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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hughes, John M.
• Kampf, Anthony R.

Titel

Who's Who in Mineral Names: John Francis Rakovan (b. 1964)

Ist Teil von

• Rocks & minerals, 2017-01, Vol.92 (1), p.81-84

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• John F. Rakovan was born in Buffalo, New York, where at the time his father was selling Lawrence Welk and Pat Boone albums for DOT Records. From his earliest days, Rakovan was fascinated with minerals; that fascination is chronicled in a delightful children's book written by his wife, Monica Rakovan, titled A Quest for Shiny Purple Crystals: Johnny and Max's Rock Hunting Adventure, which describes the relationship he had as a child with his lifelong friend and mineral-collecting mentor, Sal Avella, and details their discovery of a sceptered-amethyst deposit in Hopkinton, Rhode Island.