop mto be held in Brisbane, Australia on the 6th of September, in association with the ICAM. Information are available at the following address:http://www.icam2008.com/workshop.asp as well as on the CAM pages.
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Medal Committee
2008 was the inaugural year for the IMA medal Committee which worked very well.
Have an updated list of the Medal Committee members
Nomination packages were sent to the eight committee members in April 1 by J. Grice. Later on a Committee report from the chair J. Grice, was received at the IMA secretariat on the 5th of May, with a candidate proposed for the First IMA Medal.
The final list of nominations was received at the IMA secretariat with four names (30 June 2008).
The IMA Council will arrive at a decision in July during the Council Meeting and the name of the Medal recipient will be given during the IMA Business Meeting in Vancouver.
Decision was taken in May-June in the Council relative to the date of nomination of the Medal winner and the date of its talk. The talk of the Medal recipient will be given a year after the designation of the Medal winner.
June 18, 2008 - Exchanges between J. Grice and the IMA Secretariat on the storage of archives due to the Medal Committee activities.
Recommendations for any change of the medal Committee handbook has to be proposed for discussion in Vancouver.
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Meetings
International Symposium on Archeometry, Siena, 12-16 May 2008
IMA 2008 Business Meeting in Vancouver (14 and 17 July 2008): Information was provided to the National representatives on the agenda and location of the IMA Business meetings to be hold during the Goldschmidt Conference in Vancouver (27 May 2008). The provisonal agenda for the two business meetings is available here, as well as the map showing the location of the Chemistry Building where the business meeting will be held.
IMA Business meeting in Vancouver (14th and 17th of July)
Delegates named by their respective mineralogical societies to attend the IMA business meeting :
Lutz Nasdala, Uwe Kolitsch, Ekkehart Tillmanns from the Austrian mineralogical society
Martin Ondrejka, Comenius University, Bratislava, delegate of Slovak mineralogical society
Sabine Verryn, Mineralogical Society of South Africa
No delegate from the Czech Mineralogical society .
Provisional agenda of the first business meeting:
1. Welcome by President Takamitsu Yamanaka
2. Roll call of the Delegates
3. Approval of the Business Meetings in Kobe, July 2006
4. Appointment of the Auditing Committee (Constitution, Article 5c)
5. Reports of the Executive officers
6. Designation of the first IMA Medallist
7. Future meetings
7.1 - 20th IMA General Meeting in Budapest, Hungary (2010): Bonds and Bridges. Mineral Sciences and their applications: Invitation by four mineralogical societies
7.2 - 21th General Meeting (2014) - Proposals from India and South Africa
8. Other Business
9. Closing by President Takamitsu Yamanaka
Provisional agenda of the second business meeting
1. Welcome by President Takamitsu Yamanaka
2. Roll call of the Delegates
3. Report of the Auditing Committee
4. Election of Officers for some Commissions and Working Groups
5. Voting on the place of the 22th General Meeting of IMA in 2014
6. Other Business
7. Closing by the President Takamitsu Yamanaka.
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Mineralogical Society News
Mineralogical Society of South Africa:
A letter requesting to hold the IMA 2014 meeting in South Africa was received on the 8th of June at the IMA secretariat.
Mineralogist group of Brazil - It appears not possible for the mineralogist group of Brazil belonging to the Brazilian Society of Geology to organize a large meeting as the IMA General Meeting in 2014 mostly for institutional reasons and because the available mineralogist community is not so large.
Mineralogical Society of India - At first the society planned to organize the 2014 general Meeting of IMA at Mysore University, India and to present their proposal during the IMA meetings in Vancouver (July 2008). Informations on the past IMA General Meetings was sent to C. Srikantappa, Secretary of the Mineralogical Society of India and National representative by the IMA Secretariat. Before the Goldschmidt Conference (24 June 2008), it was asked three additional months to prepare a document inviting to hold the 2014 IMA General Meeting in Mysore, India. The IMA Council did not agree to modify the rules to prepare the respective project to be submitted to the IMA delegates during the Business Meeting, and the decision to consider the different proposals during the 2008 business meeting in Vancouver was maintained.
Mineralogical Society of Netherlands - Martyn Drury is the new National Representative.
Institute of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University.
Mineralogical Society of Denmark - Ole Johnson has retired as a CNMNC member and no replacement has been found yet.
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IUGS
Minutes of the IYPE Global Launch Event are included in the Bulletin of the IUGS, N°30
IMA website evolution - In June the local host for the IMA website was moving towards the server of the University of Sciences, within the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL). C. Hernandez from INPL is in charge of the server and S. Niquet of the IMA project. This new server will permit the development of a dynamic website.
A meeting occurred with C. Hernandez and S. Niquet on the 30th of June to discuss conditions for hosting the IMA website and possibilities to transform the static IMA website into a dynamic one. A proposal was received at the IMA secretariat to modify the IMA website creating an Intranet to favor exchanges between the website users: Cost: 3000 euro.
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