Symposium on Russian Minerals

Golden, Colorado - September 10th 2011

This coming saturday I'll be giving a couple of presentationas the the Symposium on Russian Minerals at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, near Denver.

Please come along - registration is only $10 - I hope to see many mindat.org regulars there!

Jolyon




Venue: Green Center, Petroleum Hall, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado,

Schedule:

9:00 Opening Remarks, Bruce Geller, Director, Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum

9:15 Igor V. Pekov and Anna G. Turchkova: Classic Russian Mineral Localities: An Overview

10:00 Jolyon Ralph: Mineralogical Collections at Russian Museums

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 Anna G. Turchkova and Igor V. Pekov: Minerals and Mineral Localities of the Kola Peninsula

12:00 lunch, and, CSM Geology Museum open for tours

2:00 Peter J. Modreski: A Comparison of Kola Peninsula Mineral Localities to those of North America

2:30 Igor V. Pekov: Unique Iodide Mineralization at the Rubtsovskoe Deposit (NW Altai, Russia) and its Genesis

3:00 John Watson: A Memorial to A.M. Skrigitil (1940-1999) with a Videotape of his Work in the Rangkul Pegmatites, Eastern Pamirs, Tajikistan

3:30 Jolyon Ralph: Russian Mineralogical Classification Systems

4:00 General discussion and closing

Discussion continues at the Golden City Brewery, 920½ 12th St., Golden

4:15-6:00 Dinner together for those attendees who wish to come, location TBA

Sponsored by the Friends of Mineralogy, Colorado Chapter; Denver Gem and Mineral Show; and Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum

Registration fee to attend is $10.00. Please send payment with name, address, and email address to Russia Symposium, Friends of Mineralogy-Colorado Chapter, P.O. Box 5276, Golden CO

80401, or contact Pete Modreski, pmodreski@usgs.gov, 303-202-4766.

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