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President’s Corner
Paul Boni
Our president, Paul Boni, is out in the field scouting great locations for
future field trips, so his column is on vacation this month. He would be
sure to remind you of our annual picnic, coming up soon on Saturday, Aug 21
(further details elsewhere in this issue). He would also encourage you to
go on one or more of the remaining summer field trips—some of the best are
saved for last!
It is with great sadness that we
report the death of our own beloved Charlotte Morrison, on July 31.
Charlotte was the heart and soul of our club, and it is going to be
difficult to continue on without her, but that is definitely what she would
want us to do, and we will. Her obituary in the Daily Camera is available
here: http://www.dailycamera.com/obits/ci_15677457,
and a remembrance by Gerry Naugle follows immediately.
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Charlotte Morrison -- May 21, 1923 -July 31, 2010
Gerry Naugle
Bill and Charlotte Morrison were
underpinnings of support for the FMC Club for the past thirty years. Bill
moved his family to Boulder from Rockville, MD in 1976 when he accepted a job
with the National Weather Service (NWS) in the Solar Instruments Division
at their offices near 30th St and Arapahoe Ave. Both Charlotte and Bill
were originally from the west area of Idaho with her home town being
Moscow, ID. Bill Morrison passed away on 26 Dec 1999.
They
had been avid rockhounds and fossil collectors while in the US east coast
area, and brought all of that with them to Boulder. They started with the
FMC in about 1980. Bill was President of the FMC twice and Charlotte was
the club Secretary numerous times. They went on field trips, too many to
count, in the Rocky Mountain area and had a wide assortment of collected
fossils and minerals at their house in Boulder. She was active in other
crafts such as painted eggs, colored sand paintings and beading. She did
instruction on beading at the Frasier Meadows crafts room for several
years.
Charlotte
had also been a member of WIPS, CMS and North Jeffco clubs and was the
editor of the FMC newsletter outright for approximately ten years, then assisted
Melinda Thompson and then Barry Knapp (current FMC editor) after that in
the important capacity of proofreading. She was active on all years’ annual
show committees, and coordinated the FMC tables at Denver Shows each year.
She was also active on the scholarship sub-committee.
Her
main activity joy in recent years was having the Jr Geologists group meet
monthly at her house when they were not out on their own field trips and
during the fall/winter/early spring months.
Charlotte’s
gritty determination to “get things done” was a valued asset of the FMC
Club over three decades. Memorial donations to the FMC Scholarship
Endowment Fund can be in her name made at: FMC, PO Box 3331, Boulder, CO
80307
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2010 Summer Field Trips Update
Gabi Accatino
Our
trip to Topaz Mountain Gem Mine on Sunday, May 23 turned out quite well, as
most people were able to find some pretty nice topaz specimens, as well as
smoky quartz. Twenty-two club members showed up and we either raked through
the mine gravel or helped shovel gravel onto the mechanical shaker in
operation at the site. The “prize” (but not the stone) for largest topaz
went to Kristi Traynor. The photo, at least, is a keeper! The mine is owned
by Joe Dorris. We also arranged a trip to his amazonite mine July 24—a
report on this trip will be in a future issue of the newsletter. To learn
more about Joe’s mines and gems, check out http://www.pinnacle5minerals.com.
Fun at Devil’s
Head, June 12, 2010
It
was definitely NOT a pretty day for this field trip considering that it was
cold, foggy, and it even hailed, but Matt Dye led 10 of us into the woods
in search of Smoky Quartz Well, he
dug, we dug, we all dug, and it was new member, Charlotte Bourg, who found
a beauty. After we got really tired of the first site, we moved on to a
site listed in a book that Charlotte had – Fern Creek Quarry. Four-wheel
drive was a necessity to get there but the drive was well worth it!
We had an amazing
time investigating this huge quartz quarry. Matt and Charlotte worked hard
to get their crystals from the quarry walls. It was Tally who hit pay dirt,
though, by finding a big cache of Smoky Quartz! Thanks, Tally, for many of
those pieces for the grab bags and thanks to Matt for leading a fun trip!
