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Caught
in Canada:
Minerals
of the Bancroft, Ontario Region
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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!) |
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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 |
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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"
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This page last updated: February 19, 2011 10:14:55 AM
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Next Meeting |
"Mineral Identification" presented by Bill
Stephens, Professional Geologist
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General Club Meeting: |
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February 13,
2012 |
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We are meeting at
The Greenbank Mill, Wilmington, DE
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Special Meetings:
*Show Committee Meeting, Thursday February 16, 2012
*New Home/Lapidary Committee, 2012
*Board Meeting, Sunday
February 19, 2012 at Noon
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DMS March Show |
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March 3-4, 2012 |
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Our 2012 Show Theme:
"Made Mined in
America"
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