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                Caught in Canada:
                Minerals of the Bancroft, Ontario Region                 

 

At Our Meeting: Monday, March 12, 2007

Location: Greenbank Mill, Prices Corner, Wilmington, DE

Program: "Caught in Canada: Minerals of the Bancroft, Ontario Region" Presented by Jim Stauffer

Jim and his wife Mimi shared with us their collecting stories and presented a slide show of locales and outstanding specimens that they collected over a series of trips to Canada.

Times: 7:15 - 9:30PM

Refreshments:   See Sophie Homesy  (We could use some folks to sign-up for May's meeting.)

[Tom Pankratz]

Program Review (coming soon!)

 
IMGP3064.JPG (358898 bytes) Some slides from Jim & Mimi's Caught in Canada Collection:

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Jim beginning his presentation

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Slides:

(Top, Left): Labradorite
Bottom, Left): Hing's Restaurant

(In order from top down, Right):
Sodalite Bookends,
Uraninite Crystals,
Quartz Crystals,
Blue-Green Beryl Crystal in matrix,
Yellow Calcite Crystal in matrix,
Fluorite (highlighted) & other minerals

Photos by Ken Casey

 

 

Past Programs

"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"

 

This page last updated:  December 24, 2007 04:41:22 PM

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