Denver Symposium and Field Trip

Last month I was fortunate enough to be invited to talk at a symposium in Denver about Russian Mineralogy. Here is a quick photo-report from the symposium and the fieldtrip that the invited speakers went on afterwards.

The Symposium was held by the Colorado Chapter of Friends of Mineralogy, the Colorado School of Mines Museum and the Denver Gem and Mineral Show. It was held in the Colorado School of Mines on a beautiful September Saturday.





Igor Pekov from Moscow, Russia gave two talks, one was on the unusual iodide mineralization at the Rubtsovskoe deposit in Russia.



Peter Modreski gave a talk entitled "A Comparison of Kola Peninsula Mineral Localities to those of North America"



John Watson talked about Anatoly Skrigitil, a Russian mineral collector and dealer who went missing (presumed dead) in suspicious circumstances in 1999



I gave two presentations.





After the conference we went on four days of field trip.









We took a group photo, left to right: Igor Pekov, Anna Turchkova, Claudia Watson, Pete Modreski, John Watson and myself





First collecting stop was the Powerhorn carbonatite, near Gunnison.









The next day we head east to the Pike's Peak batholith, where we have permission to visit the Smoky Hawk amazonite claim.





After a successful day in the Lake George area, we head off towards Cripple Creek.





Next day, we arrive in the town of Victor ready for our tour of the Cripple Creek gold mine.





Before we were allowed in the gold mine, we were given a safety briefing and a brief geological guide to the deposit.











For the final day, four of us (Pete Modreski, Igor, Anna and myself) went to South Platte, a famous pegmatite region.













Straight after collecting, we drove back to Colorado to attend the annual open-night at the Colorado School of Mines museum.

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