This book presents the materials of the XIII General Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society. Over 190 participants prepared the result of their scientific work on mineralogy: mineral diversity and the evolution of mineral formation (S1); minerals as markers of petro- and ore genesis and new methods of their determination (S2); mineralogy and formation conditions of deposits of strategic minerals (S3); problems of applied (technological and ecological) mineralogy and geochemistry (S4); natural stone in art and architecture (S5); modern research in the field of stone and gemological studies (S6); mineralogical crystallography, crystallochemistry, and new minerals (F1); history of science, museumification, and popularization of natural science knowledge (F2). The Russian Mineralogical Society is the oldest mineralogical Society in Russia (from 1817). The Russian Mineralogical Society joins more than 1200 researchers from universities, academic and industryinstitutes, and production organizations in Russia's major scientific centers. The Society has 17 sections, including crystallochemistry, radiography and spectroscopy of minerals, ore mineralogy, technological mineralogy, experimental mineralogy, ecological mineralogy and geochemistry, and new mineral nomenclature classification. The main scientific and organizing event for the Russian Mineralogical members is the meeting session, organized every fourth year.

Inhalt
Priorities Of Modern Mineralogy.- E.S. Fedorov's Drusites: Metamorphic Reaction Structures In Paleoproterozoic Metagabbronorites Of The Belomorian Province Of The Fennoscandian Shield.- Calcium And Cuprum Oxalates In Biofilms On The Surface Of The Scoria Cones Of Tolbachik Volcano.- Heterogeneous Mineral Complex In Bottom Sediments North-Western Black Sea.- Monticellite From Spurrite Marbles Of The Kochumdek Contact Aureole.- The Association Of Henritermierite With Mg-Rich Vesuvianite In Mn Ores: Indicator Significance And An Example Of Crystal Chemical Selectivity.- Microbial Biomineralization: Morphogenetic And Crystal Chemical Patterns.- Synthetic Uranyl Compounds: Chemical View On Natural Processes Of Uranium Ore Alteration.- Sulfide-Oxide Mineral Formation During Melt Differentiation In The Intermediate Chamber.