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The Capital Mineral Club will meet Saturday May 4th 2013 at 2:00pm the meeting will be held at the Salvation Army Building in Concord, NH.

This Months speaker will be Kevin Downey who will be giving a presentation on Cave Minerals.

Kevin is well known to the Capital Mineral Club as a dealer in our annual show and has given several talks to the club in the past. He is an accomplished photographer and caver. When those two disciplines are combined spectacular photos of caves and cave formations are the result. This is a brand new presentation that was first unveiled at the Rochester Mineral Symposium on April 28th. The past 20-30 years have been a "golden age" of cave exploration. In addition to the discovery of many new caves and extensions of old ones, there have been many answers to the mechanics of cave formation and the minerals formed within them. Common minerals such as calcite and aragonite are found in an incredible number of habits and new theories may explain how the different habits may be accounted for. In other cases the formation still remains a mystery. Kevin's talk will cover these theories as well as posing many questions that has puzzled researchers and may not be answered soon.

Minerals of the month are cave minerals. Remember that cave minerals directly from caves are frowned upon and only those from many years ago should be in a collection. It is now the consensus that cave formations should remain undisturbed. Consequently, minerals from other environments other than cave can be brought in for display. Such minerals include calcite, aragonite, barite and selenite to name a few.

Hope to see everyone there.


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