The meeting of the Southern California Chapter Friends of Mineralogy was called to order by President Bob Reynolds at the Mineral Collectors Workshop held at the Riverside Municipal Museum. Meeting minutes of the previous meeting were approved. Discussed was the need for FM members to schedule a workshop to help the Riverside Municipal Museum organize their mineral collections. A date will be picked soon. Regarding the Werner Lieber Photos, three new posters have been created and will be on exhibit starting in April for the Earth Day festivities at the Desert Discovery Center in Barstow and continuing on for the next few months. Also, the previously created posters and the 1999 entries are now on exhibit and will be sent on to Chicago. They are really on the move!! Meeting was adjourned in order to attend the Mineral Collectors Workshop.
The meeting of the Southern California Chapter Friends of Mineralogy was called to order by President Bob Reynolds at the Shoshone Museum in the Town of Shoshone. We had a rather large turnout and were able to discuss a wide variety of upcoming issues including publishing a brochure listing all of the mineral museums in Southern California. Also discussed was the fact of insurance for our field trips. Bob Housley will investigate the possibility of acquiring insurance through an affiliation with the Southern California Micromineralogists organization. The October Mineral Collectors Workshop will be held at the Desert Discovery Center in Barstow, with a big attraction being the variety of speakers and field trips we are planning. It has become apparent that we need to move our web site and would like to affiliate with a museum. Bob Reynolds will pursue discussions various museums in this regard. A few people brought mineral donations to the Shoshone Museum to help their collection grow - this is a small, up-and-coming museum and they were delighted to receive the beautiful donations. The meeting was adjourned in order to start the field trip to the War Eagle Mine.
A workshop was held at the Riverside Municipal Museum in order to discuss upcoming meetings and workshops. The Federation show is to be held at the Riverside Convention Center in Raincross Square in Riverside, August 4th-6th. SCFM members will man a table for any interested future members, and a meeting will be held on Saturday, Aug. 5th at 4:00 p.m. in order to discuss the October Mineral Collector's Workshop in Barstow and the MSSC Show in November. The theme of the October workshop will be Minerals of the Mojave Desert and will include numerous noted speakers with field trips to be scheduled for Sunday and Monday. Field trips are expected to include a trip to the Blue Bell Mine, the Mohawk Mine, Paradise Range, and either Ord Mountain or the Altuda Mine. Once plans are finalized, flyers will be mailed out to all members.
Sat.: Noon - Bob Jones, The History of Gold Mining in America
Sat.: 1:30 p.m. - Bob Reynolds, A Walk Through Borate and Turquoise of the Mojave
Sat.: 3:00 p.m. - Tim Thomas, Nomenclature of Opal, Cutting Opal, and Purchasing Opal
Sat.: 4:00 p.m. - SCFM meeting Sun.: Noon - Sugar White, The Copper Deposits of San Bernardino County
October 21-22: Mineral Collector's Workshop, Desert Discovery Center, Barstow, CA. Speakers to be announced.
November 18-19: MSSC Show, Pasadena Convention Center.