IMA 2014

998, Edinburgh 2002, Kobe 2006, and Budapest 2010 this will be the first time that a General Meeting of IMA will take place in the Republic of South Africa, a country with a long-standing and well-established tradition in the Mineralogical Sciences, especially in Applied and Economic Mineralogy. Other South African countries with outstanding geological and mineralogical places of interest will also contribute to the meeting. I am sure that we will enjoy a successful conference with a lot of useful and interesting information for all participants and with a number of fieldtrips to places where many of us have not been before; in the name of IMA Council I would like to thank the organisers for their work.