MMGS

Payson Smith Hall, Room 1
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME

5:00 pm: Business Meeting
6:00 pm: Social Hour
7:00 pm: Program / Guess Speaker

MMGS Business Meeting will begin 5:00 pm sharp. All Officers and committee members to arrive by 5:00 pm. Following the business meeting we will have the social hour beginning at 6:00 or 6:30 pm. The general membership meeting will start at 7:00 pm sharp followed by the guest speaker or evening program.

Our October meeting will feature Jim Clanin, Geologist and Mining Engineer. He will be giving a talk about his mining expeience in Pakistan.

Here is a list of the 15 items for the October Silent Auction:

1. Quartz Crystals in a vug
2. Kyanite and Siderite
3. Tourmaline and Lepidolite
4. Sulfur Crystals
5. Magnetite Crystals
6. Tremolite (Fluoresces Orange and Red)
7. Stilbite and Mesolite/Scolecite
8. Ironstone
9. Tumbled Rocks (15)
10. Agate (Fluoresces green and peach)
11. Pyrite Cubes
12. Heulandite
13. Aragonite fan on Calcite
14. Wollastonite w/Garnet and Diopside
15. Rhyolite

Unless otherwise noted, (like this month), MMGS Meetings are held the last Saturday of each month from September to May in the Payson Smith Hall, Room 1, at the University of Southern Maine, Portland campus. Meetings start at 7 p.m. and usually feature a program on aspects of rock and mineral collecting.

Meetings are open to the public. All are invited and encouraged to attend. There are no monthly meetings during June, July and August….we’re out digging!

Please come join us!!!

Executive Board meetings are held on the same day, in the same place, starting at 5 pm and are open to all members. Please feel free to attend. – Thank you.