The
summer field trip season is coming to a close, but there are still some
good trips in the offing:
Aug
28 (Saturday)—Red Feather Lakes for amethyst Sep 4 (4-day
weekend)—Crawford, NE for Fairburn agates (see p. 5 for more information)
Sep
11 (weekend) Yellow Cat, UT/Book Cliffs
You
must be a FMC member to join our trips. If you are not a member you can apply
to join the club 1) by filling-out a membership application at one of our
meetings, 2) by calling Gerry Naugle
to get an application sent to you, or 3) by downloading it from our website
at: http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/fmc/. The last opportunity to join
FMC in order to go on field trips this summer is during our June meeting on
6/10/2010. You cannot join the club on the day of the field trip. Don’t
miss out. You can always contact the Field Trip Coordinators: Anita and Gabi.
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Jr. Geologist Field
Trip to Florissant
In
June, the Jr. Geologists and their families traveled to Florissant, Colorado,
to join three other young geology groups for a day of fossils. The tour was
led by Steven Veatch, a paleontologist that works at Florissant Fossil Beds
National Monument. Steven led the group on a tour of the monument, made
famous from its giant fossilized redwood stumps and the paper-thin shales
that contain leaves and insects. Steven told about the volcanic activity in
the area 34 million years ago that resulted in giant mud slides that
covered the redwood forest, causing the trunks to fossilize. The volcanoes
also dammed the river in the area, creating a large lake. The shales formed
in the lake, trapping and preserving leaves and insects. An ancient mammoth
and other prehistoric mammals have also been found at the park.
After
the tour of the park, we traveled to a private quarry outside to park to
split shale and collect fossils. Fossilized leaves, seed pods, cattails,
and even a flower were found. Many different fossil bugs were also
collected.
We
thank Steven Veatch for organizing and leading this trip for our Jr.
Geologists.
Steven
Veatch showing mammoth teeth to the Jr. Geologists.
Charles
Mock collecting fossils in the shale.
Gavin
Morrison with a fossil leaf he found.
Steven
Veatch, leading the tour of the park, explaining the geology and fossils in
the area.
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Denver Gem & Mineral Show Coming Soon
Judy
Knoshaug, Show Secretary
The
Denver Gem & Mineral Show will be here before you know it. Don’t forget
the dates – September 17 – 19, 2010. The theme is the Creede Mining
District. It will be a fantastic show as usual with fabulous exhibits,
dealers with irresistible and intriguing specimens, interesting talks,
enjoyable Saturday night buffet and presentation by Ed Raines on Creede,
delicious Sunday breakfast for volunteers, and many opportunities to
participate in the fascinating hobby we all love of gems, minerals, and
fossils.
To put on this
wonderful show, however, many volunteers are needed. It takes over 400
volunteers for the show. We hope you have already volunteered for
something. People are needed for admissions, grab bag and poster sales,
volunteer check in, gemstone giveaway, security, hospitality room, judging
clerks, exhibits assistants, and dealer check in. Of course, many people
are also needed for show set up on Wednesday, September 15th and show take
down on Sunday, September 19th. These are very important jobs. If you have
not already found your niche, contact your club representative (each club
has one) or Show Chair, Barb Melby, at 303-4235876. Don’t forget admission
to the show is free for volunteers plus refreshments in the Hospitality
Room and a yummy Sunday breakfast for only $1! Your help is definitely
needed! We hope to see you all at the show.
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Find FMC on Facebook!
FMC
has a Facebook
page where club events are listed and Facebook members can leave
messages on the Wall. You don't need to have an account to look at the
page, although you can set up your own Facebook account and help spread our
club's presence--it's free and super-easy. Let's see how many Facebook
members we can get to "Like" our favorite rock and mineral club's
page!
Follow
our club at our Flatirons Mineral Club Facebook Page!
Thanks
to Kristi Traynor for hosting
the FMC Facebook account.
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Charlotte
celebrating her last birthday with the Jr. Geologists
Please
share your remembrances of Charlotte—we will run them in a future issue of
the newsletter. Send them to the editor, Barry Knapp.
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Creede Mineral Symposium
Here
is updated information about the mineral symposium being held on Sept.
10-12 in Creede, Colorado, sponsored by the Colorado Chapter of Friends of
Mineralogy and the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum.
