21st General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA 2014) taking place at Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1 to 5 September 2014. The International Mineralogical Association will hold its 21st General Meeting in 2014 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from 31 August to 5 September, 2014. After the last meetings in Pisa 1994, Montreal 1
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.
