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43rd Annual Atlantic Micromounters’ Conference


Atlantic Micromounters Conference registration 2016

43rd Atlantic Micromounters’ Conference Conference location: SpringHill Suites by Marriott, 6065 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, VA
Presented by The Micromineralogists of the National Capital Area, Inc.

Friday April 22, 6-9pm & Saturday April 23, 8:30am – 9pm

We invite you to attend our geology conference.

Featured speaker: Tony Nikischer, Excalibur Minerals of Charlottesville, VA

Speaker Biography: Tony’s interest in minerals was stimulated by an early visit to Franklin, NJ in the 1960s. Today, he is founder and president of Excalibur Mineral Corp., arguably the largest provider of systematic minerals in the United States. The company has specialized in rare minerals for researchers, museums and private collectors worldwide since 1974. He operates an in-house analytical laboratory and is also the publisher of the monthly periodical, Mineral News.

He is the founder and chairman of The Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a not-for-profit foundation devoted to study, preservation and public education pertaining to the mineral kingdom. The Institute is now the parent organization of Mindat.org, the most prolific and widely viewed mineralogical website in the world. Tony has served as a director of the Friends of Mineralogy and is a Life Member of the Mineralogical Society of American, and is also a member of both the Mineralogical Association of Canada and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain.

In 2001, the new mineral “nikischerite” was named in his honor. Tony has contributed over 200 articles to publications such as Mineralogical Record, Rocks & Minerals, Mineral News and Applied Spectroscopy, and he has co-authored descriptions of a number of new mineral species. He was awarded the Salotti Earth Science Education award in 2013.

Tony’s topics include: #1. “How New Minerals Are Discovered and Named” (example nikischerite) #2. “Minerals of the Kola Peninsula” #3. “Rocks from Space”.

Preregistration fee $30 before April 15. ($35 at door). Includes 3 Lectures: Friday evening coffee/tea social with light appetizers. Saturday continental breakfast, and lunch are included – deli sandwiches, side dishes, beverages, and dessert. Mineral dealers, silent auction, mineral giveaways, geology friendship.

Make checks payable to: Atlantic Micromounters’ Conference

Mail payment form to: Kathy Hrechka 7201 Ludwood Court, Alexandria, VA 22306

If you need a room: SpringHill Suites Hotel reservation deadline is March 18 for conference rate of $119 USD – Studio 2 Queen & Sofa bed. Book your group rate for Atlantic Micromounters

Club website
Learn more about the Micromineralogists of the National Capital Area, Inc from our website!
We cannot wait to see you on April 22-23, Kathy Hrechka, Conference chairperson

Keep updated on the best shows with the American Geode gem, mineral, jewelry and fossil show newswire and calendar!
Watch a short video here for gem, mineral and fossil show tips from the experts!

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Gem, Mineral, Jewelry and Fossil Show in Long Island

Gem, Mineral, Jewelry & Fossil Show in Long Island!
Download this Discount Coupon to show at the entrance!

Island Rockhounds, Inc.
presents their 43rd Annual
Gem, Mineral, Jewelry & Fossil Show
Saturday March 12th & Sunday March 13th
10 am – 5 pm

Show this ticket from your smart phone, or print it out old-fashioned style and present at the entrance for discount admission. American Geode are members of this Eastern Federation club. We have many friends in the Island Rockhounds. They are a fun, smart, and very nice group of people. Not only is the show full of friendly dealers of gems, minerals and fossils from rough to high-end, and everything in between, but you will also find some jewelry dealers with unique and affordable pieces, and gem and mineral artwork is also found at this very special show. Please tell them that “American Geode sen’cha!” as they will get a real kick out of that at the door if you tell them you are also friends with American Geode.

Have a great time and #GetoutandRockhound!

Download this Discount Coupon to show at the entrance!

Keep updated on the best shows with the American Geode gem, mineral, jewelry and fossil show newswire and calendar!

Watch a short video here for gem, mineral and fossil show tips from the experts!

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Discount ticket for spring New York gem, mineral and fossil show

Show this ticket for discount admission to the New York gem, mineral and fossil show
Show this ticket at the door for discount admission to the 2016 spring New York gem, mineral and fossil show. American Geode will be at the New York show and we hope to see you there. If you need more information about the gem, mineral and fossil show, and what to expect, please contact American Geode through our website American Geode.
Our friends at the New York Mineralogical Club and Excalibur Mineral Corp. are hosting the November gem and mineral show here in New York City.

This is a gem and mineral show we attend every year. As you enter the show, your first exchange will be with the New York Mineralogical Club, our beloved home base, and you will have a chance to join the club, or just learn about the club. Join the club however for some great prizes and gifts.

Now the show itself is full of the top dealers in and around New York City. You will have the chance to acquire very fine high-end pieces, very large display mineral and geode specimens, museum grade fossils, interesting one-of-a-kind artwork, as well as fine gemstone jewelry.

Make the trip the beginning or part of your day in New York City. You are not far from the American Museum of Natural History, and very close to the American Folk Art Museum, which is free admission.

We hope to see you there. Contact us via our “Contact Us” button if you would like to meet at the show, or at the hotel bar or after the show!

Print out this discount coupon, or show it from your phone at the entry booth!

Show this ticket for discount admission to the New York gem, mineral and fossil show

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Rockhounds, Naturally Conservationists and Environmentalists

Rockhounds follow lessons out in the wild, wilderness, desert and forest that are also valuable in the city. Rockhounds know to bring their own bags, backpacks, saddle bags or pouches with their gear, and also with their finds consisting of gems, minerals, fossils and other stones. For me, this also applies when I am out here in New York City. I bring a backpack, side-bag or saddle bag when I leave the apartment because I am a collector. Like most rockhounds, we are collectors, as well as adventurers and discoverers.
Hence, and the purpose and motivation of this essay, I find myself bothered when I buy a can of soda, or a few items from the grocery store, and the clerk insists on putting the items in a plastic bag. Even when I am carrying my rockhound bag, which is a Fred Perry airline bag, the stores in New York City automatically put your can of soda, or packet of peanuts even into a plastic bag! So now when I walk up to a counter, the first words I speak are “No bag please.” I have recently found myself saying, when asked “Do you want a bag?,” “No thank you. That would be such a waste.”
Now Joe and I have each, respectively been to Vietnam, but when I was there, a Vietnamese tour guide said to me that the plastic bag was the white man’s curse on his country. I saw that in Vietnam as well. We were on tours out in the Vietnamese forests, walking for miles, and then we would walk past a plastic bag, the same type of plastic bag passed out with every transaction in New York City.
The plastic bag is everyone’s curse on the environment here in America as well. New York City streets are littered with them, the trash cans are disproportionately filled with them, and the landfills will continue to grow in area with plastic bags.
American Geode is bothered by the amount of plastic bags that litter our forests and our cities. We hope that all readers will share this essay, follow our example to #banthebag, and refuse a plastic bag during your next shopping excursion, and treat every excursion like a rockhounding excursion, and carry your own bag!
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