There are 17 Special Interest Commissions (on
Clay Minerals; Contemporary Mineral-Bearing Processes; Cosmic Mineralogy;
Crystal Chemistry, X-ray Diffraction and Spectroscopy of Minerals; Crystal
Genesis; Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry; Experimental
Mineralogy; Fluid and Melt Inclusions in Minerals; High School Teaching in
Mineralogy; History; Mineral Processing; Mineralogy of Gemstone Deposits and
Gemology; Museums; New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification; Ore
Mineralogy; Organic Mineralogy and Physical Methods of Investigation of
Minerals).