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Information on IMA affairs during the 2010 General Meeting will be available from the IMA 2014 General Meeting booth.
IMA 2010 - Business Meeting (updating 10/8/2010) 
Agenda of the IMA Business Meetings
IMA constitution : 1) Download a pdf of the 2006 constitution; See also the IMA webpage on statutes.
2) Download a word file of the revised constitution prepared by Ian Parsons (draft at July 26th, 2010), or a pdf version.
Organization and management of the IMA : Other files
1) CAM draft term of reference for the organization of the Commission on Applied Mineralogy (CAM), prepared by Dogan Paktunc, chair of the CAM
2) Appointment of the Communication Officer prepared by Ian Parsons and voted in Kobe 2006
3) Duties of the IMA secretary (proposal prepared by Maryse Ohnenstetter and accepted during the IMA council meeting in Davos, 2009).
List of National Representatives (6th August 2010)
List of Officers to be elected in Vancouver (12th August 2010)
IMA Council slate : 1) Download a pdf of the Council slate to be elected in Budapest 2010. A short CV of the councillors to be voted is available here. Evolution of the council with time according to the new constitution.
Treasurer Report available here (8/8/2010)
IMA Commissions and Working groups : 2009 Annual Report
Minutes of the first Business Meeting held in Vancouver, under a power point presentation
Minutes of the second Business Meeting held in Vancouver, under a power point presentation
Minutes of the 1st and 2nd Business Meeting held in Vancouver, under a Word format
Agenda of the First and Second Council Meeting in Budapest
The following slate of councillors has been prepared by the IMA Council for the 2010 Business Meeting:
President : Ekkehart Tillmanns
1st Vice president: Walter Maresch
2nd Vice president: Sabine Verryn
Retiring President: Takamitsu Yamanaka
Secretary: Richard Göd
Treasurer: Bob Downs
Communication Officer: Frances Wall
Councillors:
1 - Patrick Cordier
2 - Joel Grice
3 - Sergei Krivovichev
4 - Anhuai Lu
5 - C. Srikantappa
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Patrick Cordier |
Richard Göd |
Sergei Krivovichev |
C. Srikantappa |
Sabine Verryn |
The slate of councillors will be presented during the First Business Meeting and voted during the Second Business Meeting.
The new slate was prepared as a transitional council between the past system in agreement with the 2006 constitution and a new one which would follow the modifications proposed to the 2010 constitution on the election of the council slate (see the draft of the revised constitution).
Short CV of the councillors to be elected in Budapest, 2010.
Minutes of the IMA Council Meeting held in Davos, 2009. 2009Annex to the minutes of the Counicil Meeting held in Davos.
From the IMA 2010 General Secretary, Dana Popp
The timetable of the 2010 General Meeting event in Budapest.
Timetable for IMA and EMU
Details of the scientific programme (21 march 2010) from D. Popp.
The major Business activities of IMA during the 2010 General Meeting. A message from Dana Pop (24 February 2010).
Information for field excusion: a message from Dana Pop.
The following official documents, finalized by the IMA2010 Executive Committee, related to the lauching of the IMA2010 Exhibition are available below:
Call for Exhibition and Sponsorship
Exhibition & Sponsorship Order Form
These materials may be distributed in the (national/international) environment. Please, inform Dana Pop if you have already contacted a company, in order not to duplicate invitation.
Message from Dana Popp, March 23, 2010.
IMA2010 Consortium Preparatory meeting, Budapest, March 2010, by Dana Popp
IMA commissions and Working Groups
Last news are reported on the home page of the different IMA Commissions and Working groups (Com-WG) within the IMA website.
See also the website of the respective IMA Com-WG
2009 Annual report of IMA Com-WG -
From the IMA council
Important dates for the preparation of the IMA Council and Business Meetings:
April: proposals for the Business Meetings
May: programs for the business Meetings & proposals for Amendments for the IMA Constitution
June: Notice of the amendments of the constitution & Nomination by Council
July: Nomination by delegates
August, Friday 19: Nomination by delegates
August, Sunday 22: 1rst Business Meeting
August, Thursday 26: 2nd Business Meeting
Information in Elements by France Wall, IMA Communication Officer
A newspaper from
Frances Wall, IMA Communication Officer to be published in Elements in June, is reported below:
All change for IMA Council
Founded in 1958, the International Mineralogical Association is the world's largest organization promoting mineralogy, with its membership comprising 39 national mineralogical societies or groups. Individuals are associated with IMA and take part in IMA decision making through these national societies. IMA itself is affiliated to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).