The
symposium will consist of an icebreaker reception with refreshments and a
lecture presentation Friday evening; a program of speakers during the day
Saturday and an optional evening banquet; and optional field trips (to the
Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine a few miles east of Creede and to the Last
Chance mine in Creede) on Sunday. Symposium registration is $34; optional
Saturday evening banquet is $26; and optional box lunch for Sunday's field
trip is $10. Full information about registration is posted on the Friends
of Mineralogy, Inc., website, http://www.friendsofmineralogy.org/, under
"Upcoming Symposia". To register or for additional information,
please contact FMCC Treasurer Lou Conti, dlconti@aol.com, 6987 S. Hill St.,
Littleton CO 80120. A list of speaker presentations at the symposium
follows (some topic titles may be revised). We will hope to see many of you
there it Creede; it promises to be a very interesting mineralogical event
at this mining town which is relatively unfrequented by people from the
Denver area.
List
of speakers, Creede Mineral Symposium, Sept. 10-12, 2010:
Friday
evening lecture:
Ed
Raines; Geology and Mining History of the Creede Mining District.
Saturday
presentations:
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Warren Andrews; Creede Mining History.
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Chuck Harbert, author; Views of Historic Creede through Postcards.
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Ken Wylie; History of the Amethyst Vein.
•
Tom Rosemeyer; Mineralogy of the Amethyst Vein System, Creede Mining
District, Mineral County, Colorado.
•
Dean Misantoni, Hecla Mining Co.; Mineral exploration in the Creede
district.
•
Bill Atkinson, Colorado School of Mines; Sphalerite geochemistry and the
genesis of the Creede ore deposits.
•
Bruce Geller, Colorado School of Mines; Creede Minerals in the CSM Geology
Museum.
Poster
papers:
•
James F. Hurlbut, Denver Museum of Nature and Science; Creede Minerals at
DMNS.
•
Michael M. Reddy, U.S. Geological Survey; Transient Calcite Fracture
Fillings in a Welded Tuff, Snowshoe Mountain, Mineral County, Colorado.
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Agate Swap
Crawford, Nebraska 2010
John Hurst
Agate Time!!!
It is
the 24th annual “Fairburn” Agate Swap in Crawford, Nebraska, and yes-their
dealers sell all kinds of agates, spheres, minerals, fossils, jewelry,
gemstones, petrified wood, jade and curio items. With up to 75 dealers in a
good year, there are always some surprise treasures (like local honey) that
show up on Labor Day weekend.
•
When: Fri. Sept. 3rd through Mon. Sept. 6th, 2010 8 to 6 daily
•
Where: City Park-NW edge of Crawford, NE (Dealers camp free)
•
Admission: Free to all- the best deal out there!
•
Free Daily Field Trips to the Agate Gravel Beds (27 miles one-way)
•
Agate Collectors Meeting: Sat, 2 p.m. -Open to all
•
Potluck: Sat, 6 p.m. (open to all – public and dealers alike-just bring
food)
•
Public Rock Auction--Community Building, Sat, 7 p.m. – open to all
For
more information contact: John Hurst or in Nebr.-Wade Beins 1-308-432-8950.
Camping
at Fort Robinson (3 miles west of Crawford) Motels in Crawford—Hilltop
Motel or Townline Motel (no pools)
Chadron---Motel
8 and others (22 mi. NE of Crawford) Fort Robinson- rooms and cabins with
advanced booking (pay for pool)
Moose Lake, MN, Agate Stampede 2010
For
those fans and fanatics, the Lake Superior Agate Stampede was on July 17
& 18, 2010 at the local high school, where visitors and serious agate
collectors came to see what kind of agates came out of the glacial gravels
in the last 12 months. Collectors from as far away as Amsterdam, Holland
made the trek and were not disappointed.
“Laker”
prices ranged from 2/$1 up to 4 digit territory! “Laker” marbles and
spheres ranged from $75 up to $250. The outdoor parking lot quickly filled
with bargain hunters and the indoor dealers were packed full with buyers as
well. One happy collector scored a 6 inch polished $100 Union Road Agate
from the Argentine Agate dealer.
