Tag: mineralogy
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ESCONI 2025 May Mineralogy Study Group Meeting – May 3rd, 2025 – “Find Your Inner Rockhound” – Highlighting the Herkimer Diamond Mines
ESCONI 2025 May Mineralogy Study Group Meeting Day/Date/Time: SATURDAY – MAY 3, 2025 – 7:30PM This meeting is in-person only. Location: COLLEGE OF DuPAGE – TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER (TEC BUILDING) – 425 22nd St. Glen Ellyn, IL – ROOM 1038B. Park in the Fawell “D” Parking Lot (Map). Use the main entrance on the east side of the…
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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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ESCONI November 2024 Mineralogy Study Group Meeting has been cancelled!
The Mineralogy Study Group meeting, which was scheduled for Saturday, November 2, 2024, has been canceled. We are in the process of moving all the material from the warehouse to a new site. Due to the nature of this move, and the manpower and time required, we are making it our main focus. Thank you for…
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ESCONI November 2024 Mineralogy Study Group Meeting
Yooperite from Lake Superior The next meeting of the Mineralogy Study Group will be om November 2, 2024, starting at 7:30 PM I TEC 1038B. The program will be “Fluorescent Minerals” by Dave Carlson. The presentation will cover fluorescence, phosphorescence, tenebrescence and triboluminescence, fluorescent minerals and where they can be found, and modern sources of…
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ESCONI October 2024 Mineralogy Study Group Meeting – October 5th, 2024 – “Geodes from Around the World”
Just a reminder of our new Mineralogy Study Group’s first meeting later this week! Please join us for a great presentation about geodes! All are welcome – bring family and friends! They do not have to be ESCONI members to attend meetings. MINERALOGY STUDY GROUP MEETING Saturday, October 5, 2024 – 7:30 PM College of DuPage Technical Education…
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Save the Date! The 2019 ESCONI Show be held on March 23rd and 24th, 2019.
Save the Date! The 2019 ESCONI Show be held on March 23rd and 24th, 2019. Can't wait!
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2017 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show March 25th and March 26th
It will be here before you know it! Saturday, March 25th – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Sunday, March 26th – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admittance and parking! Exploreyour interests Shop for jewelry, gems, fossils, minerals from world-class vendors List to Follow Soon, Stay tuned! Find unique and interesting books at the used…
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PBS NOVA: “Life’s Rocky Start”
The next episode of PBS’s Nova is “Life’s Rocky Start”. It starts airing on January 13, 2016 at 9 PM on PBS. There’s a preview on the web and like their other shows, full episodes should be available online. Sounds like a good one, enjoy! Program Description: Four and a half billion years ago, the…
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Mineralogy Study Group Meeting Tonight – Sat. 3/9
ESCONI Mineralogy Meeting 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, – Tech Ed (TEC) Building, Room 1038B (Map) – Topic: Jim Daly will present a program on Moctezuma, Sonora minerals and there willl be a video on the Cave of Swords. BRING YOUR MINERALS FROM MEXICO FOR SHOW DISPLAY!
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ESCONI Mineralogy Meeting This Saturday 2/9
ESCONI Mineralogy Meeting 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, – Tech Ed (TEC) Building, Room 1038B (Map)
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ESCONI Mineralogy Meeting This Saturday
ESCONI Mineralogy Meeting 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, – Tech Ed (TEC) Building, Room Room 1038B (Map) – Topic: Mineral Video
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Events for Friday and Saturday
Friday, 9/28 Board Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, DIFFERENT ROOM! Tech Ed Build. TEC 1038B (Map) Saturday, 9/29 – 9am to 5pm:Wheaton College Geology will again offer a large amount of valuable material to collectors at all levels. One room will be devoted to children’s and beginner’s goodies. One room will be for sale of higher-quality items,…
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Italian Mineralogy
Last Saturday, the ESCONI Mineralogy Study Group discussed the gems and minerals of Italy. Here’s a blog about the topic, “The Best of Italian Mineralogy“
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Meeting Fri & Sat
Friday 4/13 – General Meeting – 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm161. Josh Mathews, Augustana College. He will speak on – Dinosaurs “On the Rocks”: An Exploration of Antarctic Fossils and New Discoveries & Insights from th Frozen Continent. Sat, 4/14 – Mineralogy and Micromount Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161.…
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Events for 1st Half of November 2011
Sat. 11/5 Work Day Come out one and all – we need your help! We have to organize our club collection. So please stop by to help for one or more hours on Saturday, November 5, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm in 900 Knell Road, Montgomery Illinois. On that day if you have problems finding…
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Events This Week Ending Sunday 6/12
Friday, 6/10 – General Meeting – Lecture: Dr. James St. John, Ohio State University at Newark will present a program on Introduction to Meteorites and Impact Events. This will give an overview of what rocks from space look like, what their mineral contents are, their ages, their origins, and their beauty. Various rocks resulting from…
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Jim Daly’s Presentation on Mineralogy Terminology
Last night, at the Mineralogy Study Group meeting, Jim Daly gave an informative presentation, Mineralogy Terminology. Here are the handouts (.doc) and the slides(.ppt). On the left is the slide displaying the optical property, shiller, as seen in this specimen of Aventurine. (photo by Jim Daly).
