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GeneralDr. George W Robinson (1946 – 2024)

15th Apr 2024 15:19 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager

Very sad news in the mineral world. Noted mineralogist, professor, author, dealer, and former curator Dr. George Robinson passed away yesterday at his home in upstate New York. I do not have much more information currently, but as I receive it, I’ll post it here. For me, he was my grad advisor at Michigan Tech, we worked together on the initial discovery of the new mineral Centennialite, and was a dear friend for almost 30 years. It already feels odd that I won’t be able to pick up the phone and bounce ideas and thoughts off his head about minerals and life in general. RIP George!

15th Apr 2024 17:11 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager

I remember him as a true gentleman. My condolences to Susan.

19th Apr 2024 17:28 UTCDonald C. Swenson

Me,too.

15th Apr 2024 18:06 UTCKevin Conroy Manager

Very sad indeed, he'll be missed.

15th Apr 2024 18:24 UTCEddy Vervloet Manager

How sad indeed. Rest in Peace George.

I will always remember him as a true professional who did not mind corresponding with an interested amateur as myself... a real gentleman.

15th Apr 2024 18:27 UTCDonald Lapham 🌟

My condolences to Susan and his family. He will be sorely missed.

15th Apr 2024 18:38 UTCRichard Gunter Expert

That is sad. He will be greatly missed.

George was one of the grad students at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario when I was an undergrad. He was a mineral collector and dealer even as a grad student and I have several of his cards with the Kingston address on them. He lead us on field trips to various localities in eastern Ontario and New York state.

15th Apr 2024 18:44 UTCTony Albini

I met George at the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium and had many wonderful discussions with him and Susan. A true gentleman and brilliant mineralogist.

15th Apr 2024 19:17 UTCDana Slaughter 🌟 Expert

Horrible news! My condolences to Susan. I used to buy from George when he had his mineral business in NY and became a huge fan of Grenville minerals as a result. I was thrilled when Michigan Tech snagged him--a real coup for the A.E. Seaman Mineralogical Museum.

15th Apr 2024 20:45 UTCRoy Starkey 🌟 Manager

Image above from Starkey, R.E. and Robinson, G.W. (1992) Famous Mineral Localities: Prenteg, Tremadog, Gwynedd, Wales. The Mineralogical Record, 23 (5), 391 - 399.

That is very sad news. My condolences to Susan. I was first introduced to George via Wendell Wilson in 1991 as a result of me contacting The Mineralogical Record about the possibility of me writing an article about the famous Prenteg brookite locality in North Wales. Wendell wrote back to me and mentioned that he had another person who was also interested in Prenteg and brookite - George Robinson, then working at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.

I wrote to George (via Air Mail - no email in those days!) and asked him if he would be interested in collaborating. We worked together via exchange of Air Mail letters (about a three week round trip) over a period of some months and put together a manuscript.

During the summer of that year George visited the UK but unfortunately, because I was working in manufacturing industry, I could not take a day off so that we could go and do some field work together at Prenteg. Accordingly, I provided George with detailed instructions on permission, access and a sketch map of where to go.

The article was eventually published in The Mineralogical Record vol.23 September - October 1992, pp. 391 - 399.

Some years later during a visit to Canada I had the opportunity and privilege to meet George at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Naturally we discussed our article on Prenteg and I asked him if I could see the specimens from the Museum collections that he had kindly photographed for the article. I commented that the specimen (figure 10) was a very fine 'old time' example and George said "No! I collected that the day you couldn't come and join me!" I was really impressed, but also surprised that he had been so successful armed only with a screwdriver and wheel brace from the rental car toolkit! (see the photo at the top of this post).

In 2008 I made my first visit to Tucson and was delighted to be able to meet up with George and Susan and to have a seat at their table for the Saturday evening banquet (see following photo) - a truly memorable occasion at which Jeff Scovil was presented with the Carnegie Mineralogical Award. This was also the year of American Mineral Treasures and George was seated in the line-up of all the authors at the book signing - an amazing event (see following photo).

Goodbye old friend. Rest in peace.

Roy

15th Apr 2024 20:46 UTCRoy Starkey 🌟 Manager

George Robinson (right) and his wife Susan to his left, at the Saturday evening banquet, Tucson Show, 2008.

15th Apr 2024 20:49 UTCRoy Starkey 🌟 Manager

George Robinson (in the pale blue shirt, third from the right hand corner) at the American Mineral Treasures book signing event, Tucson 2008.