At 2
p.m. the kids are invited to try their luck at the “Agate Stampede”. On a
downtown block, a large gravel truck drops 300 feet of local gravel salted
generously with 1-2 inch Lakers. At the start signal it becomes an agate
grabbing free-for-all! It is a great way for kids to start their agate
collection,
If
you put the Agate Stampede on your 2011 calendar, be sure to book your
campground or motel early! Please do not forget your $200 plus in spending
change. Good hunting!
In The Dark (UV Topics)
Halite,
Location: Mt. Gunson, South Australia
Shortwave—Bright
Gold
Midwave---Bright
Gold
Longwave—none
Storage:
in a dry place
North
of Adelaide along the Stuart Highway to Alice Springs, you find a spot
where the highway angles sharply (30 degrees or more) to the left. If you
had one or two Fosters too many and went straight instead, you would find a
slat flat at Mt. Gunson, home to this green Halite that fluoresces bright
gold under short and midwave U-V lamps. It's certainly a great way to add a
new color to your U-V display.
These
specimens often collect moisture, then exude moisture in your U-V
display—don’t take it personally. It is just the nature of this specimen.
Considering how far these specimens have to travel to reach us in Colorado,
they are still priced fairly reasonably, at least when compared to the big
U-V dealers in Tucson or Denver. I have no solid information on how long
this salt flat deposit may last and shipping costs have doubled in the last
couple of years. It is wise to buy material before the supply becomes
limited.
Regardless
of moisture and price, it adds a nice Aussie G’day to your U-V collection.
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Fossils in the News
Dennis Gertenbach
Mystery Fossil
Identified as Squid Ancestor
A
fossil found several decades ago in the Burgess Shale deposits atop a
mountain in Yoho National Park in British Columbia, Canada, has long been a
mystery to paleontologists. First described in 1976, it was classified
as
“unknown,” possibly belonging to the shrimp family or a fish ancestor. A
recent paper in Nature reports that 91 more specimens have been found and
have interpreted the animal as a cephalopod ancestor, with includes squid,
octopus, ammonites, and nautiluses.
Nectocaris
pteryx is thought to hunt for prey with two grasping tentacles. It was
between one and two inches long and had large, stalked eyes. It used a
nozzle-like funnel under its eyes that could "swivel like a pivoted
cannon" to jet itself around the ocean, modern squids and octopuses.
Not all scientists agree that Nectocaris was a cephalopod ancestor. Unlike
later cephalopods, Nectocaris only had two tentacles and compound eyes
similar to arthropods such as trilobites and insects.
Nectocaris
pteryx as reconstructed by Marianne Collins in Smith & Caron (2010).
New Armored
Dinosaur with Four-Foot Horns
Researchers
from the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City have reported a
new species of armored dinosaur with four-foot horns on its head. This
plant-eater, named Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna, was an ancestor of the
famous three-horned Triceratops. It was thought to weigh four to five tons
and was 22 feet long, standing six to seven feet tall at the shoulder and
hip. The fossils were in the state of Coahuila in southern Mexico.
Like
other horned dinosaurs, or ceratopsids, it had a large bony plate behind
its head which would have acted as a shield. The two four-foot long horns
on its head, the largest of any dinosaur, could gouge the largest
predators. However, scientists believe the horns were most often used in
mating or jousting contests rather than to fight off predators,
This
giant dinosaur with four-foot horns was an ancestor of Triceratops (Photo:
PA)
World's Oldest
Fig Wasp Little Changed
The
world's oldest known example of a fig wasp was found in the 1920s on the
Isle of Wight. Although this 34-million-year-old fossil was first described
as an ant, its identity has been corrected. Three specimens were examined
using modern techniques that allowed details of the tiny fossils to be
correctly identified as fossil fig wasps. These fossil wasps are almost
identical to the modern species, indicating that this proving that this
specialized insect has remained virtually unchanged for
over
34 million years.
Fig
wasps and fig trees are mutually interdependent. The body of the wasps has
evolved to be able to crawl inside the flowers of the fig. The wasps
pollinate the figs with pollen collected in pockets on their bodies as they
move from flower to flower to lay their eggs. The wasp larvae, in turn,
live in the flowers. These wasp fossils are also similar to a
20-million-year-old specimen preserved in amber. Fig wasps and fig trees
are thought to have been evolving together for over 60 million years.
