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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Show Setup!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Show Setup!We spent the day setting up the show. We have lots and lots of Live and Silent Auction material. There will be an ESCONI sale table for some larger bargains! There’s books, hats, t-shirts, patches, geodes, and a large junior area. We loaded the truck up. Heck, we brought everything except the kitchen sink! The vendors are working hard to get ready for you! Both the Field Museum and the Burpee Museum have displays. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the vendor materials. Come out to see it in all it’s glory! Books… And, last but certainly not least,…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #25!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #25!This is the preview post #25 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Last one… come out tomorrow! It’s should be a fun time! This is a beautiful Aquamarine crystal from Erongo, Namibia. Pictures do not do it justice!
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #24!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #24!This is the preview post #24 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. A dinosaur… who doesn’t love T-rex?!? This is very nice Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur model.
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #23!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #23!This is the preview post #23 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Back to minerals… Amethyst. It is a very large chunk and has beautiful crystals!
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #22!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #22!This is the preview post #22 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Another Mazon Creek plant fossil! This is another Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri, a seed fern from Mazon Creek. It comes from the Wilbert Rath collection. He was an active ESCONI during the…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #21!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #21!This is the preview post #21 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Time for some younger fossils… from the Green River Formation in Wyoming. These are gar fish scales. It’s a large plate and the scales have nice detail.
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #20!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #20!This is the preview post #20 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Another Mazon Creek seed fern for your enjoyment! This is Odontopteris aequalis, a seed fern from Mazon Creek. This was collected many years ago in a locality that no longer…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #19!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #19!This is the preview post #19 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. We are into the home stretch now! See you tomorrow! Here’s a beautiful green mineral for St. Patrick’s Day! This gorgeous specimen of Antlerite traveled all the way from Chuquicamata,…
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Fossil Friday #152: Dunbarella striata
Read more: Fossil Friday #152: Dunbarella striataThis is the “Fossil Friday” post #152. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! —————————————————– We have an Mazon Creek Dunbarella striata from Pit 11 for today’s gem. This little beauty was found by ESCONI member Jake Fill in the last few weeks… the year seems to be off to an exciting start for Jake! We did a Mazon Monday post about scallops back in 2020. …
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #18!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #18!This is the preview post #18 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Last one for the day… more to come tomorrow! This is a beautiful 6.2 lb chunk of Flourite. There are multiple colors, yellow, blue, and purple. Come out this weekend…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #17!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #17!This is the preview post #17 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Still going…. come back soon for more! Another German fossil… this time it’s a few brittlestars, Furcaster palaeozoicus, from the Hunsruck Shale in Bundenbach. These little guys lived during the…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #16!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #16!This is the preview post #16 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. It’s getting down to the end…. we’ll keep these previews going up for a while longer! This is an absolutely gorgeous Aeger sp. shrimp from the Solnhofen of Germany. These…
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Throwback Thursday #153: Flea Market 1999
Read more: Throwback Thursday #153: Flea Market 1999This is Throwback Thursday #152. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here are some scenes from the ESCONI Flea Market on October 2nd, 1999. This event was held at the College of DuPage in the Student Resource Center Room in Building K. Karl Everett was ESCONI President. Here is the announcement from the ESCONI newsletter in September 1999. I recognize some of the faces…. John Good, Dave Bergman, Sheila Bergman, Kathy Dedina, Karen Nordquist,…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #15!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #15!This is the preview post #15 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Yet another Mazon Creek fossil… come on out! We have more! This one is a Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri, a seed fern from Mazon Creek. These fossil plants are found in Illinois…
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***Trip Full*** ESCONI Field Trip to Danville Shale Pile Fossils – Saturday, April 15th, 2023
Read more: ***Trip Full*** ESCONI Field Trip to Danville Shale Pile Fossils – Saturday, April 15th, 2023This trip is full! An ESCONI field trip to the Danville Shale Pile for Pennsylvanian fossils is scheduled for April 15, 2023 starting at 10 AM. This is on private property and there is an attendance limit of 25 people. The gate will be secured once we are in and locked when we leave. Plan on being off the hill at 3 PM to give time for specimen identification and pictures. You must register to go on this trip. See rule 6 below for instructions. This is the only way to register. If you are sick, have any symptoms of…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #14!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #14!This is the preview post #14 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. It’s almost here…. don’t miss it! More stunning crystals… this is a beautiful piece of amethyst. The photos are nice, but they don’t do it justice!
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #13!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #13!This is the preview post #13 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. Less than a week to the show! Wilbur Rath & ESCONI Exhibit Muskegon Show 1964 This one is lucky 13! These are some beautiful calcite crystals from the Wilbert Rath…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #12!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #12!This is the preview post #12 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. We have a bunch to get through and the show is coming up fast! It’s Mazon Monday, so if we were going to post a preview, it had to be…
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Mazon Monday #155: Paleontologists flip the script on anemone fossils
Read more: Mazon Monday #155: Paleontologists flip the script on anemone fossilsThis is Mazon Monday post #155. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. If you are a collector (or just a fan) of Mazon Creek fossils, you’ve probably heard of the (somewhat controversial) work of Roy Plotnick’s work to reclassify Essexella asherae from a jellyfish to a sea anemone. Roy is a long time ESCONI member and professor emeritus of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He did a presentation on E. asherae for the ESCONI Mazon Creek Open House back in October 2022. We looked at Essexella way back in Mazon…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #11!
Read more: 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #11!This is the preview post #11 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here. Yes, time for yet another preview for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show. We have a bunch to get through and the show is coming up fast! We have some very nice used Star Diamond Multiunit Lapidary Equipment. Star Diamond is still in…
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| Friday, April 10th | General Meeting – 8:00 PM via Zoom. Jessica Hull will present “Life in the Devonian Period, The Age of Fishes.” |
| Saturday, April 11th | Junior Study Group Meeting – 2:00 PM, in person at the College of DuPage Technical Education Center (TEC) Building – Room 1038A (Map). Katherine Howard will present on Sand and Sediment Collecting. Specifics of this meeting are available from Scott Galloway, 630-670-2591, gallowayscottf@gmail.com. |
| Saturday, April 18th | Paleontology Study Group – 7:30 PM via Zoom and in person at the College of DuPage, TEC, Room 1038B (Map). Keith Robitschek will present “Digging the Marl of the Lance Formation.” |
| Friday, April 24th | MAPS Expo XLVII – Springfield, IL. |
| Saturday, April 25th | MAPS Expo XLVII – Springfield, IL. |
| Sunday, April 26th | MAPS Expo XLVII – Springfield, IL. |
| No meeting this month | Mineralogy Study Group |