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We meet the
second Monday
of every month, except for special events,
at 7:00 PM
at the historic
Greenbank Mill.
 

(We do not meet in July or August.)
Photo taken with permission of Greenbank Mill.


Our Next Club Meeting     At Our Last Club Meeting      Board Meeting 
Show Committee Meeting
    New Home Committee Meeting  Directions & Map     Membership    Some Past Meeting Programs

This March we are meeting at: Greenbank Mill

We welcome visitors and guests to our meetings. Please do join us.


Visit our regular meeting hosts for events at:

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

greenbankmill.org

 

Our Next Meeting: Monday, May 10, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Program: "June Picnic"

Yes, its our annual picnic! Bring a covered dish or desert, and enjoy the company of fellow club Members. See Bill Stephens to signup for what to bring.

We may have a DVD program running in the background. Feel free to watch or chat.

Feel free to bring hobby items to swap/sell/give away.

Times: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Please cross the wooden bridge to park. Emergency vehicles coming down the hill could damage your car. The Mill or the club cannot take responsibility for such damage. We have safer overflow parking, just up the hill. The historic walkover bridge is a delight to cross the creek to the Mill.

 [Bill Stephens, Vice-President of Programs]

 

At Our Last Meeting: Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM

Program: "Formation of open pockets of Collectible Crystals in Metallic Deposits"

On May 13th we presented a video on how crystals form in metallic ores presented at the Dallas 2012 Symposium on Mineral Collecting.

Dr. Peter Megaw, "Formation of open pockets of Collectible Crystals in Metallic Deposits". The video should cover Mexican geology including Santa Eulalia. He is a Desautels Trophy winner.

 [Bill Stephens, Vice-President of Programs]

 

     

 

 

 
 

 

Next Board Meeting: May/June 2013
Location
: Greenbank Mill
Contact: Ken Casey
Agenda: To be determined.

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

 

 

Next Show Committee Meeting: After our Show, Spring 2013
Location: Wayne's house
Time: 7:00PM
Contact: Wayne Urion
Agenda: Summing up of our 50th Show, and planning for our 2014 Show.

 

Next Lapidary New Home Committee Meeting:  2013
Location:
Time:
Contact: Marji Marshall
Agenda: Official meeting to discuss, plan, goal-set, and report actions to-date of lapidary lab/new home search.

March 3-4, 2013 Show Page

March 3-4, 2012 Show Page

March 5-6, 2011 Show Page

March 6-7, 2010 Show Page

March 1-2, 2008 Show Page

March 3-4, 2007 Show Page

Members' Page

Our March 2-3, 2013 Show theme is: "All That Glitter is as Good as Gold!" 

 

Some Past Meeting Programs

"Diamonds: Geology, Mineralogy & Gemology" by Tom Pankratz & Scott Peters

"Mica" by Wayne Urion

"How to Dig Up a Giant Dinosaur" by Jason Schein

"Annual 2007 Holiday Party & Silent Auction!"

"The Land Beneath Our Feet" by Tom Pankratz

"Fossil Fakes, Forgeries & Misconceptions" by  our own Gene Hartstein

"Show 'n Tell 2007"

"Annual 2007 Club Picnic & Sale!"

"Minerals of St. Hilaire, Canada" Presented by Phil Betancourt

"Field Collecting: Special Specimens, Good Friends, Great Memories" Presented by Alex Kane & Friends

"Caught in Canada, Minerals of Bancroft, Ontario Region" by Jim and Mimi Stauffer

"Putting Together Award-Winning Display Cases" by Wayne Urion & Esther Kerns

"Processing Minerals into Metals-History & Present" by Brownell Ferry

"Annual Holiday Party & Silent Auction"

"The Colors of Fluorite" by Ken Casey

"Preserving the Past: How to Manage Fossil Collections" by Jenn Anné

"Alaska" by Alex Kane and Tom Pankratz

"Mazon Creek Fossils" by Gene Hartstein

"Pearls" by Nancy Marks

"Mines & Minerals of Rush, Arkansas" by Eric Meier

"Faceting" by Tom Pankratz

Eric Meier's North American Collecting Locales

Holiday Party & Silent Auction

Joey Hatcher's "Maastrichtian Dinosaur Ecology of the Hell Creek Formation of Eastern Montana"

The Geology of Turkey

How to Buy & Sell on E-Bay

Ed Rowse's Trips to Peru, Ukraine & CA

Irenee du Pont Mineral Museum, U. of D.

Larry Krause's Collection

"Rhodochrosite: Red Treasure of the Rockies"

Don Miller's "Fossilpalooza!"

Eric Meier's "Tool Time at the Rock Club"

 

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 Greenbank Mill, the parking lot is on the left, just after you recross the Wilmington & Western Railroad tracks.

Or, try mapquest.com.

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Membership Information:

Click here for a printable DMS Membership Form

Contact Bob Ehrlich, Membership Chairman

 

Questions & Comments: info@delminsociety.net

This page last updated:   May 14, 2013 01:07:57 PM  


Next Meeting
 

May Program, Monday, May 13, 2013:

"Formation of open pockets of Collectible Crystals in Metallic Deposits", a DVD presentation

General Club Meeting:
May 13, 2013
(Monday)

We are meeting at
Greenbank Mill


Special Meetings:
 

*Show Committee Meeting, Spring, 2013

*New Home/Lapidary Committee, 2013

*Board Meeting, May-June, 2013

Next Field Trips
 

Fieldtrips!

Past Fieldtrips
 

Next Show
DMS March Show
March 1-2, 2014 at DelTech Stanton

 


Our 2013 Show Theme was:
"All That Glitters is as Good as Gold!"

March Show 2013 Report

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MOTM June also commemorates our 50th Show!

It's shiny, yellow, and is a symbol of 50 Years!Can you guess?

Past MOTM

Collecting Adventure Stories:

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