Categories: 1. Best self-collected specimen (Canada); 2. Best self-collected specimen (elsewhere); 3. Best fossil; 4. Best lapidary or rock art item (non-gemstone); 5. Best gemstone; 6. Best photograph with hobby theme; 7. Best mineral from Ontario; 8. Best mineral from Canada outside Ontario; 9. Best mineral from the US; 10. Best mineral from outside Canada and the US; 11. Best thumbnail; 12. Best mineral oddity; 13. Ugliest specimen. 14. Best garden rock. 15. Best radioactive specimen. Each category gets a certificate. You can submit specimens not collected or acquired this year, but only ones from the past year are eligible for the two big trophies (best self-collected and Silver Pick). The club provides coffee and desserts from Vincenzo's.
There was also a kid's table and a noncompetitive table.
While the votes were tabulated, there was be a raffle and Peter Russell gave a mini-talk on "Jerome and Clarkdale, Arizona: Copper Mining with a Canadian Connection".
Synopsis: High in the Andes Mountains in northern Peru, Quiruvilca has produced excellent mineral specimens for many decades. Discovered in the late 19th century and mined on a large commercial scale since 1907, Quiruvilca is one of Peru's oldest and best known polymetallic mines. Among mineralogists and mineral collectors, Quiruvilca is most renowned for world-class specimens of Enargite, Arsenic and Orpiment, the world's finest Hutchinsonite crystals and exceptional Pyrite and Bournonite crystals. This presentation is an overview, with an emphasis on the fine minerals of Quiruvilca, inspired by an adventure into the Andes and into this world-famous mine.
Ray McDougall was born in Montréal, grew up in Toronto, and studied mineralogy and geology while completing a B.A. at McGill University in 1992. He went on to become a corporate/securities lawyer in Toronto for 18 years, where he was a partner of the firm Stikeman, Elliott LLP, working with clients in the Canadian mining industry. Ray was internationally known as an expert relating to Canadian mineral disclosure laws. He retired from law in 2013 to become a full-time mineral dealer (McDougall Minerals - www.mcdougallminerals.com ).
Ray has been an avid mineral collector since childhood and has enjoyed field collecting across Canada and around the world. Now living in the woods near Bancroft Ontario, he travels internationally in pursuit of fine mineral specimens and spends a lot of time in a dark room taking mineral photographs.
Rachel ten Bruggencate of the University of Manitoba talked about stone tools: "Rocks that walk: Tracing ancient human travel in Canada's North with stone tool chemistry". She holds a W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellowship in Northern Studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo. She uses trace element and isotopic geochemistry to link ancient quartz and chert tools from archaeological sites in the Canadian North back to the quarries they came from. Rachel received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Manitoba in 2014, her MA from the University of Manitoba in 2008, and her BA from the University of Winnipeg in 2005.
Mini-talk by Jeffrey Shallit, "Visiting a Kansas Salt Mine".
Categories: 1. Best self-collected specimen (Canada); 2. Best self-collected specimen (elsewhere); 3. Best fossil; 4. Best lapidary or rock art item (non-gemstone); 5. Best gemstone; 6. Best photograph with hobby theme; 7. Best mineral from Ontario; 8. Best mineral from Canada outside Ontario; 9. Best mineral from the US; 10. Best mineral from outside Canada and the US; 11. Best thumbnail; 12. Best mineral oddity; 13. Ugliest specimen. 14. Best garden rock. 15. Best radioactive specimen. Each category gets a certificate. You can submit specimens not collected or acquired this year, but only ones from the past year are eligible for the two big trophies (best self-collected and Silver Pick). The club provided coffee and desserts from Vincenzo's.
Advance sign-up needed at j.shallit@gmail.com . Limit 20 for each trip.
In the evening, Club meeting,
7:30 PM, with stories about the "old days" from Jim Reimer and other long-time members. The
public is invited! Members will bring in some of their favorite self-collected specimens for show. Supper before the meeting
is planned at the 5:00 PM at the Metro Tavern, 168 Victoria St. N., Kitchener: "best schnitzel in town".
Categories: 1. Best self-collected specimen (Canada); 2. Best self-collected specimen (elsewhere); 3. Best fossil; 4. Best lapidary or rock art item (non-gemstone); 5. Best gemstone; 6. Best photograph with hobby theme; 7. Best mineral from Ontario; 8. Best mineral from Canada outside Ontario; 9. Best mineral from the US; 10. Best mineral from outside Canada and the US; 11. Best thumbnail; 12. Best mineral oddity; 13. Ugliest specimen. Each category gets a certificate. You can submit specimens not collected or acquired this year, but only ones from the past year are eligible for the two big trophies (best self-collected and Silver Pick). The club provided coffee and desserts from Vincenzo's.
