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Welcome.  

We meet the
second Monday
of every month
at 7:30 PM
at the historic
Greenbank Mill.
 

[We do not
meet in
July or August.]

Photo taken with permission of Greenbank Mill.


Visit our hosts for events at: www.greenbankmill.org

Greenbank Mill
500 Greenbank Road
Wilmington, DE 19808
(302) 999-9001

 

 

This month we are meeting at:
Greenbank Mill

New! Click here for a printable DMS Membership Form

Contact Bob Ehrlich, Membership Chairman

Directions & Map

 

Our Next Meeting: Monday, June 8, 2008

Location: Greenbank Mill, Prices Corner, Wilmington, DE

Program:  "Annual Club Picnic & Sale"

Members, bring your appetite and your specimens for trade or for sale (optional) to our informal club picnic!

 We will dispense with our regular club business for a brief annual election of officers for the year.  Though we will have no official program or presentation, feel free to bring some our your collection for an impromptu Show-n-Tell.

Rain or shine!

See you tonight,
Tom

Times: ~6:00PM (Setup) -  ~8:15PM

Refreshments:   See Sophie Homesy. 

See Sophie to sign-up for what to bring to our June 9, 2008 Picnic!  The club will provide the grill meats, plates & utensils; we bring the rest--like a covered dish dinner.

And, oh yes, please bring desserts! ;-)

 

At Our Last Meeting: Monday, May 12, 2008

Location: Greenbank Mill, Prices Corner, Wilmington, DE

Program:  "The Physical Properties of Minerals"

A 45 min. video.  

The write-up says:
        'Close-up photography and clear explanation of the basic tests every rockhound should know to determine the identity of unknown minerals.   All the physical properties are explained and demonstrated.'

If you have a mystery mineral that you haven't been able to ID, bring it along and perhaps the group will be able to figure it out.   I have one such stone from what looked to be an abandoned mine (just a bit of a pit really)  along the White Clay just north of Newark.

   
   
   
   

 

Program Review coming soon


 

 

This year's March 1-2, Show 2008 theme was: "Pegmatite Gems and Minerals"! 

Our February & March Mineral-of-the-Month is also "Exotic Pegmatites"  & "Local Pegmatites"

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Next Board Meeting:  April 28, 2008, 7:00 PM (Postponed, to be rescheduled)
Location: Karissa's house
Contact: Karissa Hendershot or Scott Peters
Agenda: To be announced

For General Meeting Minutes & Board Meeting Minutes, see special editions of the Geogram.

 

 

Next Show Committee Meeting: April 21, 2008 (after our Show)
Location: Wayne's house
Time: 7:00PM SHARP! :-)
Contact: Wayne Urion
Agenda: Review of Show and planning start for 2009.

Summary of Show

March 1-2, 2008 Show Page

March 3-4, 2007 Show Page

Members Page

 

 

Directions & Map:

From I-95 take 141 North to Route 2 West (Kirkwood Hwy.). At third stop light take a right onto Route 41 North (Newport Gap Pike). At the bottom of the hill, just past the Wilmington & Western Railroad, take a right onto Greenbank Road. Drive past the mill, the parking lot is on the left, just after you recross the Wilmington & Western Railroad tracks.

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Questions & Comments: info@delminsociety.net

This page last updated:   May 13, 2008 12:43:57 PM  

Next Meeting
 

 June Program:

"Annual Club Picnic & Sale"

 

General Club Meeting:
June 8, 2008
(Monday)
We are meeting at Greenbank Mill!
 

 

Next Field Trips
 

Spring Schedule!

Past Fieldtrips
 

 

Next EFTA Trips
For more info:
EFTA
Next Show
DMS March Show
March 7-8, 2009

 


Pegmatite:
Our 2008 Show Theme

 

March Show 2008 Report

Updates!

Fossil Forum


"Dinny, the Dino"

"Belemnites are coming"

 

 

May's MOTM begins with an "H"

Coming soon!

"An amphibole series"
Can you guess?

Past MOTM

Collecting Adventure Stories:

"Sunny Brook Crick Goethite" by Joe Dunleavy