LOCAL FIELD TRIP & EVENT SCHEDULE UPDATE 2013.3.1.v4
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March 23-24 Western Mass Mineral Jewelry & Fossil Show www.westernmassmineralshow.com
March 31 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas**
April 6-7 New Haven Mineral Club 40th Annual Show Amity Middle School Orange CT
April 12-14 New York/New Jersey Gem & Mineral Show - ny-nj-gemshow.com/
April 12-14 White Plains NY Gem and Jewery Show www.intergem.com/shows/upcoming-shows/white plains ny april12-14
April 18-21 Rochester Mineral Symposium - www.rasny.org/MineralSymp.htm
April 20 Case Quarries, Portland, CT* Bristol
April 26-28 New England Mineral Conference. www.nemineralconference.org/nema/Welcome.html
April 27 Delaware Valley Earth Science Assoc. - Super Diggg at Sterling Hill Mining Museum
9 AM to 11 PM – preregister for dig and special mine tour at www.uvworld.org
April 28 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas**
April 27-28 New Jersey Earth Science Society - Franklin, NJ show
Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ Mineral gem & mineral garage sale
May 4-5 Fonda claim opening weekend (host club members only in the claims) Meriden/Bristol
May 4-5 North Shore club show – www.nahant.com
May 11 Rock swap and sale at Eisenhower Park, Milford. www.milfordearthday.org
May 11 CCC Quarries, Haddam, CT * Meriden
May 11 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ**
May 12
May 18 Newry Mines, Newry, Maine - Sponsored by the Maine Geological Survey
Lottery sign-up period: April 1-7– You MUST sign up using their web site***
May 18 Rock Landing Quarry, Haddam Neck, CT? (pending owner approval) Bristol
May 19
May 25-27 [Memorial Day weekend]
May 25 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ**
May 26 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas**
June 1 Clark Hill Quarries, E. Hampton, CT * Meriden
June 2
June 8-9 Orange County Mineral Society Mineral Show, Swap and Sell at Museum Village, Monroe, NY
www.orangecountymineralsocietynewyork.com
June 8 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ **
June 8 Kent sale and swap - www.ctamachinery.com/MiningMuseumPage.html
June 9
June 15 Newry Mines, Newry, Maine - Sponsored by the Maine Geological Survey
Lottery sign-up period: April 22-28 – You MUST sign up using their web site***
June 15 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ, Night collecting (6-10PM) for Museum members only.**
June 15 Conklin Quarry, Falls Village, CT? Bristol/Danbury
June 16
June 22 West Redding, CT garnet locality (pending owner approval) New Haven
June 22 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ **
June 23
June 22-23 Gilsum, NH sale & swap – www.gilsum.org/rockswap.aspx
June 29 Case Quarries, Portland, CT* Meriden
June 30 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas**
July 6 Tour of Roxbury Iron Mine and Furnace and Steep Rock Preserve (kyanite locality). Multi-club
July 7
July 13 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ **
July 14
July 13-14 Western Maine Show - www.oxfordcountymineralandgemassociation.blogspot.com/
July 20
July 21 CCC Quarries, Haddam, CT * New Haven
July 27 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ **
July 28 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas**
July 28 Multi-Club picnic/swap, Woodtick Recreation Pavilion, Wolcott 12:00 to 5:00
July 27-28 Champlain Valley Show - www.burlingtongemandmineralclub.org/
August 3 Manhan Lead Mine, Loudville, MA Multi-club
August 4
August 10 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ **
August 9-11 West Springfield, MA show - www.mzexpos.com/eastcoast.htm
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August
17 Newry Mines, Newry, Maine - Sponsored
by the Maine Geological Survey
Lottery sign-up period: April 29 - May 5
– You MUST sign up using their web site***
August 18
August 24 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ**
August 25 Old Mine Park, Trumbull, CT Multi-club
August 25 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas**
Aug 31- Sept 2 [Labor Day Weekend]
Sept. 7 Palermo Mine, North Groton, NH - Sponsored by the Maine Geological Survey
Lottery sign-up period: May 6-12 – You MUST sign up using their web site***
Sept. 7-8 Danbury Club Show - www.danburymineralogicalsociety.org
Sept. 14 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ **
Sept. 14 CCC Quarries, Haddam, CT * Bristol
Sept. 21-22 Mid-Hudson Valley Show, Rhinebeck, NY - mhvgms.org/
Sept. 21
Sept. 22 Clark Hill Quarries, E. Hampton, CT * New Haven
Sept. 28-29 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 5 Rock Landing Quarry, Haddam Neck, CT Meriden
Oct 6
Oct. 12 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ **
Oct. 12 Clark Hill Quarries, E. Hampton, CT * Bristol
Oct. 13 Case Quarries, Portland, CT* New Haven
Oct. 19 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ, Night collecting (6-10PM) for Museum members only. **
Oct. 19-20 Bristol club show - bristolgem.org
Oct. 26 Ultraviolation - Fluorescent Mineral Show, Fair Hills, PA
Oct. 27 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas**
Oct. 26-27 Rhode Island club show – www.rimh.us
Nov. 2-3 Stamford club show - www.stamfordmineralsociety.org
Nov. 9 Fossil Discovery Center dig at Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ **
Nov. 9-10 New York City Fall Gem & Mineral Show
Nov. 16-17 Worcester club show - www.worcestermineralclub.org
Nov. 24 Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ – Public collecting - Fill quarry and Passaic pit areas**
Nov. 28-Dec 1 [Thanksgiving Weekend]
ALSO: Early to mid October potential bus trip to the Smithsonian’s natural history museum in Washington, DC. Specific details to be worked out, trip sponsored by the Meriden club.
BRISTOL & MERIDEN, CT Harold Moritz fritzandsheila at pobox.com
NEW HAVEN, CT Art Doyle adoyle@crofut.com (203) 795-4527
*Limit on DEP permit trips is 25 participants; contact the host club to sign up.
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.
*** Maine Geological Survey field trips: www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/minerals/fieldtrips/fieldtrips.htm
You can link to it from www.lmscc.org by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on their logo.