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Mineral Club, Inc.

 

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Fieldtrip Season is HERE! Join Our Club and Enjoy Our Fieldtrips. Membership Has Benefits...
 

Welcome...

 

Celebrating Our 51st Year

The Central Pennsylvania Rock and Mineral Club, Inc. was established in 1958 by rock and mineral enthusiasts to:

Encourage the interest, enjoyment, and appreciation of members, prospective members, and the public for rocks, minerals, gems, fossils, and the lapidary arts.

The Central Pennsylvania Rock and Mineral Club, Inc is a non-profit educational organization and is a member of the Eastern Federation of Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies, Inc. and a member of the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies.

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Award Winning:

Web Edition Now Available. Click "Newsletter" Tab

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Central Pennsylvania Rock and Mineral Club's

44th Annual Gem, Mineral, and Jewelry Show

RETURNS TO

2801 N. 3rd Street
3rd & Division Streets
Harrisburg, PA 17110

Saturday, September 12, 2009 10 AM - 6 PM

Sunday, September 13, 2009 10 AM - 5 PM

Click "Annual Show" Tab for Information

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Read a wonderful Patriot-News OpEd by our own Ed Charles

(Click the link below)

Scenic wonders deserve attention - PennLive.com

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Pennsylvania Geology

now available digitally

Click here to view

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CPRMC's first fieldtrip in Spring 1958 to the Cornwall

Mine in Lebanon County.

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N E W S

(Click on Headline to link to source.)

China names newly discovered dinosaur after the Great Wall

What a dinosaur handprint reveals - Los Angeles Times

httpPrinceton geoscientist offers new evidence that meteorite did not wipe out dinosaurs

The Associated Press: Famed Mont. fossil hunter to admit dinosaur crimes

VOA News: Researchers Discover North America's Smallest-Known Dinosaur

Paleontologists Strike Fossil Gold in Colombia

What a dinosaur handprint reveals

A Dinosaur Dance Floor

Fossil Fish Shows Complexity of Transition to Land

Rocks May Be Oldest on Earth, Scientists Say

At Ground Zero, Scenes From the Ice Age

Fish Once Had Fingers

May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction

 Fossils helping to uncover turtle's evolution secrets

UK schoolboy sets up geology museum

Dino tracker finds trove of prints in D.C. suburb

Trove of fish fossils in northern Pa.

Carnegie Museum's new exhibit has more dinosaurs, more action.

As Yellowstone Bubbles, Experts Are Calm

(Click on the "NEWS" tab to read these stories and more.)

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Where can I collect?????

The question asked the most of this website: "Where can I collect?" Join the club! This is not a pitch for new members, it is the best answer. Many sites are never open to the public. Due to our commitment to safety and the fact that clubs like ours carry insurance on each member, quarries and mine dumps often give us occasional access that individuals do not enjoy. Our low membership fee allows you go participate in dozens of fieldtrips each year.

Still want to try on your own? Try this book:

Gem Trails of Pennsylvania & New Jersey

by Stepanski & Snow

It is available via Amazon and other book retailers. Keep in mind that some of the sites in the book are now closed to the public as well. Always get permission from the land owner before collecting. Make safety your number one priority.

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Visit a Show near you

June 6: Macungie, Pa., Spring Mineralfest sponsored by

the Pennsylvania Earth Science Association, Macungie

Memorial Park, Macungie, Pa., 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

June 11: Philadelphia, Pa., Attention Mineral Collectors!

Annual Silent Auction, over 150 specimens from two

estates, bidding from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m., Cathedral Village,

600 Cathedral Road, Philadelphia, Pa. (Andorra-Roxborough

area) For further information call 610-644-2492.

June 27: Gilsum, N.H., 45th Annual Rock Swap &

Mineral Show, location—8 miles from Keene N.H. at the

Gilsum Elementary School field.

July 11-12: Syracuse, N.Y., 43rd Annual Jewelry, Gem,

Mineral & Fossil Show sponsored by the Gem & Mineral

Society of Syracuse, Verizon Center of Progress Building,

New York State Fairgrounds, Syracuse, N.Y.

July 18-19: Erie, Pa., 40th Annual Gem & Mineral Show

sponsored by the Gem City Rock & Mineral Society, JMC

Ice Arena, Erie, Pa.

August 14, 15, and 16: Lebanon, PA, 12th Annual

Gem Miner's Jubilee. Lebanon Expo & Fairgrounds,

Lebanon, PA. Lots of dealers and tailgating.

September 12-13: Harrisburg, Pa., 44th Annual

Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show sponsored by the

Central Pennsylvania Rock and Mineral Club; the

show will be returning to the Zembo Shrine, Third

and Division Streets, Harrisburg, PA.

October 31: Arendtsville, Pa., 25th Annual South Penn

Rock Swap hosted by the Central Pennsylvania and

Franklin County Rock and Mineral Clubs, South Mountain

Fairgrounds (1.5 miles west of Arendtsville, Pa on Route

234). General admission: $1.00; tables for swappers:

$10.00. Multiple tables are allowed for the $10.00 fee.

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Beautiful photos of Pennsylvania Minerals and Fossils. Collected by CPRMC member and noted PA collector, Kerry Matt.

You'll also find information on Kerry's two self-published books.

(Click here, or click on the "PA Minerals" tab)

 

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Specimens featured on our homepage were collected on club fieldtrips. Join CPRMC and start finding treasures for yourself.

 

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Coming up...

Visitors Welcome.... Visitors Welcome.... Visitors Welcome

June 3, 2009

"The Beauty of Rock" presented by our President,

Betsy Oberheim

July 1, 2009

August- Club Picnic

September 2, 2009- Preparation for Annual Gem, Mineral, and Jewelry Show.

October 7, 2009

November 4, 2009

December- Christmas/Holiday Party

There is is a youth program during the business portion of each monthly meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos courtesy of Kerry Matt. These photos represent just a few of the Pennsylvania specimens that are self-collected by Kerry. Click-on the photos to enlarge.

 

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