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Remaing NEFTA field trips

Contact Jon Herndon trip coordinator at 603-539-3884

Sept 11 ............Wayne County …. Spring Creek,  Alden, NY.  …..   Limey Devonian shales.  Pyritized fossils – cephalopods, gastropods.

September 11, 2004...Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, PA .....Location......Perkiomenville, PA....Pa. Zeolites, Calcite, Stilbite, Aragonite, Actinolite, Chalcopyrite, Epidote, Pyrite.

Sept. 11, 2004.......Capital District........ Stoddard Mine, N.H……Old mine tailings for fluorite (green, purple, clear), barite, quartz.

Sept. 12, 2004........Fulton County.... Benson Mine, Star Lake, N.Y........Huge, old iron mine with associated minerals.

Sept 18, 2004....... Worcester Mineral Club.......VAG Mine........ Eden Mills, VT.........Vesuvianite, garnet, diopside, Serpentine, Contact; http://worcestermineralclub.org/

Sept. 19, 2004……Keene Mineral Club……… Globe Mine Pegmatite, Springfield, NH. Minerals found: asterated quartz, schorl, and other pegmatite minerals. Mostly dump digging, some boulder breaking.

Sept 25, 2004.......Fulton County........ Whitton Prospect, near Harrisville, N.Y ..…Private property for quartz , hematite, barite, limonite after siderite/ankerite.  Small donation ($2) requested.  Will try to get some backhoe work done prior to the dig to expose new material.

OPEN HOUSE TO E.F.M.L.S. MEMBERS  

MECKLEY  QUARRIES, 3rd weekend of September 

September 26.......Connecticut Valley Mineral Club.. Green Farm, Roxbury, CT........ (garnets)

Oct. 2... Danbury Mineralogical Society.... Case quarry, Portland, CT.  Beryl, columbite/tantalite, schorl, autunite, et al.

Oct. 15.... Danbury Mineralogical Society.... Herkimer diamond weekend.  Details to be announced.

October 16th.....SACO MINERAL CLUB...........Harvard Mine, Greenwood, ME............ Pearl Lake, Lisbon, NH....Minerals to be found ?????????????

October 23, 2004...Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, PA .....Location......Doylestown, PA.... Calcite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Barite, Fluorite, Micros ( Limit on Number of Collectors)

October 31........Connecticut Valley Mineral Club….Hardwick, Mass.......(epidote, babingtonite, etc)