Category: Calendar of Events
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #15: Calcite
This is the preview post #15 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #14: Fluorite From the Minerva Mine
This is the preview post #14 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #13: Acanthodes Fish from Mazon Creek
This is the preview post #13 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #11: Malachite from Bisbee, AZ
This is the preview post #11 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #12: Replica of SUE’s Tooth
This is the preview post #12 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #10: Large Beetle in Amber
This is the preview post #10 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #9: Lobetelson mclaughlinae from Mazon Creek
This is the preview post #9 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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Dinosaur For Sale At the ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show!
We will have a wooden styracosaur for sale at the ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show March 15th and 16th. Come check it out! It can be yours!
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #8: Thunder Bay Amethyst
This is the preview post #8 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #7: Mississippian Crinoid from Gilmore City, IL
This is the preview post #7 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #6: Diplomystus dentatus from the Green River
This is the preview post #6 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #5: Mazonova helmichnus
This is the preview post #5 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #4: Wulfenite from Chihiahua
This is the preview post #4 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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ESCONI February 2025 Mineralogy Study Group Meeting – Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 – “Thunder Bay Amethyst”
The February 2025 Mineralogy Study Group Meeting will be held at 7:30 on February 22nd, 2025. Our speaker is Dan Kile. His topic will be “Thunder Bay Amethyst”. Dan Kile has been an ardent field collector of minerals (along with his wife, Dianne) for nearly 54 years, mostly in Colorado. In addition to field collecting activities, he…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #3: Native Copper with Calcite!
This is the preview post #3 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #2: Tullymonstrum gregarium!
This is the preview post #2 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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ESCONI Events for February 2025
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Sat, Feb 8th ESCONI Junior Meeting – 6:30 PM (starts at 7:00 PM) at College of DuPage Room TEC ED 1038A – Topic: “Ground Water Movement” Specifics of this meeting are available from Scott Galloway, 630-670-2591, gallowayscottf@gmail.com. The meeting will be in person at…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #1: Crenulopteris acadica plate!
This is the preview post #1 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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74th Annual Chicago Rocks & Minerals Society’s Silent Auction – Saturday, March 8, 2025 6 to 9 p.m.
We Will Rock You! Chicago Rocks & Minerals Society’s 74th Annual Silent Auction Plus a Special LIVE Auction of High-end Specimens During the Last Half-hour! Rocks, Minerals, Fossils, Geodes, Jewelry, Books, Magazines & Lapidary Treasures Saturday, March 8, 2025 6 to 9 p.m. St. Peter’s United Church of Christ gymnasium, 8013 Laramie (at Oakton), Skokie…
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ESCONI January 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting – January 18, 2025 via Zoom – “The ‘Arctic Fauna’”
The January 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be held on January 18, 2025 via Zoom. Our presenter is John Catalani and his topic is “The ‘Arctic Fauna’”. The name refers to where the fossil assemblage was first discovered – Greenland and Baffin Island, although they are now known from many localities including the Stewartville Bed…
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Video for ESCONI January 2025 Mineralogy Study Group Meeting – “Kentucky Agate”
The January Mineralogy Study Group Meeting was held on Saturday, January 4th, 2025. The topic was “Kentucky Agate”. The presenter was Matthew Bentley, who is the Geologist for the State of Kentucky. Matthew attended Morehead State University and Western Kentucky University. He has been collecting Kentucky Agates for the past 10 years. Kentucky Agate is…
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ESCONI January 2025 Mineralogy Study Group Meeting – “Kentucky Agate”
The January Mineralogy Study Group Meeting will be held via Zoom on Saturday, January 4th, 2025 at 7:30 PM. The topic is “Kentucky Agate”. The presenter is Matthew Bentley, who is the Geologist for the State of Kentucky. Matthew attended Morehead State University and Western Kentucky University. He has been collecting Kentucky Agates for the…
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ESCONI Events for January 2025
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Sat, Jan 4th ESCONI Mineralogy Study Group – 7:30 PM – Topic: “Kentucky Agate” by Matt Bentley, a geologist for the State of Kentucky Zoom link Fri, Jan 10th ESCONI General Meeting – 8:00 PM via Zoom – Topic: “Early Jurassic Extinction Events in…
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Merry Christmas from ESCONI!
Merry Christmas from ESCONI! You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf…. how about…. a Pair-a-Saurolophus?!?
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Twas the Night Before Christmas – ESCONI 2024
Here it is… Katherine Howard’s take on the classic poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas”. She read it at the ESCONI Holiday Party and at the December 2024 General Meeting. Thanks for sharing, Katherine! ESCONI 2024 by Katherine Howard ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the quarryNot a member was stirring, as John…
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Scenes from the 2024 Holiday Party and 75th Birthday Celebration
ESCONI held a Holiday Party on December 7th, 2024. There was a Birthday cake to celebrate ESCONI’s 75th Anniversary! Here are various photos supplied by Rose Jansen, Chuck Styles, and Rhonda Gates! Thanks! Sharon and Scott Galloway Mike Litt with Rich and Peggy Rock Phil and Valerie Anderson Mary Ann and Don Cronauer and Jeff…
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ESCONI Holiday Lunch – Saturday, December 7, 2024, 12:00 noon at Warren’s Ale House
Celebrate ESCONI’S 75th Anniversary with Luncheon and a Celebration Cake at the Club’s Holiday Luncheon ESCONI Holiday Lunch will be on Saturday, December 7, 2024, 12:00 noon at Warren’s Ale House, 51 Town Square, Wheaton. (Just north of Danada Square East.) Website for Warren’s Ale House with Map & Menu: https://warrensalehouse.com/contact/ Please note: ESCONI will…
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ESCONI Events for December 2024
Field trips require membership, but visitors are welcome at all meetings! Sat, Dec 7th ESCONI Holiday Party – 12:00 noon Warren’s Ale House, 51 Town Square, Wheaton, IL Fri, Dec 13th ESCONI General Meeting – 8:00 PM via Zoom – Topic: “Dinosaur Dinner: How Geochemistry Can Show Us the Diets of Extinct Animals” by Liam…
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Video for ESCONI Paleontology Meeting November 2024 – “Devonian Fossils from Independence”
The ESCONI Paleontology Study Group Meeting for November 2024 featured an interesting presentation by Jim Preslicka. His presentation was titled “Devonian Fossils From Independence”. Jim has a deep interest in cephalopods. The eastern Iowan deposit was discovered by the Blackhawk Gem and Mineral Society in 2007. A joint project between the BHGMS and the University…
