Our next meeting is Tuesday, September 10. Please join us for a presentation by John Sanfacon on Russian minerals (postponed from an earlier date). John's presentation will include the history of Russian mineralogy, and he will bring in some of his own Russian minerals to show. He will have extensive notes on Mendeleev, Vernadsky and Fersman to … [Read more...]

Our next meeting is Tuesday, August 13, 2019. Join us for a presentation by Jim Pecora on gold. Our meeting begins at 7PM–we’ll start with a short business meeting, followed by refreshments, socializing, and a silent auction, and then our program. We meet in the dining room of the Bristol Senior Center, 240 Stafford Ave. in Bristol, … [Read more...]

Our next meeting is Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Join us for a presentation by club member Fritz Moritz entitled Quarry Hill and Chrysoberyl Knoll: The Minerals and Quarries of Haddam, Connecticut. In 1838, a traveler wrote that Haddam is “a place known all over civilized earth, for the richness and variety of its mineral productions”!  A bold … [Read more...]

Our next meeting is Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Join us for a presentation by club member Dave Korzendorfer on Bancroft, Ontario. The Bancroft area has been a very prolific source of fabulous mineral specimens for more than 100 years and is still yielding good finds today. The area has many calcite vein-dikes that contain many different minerals and … [Read more...]