2014-Peridot-Uncommon-Green-Gem-Minerals 2014 – Twelfth
Peridot & Uncommon Green Gem Minerals
Lisbet Thoresen, Editor
Photographs by Mia Dixon, Jeffrey A. Scovil,
Harold and Erica Van Pelt, Robert Weldon
Specifications: 8.25" x 10.75", digital press, full color, soft cover, perfect binding. 150 pp., color photographs, maps and illustrations.
Publication Date: April 5, 2014
- Acknowledgments 2
- Program 3
- Program Abstracts 5
- Speaker and Author Biographies 8
Papers – - Dr. William "Skip" Simmons, Mineralogy and crystallography of olivine 12
- Dr. James A. Harrell, Discovery of the Red Sea source of Topazos (ancient gem peridot) on Zabargad Island, Egypt 16
- Lisbet Thoresen and James A. Harrell, Archaeogemology of peridot 31
- François Farges, The gem peridots of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris: An historical overview 52
- Map: Worldwide peridot localities 66
- Dr. James E. Shigley, Geology of olivine and peridot localities 68
- Si Frazier and Ann Frazier, Going to the source: Kashmir peridot 72
- Pir Dost, Peridot from Supat, the land of mountains 80
- George Harlow and Kyaw Thu, Peridot from Pyaung-gaung, Mogok Tract, Myanmar:
Similarities to Sapat and Zabargad deposits 82 - Robert E. Kane, The making of a suite of peridot jewelry 96
- Si Frazier and Ann Frazier, Out of this world gems 111
- Dr. James E. Shigley, Selected bibliography: Olivine 120
- Green with envy: Peridots and green minerals from the collection of William F. Larson 128
