Scientific program

Thursday 9

09:00-09:30 Participants registration
09:30-10:15 Opening

Session chair: Bosi F.

10:15-11:00 Plenary: Novák M.
Tourmalines and pegmatites
11:00 Coffee break

Session chair: van Hinsberg V.J.

11:30-11:45 Filip J.
An overview of environmental/industrial applications of tourmaline
11:45-12:00 Setkova T.
Crystal growth and Raman spectroscopy of Ga, Ge-rich tourmaline
12:00-12:15 Chernyshova I.
Calculation of the pyroelectric coefficient of tourmalines from single crystal X-ray data
12:15-12:30 Mrkusová E.
Preliminary results of electron microprobe quantification of the Fe oxidation state in tourmalines
12:30-12:45 Bačík P.
Tetrahedral substitutions in tourmaline-supergroup minerals from the bond-topological and bond-valence perspective
12:45-13:00 Cámara F.
Anortho-schorl from Langesundsfjord (Norway)
13:00 Lunch

Session chair: Trumbull R.B.

14:30-14:45 Taylor M.C.
Petrogenesis of tourmaline-bearing NYF, LCT, and mixed NYF-LCT granitic pegmatites of the Peninsular Ranges Batholith, southern California, USA
14:45-15:00 Cempírek J.
Tourmaline in the elbaite-subtype pegmatites from the Czech Republic: towards the general evolution trends
15:00-15:15 Novotný F.
Tourmaline evolution in a P, F-rich elbaite-subtype pegmatite
15:15-15:30 Altieri A.
Color anomalies at the termination of pegmatitic gem-tourmaline crystals from Elba Island (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): a genetic model
15:30-15:45 Moggi Cecchi V.
The "Elbana" mineralogical collection of the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, Italy
15:45-16:00 Kubernátova M.
Crystal chemistry of natural Pb-rich tourmalines
16:00 Coffee break

Session chair: Andreozzi G.B.

16:30-17:00 Keynote: Henry D.J.
Tourmaline crystallography, crystal chemistry and nomenclature: current status

Session chair: Tanelli G.

21:30-22:15 Plenary: Pezzotta F.
Elba tourmalines, over two centuries of collecting and scientific research
22:15-22:45 Visit to MUM – Mineralogical Museum Luigi Celleri, San Piero in Campo

Friday 10

09:30-09:45 Late participants registration and social dinner booking

Session chair: Cempírek J.

09:45-10:15 Keynote: van Hinsberg V.J.
Tourmaline elemental partitioning with melts, fluids and minerals: how to interpret tourmaline (trace element) composition
10:15-10:30 Uher P.
Rare lithophile elements (Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta) in tourmalines from granite-pegmatite suites
10:30-10:45 Ondrejka M.
Remobilization of B, Be and REE in Veporic granites: late-magmatic formation of tourmaline and neoblastic development of hellandite-(Y) + hingganite-(Y) reaction coronae around xenotime-(Y) during granite mylonitization
10:45-11:00 Bermanec M.
Creating a comprehensive, standardized dataset of tourmaline geochemical analyses integrating localities and petrogenesis
11:00 Coffee break

Session chair: Marschall H.R.

11:30-11:45 van Hinsberg V.J.
Tourmaline reference materials for trace element analyses: a progress update
11:45-12:00 Vereschchagin O.
Towards tourmaline REE pattern explanation
12:00-12:15 Celata B.
Tourmaline breakdown: preliminary results from experimental studies
12:15-12:30 Tribaudino M.
Thermal expansion of tourmaline: a systematic investigation
12:30-12:45 Roozen S.
A thermodynamic model for Li-free tourmaline
12:45-13:00 Ertl A.
Why was it not possible to synthesize Li-rich tourmaline?
13:00 Lunch

Session chair: Dini A. and Pezzotta F.

