LOCAL FIELD TRIP & EVENT SCHEDULE 2014.4.24
(subject to change – tentative dates in red)
DATE EVENT DETAILS HOST CLUB
March 29-30 Western Mass Mineral Jewelry & Fossil Show www.westernmassmineralshow.com
April 5-6 New Haven Mineral Club Show, Amity Middle School, Orange www.newhavenmineralclub.org
April 11-13 New York/New Jersey Gem & Mineral Show ny-nj-gemshow.com/
April 12 Rhode Island club Auction. www.rimh.us/
April 12 Geological Society of Conn. field trip to New Milford quadrangle. www.geologicalsocietyofconnecticut.org/
April 19 CCC Quarries, Haddam, CT Bristol
April 19 Taylor Rd. site, Franklin, NJ (must be a member of FOMS) 9-12AM meet at Franklin Mineral Museum
April 19-20 Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show wwwmainemineralclub.org/show
April 20
April 26 Simpson Quarry Portland, CT New Haven
April 25-27 Rochester Mineral Symposium - www.rasny.org/MineralSymp.htm
April 26-27 New Jersey Earth Science Society - Franklin, NJ show & Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ garage sale
All weekend events listed at: sterlinghillminingmuseum.org/visitor/schedule.php
April 26 Delaware Valley Earth Science Assoc. - Super Dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum
9 AM to 11 PM – preregister for dig and special mine tour at www.uvworld.org
Banquet & Auction, Geotech Center at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ 5:30-9 PM
April 27 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*
May 3-4 North Shore club show – www.northshorerock.org/our-show/
May 9-11 New England Mineral Conference. www.nemineralconference.org/nema/Welcome.html
May 10 CCC Quarries, Haddam, CT Meriden
May 11
May
12 The
New Haven Mineral Club Annual Mineral Auction
Time 7:30PM
Location Veterans Memorial
Building
Brooksvale Park Hamden, CT 06518
Public is Welcome - Free Admission
http://www.newhavenmineralclub.org/
May 17-18 Fonda claim opening weekend (host club members only in the claims) Meriden/Bristol
May 17 Hamburg Quarry, NJ (must be a member of FOMS) 9-12 meet at scale house.
May 24-26 Memorial Day Weekend
May 24
May 25 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*
May 31 Clark Hill Quarries, E. Hampton, CT Meriden
June 1
June 7-8 Orange County Mineral Society Mineral Show, Swap and Sell at Museum Village, Monroe, NY
www.orangecountymineralsocietynewyork.com
June 7 Night fluorescent mineral dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ. Open to public – 7-10PM
June 7 Kent CT show - www.ctamachinery.com/MiningMuseumPage.html
June 8
June 14
June 15
June 21 Braen Quarry, Cork Hill Rd., Franklin, NJ (must be a member of FOMS) 9-12AM.
Night fluorescent mineral dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ. 6-10PM Museum members only.*
June 22
June 28-29 Gilsum, NH sale & swap – www.gilsum.org/rockswap.aspx
June 28 Case Quarries, Portland, CT Meriden
June 29 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*
July 4-6 Independence Day Weekend
July 12
July 13
July 12-13 Western Maine Show - www.oxfordcountymineralandgemassociation.blogspot.com/
July 19
July 20 CCC Quarries, Haddam, CT New Haven
July 26 Herkimer “Diamond” dig at Hastings Farm, Fonda, NY Mid-Hudson
Trip Leader Paul Kartis - Please call to confirm. 845-564-3447 or e-mail pkartis@verizon.net.
July 27 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*
July 27 Multi-Club picnic/swap, Woodtick Recreation Pavilion, Wolcott 12:00 to 5:00
July 26-27 Champlain Valley Show - www.burlingtongemandmineralclub.org/
August 2
August 3 Manhan Lead Mine, Loudville, MA Multi-club
August 8-10 West Springfield, MA show - www.mzexpos.com/eastcoast.htm
August 16
August 17
August 23 Old Mine Park, Trumbull, CT Multi-club
August 24 Conditional field trip to Ilion, NY (there has been flooding in area) Mid-Hudson
April deYoung leader. Please e-mail to confirm Carolyn - sunstone33@verizon.net
August 24 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*
August 30
August 31
Sept. 6-8 Labor Day Weekend
Sept. 13-14 Danbury Club Show - www.danburymineralogicalsociety.org
Sept. 13 Case Quarries, Portland, CT Bristol
Sept. 14
Sept. 20-21 Mid-Hudson Valley Show, Poughkeepsie, NY - mhvgms.org/
Sept. 21
Sept. 27 Clark Hill Quarries, E. Hampton, CT New Haven
Sept. 27 Hooper Garnet Mine in the Adirondacks - garnets in gneiss- hard rock mining. Mid-Hudson
Gem garnet fragments in stream below Barton Mine facility. Carolyn: sunstone33@verizon.net
Sept. 27-28 Franklin, NJ show/Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ gem & mineral garage sale
Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*
Oct 4
Oct. 5 Case Quarries, Portland, CT New Haven
Oct. 11 Clark Hill Quarries, E. Hampton, CT Bristol
Oct. 18 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ, Night collecting (6-10PM) for Museum members only.*
Oct. 18-19 Bristol club show - bristolgem.org
Oct. 25 Ultraviolation fluorescent mineral show/sale/swap. Rock & Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County.
First United Methodist Church (840 Trenton Road), Fairless Hill, PA ultraviolation@yahoo.com
Oct. 26 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*
Oct. 25-26 Rhode Island club show – www.rimh.us
Nov. 1-2 Stamford club show - www.stamfordmineralsociety.org
Nov. 8-9 New York City Fall Gem & Mineral Show www.excaliburmineral.com/shows.htm
Nov. 22-23 Worcester club show - www.worcestermineralclub.org
Nov. 30 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*
Nov. 27-30 Thanksgiving Weekend
Host Club contact info:
BRISTOL & MERIDEN, CT Harold Moritz fritzandsheila@pobox.com (860) 873-3957
NEW HAVEN, CT Ray Meyers raymond.meyers@ct.gov
DANBURY, CT
MID-HUDSON VALLEY, NY Contact noted for each trip.
Case Quarries info - www.lmscc.org/case.htm
CCC Quarries info - www.lmscc.org/CCCQuarry.htm
Clark Hill Quarries info - www.lmscc.org/clark_hill.htm
* The Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg, NJ (sterlinghillminingmuseum.org/visitor/schedule.php) is open to collecting daily on the Mine Run dump, 10 AM. – 3 PM, and on the last Sunday of each month in the Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas also, 9 AM-3 PM. Collecting fees: $5 admission plus $1.50/lb for all material taken. Also the Franklin Mineral Museum ($7 admission, www.franklinmineralmuseum.com) is open daily April through November, Monday through Friday 10 AM – 4 PM. Saturdays 10 AM – 5 PM and Sundays 11 AM -5 PM. Collecting available daily for another $7 (combined with admission $12), plus $1.50 per pound.