Quintin Wight

His 37-year career in the RCAF took Quintin to many localities in which he could find mineral specimens to add to a growing collection. He began writing about minerals in 1966, and has since published over 200 articles and reviews on mineral-related subjects. He began to work in mineral photomicrography in 1973, and has given more than 205 presentations to groups across North America, and in England, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Tanzania, and New Zealand. Inducted to the Micromounters’ Hall of Fame in 1990, he now coordinates that organization on behalf of the Baltimore Mineral Society.  He also conducted an annual gathering of specialists in microscopic minerals at the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium from 2000 until the RMS demise in 2019. His book, The Complete Book of Micromounting, was published in 1993, and the mineral quintinite was named in his honour in 1992.