Click image for larger size - Thanks to Don Boushelle for the cover design. 2017 Symposium Cover Photo Credits Photograph of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Cave used with permission of Michael D. Martin. Mineral Specimens all part of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Collection. Gypsum "Ram's Horn", Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, Jeff Scovil photo. Azurite "stalactites" on Malachite, Morenci, Arizona, Jeff Scovil photo. Malachite "Helectite", Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, Jeff Scovil photo. Aragonite "Cave Flowers" on Calcite "Stalactites", Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, J. Broome photo. Malachite, Piedmont Mine, Bloody Basin, Yavapai County, Arizona, D. Boushelle photo. Wulfenite with Mimetite, San Francisco Mine, Sonora, Mexico, D. Boushelle photo. |
2017 Symposium Program – click here
8:00-8:40 - Registration and Coffee |
8:40-8:50 - Welcoming Remarks and Introductions |
8:50-9:30 - Piedmont Mine, Yavapai County – Barbara Muntyan |
9:30-10:10 - Agates of the United States – Pat McMahan |
10:10-10:40 - Break |
10:40-11:20 - Silver and Gold in Arizona, the Mining History and the Specimens that Resulted - Les Presmyk |
11:20-12:00 - Wulfenite, Arizona's State Mineral - Raymond Grant |
12:00-1:00 - Lunch |
1:00-1:40 - Geology of the Tucson Mountains – Jan Rasmussen |
1:40-2:20 - Genesis of a Limestone Cave and Associated Mineralogy - Anna Domitrovic |
2:20-2:40 - Break |
2:40-3:20 - Arizona Cerussite – Mark Hay |
3:20-4:00 - What’s New in Arizona Minerals – Ron Gibbs |
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