Abstract
The new trends of mineralogical sciences have been suggested with a special emphais on the development of in-situ characterization techniques such as microspectroscopy, the quantitative color description by colorimetry and the quantitative representation of forms and textures of the real rock and material systems. The systematic treatments of heterogeneous mineralogical kinetics including solid-liquid and solid-gas reactions, diffusion, phase transformation and rheology should also be advanced. The background of these new mineralogy depends on their academic environments and the education of younger generation. Young Mineralogist Organization (YMO) has been working since 5 years to provide a forum of communication and crossover of mineralogical people who are mentally young. In order to take over these interdisciplinary interactions into the academic societies themselves, the unity of 3 mineralogy related societies and their English journals should be envisaged.
