COMMISSION ON

NEW MINERALS AND MINERAL NAMES (CNMMN)

The commission was maintained up to the Kobe Business Meeting, July 2006. A new commission was created named the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (to the CNMNC page in the IMA website ).

Objectives
The Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) was established in 1959 for the purpose of controlling the introduction of new minerals and mineral names, and of rationalising mineral nomenclature. Since that time, the work of the CNMMN has gained overwhelming support from the international mineralogical community.

Officers

Chairman:
Ernst A.J. BURKE
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 
De Boelelaan 1085 
NL - 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
T. +31 20 598 7345
F. +31 20 646 2457
e-mail: bure@geo.vu.nl

Since September 2002
[modif.: June 2006]

Vice-Chairman:
Giovanni FERRARIS
Dipartimento di Scienze Mineralogiche  e Petrologiche 
Università di Torino 
Via Valperga Caluso 35 
I-10125 Torinon Italy
T. 39-011-6707121
F. 39-011-6707128 
e-mail: giovanni.ferraris@unito.it 

Since August 1998

Secretary:
William D. BIRCH
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology
Museum Victoria
GPO Box 666E
Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia
Phone: 61 3 92705049
Fax: 61 3 92705043
E-mail: bbirch@museum.vic.gov.au
Chaiman Emeritus
Akira KATO
(Chairman 1975-1982)
Division of Mineralogy
National Science Museum
3-23-1 Hyakunin-cho
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan		 Chairman Emeritus
J.A. MANDARINO
(Chairman 1983-1994)
94 Moore St. 
Toronto, Ontario M4T 1V3, Canada
e-mail: j.a.mandarino@sympatico.ca		 Chairman Emeritus
Joel D. GRICE
 (Chairman 1995-2002)
Mineral Science Division
Canadian Museum of Nature
P.O. Box 3443, Station D
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada
T. +1 613 364 4057 
F. +1 613 364 4027
e-mail: jgrice@mus-nature.ca

For the members list, see the CNMMN website
An updated list was provided with the 2005 annual report to IUGS. Get it here.
Minutes of the CNMMN meetings in Kobe

All the files below are files