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The Canadian Rockhound is protected by Canadian and international copyright laws. It also retains copyright of all its pages, including html code, original graphics, layout and design, and original content.

Downloading portions of this website for redistribution, in any form, is not permitted. However, users may print an article for non-commercial home or educational use. Please contact the Canadian Rockhound for other arrangements.

Authors who contribute articles to the Canadian Rockhound retain copyright of their articles at all times – the text, photos and diagrams. Authors do not retain copyright of the pages provided by the Canadian Rockhound.

Reprinting Articles

It is possible to reprint articles from the Canadian Rockhound, but conditions may apply. Copyright statements and permissions for reprinting an article appear at the end of every article.

Articles with a copyright symbol © appearing at the end of an article may not be copied or distributed without the author's permission. To contact an author, use the e-mail address provided at the end of the article. If you are unable to contact the author, please contact the Canadian Rockhound. Any reprint of an article without the permission of the author violates the author's copyright.

Some authors give permission to have their copyrighted articles freely reprinted for non-commercial or educational purposes. In such cases, the only requirement to reprint is that the author be acknowledged.

How to Acknowledge

If you have permission to reprint an article from the Canadian Rockhound, you must acknowledge the author, the Canadian Rockhound, and the original publication where the article first appeared (if applicable). You must include the website URL address of the Canadian Rockhound, and include the e-mail address of the author (or other contact information).

Acknowledge the above by inserting an appropriate copyright statement at THE END of the article in the publication where it is to be reprinted. Use one of the statements below. Adapt where necessary.

Use this copyright statement if permission
to reprint is required:
Copyright © 2000 [author's name goes here]
E-mail: [insert author's e-mail address here]
Reprinted from the Canadian Rockhound, Summer/Fall 2000 issue (www.canadianrockhound.com), with kind permission of the author. This article may not be copied, distributed or reprinted in any form without the author's permission. To contact the author, please use the e-mail address provided. If you are unable to contact the author, please contact the Canadian Rockhound. Authorized reprints must acknowledge the author and the Canadian Rockhound.
Use this copyright statement if the author
gives permission to reprint:
Copyright © 2000 [author's name goes here]
E-mail: [insert author's e-mail address here]
Reprinted from the Canadian Rockhound, Summer/Fall 2000 issue (www.canadianrockhound.com), with kind permission of the author. Permission is given to freely reprint this article for non-commercial and educational purposes, provided the author [and/or original source] and the Canadian Rockhound are acknowledged, and that the website URL address of the Canadian Rockhound is given. The article may not be edited or rewritten to change its meaning or substance without the author's permission. To contact the author, please use the e-mail address provided.

The Canadian Rockhound follows the convention used by S.C.R.I.B.E. to acknowledge authors of copyrighted articles. For more information on copyright, please see S.C.R.I.B.E.'s Copyrights for Bulletin Editors.

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