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| The International Mineralogical
Association (IMA) was established in 1958 as a non-profit organisation.
The mission of the Association is to further international co-operation
in the mineralogical sciences and to promote wider community
awareness among international groups having Earth Science interests.
Activities of IMA are regulated by its statutes. The eight commissions,
five working groups and one committee of IMA are involved in
a wide range of mineralogical practices of direct interest to
governments, industry, and academic science. |
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| The IMA Council meets
every year in conjunction with an international meeting. Between
council meetings affairs are regulated by the Executive Committee
of IMA. Councillors and Officers of commissions and working groups
are elected during the Business Meeting of the General Meeting,
held every four years. IMA regularly provides information through
reports and newsletters, to national mineralogical societies
or groups which support IMA. IMA is a member of the International
Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and maintains regular contact
with some affiliates. |
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| The IMA is the only
truly international organisation promoting mineralogy, one of
the oldest branches of science. Today it plays a vital role in
human welfare, underpinning metalliferous mining, exploitation
of industrial minerals, petroleum exploration and extraction,
waste disposal, the remediation of pollution, and soil science.
Mineral surfaces stand at the interface between the atmosphere,
the biosphere, and the solid Earth. They are crucial to the understanding
of climate and global change. |
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| Mineralogy is fundamental
to our knowledge of the chemistry, mode of formation and age
of rocks, including extraterrestrial materials which give us
clues about the origin of the Solar System and the likelihood
of life on other planets. Experimental mineralogy, which strongly
overlaps with materials science, allows us to deduce the nature
of the deepest, most inaccessible, parts of the Earth. |
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| Officers
and Council of the IMA |
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| President |
Ian
Parsons, Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK |
| Past-President |
Anthony Naldrett,
Surry, UK |
| 1st Vice-President |
Takamitsu Yamanaka,
Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan |
| 2nd Vice-President |
Nicolai P. Yushkin,
Komi Sci. Center, Syktyvkar, Russia |
| Secretary |
Maryse Ohnenstetter,
CNRS-CRPG, Nancy, France |
| Treasurer |
Cornelis Klein,
Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA |
| Councillors |
Alain Baronnet,
CRMC2 - CNRS, Case, France |
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Ian H. Campbell,
ANU, Canberra, Australia |
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Werner Schreyer,
Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany |
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Kari K.R. Kojonen,
Geol. Survey of Finland, Finland |
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Marcello Mellini,
Univ. di Siena, Siena, Italy |
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