Nittany Mineralogical Society

Past Symposia

 

1. Symposium: Friends of Mineralogy, Pennsylvania Chapter. October, 1993

2. Centennial Symposium: Carbonate Mineralogy. September 27-29, 1996

• Geological History of Pennsylvania Carbonates - Paul Zell
• Pennsylvania Micromount Minerals, 1930 to 1960 - Jim Hurlbut
• Arkansas River Valley Carbonatites - Henry Barwood
• Is It Really Real? Mineral Fakes - Wolfgang Vogt
• Origins of Large Calcites in Indiana - Nelson Shaffer
• Occurrence and Mineralogy of Dolostone and Ironstone Septaria in Ohio - Ernest Carlson
• Jeff Scovil, author of Photographing Minerals, Fossils and Lapidary Arts, Keynote Speaker
• Colorado Rhodochrosite - Robert Witkowski
• Unusual and Rare Igneous Carbonates and Associated Minerals in Carbonates - David Gold
• Luminescence Banding in Stalagmites: A High Resolution Paleoclimatic Record - Will White
• Field Trip

3. Symposium: Lead, Zinc and Iron Minerals. September 19 - 21, 1997

• Iron Ore Deposits of Central Pennsylvania - Art Rose
• Minerals of Phoenixville & New Galena, Pa. - Allen Heyl
• Iridescent Hematite from Virginia - Susan Eriksson
• Yellowstone and Beyond - Wolfgang Vogt
• Iron, Zinc and Lead Minerals of Indiana - Nelson Shaffer
• Serpent Mound Zinc District, Ohio - Ernest Carlson
• Richard Hauck, Sterling Hill Mine & Mining Museum, Keynote Speaker
• History of some Pennsylvania Lead / Zinc Loaclities - Jay Lininger
• The Fort Roberdeau Lead Mine - Sandra Downs
• Tour of Greenwood Furnace
• Field Trip: Milesburg; Pennington Ore Bank; Roaring Spring Quarry -

4. Symposium: Gems and Precious Metals. May 21 - 23, 1999

• Color in Gemstones and MInerals - Will White
• Gem Minerals from Pennsylvania - Allen Heyl
• The Semi-Precious Phases of Silica - Peter Heaney
• Figured Stones of the Wedhaas Collection - Joseph Dague
• Tourmalines and Pegmatites - Vandall King
• Gold and How to Find It - Wolfgang Vogt
• Sir R.V. Raman, Diamonds, and Meteorites - Robert Witkowski
• Deposits of Platinum and Gold - David Gold
• The Nature of the Phases of Opal - Deane Smith
• The National Gem Collection: Science and Lore -
  Jeffrey Post of the Smithsonian Institution, Keynote Speaker
• Field Trip: Bald Eagle Mountain megaripples; Nippono Spring and Sinkholes; Pine Creek Quarry; Crystal Point Quartz Prospect

5. Symposium: Fluorescence, Color and Light in Minerals . May 19 - 12, 2000

• Making Better Micromounts - John Passaneau
• Photoluminescence, Cathodoluminescence, and Candoluminescence of Minerals - William B. White
• Demonstrations of Unusual Fluorescence and Luminescence Properties - Lloyd Bumm
• Terlingua-Type Calcites - Manuel Robbins
• Luminescence and Zoning in Minerals: Phenomena of Beauty and Illumination - John Rakovan
• Those Fabulous Fakes - Wolfgang Vogt
• UV Lights: Variations on a Theme - Don Newsome
• The Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence - Earl R. Verbeek
• Fluorescent Minerals of the Sterling Hill and Franklin, New Jersey, Ore Deposits -
  Richard C. Bostwick, Keynote Speaker
• Field Trip: Lime Bluff Quarry

6. Symposium: Pegmatite Minerals. October 12 -14, 2001

• The Origin and Nature of Pegmatites - David P. Gold
• The History of Some Pennsylvania Pegmatites - Jay Lininger
• Beryls from Pakistan, Brazil, and more - Vandall King
• The History of the Leiper Quarries, Delaware County, Pa. - J. Roger Mitchell
• Charge Density Distribution in Crystals of Kovdorskite and Topaz from X-ray Diffraction - Charles Lake and Bryan Craven
• Atoms and Amethyst: Causes of Color - Peter Heaney
• What One Collects When It's Too Cold to Collect Pegmatites - Wolfgang Vogt
• Pegmatite Phosphates of the Palermo #1 Mine, Groton, New Hampshire - Vandall King
• Pegmatite Minerals - Michael Wise, Smithsonian Institution, Keynote Speaker
• Field Trip: Easton, Pa.

7. Symposium: Mineralogy and Geology of the Franklin and Sterling Hill Mineral Deposits in New Jersey. August 23 -25, 2002

• Experiences of a Mining Geologist - Ron Mishkin
• Geology of the Sterling Hill / Franklin District - Earl R. Verbeek
• Possible Origin , Silicate Banding, and Paragenesis of the Franklin Marble: Field Evidence - Paulus B. Moore
• Welcome to The Trotter Dump - Stephen Phillips
• The Mine and Museum at Sterling Hill - Richard Hauck
• The Franklin Marble: Its Minerals, Origin, and Metamorphism - Peter B. Leavens
• The Geochemistry and Fluorescence of a Fluorite Band in the Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey - Patricia Buis
• Collecting at Sterling Hill in the 1930s - Allen Heyl
• The Desert View, A Small Mine in California with Franklin / Sterling Hill-Like Minerals - Manuel Robbins
• Cahnite: its Biography and Mineralogy - Vandall King
• Fluorescent Minerals - So What! - Don Newsome
• A Collector's Perspective: Franklin and Sterling Hill Since 1960 - Richard Bostwick, SPEX CertiPrep, Inc., Keynote Speaker
• Field Trip - Earl R. Verbeek

8. Symposium: Minerals of Pennsylvania. June 11-13, 2004

• Field Trip - Hanson Aggregates Co. Oak Hall Quarry
• Overview of Pennsylvania Geology - David P. Gold
• Cave Minerals - Will White
• Geochronology of Ore Deposits - Ryan Mathur
• Pennsylvania Minerals Still Easily Collected - Allen Heyl
• Origin of the Pennsylvanian Period - William Brice
• Classics from the Genth Collection - Joe Dague
• Celestine Every mineral has a story - Edwin Charles
• The new Skytop site - Andrew Sicree and Jane Hammarstrom
• Jay Lininger, Keynote Speaker
• Field Trip - Skytop and New Enterprise Stone & Lime's Roaring Spring Quarry

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