NEWRY — The New England Mineral Conference 2015 will be held May 8-10 at the Sunday River Conference Center in Newry.
Although not all details have been finalized, Frank Perham will be there, talking about whatever comes to mind about many of his mining experiences. Skip Simmons will talk about the exciting research that they will be doing. John Cornish, a west coast miner, is expected. He has also been doing some mining for the beautiful delicate crocoite in Tasmania as he brings his story “Upside Down and In The Future, Mining Tasmania’s Adelaide Mine!” Fred Wilda will be doing a talk on the Lane Quarry in Connecticut. Sean Sweeney talks about some of the wonderful gemstones he has cut from some of the major finds to come out of Maine. Carl Francis and Jim Nizamoff team up again to talk about Tamminen quarry apatites.
Additionally, for the youth, Cornish will be giving talks on education day for the students. Education day is designed for kids to have some fun and learn at the same time. Some of the stations will be a sluice where kids will get to sluice a bag of material and a chance to hopefully find some colorful local minerals, and an area to learn how to identify different minerals. There will also be displays of some of the wonderful minerals and gems of Maine and the rest of the world.
There will be a poster contest for any New England student in grades 3-12. Additional information is available on the website.
Anyone wanting to find out more about being a dealer at the conference can get in contact with Chad Cramer through the dealer page on the website, http://www.nemineralconference.org/. Also on the website is other information and downloadable registration forms. “Like” us on Facebook at New England Mineral Association.
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