At Our Meeting: Monday, May 14, 2007

Location: Greenbank Mill, Prices Corner, Wilmington, DE

Program: "Minerals of St. Hilaire, Canada" presented by Phil Betancourt

Times: 7:15 - 9:30PM

[Tom Pankratz]

Program Review (coming soon!)

Partial Slideshow of Dr. Betancourt's Presentation
(Courtesy of Dr. Betancourt)

Phil Betancourt and Bill swap stories		Phil begins his presentation
Slide 1		Slide2: The Site
Slide: Backlit Rhodochrosite Crystal		Slide: Zircon crystals in matrix
Dr. Phil Sums up his presentation		Members ask questions
Alex had a good question		"The End"
		Photos by Ken Casey
Dr. Phil, his wife Mary, and Alex

Past Programs

"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"