Click image for larger size - Poster design by Harvey Jong 2015 Symposium Cover Photo Credits Upper left: Silver, Mineral Park, Cerbat Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, Former Eidahl Collection specimen, current owner unknown, Tony Kampf photo Upper right: Silver, Silver King Mine, Pinal County, Arizona, Former Gene Schlepp specimen, current owner unknown, Wendell Wilson photo Lower left: Silver, Mohave County, Arizona, Evan Jones specimen & photo Lower right: Silver, Lucky Cuss Mine, Tombstone Hills, Cochise County, Arizona, Flagg Mineral Foundation Collection specimen, Jeff Scovil photo |
2015 Symposium Program – click here
8:00-8:45 - Coffee Hour |
8:45-9:00 - Welcoming Remarks and Introductions |
9:00-9:40 - Crystallized Gypsum Deposits of the San Pedro River Basin - Barbara Muntyan |
9:40-10:20 - Red Cloud Mine - The World's Greatest Wulfenite Locality - Les Presmyk |
10:20-10:50 - Break |
10:50-11:30 - Silver Production and Mineralogy of the Silver King Mine, Calico, California - Tera Ochart and Chelsea Sheets-Harris |
11:30-12:10 - The Apex Mine, Utah - A Colorado Plateau-type Solution-Collapse Breccia Pipe and a Tsumeb, Namibia Analogue – Karen Wenrich |
12:10-1:30 - Lunch |
1:30-2:10 - Mine Reclamation and Mineral Specimen Recovery Operation at the Blanchard Mine, Socorro County, New Mexico - Mike Sanders |
2:10-2:50 - Origins of Azurite and Malachite - Erik Melchiorre |
2:50-3:20 - Break |
3:20-4:00 - History of the Freeport-McMoRan Minerals Mineral Collection - Will Wilkinson |
4:00-4:20 - Emus, 'Roos and Minerals and Mines at Broken Hill, NSW, Australia - Anna Domitrovic |