Dear Tom,

It depends where they are coming from. In Belgian there are plenty of caves where people come and take minerals to sell them. That is not really ethical. Nice places are ruined. So, I don't think that it is a matter of size. Instead, a lot of small and even big minerals can come from quarries, where they would have been destroyed anyhow....so this seems a better place to go and look for them. (except in abandoned quarries, where it than becomes part of the 'geoheritage'....

Sophie

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Dear Sophie

What exactly do you mean with MINERAL SELLING IN OUR NATURAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE SHOPS?

Of course our museums shop at Bern Natural History Museum is selling minerals, however they are intended mainly for children (small Quartz-Crystall e.g.) and stem from local collectors and are collected in nearby Bernese Alps. So, such minerals are just thought as small gifts or souvenirs (similar to the omnipresent dinosaurs or plush-tigers) and I do not think that they are posing an ethic problem.

But I assume you are thinking of selling minerals on a much larger scale?

Best regards
Tom

On 2024-04-25 15:43, Sophie Verheyden - sverheyden at naturalsciences.be
wrote:
> Dear Laura, dear all,
>
> Again sorry for the delays and my regular absence. I'll try to follow
> EGS up as best as I can.
>
> I just finalized the input for the BELGIAN GEOLOGICAL  REGULATIONS. I
> hope that it is still useful.
>
> It is an interesting matter and in the frame of geoparks and
> geoheritage that starts to be really important worldwide, it would be
> interesting to continue to reflect on this.
>
> I have a specific question to other Natural sciences institutes
> dealing WITH MINERAL SELLING IN OUR NATURAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE SHOPS....
> I always wonder if we can still accept this? Does anyone have some
> experience with a change in one of the institutes, discussions about
> it or other? Are there institutes that have a code of ethics about it?
>
> Thanks a lot and sorry if this was already discussed.
>
> Sophie
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> Please find the agenda for our next meeting. One of the highlights of
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