The IMA supports the activities of 11 Commissions and Working Groups, which are involved in a wide range of subjects ranging from the ‘Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Nomenclature’ to ‘Ore Mineralogy’, ‘Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry’, ‘Mineral Growth and Interface Processes’ and ‘Museums’. The commissions are active in organising meetings at various conferences worldwide, including sessions at the quadrennial conference, to be held in Budapest, Hungary in August 2010. In addition to the scientific work of the conference, a Business Meeting will take place. The conference is the ideal opportunity for members to discuss what they would like IMA to do and to become involved in IMA activities. Delegates from each member society will attend the Business Meeting. Various new members of Council will be elected. Maryse Ohnenstetter, IMA General Secretary, will stand down in Budapest after nine years of excellent work on behalf of IMA (doesn’t time fly when you are having fun, Maryse?). Ian Parsons will finally come to the end of his term of office – as Vice President, President and Past President (I calculate that is 12 years!) Three Council members (Kari Kojonen (Finland), Marcello Mellini (Italy) and Nikolai Yushkin (Russia) have also come to the end of eight year terms of office, and we thank them very much for their work. President, Takamitsu Yamanaka, finishes his four year term as President, (thank you very much Takamitsu) and becomes Past President and Vice President Ekkehart Tillmanns takes over as President. A variety of Commission and Working group officers will also be due for election/re-election this year.
So Budapest, August 2010 is the opportunity for new people and new ideas to join the IMA Council. According to IMA statutes, Council must nominate new Councillors ten weeks before the Business Meeting in Budapest. The IMA has rules that ensure a good geographical representation on Council and this would restrict election of resident members from Austria, Canada, China or Germany to some of the Council positions. Anywhere else in the world is fine. If you are a member of one of IMA ’s member societies, enthusiastic about IMA and think you could contribute to IMA management, you are welcome to contact the President Takamitsu Yamanaka (t.yamanaka@kce.biglobe.ne.jp), Vice President Ekkehart Tillmanns (ekkehart.tillmanns@univie.ac.at), General Secretary Maryse Ohnenstetter (mohnen@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr), Treasurer Bob Downs (downs@geo.arizona.edu) or Communication Officer, Frances Wall (f.wall@exeter.ac.uk).
For more information visit www.ima-mineralogy.org.
New members of IMA Medal Committee
We welcome Monika Koch-Mueller (Potsdam, Germany) and Kazushige Tomeoka (Kobe, Japan) who have joined the IMA medal committee replacing Masaki Akaogi and Catherine McCammon who have reached the end of their terms of office. The medal committee chairman is now Walter Maresch (walter.maresch@rub.de) who has taken over this year from fellow Councillor, Marcello Mellini. The IMA expresses it sincere thanks to the outgoing chairman and committee members. The continuing committee members are Christian Chopin, Barb Dutrow, Herta Effenberger, Roberta Oberti, Igor Pekov and Mark Welch and, as reported in last December’s Elements, Frank Hawthorne is the latest winner of the IMA medal and will receive his award at IMA2010 in Budapest.
IMA Medal
The IMA medalThe IMA council decided in June 2009 that the IMA medal award will be based on a two year-basis rather than on a one-year basis. In such a way, the IMA Medal award will be coincident with the IMA business meeting, now based on a two year basis following the Kobe meeting in 2006.
Nomination packages are to be received by the chair of the IMA Medal Committee before April 1, 2011.
Informations on the procedure to submit nominations is also available on the nomination page of the IMA website.
A special grant is provided from the IMA 2009 and 2010 medal winner, Charles prewitt and Franck C. Hawthorne for students to participate to the IMA 2010 General Metting in Budapest. A great thank to both of them!
See above information reported by France Walls relative to the change of some Medal Committe members.
Jolyon Ralph, owner of the MinDat website, is a new member of the outreach committee. Joylon was contacted by Bob Downs during the Tucson Gem show.
