12 February 2022
PMF ambassador appointed for Myanmar
Mr Kho Nyi Nyi Aung appointed by PMF to coordinate field work and support projects for miners and families in Myanmar.
See letter of recommendation from Department of Geology, University of Yangon.
26 October 2021
Prof. Juan Daza receives “PMF Award of Excellence in Paleontology 2021”
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Juan Daza from the Sam Houston State University (Texas, USA) is the recipient of the “ PMF Award of Excellence in Paleontology 2021”.
He helped coordinating research projects where two new species were described based on material from the PMF. Through his passion he put together an international team of experts from different disciplines, creating awareness of the PMF collection. Among vertebrates, two new species of lizards have been formally described Yaksha perettii and Oculudentavis naga. These projects were a team effort and involved the participation of researchers from the UK, Argentina, USA, Spain, Australia, Slovakia, and Colombia.
Prof. Daza also contributed to establish a reputation of PMF as a recognized institution, and is working on helping improving the standards of scientific research on amber from Myanmar.
Photo credit https://www.shsu.edu/
2 August 2020
“Perettiite” has been established as a New Mineral Group Name
The Perettiite Mineral Group contains 2 Minerals:
Perettiite-(Y) :
Y³⁺₂ Mn²⁺₄ Fe²⁺ [ Si₂ B₈ O₂₄ ]
Badakshanite-(Y) :
Y₂ Mn₄ Al [Si₂ B₇ Be O₂₄]
Chemical Exchange Vector :
ᴹ ⁽³⁾ Al³⁺+ ᵀ Be² ↔ ᴹ ⁽³⁾Fe²⁺+ᵀ B³⁺
Perettiite-(Y) is found as inclusions in Phenakite together with other minerals such as Tusionite (round yellow balls) . Both Perettiite and Badakshanite are found in miarolitic cavities in exotic Pegmatites.
Badakshanite-(Y)
https://www.mindat.org/min-53212.html
Perettiite-(Y) https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/ejm/list/27#issue6
10 August 2020
First Publication of involvement of PMF collection appears in relation to a retracted article in
Nature
The tiny Cretaceous stem-bird Oculudentavis revealed as a bizarre lizard
View ORCID Profile Adolf Peretti
View ORCID Profile Arnau Bolet
View ORCID Profile Edward L. Stanley
View ORCID Profile Juan D. Daza
View ORCID Profile J. Salvador Arias
View ORCID Profile Andrej Cernansky
Marta Vidal-Garcia
View ORCID Profile Aaron M. Bauer
View ORCID Profile Joseph J. Bevitt
View ORCID Profile Susan E. Evans
17 December 2019
New Amber Book
(In progress) This is a preview of one chapter of our new Augmented Reality (AR) Amber book that we are writing together with Thierry Falise in the style of the two other books that we have already published.
All book proceeds are used purely for a charitable causes.