This is a short article to let you know about this important mineralogical event and what will be offered this year.





The lineup of speakers is telling me it's going to be a very fascinating symposium again.
Here are the talks, in chronological order:

Thursday April 23, 2020
David K. Joyce – The Sudbury Basin: The Most Commercially Metal-Rich Place on Earth

Friday, April 24, 2020
Inna Lykova – The Rubtsovskoe Deposit: History, Minerals and an Unsolved Question
Calvin Anderson – Recent Advances in Understanding Wire Silver Growth
Technical Sessions - Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy
Herwig Pelckmans – The Many Faces of Fluorite

Saturday, April 25, 2020
What’s New in Minerals – Jeff Scovil
What’s New in Minerals II – John Betts with Mark Jacobson, Jim Nizamoff and Raymond McDougall
Terry Wallace – Metals as Minerals: A Cosmic View
Tony Potucek – Two Early Idaho USA Gold-Silver Mining Districts: Silver City and DeLamar -- Part Deux

Sunday, April 26, 2020
Vladimir Klipov – Hydrothermal Crystal Growth
Harold Moritz – Quarry Hill and Chrysoberyl Knoll: The Minerals and Quarries of Haddam Connecticut

The full agenda as well as the registration document can be found on the website of the Rochester Academy of Science website:
https://www.rasny.org/MinSymp

Of all the US mineralogical symposia I have attended, the RMS is my favorite, for the unique interaction between professional and recreational mineralogists, between facts and fun, between unknowns evolving to friends. If there is only one mineral symposium you ever plan on attending, then this one would be my choice. If distance is an issue, then the one in New Mexico is a close second.
My best advice: attend both, and more than once! :-)

Previous Rochester Symposia have been written up in the following articles:
The Rochester Mineralogical Symposium 2017
https://www.mindat.org/article.php/2568/The+44th+Rochester+Mineralogical+Symposium [Not yet published]

The Rochester Mineralogical Symposium 2009
https://www.mindat.org/article.php/593/Rochester+Symposium+2009 [Not yet published]

But remember: nothing even comes close to attending this symposium in person!
Cheers, Herwig