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                    Fossil Fakes, Forgeries & Misconceptions
                                 

At Our Meeting: Monday, October 8, 2007

Location: Greenbank Mill, Prices Corner, Wilmington, DE

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

Times: 7:15 - 9:30PM

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

 

[Tom Pankratz]

Program Review (coming soon!)

 
Gene shows us a reconstructed fossil eohippus under UV light. A slide of Gene's fossil horse ancestor un UV light

 

"Resin Casts Abound" slide
  Gene points to aspects of a genuine Trilobite fossil.
 
Fossil Amber fakes    

 

 

Past Programs

"Show 'n Tell 2007"

"Annual 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"

 

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This page last updated:  January 27, 2008 12:39:52 AM

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