Foreword to the special issue arising from the international conference TUR2021

[摘要] The contributions to this special volume of “Journal ofGeosciences” are essentially based on talks and posterspresented at the 3rd International Conference on Tourmaline(TUR2021), which was held from September 9 to 11, 2021in Portoferraio, Elba Island, Italy (Henry et al. 2021).Elba Island plays a particularly important role fortourmaline not only scientifically, but also as the cradleof the tourmaline scientific community. The idea to organize the 1st International Conference on Tourmaline inNové Mĕsto na Moravĕ, Brno, Czech Republic (1997)was born during the field trip on the Elba Island after the1994 IMA meeting in Pisa from a group of mineralogistsfrom Italy, Canada, USA and Czech Republic (including Federico Pezzotta, Frank Hawthorne, Matt Taylor,Milan Novák). Milan Novák recalls that he and Frankwere sitting on seats close to a gelateria in Sant’Ilario,and maybe stimulated by their surrounding of fantastictourmaline localities, the idea of a conference dedicatedto tourmaline was born.

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