IMA Secretary Bulletin December 2006, N°1

1. IMA 2006 report to IUGS

On the 20th of december, the IMA annual report to IUGS was sent to the IUGS secretariat and to a member of the Executive Committee. The report summed up the main IMA decisions and events while the appendix gathers major documents produced during the year, which could be independantly charge from the .html version of the secretariat bulletin.

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

 

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2. Mineralogical Societies
From the Ukrainian mineralogical society: According to Victor Kvastnitsa, the president of the Ukrainian Mineralogical Society inform that they should be assigned to group C membership, as the number of members has increased. Accordingly the balloting power has passed from 1 to 2.

The IMA secretariat was recently informed that the Mineralogical Society of New Zealand has joined the Geochemical Group of New Zealand, In fact since December 2004. Contacts are renewed to find a National delegate.

Several National Societies have changed of National Representatives in 2006

Mineralogical Society or group	Former National Representive	New National Representative	Date of information arrived to the IMA Secretariat
Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft - Germany	Martin Okrusch (since Oct. 1994)	Walter Maresch	January 2006
CEGMG - Greece	Georgio CHRISTOFIDES	Michael Vavelidis	February 2006
Societa Italiana di Mineralogia e petrologia Italy	Pietro Armienti	Andrea Orlando	March 2006
Mineralogical Society of Korea	Soo Jin KIM	Sung Keun Lee	March 2006
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland	Frances Wall	Mark Hodson	March 2006
Mineralogical Society of America	Charles Prewitt	George Hralow	July 2006

Seven mineralogical societies, members of IMA, participate to the consortium of societies publishing Elements :
1) the Mineralogical Society of America,
2) the mineralogical association of Canada,
3) the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and
4) the French Society of Mineralogy and Cristallography (Societié française de Minéralogie and Cristallographie)
5) the German Mineralogical Society (Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft)
6) the Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia)
7) and the Mineralogical Society of Poland (Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne).
The three latter societies have joined the consortium in 2006.

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3. IMA participation in meetings

GENERAL MEETING of IMA
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.

Other meetings
33rd IGC in oslo, Norway, 5-14th Auhust 2008
Anders Solheim, 33rd IGC Secretary General, has informed the IMA secretariat on the preparation of the 33rd International Congress. There is still time before the publication of the second circular in Spring 2007 to submit any proposal relative to symposia, short courses, business meetings, etc. See the website of the 33rd IGC, for more detailed informations.

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4. Designation of a Communication Officer

Frances Wall is the first Communication Officer of IMA. She was designated by the IMA council in November 2006.
Frances Wall
Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)20 7942 5623
Fax. +44 (0)20 7942 5537
Email f.wall@nhm.ac.uk

5. IMA Funding

The IMA Council has decided to help the WGIM gor the organization of the second ACROFI meeting (voted up to the 8th of December). The IMA Council will also help the CNMNC to publish its results in the Canadian Mineralogist.

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6. IMA Commissions

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.

Commission on Applied Mineralogy (CAM)
Creation of a past-Chair position in the CAM.
Dick Hagni who became chair of the CAM in 1990, is the first Past-Chair of CAM, following the Kobe General Meeting, when Dogan Paktunc was designated as the new chair of CAM.

Creation of three sub-commissions in the Commission on Applied Mineralogy (CAM).
A sub-commission on mineralogy applied to building materials is chaired by Maarten Broekmans, a research scientist from the Geological Survey in Norway. The second one is entitled "sub-commission on cultural heritage and archaeological materials", and is chaired by Isabella Memmi, from the University of Siena. For further information see the 2006 annual report of the CAM. A third one was created few time after, on Advanced Ceramics and Glasses. The new subcommission is chaired by Hans-Joachim Kleebe.

A new name for the Working Group on Environmental Mineralog!
The environmental received a new name during the Kobe business meeting of the group. It is now called the Working Group on Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry (WGEMG).

7. Work in progress

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 way to fund IMA publication

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