15th Apr 2024 23:07 UTCLarry Maltby Expert

Doctor George W. Robinson, curator of the museum over the last 17 years, rose to the task of packing the entire collection of thousands of specimens for the move to the new facility. Then each one needed to be unpacked and selections made for the new displays. With a big job comes a big opportunity. Not many curators in the world get the chance to completely reorganize such a significant mineral museum.

Susan Robinson, an accomplished artist with a keen interest in minerals, spent many hours assisting George in this effort. She writes articles featuring various mineral artists from all over the world for the Rocks and Minerals Magazine and is also a helpful contributor to the discussion pages on Mindat.

Every time I stopped at George’s office he made time to talk. I sure learned a lot from him! I am very sorry to get this message.

Larry,

15th Apr 2024 23:13 UTCLarry Maltby Expert

George retires and the first piece of cake goes to Susan. The smile on George's face says it all. He will be in the field collecting minerals in no time! Very sorry Susan.

Larry,

16th Apr 2024 04:54 UTCHerwig Pelckmans

Another great loss for our mineral community. My condolences to all his loved ones.

16th Apr 2024 18:00 UTCAndrew Roberts Expert

I "lurk" on mindat daily, but virtually never log in. This post regarding George certainly compels me to post my thoughts.

George and I were the last two grad students of Len Berry at Queen's University in the early 1970"s. He was in mineralogy and I was in crystallography. I didn't know him that well, but we certainly got more acquainted after we both moved to Ottawa later that decade: he worked for the Canadian Museum of Nature and I worked for the Geological Survey of Canada.

I was privileged to be a co-author on "georgerobinsonite", the experimental X-ray powder data is mine.

Condolences to Susan and other members of George's family.

16th Apr 2024 19:27 UTCTony Nikischer 🌟 Manager

A stalwart field collector, dealer, mineralogist, author, teacher, curator. George did it all and was so generous with his time and his knowledge. He even played piano for my kids during his last visit. So sad to learn of his passing.

16th Apr 2024 21:06 UTCJohn Rakovan Manager

George was a true gentleman. I feel fortunate to have known him as a friend.

George's book on mineral-forming environments (title: Minerals) is one of the best of its type and has significantly influenced my thinking about teaching the subject. If you have not read it, I highly recommend that you do. The mineral display at the Seaman Museum is a legacy of that work, and of George's and Susan's work at the museum.

17th Apr 2024 03:25 UTCJosiah Heyman 🌟

George Robinson was very patience with and helpful to me as an amateur collector. I will treasure his memory.

17th Apr 2024 16:57 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager

Update.

An obituary has been posted for George online: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/ogdensburg-ny/george-robinson-11770322

19th Apr 2024 15:41 UTCJim McGlasson

George was a very good friend as well as an incredible human being, the consummate professional mineral professional, teacher, dealer, curator. He always had time to explain concepts to anyone who wanted to learn.

I met George about 1974, my first year as a mineral dealer. He and I have kept in contact ever since, especially after I was diagnosed with Parkinson's as well. We would discuss our problems , but the discussion always reverted to minerals.

They say that the judgment of a person is the answer to a simple question - Is the world a better place because of a person's influence on it? In the case of George Robinson the answer MUST be a resounding YES!!!

RIP my friend.

I hope to collect some great specimens with you again from that that outcrop in the sky.

Jim

21st Apr 2024 18:26 UTCJohn A. Jaszczak Expert

I first met George in April 1986 when he brought a display from the Canadian Museum of Nature to the Columbus (Wonderful World of Gems) Show in Ohio. George spoke on "Mineral Collecting North of the Arctic Circle." The specimen that got the most attention was a remarkable graphite sample from Lake Harbour (Kimmirut), Baffin Island, shown here being held by George. We shared a sincere appreciation of graphite!

22nd Apr 2024 09:52 UTCCarles Millan Expert

Rest in peace, George. Your excellent book on the formation of minerals has been a great source of helpful information for me for many years.

22nd Apr 2024 14:20 UTCRobert (Bob) Morgan

I never saw George sad and will remember him gladly. As others have pointed out, his book Minerals is really good. It helped me understand some things that were lacking in my knowledge. Thanks.

Susan, you have lots of memories to smile about.

28th Apr 2024 11:42 UTCWoody Thompson Expert

This is extremely sad news. We visited George at many mineral events, especially every year at the Rochester Mineral Symposium. It was always a great pleasure to chat with him. Our deepest sympathy to Susan. -- Woody and Louise Thompson

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