34-million
year old fig wasp fossil which was mistaken for an ant when first described
in the 1920s. The arrow shows the pocket where the pollen is stored,
similar to modern fig wasps. (Credit: Image copyright Natural History
Museum, London)
Mammals Chewed on
Dino Bones
Paleontologists
have discovered the oldest mammal tooth marks yet found - on the bones of
several large dinosaurs. The bones are from the Late Cretaceous, dating
back about 75 million years. Tooth marks were
identified
on a femur bone from a Champsosaurus, an aquatic reptile; the rib of a
dinosaur, most likely a hadrosaurid or ceratopsid; the femur of another
large dinosaur that was likely an ornithischian; plus a lower jaw bone from
a small marsupial. The researchers identified the teeth marks as from mammals,
because they were created by opposing pairs of teeth. Only mammals had this
trait at this time. The paleontologists think the teeth marks were most
likely made by multituberculates, an extinct order of mammals that
resembled rodents. The animals that made the marks were about the size of a
squirrel and were probably gnawing on bare bones for minerals, much like
modern rodents.
A
close-up of the tooth marks gouged in the rib bone of a large dinosaur by a
mammal that lived 75 million years ago. (Credit: Photo by Nicholas
Longrich/Yale University)
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Marie Mozden, 1945-2010
We
learned recently of the death of club member Marie Mozden at her ranch in
Nederland on April 1. Marie went on our club field trips and had become a
close friend of Charlotte and Gerry. She did volunteer calling for our
December show—maybe you talked to her on the phone. Her obituary, as
published ion theMountainEar.com,
is most interesting. Here are some excerpts:
On
Saturday afternoon, a bluebird perched on a fence post outside the Diamond
M kitchen window. A burro ran from the backyard, braying in expectation.
The young paint horse and the ancient mare nibbled on grass. Spring runoff
formed a pool in the meadow south of the house. Pasque flowers poked their
furry stems from under winter's melting mantle. It was a normal scene at
the old homestead on Magnolia Road; except Marie was no longer there. The
long-time rancher, Magnolia Road, mountain-woman icon, was being buried on
her beloved land by friends and members of her family.
Marie
Mozden died at her ranch on April 1st, of natural causes. She had reported
earlier that she felt tired and then, apparently, she laid down to rest.
Marie
was the former Director of Ski Patrol, and then Mountains Operations
Manager, at Lake Eldora Ski Area. She was well known throughout the
mountains as a cattle rancher, artist, skilled horsewoman, conservator of
horse drawn buggies, pilot, amateur geologist, and savior of animals.
When
she was 11, her family moved to Massachusetts where she spent her
childhood. In high school, she was a cheerleader and was voted the most
beautiful girl in her graduating class. From her earliest years she was
called by her path, to horses and the high country, and after hitchhiking
from Massachusetts to Alaska, she moved to Colorado to attend college at CU
in Boulder, where she studied zoology, psychology, and chemistry. She
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1966. An autodidact and a factotum,
she later self-studied philosophy, geology, veterinary science, and
aerodynamics, among other interests.
Marie
purchased her ranch on Magnolia Road after college, and, being an avid
skier, began working at the ski area. At Lake Eldora, Marie invented many
of the races and rituals that are still enjoyed by the ski area employees
to this day. She oversaw the construction of the cross country ski trail
network, and the building of its little forest cabins. She cut many of the
trails on the back side of the mountain and became famous for having
wonderful parties both at the ski area and at her ranch.
As
an artist, Marie painted many of the signs at Lake Eldora, as it was known
then, which became coveted collector's items. Later, she painted murals on
buildings in Nederland and Boulder, and at the original Nederland teen
center under the Mountain People's Co-op.
When
Marie painted a mural on the side of the Nature's Own building, depicting a
brontosaurus egg, the town board said it wasn't legal, it was too big, a
decision that roused a lot of rabble at the time. Before the sign went
away, Marie painted bars across the poor dinosaur, depicting the loss of
freedom. If there was a cause, she was ready for it.
