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Upcoming Events

We will hold a Friends of Mineralogy bi-monthly meeting, March 16th (Saturday), at Miami University in Room 10 Shideler Hall (downstairs), 250 S. Patterson Ave., Oxford, Ohio.  For information about the campus contact John Rakovan, Rakovajf@muohio.edu, or call 513-529-3245, or go to Miami’s webpage at http://www.miami.muohio.edu/about-miami/visiting-miami/index.html. On weekends, parking is not restricted and free around campus.  The Cook Field parking lot, located at the corner of Patterson Ave. (Rt. 27) and Rt. 73 is just across the street from Shideler Hall, and it is recommended.  The Limper Geology Museum and selected laboratories will be open for viewing.  You can bring a bag lunch, or if you prefer to eat out, the following link has a list of places to eat in town, http://www.miami.muohio.edu/about-miami/visiting-miami/restaurants.html

This meeting will be a mini-symposium with speakers on topics of interest to mineral collectors.  The tentative itinerary (subject to minor changes) is as follows:

10:00 – 12:30 Museum and Labs open for visitation
10:30 – 11:30 John Rakovan: Mineral Collecting in Poland
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch break (Museum and Labs open)
12:30 – 01:30 Terry Huizing: Second Mindat Conference, Morroco
1:30 – 2:30 Tom Bolka: Tucson recap (subject to change; possible substitution/addition of student presentation(s) as practice for Rochester)
2:30 – 3:00 FoM business meeting; report on National meetings in Tucson

This announcement will be repeated in the March newsletter, and the itinerary will be finalized at that time.

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