LOCAL FIELD TRIP & EVENT SCHEDULE 2015     2015.4.4

(subject to change – confirmed dates in black, tentative dates in red, last year’s event in green)

DATE EVENT DETAILS HOST CLUB

March 21 Braen Quarry, Cork Hill Road, Franklin, NJ (must be a member of FOMS) 9-12AM meet at quarry

March 28-29 Western Mass Mineral Jewelry & Fossil Show www.westernmassmineralshow.com

April 4

April 5

April 11-12 New Haven Mineral Club Show, Amity Middle School, Orange www.newhavenmineralclub.org

April 10-12 New York/New Jersey Gem & Mineral Show ny-nj-gemshow.com/

April 11 Ace of Diamonds, NY meet at entrance 9:30AM Contact Ira Lewis magoosden@aol.com MHVGMS

April 18 CCC Quarries, Haddam, CT Bristol

Rhode Island club Auction. www.rimh.us/

Taylor Rd. site, Franklin, NJ (must be a member of FOMS) 9-12AM meet at Franklin Mineral Museum

April 18-19 Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show. mainemineralclub.org/show

April 24-26 Rochester Mineral Symposium - www.rasny.org/MineralSymp.htm

April 25 Geological Society of Conn. field trip: shoreline geology. www.geologicalsocietyct.org/

April 25-26 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 25 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 26 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 8-10 New England Mineral Conference. www.nemineralconference.org/nema/Welcome.html

May 9 CCC Quarries, Haddam, CT Meriden

May 11 New Haven Mineral Club Annual Mineral Auction, 7:30PM, Public is Welcome - Free Admission
Veterans Memorial Building, Brooksvale Park, Hamden, CT, 06518. www.newhavenmineralclub.org/

May 16-17 Fonda claims opening weekend (host club members only in the claims) Meriden/Bristol

May 16 B. Nicoll Quarry, 12 Cork Hill Road, Franklin, NJ (must be a member of FOMS) 9-12 contact FOMS for details.

May 23 Chester Emery Mine - Chester, MA. Steve Kelland Trip Leader (845) 297-0507 MHVGMS

To collect emery, actinolite, pyrite, margarite, talc. We will meet at the site 9 AM.

May 24 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*

May 30 Clark Hill Quarries, E. Hampton, CT Meriden

May 31

June 6-7 Orange County Mineral Society Mineral Show, Swap and Sell at Museum Village, Monroe, NY

www.orangecountymineralsocietynewyork.com

June 6 Night fluorescent mineral dig at Buckwheat Dump, Franklin Mineral Museum, NJ. Open to the public – 7-10PM

Manhan Lead Mines - Loudville, East Hampton MA. Leader Eric Orlowski from MHVGMS

Meet 10am @ site. Abundance of minerals: galena, pyromorphite, wulfenite, milky quartz, etc., mostly micros.

June 7

June 13 Kent, CT show - www.ctamachinery.com/MiningMuseumPage.html

June 14 Bettts Manganese Mine, Plainfield, MA Steve Kelland Trip Leader (845) 297-0507 MHVGMS

Rhodonite, rutile, garnet, ferrohornblende, etc. Meet site entrance at 10 AM

June 20 Hamburg Quarry of Eastern Concrete Materials, Inc., Cork Hill Rd., Franklin, NJ (must be a member of FOMS) on

Route 23 just north of Hamburg. Meet at the Scale House to sign releases. 9-12AM.

Night fluorescent mineral dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ. 6-10PM Museum members only.*

Micromounters of New England symposium. www.micromountersofnewengland.org

June 21

June 27-28 Gilsum, NH sale & swap – www.gilsum.org/rockswap.aspx

June 27 Case Quarries, Portland, CT Meriden

June 28 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*

July 4-5 Independence Day Weekend

July 11-12 Western Maine Show - www.oxfordcountymineralandgemassociation.blogspot.com/

July 18-19 Herkimer, NY show www.herkimergemshow.com

July 19 CCC Quarries, Haddam, CT New Haven

July 26 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*

July 26

July 25-26 Champlain Valley Show - www.burlingtongemandmineralclub.org/

August 1

August 2 Manhan Lead Mines, Loudville, MA Multi-club

August 7-9 West Springfield, MA show - www.mzexpos.com/eastcoast.htm

August 15

August 16 Multi-Club picnic/swap, Woodtick Recreation Pavilion, Wolcott 12:00 to 5:00

August 22 Old Mine Park, Trumbull, CT Multi-club

August 23 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*

August 30

August 31

Sept. 5-6

Sept. 12 Case Quarries, Portland, CT Bristol

Sept. 12-13 Danbury Club Show - http://danburymineralogicalsociety.weebly.com

Sept. 19-20 Mid-Hudson Valley Show, Poughkeepsie, NY - mhvgms.org/

Sept. 20

Sept. 26 Clark Hill Quarries, E. Hampton, CT New Haven

Sept. 26-27 Franklin, NJ show/Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – gem & mineral garage sale,

Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*

Oct. 3

Oct. 4 Case Quarries, Portland, CT New Haven

Oct. 9-11 New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, Wesleyan U., Middletown, CT

w3.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/NEIGC/Conference.html

Oct. 10 Clark Hill Quarries, E. Hampton, CT Bristol

Oct. 11

Oct. 17 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ, Night collecting (6-10PM) for Museum members only.*

Oct. 17-18 Bristol club show - bristolgem.org

Oct. 24 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. 25 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*

Oct. 24-25 Rhode Island club show – www.rimh.us

Nov. 7-8 Stamford club show - www.stamfordmineralsociety.org

Nov. 7-8 New York City Fall Gem & Mineral Show www.excaliburmineral.com/shows.htm

Nov. 21-22 Worcester club show - www.worcestermineralclub.org

Nov. 29 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas*

Nov. 27-30 [Thanksgiving Weekend]

Jan. 9, 2016 Boston Mineral Club Auction www.bostonmineralclub.org/events/annual_auction

Feb. 13-14, 2016 New York State Museum Show

March 6-7, 2016 Lap. & Mineral Society of Central Conn. show www.lmscc.org

New York City Spring Gem & Mineral Show www.excaliburmineral.com/shows.htm

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 Hank Henning hankhenning@verizon.net (845) 225-7263

MID-HUDSON VALLEY, NY Ira M. Lewis magoosden@aol.com

Case, Clark Hill and CCC Quarries info - www.lmscc.org/Quarries/Quarries.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.