About
Mineralogique
Mineralogique journal
Minéralogique is a magazine dedicated to popularising regional and topographical mineralogy. It is a French magazine with a global outlook, which will also be translated into English.
It is aimed at all enthusiasts of field mineralogy and mineral collecting, particularly prospectors with a naturalist approach. More broadly, geology students, recent graduates, or those who are simply curious will also find it interesting.
The editorial team's choices
We want a publication that combines a fairly traditional, naturalistic and scientific approach with modern tools and techniques.
A traditional approach that goes back to basics, such as the geological context with images of the terrain from satellite view, mineralisation in situ, right down to the microscopic view.
Among the modern and multimedia tools, there will be a few videos; maps; drone images and SEM images, some of which will be available online. Not everything deserves to be printed, so we will focus on the essentials.
Beyond mineralogy, the articles will give pride of place to the historical aspect of resource exploration and exploitation. This is a welcome examination of our collective memory at a time when minerals and metals are more central to our civilisations than ever before.
Stories of recent discoveries, told by prospectors in the field, will complete this expanded mineralogical picture.
If you identify with this project, please do not hesitate to contact us to share your expectations, ideas and suggestions for articles.
What will the journal look like?
Minéralogique is a quarterly journal. The first issue is scheduled to be published before the end of March 2026, with subsequent issues appearing in June, September and December.
The magazine will be in A4 format and will have an average of 56 pages per issue. Each issue will consist of two or three feature articles and regular sections on global mineralogical news. At this stage, we do not plan to publish a trade fair calendar, which we believe is a waste of paper (online calendars do the job very well).
A balanced number of advertising inserts will be available to cover production costs. However, for the sake of reader comfort, we will avoid any flashy mineralogy advertisements and/or those that take up too much space or blend in with the articles in the magazine.
Where can you find it?
The magazine is not distributed in newsstands, but by annual subscription. Individual issues can also be purchased. Sales points will be set up at major mineral shows in France and abroad.
A digital version of the magazine is not planned at this stage, as the market is too small to allow us to distribute PDFs that will inevitably be shared beyond our subscribers. However, we are open to innovative technical solutions to avoid this kind of pitfall. Supplements to the articles will, however, be available online.
Once again, we are open to any new ideas and suggestions to make the magazine yours.
What are the prices?
Here are the prices planned for 2026:
- 40 euros for a subscription
- 12 euros per issue
The founder
Cédrick Gineste has 35 years of experience in field mineralogy and has been working as a mining geologist since 1997. His exploration missions have taken him to more than twenty countries across five continents.
He was educated in mineralogy by reading a judicious blend of Mineralogical Record, Chroniques de la Recherche Minière and other bulletins from learned societies of the 19th and 20th centuries. His back-and-forth between these archives and the field forged a naturalistic approach to mineralogy. While some high-end specimens may resemble works of art, minerals are, for him, above all unique natural objects with stories to tell.
Perhaps due to his professional background, he collects deposits and their paragenesis more than minerals themselves. His collection focuses on minerals from deposits he has been able to visit in the field. Each specimen thus has several stories to tell: geological, mining and modern collection.
A reading committee in the making:
- Pierre-Jacques Chiappero, assistant curator at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
Photographic collaborators who are passionate about mineralogy and experts in their field:
- François Garric
- Laurent Gayraud
- Jean-Marc Johannet
- François Le Gaillard
Collaborators, authors of original articles who have necessarily been in the field.
- We hope there will be many of them, so if you recognise yourself, please contact us!