As
a conservator of horse-drawn carriages, she was contracted by museums to
restore buggies, and trained both horses and drivers in this historical
tradition. Later in life, she earned her pilot's license and flew her
Cessna all across America going to fly-ins and hob-nobbing with other
pilots. She used her plane as well to further the range of her interests in
geology and land management.
Carrying
on the tradition of the old time ranchers in the area, Marie owned a herd
of Simmental cattle on her ranch, along with chickens and pigs, and an
ever-changing menagerie of horses and donkeys, and dogs and cats. Her first
calf of the season became the Magnolia Road harbinger of spring. She sold
her highly appreciated organic beef to neighbors and friends.
Marie
was deeply gifted with an ability to care for animals, and frequently had
lost animals show up at her ranch, where she took them in and healed them
of a variety of ailments. Among the humans, she always had people that she
took under her wing, all across the state of Colorado, and locally, was a
volunteer at the teen center in Nederland, helping troubled youth.
She
lived at her ranch on Magnolia Drive for over 40 years. Within that time,
she also traveled widely across the states, the Caribbean, and even as far
as the Sultanate of Oman, where she taught some of the local boys, who had
never seen a woman without a veil, much less a blonde, blue-eyed one, how
to throw an American baseball.
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Upcoming Events,
Nearby & Elsewhere
Aug 19-22, Rock Gypsies presents the Woodland Park Gem, Mineral, and
Jewelry Show, Woodland Park Saddle Club, Highway 24 west of Wal-Mart,
Woodland Park, CO; free admission and parking; for info contact Kim or Bodie Packham, 719-360-9665.
Aug
21 (Saturday), Flatiron Mineral Club’s annual picnic, North Boulder Park
pavilion, 11:00 a.m.
Aug
20-22, Lake George Gem & Mineral Show, Lake George, CO. For more info
see http://www.lggmclub.org/.
Sep.
10-12, Creede Mineral Symposium, to be held in Creede, CO, sponsored by the
Colorado Chapter, Friends of Mineralogy, and the Colorado School of Mines
Geology Museum; a two-day symposium (plus Friday evening reception and
lecture) with lecture presentations, Saturday evening banquet, and field
trips on Sunday. Registration (by Aug. 25) is $34; banquet is $26; for more
information please see p. 5 in this newsletter issue, or contact Lou Conti,
303-797-3205.
Sep.
3-6, Colorado Mining Exhibit Foundation educational exhibit tent at Taste
of Colorado; "The Importance of Mining and Minerals to a Strong America".
All are invited to visit this display if you are at the Taste of Colorado
festival in downtown Denver, Labor Day weekend, and volunteer help to set
up and help staff the exhibit is most welcome; please contact Guy Johnson as per the info below:
"More than 500,000 people attend the four-day event and thousands went
through our 40 ft. x 40 ft. tent (including hundreds of teachers) in 2009.
They tried their hand at gold panning, the fossil hunt, saw the many free
educational videos and CDs that are available on mining and reclamation and
took home rock samples and educational material. Volunteers are solicited;
contact Guy Johnson, the Exhibit Coordinator
at (303) 969-0365.
Sep.
11 will be the next Dinosaur Discovery Day public tour day at Dinosaur Ridge: the theme will be
"Reading Really Rocks". Festivities include dinosaur story time
for kids, a used geology book sale for the adults, and a book signing by
Dinosaur Ridge authors. Expert guides will be stationed along the Ridge
Trail. Hike free or take the shuttle bus ($3, 5 & under ride free).
Trek Through Time exhibit free all day. Dinosaur Ridge is located just west
of the C-470 exit at Alameda Parkway. For more information contact Tom Moklestad at 303-697-3466.
The following, and last for the year, Dinosaur Discovery Day will be Oct.
9, featuring Girl Scout Day and Earth Science Week.
Wed.,
Sept. 15, CSM Geology Museum Open House, Reception, and Silent Auction held
during the week of the Denver Gem and Mineral Show; 6 to 9 p.m. at the
Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum, 13th and Maple Streets, Golden.
All are invited!
Sep.