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Saturday, 4/9, Mineralogy and Micromount Meeting 7:30 pm
Mineralogy and Micromount Study Group. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 1630 pm1. Talking about mineral structures and classifications.
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Events for Weekend and Week Ahead
Sat. 12/11 Mineralogy Holiday Meeting and Famous Mineral Identification Contest (with fabulous prizes). 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131.
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Events for Weekend and Week Ahead
Thursday, 12/2 Cafe Science: Egyptian Gold – 7:00 p.m. Join Dr. James Phillips at the Hopleaaf Bar, 5148 N. Clark Street, in Andersonville as he discusses the role that gold has played in Egyptian history and culture, past and present. Free. Pre-registration not required. Friday, 12/3 ESCONI Christmas Party – 5:30 pm at Greek…
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ESCONI Events This Weekend
Friday, Oct. 8, 8:00 p.m.– ESCONI General Meeting. Speaker: Paul Mayer, Invertebrate Collections Manager at the Field Museum. His talk will be entitled “The Milwaukee Formation: Rocks, Fossils, and Storms.” The lecture will focus on some deep tunnel cores drilled to a depth of over 800 feet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In particular, he will talk…
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Many Upcoming Events!
Friday, 9/10, 8:00 p.m., General Meeting, College of Dupage Building K, Room #131, Dale Gnidovec, curator of Ohio State University‘s Orton Geological Museum will speak on the Morrison formation. Saturday, 9/11, 9:00 a.m., Work day at the storage facility in preparation for the ESCONI Flea Market on October 2. Contact John Good at 630-483-2363 to…
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This Weekend
Friday, 6/11 – ESCONI General Meeting. James St. John, from Ohio State University at Newark, will be speaking on “Weird Fossils & Fossil Oddities” at the ESCONI General Meeting at 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Saturday, 6/12 – Mineralogy & Micromount Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K,…
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Events This Weekend
Friday, April 9 – ESCONI General Meeting. Dr. Bucky Gates , Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College, will be the speaker at 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Dr. Gates will talk on Reconstructing Paleoecosystems Through Microvertebrate Taphonomy. Reconstructing ancient ecosystems is one of the primary aims of paleontology. However, the burial…
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Events this week: Mammoth Lecture, Mineralogy Meeting, Chicago Rocks Silent Auction
Waking the Baby Mammoth, lecture by Daniel Fischer, Paleontologist on Tuesday, March 9. Field Museum at 7:30 p.m., $24 – $30 ticket. Mineralogy & Micromount Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 13. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Topic of discussion: Radioactivity in Minerals. Geiger counter will be available. Bring in copper specimens…
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Abstracts from 30th New Mexico Mineral Symposium
Many interesting articles from their annual meeting in November.
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ESCONI Meetings This Friday and Saturday – Learn about Field Museum Meteorites & Split Geodes
Friday, January 8 – General Meeting. 8:00 p.m. Jim Holstein, of the Department of Geology at the Field Museum will be speaking on “The Field Museum’s Meteorite Collection.” Learn about meteorites, what they are, the different types, how they’re identified, and what we can learn from them. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Saturday, January…
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Mineral – Micromount Meeting: Sat., 12/12, 7:30 p.m.
Mineral – Micromount Study Group Meeting, 7:30 pm, Saturday, 12/12, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Bring three minerals and four labels for the identification contest – fabulous prizes for all! John’s Ice Cream will be served.
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Meetings This Weekend
Friday, 11/13, General Meeting, 8:00 pm, College of Dupage, Rm K 131, Speaker: Dr. David Malone speaking on Exploring for Manto-Style Pb-Zn-Ag Deposits in the Forty-Mile Range, East Central Alaska Saturday, 11/14, Mineralogy Meeting, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Micromineralogy of the Upper Pennisula, explanation of how to create a…
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Mineralogy Meeting, Sat. 10/10, Upper Pennisula Minerals
Mineralogy Meeting, 7:30 pm, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. The subject will be Macromineralogy of the Upper Pennisula – focus on the Copper Country. Bring your favorite specimens!