14:30-15:00 Keynote: Dutrow B.L.
Petrogenetic utility of magnesian tourmaline: extraordinary origin of everyday tourmaline
15:00-15:15 Sęk M.P.
Tourmalines from the eastern metamorphic cover of the Karkonosze granite: an evolution model
15:15-15:45 Guest speaker: Rustemeyer P.
Inner structures of tourmaline crystals
15:45-16:00 Guest speaker: Rustemeyer P.
About the aesthetics of tourmaline slices and "TourmalineArt"
16:00 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30 Poster Session

  Cruz M.F.
Does silicate-borosilicate melt immiscibility occur in natural settings? An assessment based on experimentally synthesized tourmaline nodules
  Drivenes K.
Sn-rich tourmaline from the Land's End granite, SW England
  Fridrichová J.
Spectroscopic and crystal-chemical study of brown, red and green magnesium-dominant tourmalines
  Hreus S.
Li,Be-cordierite + tourmaline assemblage in rare-element pegmatites
  Kardošová P.
Crystal-chemical effects of heat treatment on Mg-dominant tourmalines
  Lussier A.J.
Oscillatory zoned liddicoatite from Anjanabonoina, central Madagascar: trace element patterns determined by LA-ICP-MS
  Urbanová S.
Evolution of tourmaline from Li-poor, F-rich pegmatites at the SE border of the Moldanubian Zone, Bohemian Massif

Saturday 11

Session chair: Novák M.

09:30-10:00 Keynote: Marschall H.R.
Tourmaline isotopes – ten years left behind
10:00-10:15 Dini A.
Boron, oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of zoned tourmalines from the Monte Capanne miarolitic LCT pegmatite field
10:15-10:30 Korsakov A.
B-isotopic study of maruyamaite from the new locality within the Kokchetav massif
10:30-10:45 Xu J.
Tourmaline and white mica boron isotopes in pelitic schist from the Chinese southwestern Tianshan: insight into subduction-zone fluid flow
10:45-11:00 Skřápková L.
The role of oxy-tourmalines and metasomatic mixing in evolution of lepidolite-subtype pegmatites
11:00 Coffee break

Session chair: Bačík P.

11:30-11:45 van der Does L.M.
Quartz-tourmaline intergrowths in the wall zone of the Emmons Pegmatite (Maine, USA)
11:45-12:00 Falster A.U.
Fluor-Elbaite tourmaline from the Emmons pegmatite, Greenwood, Oxford Co., Maine
12:00-12:15 Bermanec V.
Pegmatite occurrences in Moslavačka gora, Northern Croatia
12:15-12:30 Gadas P.
Tourmalines from exocontact and endocontact zones from the Manjaka pegmatite, Sahatany Valley, Madagascar
12:30-12:45 Henry D.J.
Tourmaline-quartz development across the magmatic-to-hydrothermal transition in peraluminous granites from NW Argentina
12:45-13:00 Codeço M.S.
Insights into the magmatic-hydrothermal evolution at the Panasqueira W-Cu-Sn deposit, Portugal from chemical and B-isotopic studies of tourmaline and white mica: a review
13:00 Lunch

Session chair: Filip J.

14:30-15:00 Keynote: Slack J.F.
New perspectives on the origins of stratiform tourmalinites
15:00-15:15 Hohf M.
Tourmaline breccias in the Río Blanco-Los Bronces porphyry Cu-Mo district, central Chile: a geochemical and stable isotope study
15:15-15:30 Fischer B.
Differentiating tourmaline species via reflectance Spectroscopy: enhancing tourmaline as a mineral vector in ore deposits
15:30 Coffee break

Session chair: Macrì M.

16:00-16:30 Keynote: Laurs B.M.
Tourmaline as a gem: varieties, origin determination and future challenges for gem-testing laboratories
16:30-16:45 Sun Z.
A simplified species classification for gem quality tourmaline by LA-ICP-MS
16:45-17:15 Keynote: Groat L.A.
Gem deposit research and implications for exploration
17:15-17:30 Macrì M.
Gemology vs Mineralogy: problems, solutions and opportunities
17:30 Summary and closing