Minerals.net June 2015 Newsletter

Welcome to the June 2015 edition of the Minerals.net Newsletter! We are constantly adding new website features and articles, and this month's newsletter features reports on the collection of two mineral museums. We are also busy doing a full website revamp. Our homepage should have a brand new look by the time we send our next newsletter late this summer.

New Minerals Added

We completed the sulfide group of minerals (and sulfosalts sub-group) so that all the important member minerals of these groups are indexed with detailed information and pictures. While there are always more to add, all the standard and important members are now indexed in our database. Here are some recent sulfide minerals added to our database this past month:

Minerals.net Photos on Instagram

We recently started posting lots of pictures to our Instagram account. This allows instant sharing and hashtag searches for important minerals. We have been adding several a day, and many of these were never featured on any of the Minerals.net pages before. Please view our Instagram page at:

https://instagram.com/mineralsnet/

Royal Ontario Museum Geology Hall

In March 2015, Hershel Friedman, together with Adam Teller and Eli Frommer, made a trip to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto. The ROM is Canada’s leading natural history museum, and it contains an outstanding mineral gallery that include many fine minerals, with a special emphasis on minerals from Canada. Hershel took photos documenting the visit in an article which can be viewed here:

http://news.minerals.net/post/royal-ontario-museum-visit

Bear Mountain Minerals

Bear Mountain is the most famous mountain in the New York City vicinity. Jutting up from sea level at the Hudson River with a myriad of hiking trails, this location has been an important scenic destination for over a hundred years. Bear Mountain has a small geology museum that is located directly behind the Bear Mountain Bridge, and provides a small representation of local minerals from the Hudson Highland / Ramapo Mountains region of New York.

The local rock in the vicinity of the museum is Precambrian metamorphic rock, with gneiss, granites, and some localized skarns and marbles. The mineralogy of the region is somewhat similar to the St. Lawrence County region of upstate New York and the Grenville Province of Canada.

Click here to read the full article

Pictures Featured in the Mineralogical Record

We are proud to announce that several of Hershel Friedman's photos of exhibits at the Tucson show this past February made it into the May-June edition of the Mineralogical Record magazine. They are featured in the "What's New in Tucson" article. Photos include a Rhodochrosite from Greece, a giant Gold mass from Australia known as the "The Thunderbolt", and a couple of exhibit cases.

A New Design for Minerals.net

We are in the process of revamping the entire homepage design with a more intuitive and friendly format. Some of the enhancements include a greater push of active social media channels that we are engaging, for fresh continuous content. The new design will be more interactive and engaging, and should be rolled out in the coming weeks. We are also going to be revamping our advertising structure allowing more private ads.

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