1) The teaching team:

Instructor: Jeanne Paquette	Office: FDA Rm 214
e-mail (usually more efficient than the phone): jeannep@eps.mcgill.ca	Phone: (514)398-4402

Teaching assistants

Maria Sokolov   (office: to be confirmed)

Aaron Lussier   (office: FDA Room 202A)

2) Timetable

Lectures	11h30 - 12h30, Tuesdays & Thursdays	FDA Room 211
Laboratory	14h30 - 17h00, every Friday (ouch!)	FDA Rm 211

3) Course objectives

  Minerals are all around us.  We use them "as is" in building materials and body care products, for the manufacturing of electronic equipement, and as sources of raw materials. What makes them so beautiful and useful?

  In this course, we will:

• relate the principles of crystal chemistry & structure to the properties of minerals
• learn the basic concepts of mineral classification
• develop identification skills from hand specimens of common minerals

5) Teaching materials:

Textbook (available at the McGill Bookstore for $102.95 and, hopefully soon, on reserve for 2-hour loans from the Schulich Sci. & Eng. Library):

"Introduction to Mineralogy" by Nesse. On sale at the McGill Bookstore.

Up to last year, we were using:
"Manual of Mineralogy after J.D. Dana" by Klein & Hurlbut (21st edition is the best choice, but the course notes also refer to the equivalent sections in the 20th edition.) The call number is QE372 D2 1993  for the copy on reserve at the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library. It is a more voluminous text, less easy to read, but an excellent overall reference. You are welcome to use it if a second-hand copy is available and easier on your budget.

Laboratory Fee for the use of mineral drawers: $5 (compulsory)

Other material (recommended for mineral identification):

• hand lens 10x ($7)
• magnet ($7)
• streak plate ($1)
• acid bottle ($2)
• all four above are available as a kit, sold for $16 to McGill students, at the beginning of the term (see Joan Kaylor).
• small pocket knife (with steel blade), not included in kit, must be bought separately.

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Basic definitions: minerals and crystals	Lecture #1	introduction , laboratory #1
Main physical properties	Lecture #2	hardness, cleavage, habit
Principles of crystallography	Lecture #3	crystallographic forms  symmetry operations
(continued)	Lecture #4	crystallographic systems
(continued)	Lecture #5	stereographic projections , lab #3 Powerpoint
(continued)	Lecture #6	Miller indices of faces and forms, lab #4
(continued)	Lecture #7	twinning, pseudosymmetry, parting, polymorphism, pseudomorphism, Powerpoint
Lab test #1: Friday October 5, 2002		Test 1 Mineral Descriptions (Acrobat PDF file)
(continued)	Lecture #8	lattice symmetry, space groups
MIDTERM EXAM	Thursday, Oct. 16	Held during regular lecture hour. On material covered so far. See 2001 midterm (PDF file).
Methods of crystal structure determination	Lecture #9	powder and single-crystal X-ray diffraction assignment #2
basics of crystal growth	not covered this term	nucleation, spiral & dendritic growth, PBC, etc...
Chemical bonding in crystal structures	Lectures #11, 12	electronic structure of elements, ionic, metallic, covalent, hydrogen and Van der Waals bonding. You may want to use the guide to Chapter 4
(continued)	Lecture #13	Pauling's rules, coordination polyhedra lab #8 (native elements, sulfides, sulfosalts), PDF and Power Point
Lab test #2: Friday November 1, 2002		Test 2 Mineral Descriptions (Acrobat PDF files) Part 1 and Part 2
Compositional variation in minerals	Lecture #14	chemical formulas of minerals  solid solutions, modes of substitution, compositional diagrams PDF and  Power Point
Silicates: structure and properties (I)	Lecture #15, 16	Overview of silicates: PDF and  Power Point nesosilicates: olivine, garnet, aluminosilicates lab #9 (native elements, sulfides, carbonates)
Silicates: structure and properties (II)	Lecture #17	cyclosilicates: beryl, tourmaline  inosilicates: the pyroxenes
Silicates: structure and properties (III)	Lecture #18	inosilicates: the amphiboles Lecture #17-18 PDF, Power Point
Lab test #3: Friday November 29, 2002		Test 3 Mineral Descriptions (Acrobat PDF files) Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 Power Point slides shown in the lab Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
Silicates: structure and properties (IV)	Lecture #19	phyllosilicates, PDF and Power Point dioctahedral/trioctahedral, polytypism
Silicates: structure and properties (V)	Lecture #20	tectosilicates: quartz & its polymorphs (mentioned in lectures 13 and 14)
Silicates: structure and properties (VI)	Lecture #21, 22	tectosilicates: feldspars, PDF and Power Point order/disorder, exsolution, twinning
Other mineral groups	see  practice questions	sulfides, oxides, hydroxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates
FINAL EXAM	PDF files of the 2001 version 2000 version	Answer 7-8 questions out of 9-10. Some questions may be compulsory. One question emphasizes material predating mid-term. All others are on post-midterm material.

Laboratory Exercises (the links will be activated as we cover the material).
The exercises will be held in FDA Room 211 until renovations at the Redpath Museum are completed.

Overview of physical properties of minerals	September 3. In FDA Room 211. Report due on Sept. 17.
Crystal forms and point group symmetry	September 10.In FDA Room 211. Report due on Sept. 24.
Mineral identification (silicate minerals).	2 weeks: Sept. 17 and 24, held in FDA Room 211. No reports required.
First laboratory test: silicate identification, habit, forms	October 1st.
Mineral identification (silicates, oxides, native elements) Introduction to optical properties of transparent/translucent minerals.	3 weeks: Oct. 8, 15 and 22, One report due on October 15.
Second laboratory test on mineral identification	October 29.
Mineral identification (sulfides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, tungstate, etc...) Introduction to optical properties of opaque minerals.	3 weeks: Nov. 5, 12 & 19. One report due on November 19.
Third laboratory test on mineral identification	November 26.

7) Week-End Field Trip to Bancroft Area, Ontario (optional, mid to late October).
- Your opportunity to collect minerals in the field, in an area world-renowned for the diversity and quality of . We start planning for this right in September. Details will be given in class.