17-18, Denver Gem and Mineral Show, Denver Merchandise Mart, 58th Ave. at
I-25 (exit 215). For more info see http://www.denvermineralshow.com/ (and
also p. 5, this issue); the second-largest gem and mineral show in the U.S.
Combined with the Colorado Fossil Expo in the same building complex; a wholesale-only
gem trade show takes place there too. Dealers, museum displays, and club
exhibits; public welcome (admission charge); free parking. The theme of the
2010 show is "The Creede Mining District".
Sep
15-19, Colorado Mineral and Fossil Show, Holiday Inn - Denver Central, 4849
Bannock St.; free parking and admission, many mineral dealers; see
http://www.mzexpos.com/colorado_fall.htm.
September events at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry,
Colorado Springs:
Thurs., Sept. 9, WMMI Heritage Lecture
Series, 7:00-8:30 p.m.; Legal Issues and Cases Surrounding Land Use in the
West, by William Perry Pendley, President and Chief Operating Officer of
the Mountain States Legal Foundation. Mr. Pendley has argued cases before
the Supreme Court of the United States as well as various federal courts of
appeals. He won what Time called a "legal earthquake" when the
Supreme Court ruled in his favor in the historic equal protection case,
Adarand Constructors Inc. v. Pena (1995). His monthly column, Summary
Judgment, appears throughout the country. He is the author of three books:
It Takes a Hero (1994); War on the West (1995); and Warriors for the West
(2006). Free and open to the public, but please make reservations by calling 719-488-0880.
Sat., Sept. 18, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Keep What
You Find Gold & Gemstone Panning; Take a tour of the museum to learn
how to pan for real gold and gemstones just like the prospectors of the
1800s. Each visitor gets to keep whatever treasures they find! Daily tours
begin at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. No reservations required (regular
admission applies).
Thurs.,
Sept. 23; 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m., Exhibit Opening: Margaret Whiting Exhibit
“Laws of the Land” will exhibit work by artist Margaret Whiting, who
explores contemporary issues related to land use and encourages thoughtful
consideration of the laws that regulate our relationship to the land by
highlighting phrases and words in the text of law books to build new
statements. Related programming will explore the history and future of the
Mining Law of 1872. The exhibit will run from Sept. 23 to Dec. 30, 9 a.m.-4
p.m.
Sat.,
Sept. 25, Mining Claim Workshop; 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Join members of the
Gold Prospectors of Colorado as they present on the history of mining claims
and discuss and demonstrate how claims are stacked. Workshop admission is
$10.00, includes museum entry.
The
Museum is located at 225 North Gate Boulevard (I-25 Gleneagle exit, #156A),
Colorado Springs; 719-488-0880.
Sat.
& Sun., Nov. 20 - 21, Hands of
Spirit Gallery 13th Annual Holiday Mineral and Jewelry Open House from
11:00 am to 5:00 pm. You're sure to find an incredible selection of the
finest crystal and mineral specimens and a lovely selection of jewelry.
Refreshments will be served. Call 303-541-9727 for directions and further
information.
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Calendar of Events
Aug
21 FMC Annual Club Picnic, North Boulder Park Pavilion, 11:00 A.M. Come and
enjoy, and help stuff grab bags for this year’s shows.
Aug
28 FMC Club Field Trip To Red Feather Lakes For Amethyst. Contact Anita Colin
Aug
30 FMC Board Meeting Paul Boni’s
house, 7:12 p.m.
Sep
9 FMC Club Meeting, 7:00 PM, West Boulder Senior Ctr, 9th & Arap. Tom
Hendricks, on the Caribou mines
Sep
11 FMC Club Field Trip To Yellow Cat, Ut, And Book Cliffs Contact Anita Colin
Sep
17-19 Denver Gem & Mineral Show, Denver Merchandise Mart, 58th Ave At
I-25 See above for details
Sep
27 FMC Board Meeting Location to be announced.
Oct
14 FMC Club Meeting, 7:00 PM, West Boulder Senior Ctr, 9th & Arap.
Program to be announced.
Oct
21 Junior Geologists Meeting At Charlotte’s house, as usual. Contact Dennis Gertenbach
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