[Rockhounds] New list of official mineral symbols (abbreviations)

[Drew]

>From the responses from the list, this article is a very good curmudgeon
detector!

Drew Laing
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy Conservatives?"

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 9:03 PM Paul <etchplain at att.net> wrote:

> Warr, L.N., 2021. IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols.
> Mineralogical Magazine, pp.1-30.
> http://cnmnc.main.jp/imacnmnc_approved_mineral_symbols.pdf
>
> “Several text symbol lists for common rock-forming minerals
> have been published over the last 40 years, but no internationally
> agreed standard has yet been established. This contribution
> presents the first International Mineralogical Association (IMA)
> Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (
> CNMNC) approved collection of 5744 mineral name abbreviations
> by combining four methods of nomenclature based on the Kretz
> symbol approach.”
>
> Your,
>
> Paul H.
>
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