IMA Archives

Archives

IMA Archives

During the Business Meeting in Johannesburg on September 1st, 2014, the President Walter Maresch reports that thanks in large part to the activities and negotiations of E. Tillmanns an IMA archive has been established in Budapest.
In a letter of July 22, 2014, Gábor Csorba, Deputy Director General for Research and Collections, officially wrote to the IMA President that “it is my pleasure to declare that the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) is open and willing to build out long term cooperation with the International Mineralogical Association on hosting the archive of IMA in Budapest in the HNHM”. The archive will be under the direction of mineralogist Gábor Papp, assisted by Annamária Kis.
Council has decided to rejuvenate its “Archives and History” subcommission with the Outreach Committee. G. Papp (Chair), A. Kis (Secretary) and E. Tillmanns (Vice-Chair) will be officers. Other interested colleagues are welcome, and Tamás Weiszburg (Budapest) as well as President-to-be S. Krivovichev have already indicated that they will be actively participating.

Officers:

Chairman: Gábor PAPP
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology
Hungarian Natural History Museum
Budapest, Pf. 137, H-1431 Hungary
Tel.: +36 1 210 1075/2209 ext.
Fax: +36 1 210 1086

Secretary: Annamária KIS

Members:
Ekkehart TILLMANNS
Tamás WEISZBURG
Sergey V. KRIVOVICHEV

IMA Archive Reports

IMA Archive Report 2016

IMA Archive Report 2014

IMA Meeting Abstract volumes

Egypt

Archives

Egypt

The Mineralogical Society of Egypte has ceased activity in 2002.

There is now a group of mineralogist within the Geological Society of Egypte (GSE)

Our current contact is (future IMA representative)

Mokhles K. AZER

Head of Geological Sciences Department, National Research Centre, 33 Al-Behoos St., 12622-Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

Emails: mokhles72@yahoo.com or mk.abdel-malak@nrc.sci.eg

You can visite the site of journal of GSE here

Business Meetings

IMA Council, Minutes of Business Meetings, ,

The IMA is governed by the Business Meetings held at every two years, alternating between the IMA held every 4 years, and another international mineralogical meeting such as EMC (European Mineralogical Conference). Two Business Meetings are held during a meeting.

Any National representative, Commission and Working Group of the IMA may propose business to be transacted at the Business Meetings. Such proposals must be sent to the IMA Secretary eight weeks before the meeting and will be included in the agenda.

The member societies send delegates to the Business Meetings. The delegates receive and review reports from the IMA Commissions, Working Groups and Council, and can implement new policies. The delegates at the Business Meeting elect the Council members, including the officers and the Presidents of IMA.

Minutes of recent Business Meetings are provided below. 

2024
Dublin, Ireland

1st Business Meeting*
2nd Business Meeting*

*Not yet approved by national representatives

2022
Lyon, France

1st Business Meeting
2nd Business Meeting

2021
Online*

1st Business Meeting
2nd Business Meeting

*Planned in 2020 and set online in January 2021

2018
Melbourne, Australia

1st Business Meeting
2nd Business Meeting

2016
Rimini, Italy

1st Business Meeting
2nd Business Meeting

2014
Johannesburg, South Africa

1st Business Meeting
2nd Business Meeting

2012
Frankfurt, Germany

1st Business Meeting
2nd Business Meeting

2010
Budapest, Hungary

1st Business Meeting
2nd Business Meeting

For previous Business Meetings, please contact the IMA archive manager (Annamaria Kis)

  • 2008, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2006, Kobe, Japan
  • 2004, Florence, Italia
  • 2002, Edinburgh, UK
  • 1998, Toronto, Canada
  • 1994, Pisa, Italia
  • 1990, Beijing China
  • 1986, Stanford, USA
  • 1982, Varna, Bulgaria
  • 1980 Orléans, France
  • 1978, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • 1976, Sidney, Australia
  • 1974, Berlin, Germany
  • 1972 Montreal, Canada
  • 1970, Kyoto, Japan
  • 1968 Praha, Czechoslovakia
  • 1966, Cambridge, UK
  • 1964, New Delhi
  • 1962, Washington, USA
  • 1960, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1959, Zürich, Switzerland

Constitution

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Constitution & By-Laws

The Constitution and By-Laws define how the IMA is governed and operates. You can download them as a pdf, but they are summarized on this page. The Constitution and By-Laws can only be modified by a Business Meeting. The most recent revision was made by the 2nd Business Meeting of 2024, held in Dublin (EMC 2024).

The IMA is governed by the Business Meetings, which are held at least every two years. The member societies send delegates to the Business Meetings. The delegates receive and review reports from the IMA Commissions, Working Groups and Council, including a full financial report, and can implement new policies. The delegates at the Business Meeting elect the Council members, including the officers and the Presidents of IMA.

The Council of the IMA manages the operations of IMA and is governed by the policies set by the Business Meeting. In this way, the national societies who are members of the IMA control the work of IMA through the national delegates that they send to the Business Meeting.

Deadlines for IMA Business

As a guide for national societies and national representatives, this is a summary of the deadlines for various items of IMA business. For full details please consult the Constitution and by-laws.

  • Dues Payment: Before December 31 (yearly)
  • Proposals to the Secretary for the agenda of Business Meetings: eight weeks before a Business Meeting
  • Submission of final agenda for Business Meetings: four weeks before a Business Meeting
  • Proposals to the Secretary for amendments to the Constitution: eight weeks before a Business Meeting
  • Submission of final proposals for amendments to the Constitution: four weeks before a Business Meeting
  • Nominations by Council for elections: four weeks before a Business Meeting
  • Nominations by Delegates for elections: at least 30 hours before the election
  • Proposals for chair, vice-chair, secretary of Commissions and Working Groups: at least 30 hours before the election
  • Biennial activity reports of Commissions and Working Groups: four weeks before a Business Meeting
  • Post-meeting reports of Commissions and Working Groups: within twelve weeks after the Business Meeting
  • Minutes of the Business Meeting: within twelve weeks after the Business Meeting