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Environmental mineralogy, geochemistry and human health

¹ Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
² School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
³ School of Earth Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St., London WC1E 7HX, UK

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This issue of Mineralogical Magazine is the 5^th in a loosely defined series of special thematic issues (or part issues), deriving from conferences organized by the Mineralogical Society. The associated conference was entitled ‘Environmental Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Human Health’ and took place in January 2005, in Bath. A common thread to all these Mineralogical Society conferences has been the role of mineralogy in applied science and technology and particularly in environmental science, focussing on the multidisciplinarity of modern mineralogy; the conferences (and special issues) have been particularly successful in bringing along scientists from outside traditional Mineralogy/Earth Sciences. Notably, the series comes at a time when the popularity of Mineralogy/Geology, but also science in general, is low, and many, particularly young, scientists are seeking to place themselves in a better position in the eye of the public and the media, and often also to find new focus for their research. A primary ambition for the series is thus to demonstrate Mineralogy’s extensive outreach and has so far succeeded in giving the scientific community a sense of the wider role mineralogists can play.

The thematic issues seek to enforce the conference series objectives, by recording for posterity key papers presented in each conference in a published peer-reviewed form. An overriding objective of all issues is to solicit papers of the highest quality, with a focus, and sometimes a foresight for novel non-traditional areas of mineralogy. For this issue, we editors set ourselves a further set of two goals.

Firstly, we fixed a deadline of January 31^st for submission of manuscripts, and set ourselves and met an ambitious deadline to publish them in this, the October issue of the same year. This gave us an 8-month gestation period from submission, through peer-review to publication. Although such fast publishing is not uncommon in certain . . . [Full Text of this Article]