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December 2006

The IMA report to IUGS was sent on the 20th to the IUGS secretariat and to Gabriele Schneider, from the IUGS Executive Comittee.

2006 IMA annual report to IUGS
2006 IMA annual report to IUGS: Appendix. The appendix contains:

 Table 1 List of the mineralogical societies adhering to IMA
 Table 2 List of council members
 Table 3 List of IMA officers (27th November 2006)
 Table 4 Sessions sponsored by the IMA Commissions/Working Groups during the General Meeting of IMA in Kobe
 Table 5 Other meetings and sessions sponsored by the IMA Commissions/Working Groups.
 Table 6 Publications of the IMA Commissions/Working Groups
 Table 7 List of 2007 and 2008 meetings and short courses with the participation of IMA Commissions and working groups; see also the web page on 2007 and 2008 meetings
 

 Annual reports of IMA Commissions and Working Groups
 CAM Commission on Applied Mineralogy
 CGM Commission on Gem Materials
 CMGIP Commission on Mineral Growth and Interface Processes
 CM Commission on Museums
 CNMMN Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and classification
 COM Commission on Ore Mineralogy
 CPM Commission on Physics of Minerals
 WGEMG Working Group on Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry
 WGIM Working Group on Inclusions in Minerals
 WGME Working Group on Mineral Equilibria
 WGOM Working Group on Organic Minerals
 CICA Committee on Internet and Computer Applications
 WGIM Four year report (2002-2006)
 

 IMA publication in Elements (V2)
 V2, N1  Ian Parsons: from the President, Money Matters
 V2, N2  Georg Amthauer: Commission in Physics of Minerals
 V2, N3 Ian Parsons: Next stop, Kobe
Walter Maresch : In Memoriam (Werner Schreyer (1930-2006)
 V2, N5 Ian Parsons: From the past President
Ian Parsons: Impressions from the out-going President
 V2, N5 Takamitsu Yamanaka: IMA 2006, Kobe, Japan
 V2, N6 Ernst Burke: The end of CNMMN and CCM, long live the CNMNC!
 

 Minutes of the business meetings in Kobe, 2006
   Minutes of the first business meeting in Kobe
   Appendix of the first business meeting
   Minutes of the second business meeting in Kobe


Available annual reports of IMA Commissions, Working Groups and Committee prepared for the 2006 IUGS annual report

2006 annual CAM report
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006 annual CMGIP report
2006 annual CNMNC report
2006 annual COM report
2006 annual CPM report
2006 annual WGIM report
2006 annual WGME report
2006 annual WGEMG report
2006 annual WGOM report
2006 annual CICA report


XXth General Meeting of IMA in 2010
The mineralogical societies of Austria, Croatia, Czech, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia will organize the 20th general Meeting of IMA in Budapest in August 2010. The IMA Council has unanimously accepted on the 8th of December, that the mineralogical societies of Croatia and Czech join the previous consortium to organize the XXth General meeting in 2010.

XXIth General Meeting of IMA in 2014
Mineralogical societies are kindly invited to prepare proposals in order to organize the XXI General Meeting of the IMA in 2014.


The following officers of IMA Commissions and Working groups were unanimously elected by the IMA Council (8th of December 2006):

Commission on Mineral Growth and Interface Processes (CMGIP) - Vice chair: Andreas Luttge; Secretary: Jeanne Paquette.
Working Group on Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry (WGEMG) - Vice Chair: Tom Sato; Secretary: John L. Jambor.
Commission on Ore Mineralogy - Chair: Nigel J. Cook.

The IMA Council has voted up to the 8th of December on:

The IMA Council is still discussing on :

- the way to register IMA
- the evolution of the WGA
- the designation of council correspondant in IMA commission-working Group
- the shape of the IMA medal
- the composition of the IMA medal committee

The annual IMA report to IUGS is in preparation with one annex compiling the annual reports of IMA commissions and working groups.

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