Jolyon Ralph, Peter Williams, Chairman of the CNMNC, Tony Kampf (MSA rep to nomenclature commission), Dave Bish (next president of MSA) and Bob Downs met for a couple of hours and had a very constructive meeting about mineral nomenclature and the outreach committee and how the two groups can work with each other. Methods and avenues of cooperation were defined.
IMA Society members - Latest NEWS
Have a list of National Representatives (August 2010) with their mail address
Mineralogical Society of Argentina
New mail address of the National Representative, Milka K. de Brodtkorb
Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft] (DMG) - German Mineralogical Society
Uwe Reimold is the new National Representative of the German Mineralogical Society [Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft] (DMG). He is elected for 2010 and 2011. Information was provided by the President of the DMG, Falko Langenhorst (13 January 2010).
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Uwe Reimold
Tel. +49 (0)30 2093 8470
Fax +49 (0)30 2093 8565
e-mail of uwe.reimold@mfn-berlin.de
Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitaetsforschung
an der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Invalidenstrasse 43
10115 Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Falko Langenhorst, President of DMG
Bayerisches Geoinstitut
UniversitŠt Bayreuth
D-95440 Bayreuth
Tel.: 0921-553727
Fax: 0921-553769
e-mail of Falko langenhorst
Mineralogical Society of Italy
Dr. Luca Bindi is the new Secretary of the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology for 2010-2013. The Secretary of the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology is the IMA National Representative. This information was provided by Andrea Orlando, former Italian National Representative (15 January 2010), which is greatly aknowledged for her involvement in the IMA structure.
Mineralogical Society of Romania
Prof. Corina Ionescu from Cluj-Napoca University will be the new National Representative of the Mineralogical Society of Romania. Information was provided by the previous National Representative Gheorghe Udubasa (23.3.2010).
e-mail of Corina Ionescu
Mineralogical Society of Portugal (2/8/2010)
Fernado Barriga is the new National Representative of Portugal (September 2010)
Mineralogical Society of Russia
Sergey Krivovichev is the new IMA Representative of the Russian Mineralogical Society (RMS) since a council decision taken in October 2009. Information arrived at the IMA Secretariat on the 23th of March, 2010.
Mail of Sergey Krivovichev
Address: Sergey V. Krivovichev, Prof. Dr.
Chairman, Department of Crystallography
St.Petersburg State University
University Emb. 7/9 199034 St.Petersburg Russia
phone 7 812 3289647
Mineralogical Society of South Africa
Sabine Verryn - e-mail of Sabine Verryn
Sabine Verryn is President of the South African Committee in charge of organizing the 2014 IMA General meeting. She will be on the list of IMA councillors to be elected during the Budapest General Meeting. Decision was taken by MINSA and the IMA2014 committee during a MINSA meeting on the 17th of February 2010.
Dr Sabine Verryn
XRD Analytical and Consulting cc
75 Kafuestreet
Lynnwood Glen, 0081
South Africa
Cell: 0835480586
sabine.verryn@xrd.co.za
The first IMA2014 organizing meeting yesterday was hold on the 22th of September, 2009. It was decided there that Sabine Verryn would take the lead in organizing with at this stage 2 "vice" organizers Dr Desh Chetty (from MINTEK) and Dr Craig Smith (from the Geological Society of South Africa) and Dr Jill Richards (from Exxaro) as secretary.
It was also quite firmly decided not to hold the meeting at a University. A domain for the website is in the process of registering (www.IMA2014.co.za).
Meetings
Meetings of interest in Mineralogy and Petrology in 2010, 2011 and 2012
Have a listing of these meetings from the following website
ICAM Meeting organized with a chair, Maarten Broekmans, of the Commission on Applied Mineralogy
- ICAM 2011: 1àth International Congress for Applied Mineralogy
Download the poster and the first Circular
Web site: www.icam2011.org
Mail of the Congress secretary, Anne Liinamaa-Dehls:
News from the Gemological Institute of America: GIA Symposium 2011: Advances in Gemological Research May 29-30, 2011
Parallel sessions of the 2011 GIA International Gemological Symposium will explore gemological research and business topics. The program will feature invited keynote lectures, submitted oral and poster presentations, and panel discussions. Other activities include field trips to local working gem mines, workshops, and tours.
Web site: http://symposium2011.gia.edu
Mail of the symposium: GIA Symposium 2011
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