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		<title>Different Pokrovskite Habits, a Possible New Mineral, Hunting Hill Closed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Despite a 1987 article by John White in Mineralogical Record entitled " Pokrovskite : A Common Mineral" --- pokrovskite is by all accounts relatively obscure. MINDAT currently shows only three images of this magnesium bearing carbonate of the rosasite series and names but seven localities around the world from which it's been reported. Perhaps MINDAT will show more images after I submit two of my own, but we'll have to see. ]]></description>
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		<title>Philadelphia Academy&#8217;s  Maryland Mineral Suite Comes Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I find myself coming up with words like "heinous" and "ignominious," when contemplating how for more than 50 years the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences ignored and neglected a significant national treasure that happened to be its mineral collection . Over that period, a fair number of the 30 thousand plus specimens therein had decomposed, were pilfered, or crashed into one another amidst rotting storage facilities. Finally, in the early part of the "aught" decade, the Academy decided to sell. John White, former Curator of Minerals at the Smithsonian, wrote in a subsequent digital commentary, that the A cademy's then president "was dazzled by dollar signs." The sale took place in 2007]]></description>
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		<title>Alfredo Petrov: One of a Kind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When asked where he lives, Alfredo Petrov answers "kind of out of my suitcase," and likes to joke that he personally has kept American Airlines out of bankruptcy. " He adds: "I have my rocks, my microscopes, and my clothes scattered about homes on four continents." This makes sense for someone who deals minerals at 16 shows every year (three in Japan, two in Europe, and eleven in the United States). In addition to these shows, Alfredo and partner Frank deWit operate a mineral travel business that escorts collectors on trips to such destinations as Bolivia, Greenland, Portugal, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Japan. Alfredo was born in Great Britain of a Russian father and German mother. He attended high school in Ethiopia where, as the only white student among 800 who were black, remembers himself as having been "kind of like the school pet." He began college in Beirut, Lebanon, because of its proximity to Ethiopia and ended up in the U.S., graduating with a degree in geology from San Diego State. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rusty James: King of Ajoite and Papagoite</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Cornerstone Minerals is a rock and gem shop in the heart of Asheville, North Carolina that sells a variety of minerals, fossils, home decor, jewelry and metaphysical merchandise. At first glance it appears to be a tourist shop, but behind the scenes and in the back are several cases of far more notable minerals and fossils. ]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland&#8217;s Good Old Days Recalled in Tucson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dr. Joseph F. Schreiber, Jr. is one of but a few collectors still around who enjoyed the kind of pickings that were available in Maryland during the first half of the last century. Such collectors who became geologists, were mostly lured to a myriad other locations around the country or the world. ]]></description>
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