FLATIRONS MINERAL CLUB MEETINGS
The club meets on the second Thursday of each month at 7
p.m., at the West
Boulder Senior Center, unless
otherwise stated. The
Members are
encouraged to bring specimens they have found or lapidary projects they have
completed to meetings. There are several
experts in the club that can help identify that mystery mineral or fossil find.
February
(Feb. 9) –Bill and
Beth Sagstetter will be joining us in February to
present a program on their explorations of ghost town sites. Here is a description of their talk:
"Have you ever been to a deserted mining camp site and seen old, rusted
contraptions and wondered what they were and what they might have originally
been used for? Or walked through log cabin ruins and wondered what was once
performed in this place?-- was it an assay office,
blacksmith shop or lodging?" The Sagstetter’s
slideshow will be an introduction on how to decipher these mysteries. They have
also written a book, The Mining Camps Speak, which addresses these and other questions. This book will also be available at our club
meeting for a special price. If you’d like to do some background reading ahead
of time, check the Colorado ghost
towns website.
Coming Attractions
March
(Mar. 8) – Program TBA
2012 Past Programs
January
(Jan. 12) – The
speaker at our January meeting will be Bruce Geller, Director of the School
of Mines Geology Museum. Bruce's talk is "The Good Earth: A Visit to The Geological Museum of China and
then some...”
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