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Newsletter: RocKester News
Annual
Rochester Mineralogical Symposium
2012 Schedule & Registration Form is now available at the link above.
This world-renowned event takes place each April at the
Radisson Hotel on Jefferson Road.

Feature
Article
If you missed
Bob Morgan's talk at the 2003 Tucson Mineral Show or at the section meeting
in the spring of 2003 (or just wish to see it again), here is your chance!
Bob has graciously made his slides and narration notes available for viewing
on the Web. Thanks, Bob.
Amazing
Pyrite Shapes of Huanzala, Peru
Other
Club Events
Science
Exploration Days This annual event at St. John Fisher
College each May provides us with an opportunity to demonstrate, talk
about, and give away minerals to area Junior and Senior ) high school
students.
This year's dates are Wednesday
May 11 and Thursday
the 12th, 2011.
June
Picnic as guests of the Rochester Lapidary Society. Sunday
June 5, 2011.
Roberts Cabin at Henrietta Town Park, Calkins Rd., Henrietta, NY. We're
invited! Bring a covered dish, salad or dessert. Silent auction. More
info to follow.
Annual
ADK Outdoor Expo put on by the Genesee Valley Chapter of
the Adirondack Mountain Club at Mendon Ponds Park Beach Area. We will
have a booth advertising our club to the public. This year's event is
on Saturday June 11, 2011.
Annual
Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show Co-sponsored with
the Rochester Lapidary Society at Minett Hall at the Monroe Co. Fair and
Expo Center.
2011 Dates:
Saturday October 22 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday October 23 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Holiday
Dinner Meeting In December each year. A special
year-end get together and pot-luck dinner.
Articles
The October 2007 meeting featured Dr. David Bailey, Associate
Professor of Geology at Hamilton College, who gave an interesting talk
about the Kimberlitic Rocks of New York.
For a summary of this talk,
click here!
Barton
& Hooper Garnet Mine Field Trip
Contacts
Mineral Website
and General Information
mineral(at)rasny.org
Field Trip Coordinators
mineraltrips(at)rasny.org
Past President
William Pinch
Vice President
Stephen Busschaert
mineralvp(at)rasny.org
Secretary Don VanTyne
mineralsecretary(at)rasny.org
Treasurer Paul Dudley
Curator William Pinch
Directors
James Synyard
Brian McGrath
Kathy Henrie
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Events Schedule
Monthly Club meetings
are generally on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Brighton
Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester NY. Our December meeting
will be elsewhere, and occasionally we may need to change the date or
meeting locations. This site will list any such changes or updates.
There is no meeting in April
due to all the mineralogical excitement created by the Rochester
Mineralogical Symposium.
Saturday, February 4th Science
Saturday at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. 1:00 pm - 4:00pm.
We will have a display setup to talk minerals with the families that visit
the museum this afternoon. This is a new public outreach event for
us to participate in, so bring the kids and say "hello" as you
enter the museum.
Saturday, February 18th JUNIOR
OPEN HOUSE at member, Bill Coon's home - For serious children ~age
11 and over who are interested in making a mineral collection. Time to
be announced. Please e-mail Nancy McCann at mineralpres(at)rasny.org
to sign up and for more information. Alternate date - Sat., Feb. 25th.
Tuesday, February 21st MONTHLY
MEETING - 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM at Brighton Town Hall, Downstairs Meeting
Room, 2300 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Speaker will be a reschedule
of Dr. Asish Basu of the University of Rochester on "Meteorites:
Rocks from Space." Refreshments and door prizes. Visitors
are welcome. Please check here for updates.
Field Trips
A benefit of Mineral Section membership are the club-sponsored
field trips.
An advance headcount is required for field trips, and you must be a member
to receive field trip details.
To sign up for field trips, or if you have an idea for a field trip, contact
mineraltrips(at)rasny.org.
If you are not currently a member here is a link to the RAS
membership form
2011 Field Trips
Saturday April 9, National Limestone Quarry, Mt. Pleasant
Mills, PA for clear calcite crystals, strontionite, wavellite, and
flourite veins in rock. For more information, mineraltrips@rasny.org.
Sunday May 1 - Marmora Quarry Field Trip, 8:30 a.m.
- 3:00 p.m. Stirling-Marmora Rd., Marmora, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada.
Late arrivals OK. Well-supervised children & power tools allowed.
Reflective orange or yellow vest or shirt required. Must have passport
or enhanced driver's license. For more info, please e-mail mineraltrips(at)rasny.org
Saturday May 14 Penfield Quarry Open House.
For dolomite, calcite, gypsum, sphalerite, fluorite, and galena.
7:00 a.m. to noon. Penfield quarry on Whalen Road between
Atlantic Ave. (Rt 286) and Five-mile Line Road, Penfield.
Saturday & Sunday October 8 & 9 Walworth
Quarry Open House. Arrive at 6:45 a.m. Off Atlantic
Avenue (Rt. 286) east of Penfield and just west of Rt. 350. Entrance
on Tiffany Road. .
Some Previous Field Trips
Penfield Quarry (Dolomite Products Co., Inc.), Minerals that may be
found here are Fluorite, Selenite, Dolomite, Calcite, Sphalerite, Celestine,
Gypsum & Fossils.
Herkimer "Diamond" Mine, Herkimer, NY for quartz crystals..
"Diamond" Acres, Fonda, NY for quartz crystals.
Crystal Grove "Diamond" Mine
& Campground, St. Johnsville, NY for quartz crystals.
Bancroft, Ontario, Canada area.
Marmora Quarry (Aecon Corp.), Stirling-Marmora
Rd., Marmora Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
Barton
Garnet Mine, North River, NY and the abandoned Hooper Garnet mine.
Garnet, gneiss, feldspar, hornblende.
Lafarge, NA at Lockport (Quarry) - Minerals
usually found there include: Pink-tinged dolomite crystals, calcite
crystals, celestine, gypsum (selenite & massive), anhydrite, and
marcasite.
Spring Creek, Alden,
NY depending on people's preference, for fossils, pyritized
fossils & nodules and septarian nodules.
Lewis & St. Lawrence
Counties. Tourmalines,
titanite, diopside, graphite, blue calcite, and more.
Bower Powers farm
for uvite, quartz & apatite, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence Co., NY.
Meckley's Limestone Products, Inc.
Quarry in Mandata, PA
National
Limestone Quarry, in Mt. Pleasant Mills, Pennsylvania for wavellite,
calcite & strontianite.
Dolomite Products Co.,
Inc., Walworth Quarry, Walworth, NY. for dolomite,
calcite, gypsum, fluorite, sphalerite, marcasite.
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