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Crystals, Minerals and Gemstones in Cultural Heritage

A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 2670

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Hartmut Kutzke

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Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Postboks 6762 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo, Norway
Interests: biomimetic approach; bio-inspired materials; conservation of cultural heritage; heritage science; interaction between culture; humanities and science
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Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,

Crystals, minerals, and gemstones play an important in art and archaeology. It is a great pleasure for me to invite you to contribute to this cross-disciplinary Special Issue of Minerals. The purpose of the issue is to highlight the topic of “Crystals, Minerals, and Gemstones in Art and Archaeology” from different perspectives, covering the viewpoints of natural scientists and humanists as well as those of artists, craftsmen, museum curators, and technical conservators.

We look forward to receiving articles on the following topics:

- Analyses of minerals on cultural heritage objects, including methodical development;

- Forming of mineral phases, efflorescences, and crystal growth phenomena on artworks and artifacts, also on such being on display in museums. Crystal formation related to conservation treatments;   

- Imitation of gemstones, technical aspects, as well as societal impact of forgery;

- Historical written sources;

- Historical mining;

- Depicting gemstones and crystals in paintings;

- Symbolism of gemstones, meaning of crystals in artworks;

- Artworks, fiction, and movies related to crystals, minerals, and gemstones;

- Other related topics.

Dr. Hartmut Kutzke
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Minerals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • cultural heritage
  • analytical techniques
  • mineral forming
  • art and crystals
  • crystal growth
  • gemstones
  • historical written sources
  • museums

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Origins of Colour of Smithsonite from Yunnan, China
by Wei Ding, Quanli Chen, Yan Li and Xianyu Liu
Minerals 2023, 13(2), 296; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/min13020296 - 20 Feb 2023
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Smithsonite exhibits an extensive range of colours in nature. The internal features, spectral characteristic, and trace elements of several coloured smithsonites (e.g., white, blue, blue-green, yellow, orange, and pink) from Lanping District, Yunnan Province, China, were analysed and the relationship between smithsonite colour [...] Read more.
Smithsonite exhibits an extensive range of colours in nature. The internal features, spectral characteristic, and trace elements of several coloured smithsonites (e.g., white, blue, blue-green, yellow, orange, and pink) from Lanping District, Yunnan Province, China, were analysed and the relationship between smithsonite colour and trace elements and/or impurities was discussed in this research. The presence of iron and manganese was closely associated with the yellow colour. Yellow greenockite grains scattered throughout parts of yellow smithsonites, ranging in size from sub-microscopic to 15 µm, efficiently changed the orange or yellow colour to “turkey fat” (a bright yellow variety of smithsonite resembling turkey fat in colour and botryoidal form) yellow. Pink colour in smithsonite was due to the presence of manganese ions. The main internal features in blue and blue-green samples were small interwoven acicular aurichalcite inclusions and alternating layers of aurichalcite–hemimorphite. Different proportions of the hole (CO3)− radicals, copper ions (nano-sized Cu-rich inclusions), and aurichalcite inclusions created green to blue coloration variations in smithsonite. The blue–green colour change was mainly caused by aurichalcite and hemimorphite, detected with a Raman test and chemical composition test. Full article
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