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CRYSTALS AND CABS

Volume 1,Issue 3

Mineral Clubs - Meeting Dates

*  Note Correction on Nashua's monthly meeting date!


Saco Valley Gem and Mineral Club
3rd Monday of each month at the Albany, NH Town Hall - 7:00 PM
Keene
1st Saturday of each month at Keene State college, Bldg. 18, Keene, NH - 7:00 PM
*Nashua
Last Wednesday of each month at the Nashua public Library, Court St., Nashua, NH in the downstairs
Theater Room - 7:00 PM
North Shore (MA)
3rd Friday of each month, St. Paul Episcopal Church, Washington  St., Peabody, MA - 7:30 PM
Boston Mineral Club
1st Tuesday of each month, Harvard University Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge,
MA
Southeastern NH Mineral Club
2nd Wednesday of each month, St John's Methodist Church, 28 Cataract Avenue, Dover, NH

Did You Know

  • NH has over 260 mineral species.

  • Over 250 million years ago NH was part of Africa.

  • NH rocks date back to the late Precambrian, about 650 million years ago.

  • The last major geological event in NH was the surficial deposit caused by the Wisconsin-age ice sheet about 11,000 years ago.

  • Foggite and Whitmoreite are two NH minerals  named after Capital Mineral Club members, Forrest Fogg and Bob Whitmore.

  • The State gem is Smoky Quartz, the mineral is Beryl and of course the State rock is Granite.
    (RSA 3:13-15, 1985)

  • The first all color issue of "Rocks and Minerals" was the NH issue, July/August 1990

  • NH Mines and Mineral Localities by Philip Morrill, 2nd edition, 1960, lists over 750 mineral localities.

  • 14 carat gold is 50% pure. 24 carat gold is 100% gold

  • There are about 4600 mineral species (2000).
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