Tag Archives: Minerals

Field Work

One of my favourite museum quotes is, “museums are organisms that ingest but do not excrete”, and is from noted museum professional Suzanne Keene. The implication is that museums are actively gobbling up specimens to the collection vaults and are … Continue reading

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The Undead

There are times when real life imitates fiction. That might be the case with mineralogy and vampires. Vampires are undead fiction, even though volumes of popular media try to convince us otherwise. Mineralogy is the real-life version of the undead. … Continue reading

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Broken Glass

If you reduce a problem to the clarity of its simplest form the next steps go in one of two directions, nasty impassable or hopefully, easier to solve. When a Parks Canada archeologist came to the Canadian Museum of Nature … Continue reading

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