Burlington Gem and Mineral Club

04/09/2021

Ever find a crystal and wonder what it was. This is definitely Anthropocite. I found it next to a fire ring on Lake Champlain. Someone threw a bottle in the fire and it melted and recrystallized. We are now in the Anthropocene Epoch so why not some Anthropocite? There is already a new rock type called plastiglomerate.

02/22/2020

The Albany, New York Gem and Mineral Show was insanely busy. I did pick up a nice Herkimer Diamond and Juvenile Trimerus trilobite.

08/10/2019

Went to the Springfield Gem, Mineral and Fossil show and met a man who grows his own quartz crystals. I really enjoyed talking with him and he enjoy sharing his experience around growing quartz crystals. I can't tell them apart from natural quartz. I bought this one because of its uniqueness

08/03/2019

Bought a nice double terminated fluoroapophylite from India. I've never seen one before.

08/03/2019

Even my granddaughter was involved in preparation for last weekend's show. She supervised my preparation of a display case.

07/21/2019

Went to the Herkimer Diamond Festival and bought some optically clear selenite from Oklahoma. It was still covered in red clay so I had to clean it up. They get sheets up to 3 feet across. There is a great video about collecting it on YouTube.

04/11/2019

http://www.geologyin.com/2016/08/crystal-mountain-egypt.html?fbclid=IwAR2NgzT2PHSUH8NArqvnYVducTf2FmiidKr4tpV8FnYqO-1querdx0TA0DU&m=1

The Crystal Mountain northern of the White Desert, Egypt. The hill was opened during works at the road from Farafra to Bahariya by chance and destroyed in part.

03/29/2019

Last night at the Burlington Gem and Mineral Club meeting we started setting up a field trip schedule for the year. These collecting dates with directions will be published in the club newsletter each month. Our first trip will be in April to Sharon, Vermont for concretions followed by two fossil trips to two different quarries for Ordovician fossils in Panton, Vermont.

07/29/2017

The gem and mineral show is this weekend. Tomorrow it continues from 10:00-5:00. There are some great specimens.

06/29/2017

Here is a pyritized trilobite from the House Range. Will be going collecting fossil fish in Kemmerer, Wyoming on Friday.