This article was originally published on Nature’s Rainbow. The Ilímaussaq complex is one of the world's most fascinating igneous complexes. The abundance of rare elements has resulted in more than two hundred and twenty-five different minerals and many unique...
Table of Contents The $600 Home Display by Mike Turino 1–43 Taking Your Glow on the Road: Tips for Portable Fluorescent Mineral Displays by Jon Roth 13–21 From the Editor—The (Dis)Play’s the Thing… by Howie Green 23–29 The FMS Facebook Group Chapter Strikes Back by —...
Table of Contents Quantum States of the FMS: President’s Report by Philip S. Neuhoff 1–2 Treasurer’s Report C.Y. 2023 by Andrew Silver 3 Eye Candy from Jon Allred by Jon Allred; editor’s note by Howie Green 3–7 From the Editor: The Membership Crisis—An Op-Ed by Howie...
Table of Contents What Has an Energy Density of 200Wh/kg and Flies? by Mark Cole 1–4 Eye Candy: The Editor's Photographic Interlude by — 4 FMS Midwest Chapter 2022 Annual Meeting Report by Chris Clemens 5–10 FMS Trip Report - Terlingua, Texas by Bart Pickard...
Table of Contents Sis for Sørensenite by Simone Conti 1–10 It Takes a Village to Raise a Fluoresophile by Howie Green 11–19 The 60th Annual Gem and Mineral Show of the Austin, TX Gem and Mineral Society, 2022 by Alan J. Cherepon and Paul K. Bordovsky Jr. 20–22 FMS...
Table of Contents Reporting from the Fluor of “The Show That Glows” by Robert Fendrich 1–4 FMS Hall of Fame Inductee — Bob Jones by — 5 Don Newsome and the Early FMS by Joe Newsome 6–9 Fluorescent Fossils by Mike Crawford 10 Esperite and Friends from Franklin, New...
Table of Contents From the Editor: Milk, Honey and Tugtupite by Howie Green 1–3 The FMS at TGMS, 1996 and 2022 by Alan J. Cherepon 4–7 Presentations at the FMS 50th Anniversary Meeting by Justin Bank and Howie Green 8–9 Longwave Varieties by Jim Herbold 10 Worldwide...
Table of Contents ‘Sushi Tug Saga’ by Herb Yeates 1–5 All Good Things by Howie Green 6–9 Collecting: An Urge That’s Hard to Resist by Shirley M. Mueller 10–11 The Sledge Hammer and the Penny: Searching for Tugtupite in Greenland by Pat Hintz 12–14 ‘Sushi Tug Saga’ By...
Table of Contents From the Editor - 'To a Mouse': Greenlandic Aphorisms by Howie Green 1–5 Radiation Alteration of Sodalite from Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan, Afghanistan by Michael Crawford 5–12 Solarization and Cost Analysis of the Hoya Optics UL254L SW Filters...