FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.

FALL – WINTER 2007 ACTIVITY SCHEDULE

Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007

9:00 A.M. - Noon -- Collecting at Sterling Hill.  Fresh material will be exposed for this field trip. 

$1.50 for each pound of material taken will be the only cost.

1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. – F.O.M.S. Meeting and Lecture, Franklin Mineral Museum:

Mining Experiences in Zinc, Iron, and Copper Mines by Ronald H. Mishkin, miner-geologist-historian.

Saturday, and Sunday, September 29-30, 2007

**51ST ANNUAL FRANKLIN-STERLING GEM & MINERAL SHOW

Sponsored by the Franklin Mineral Museum.

Franklin Middle School, Washington St., Franklin, N.J.

9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Saturday (indoors), 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Sunday (indoors).

The ticket price covers the show, The Pond outdoor swap, and admission to the

Franklin Mineral Museum:  $6.00 per day for adults, $3.00 per day for children (6-16).

The Pond Swap-and-Sell, sponsored by the F.O.M.S., takes place outdoors on the school grounds from 7:30 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. on Saturday, and from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. on Sunday.  Show admission required.
 

The F.O.M.S. Annual Banquet starts at 6:30 P.M. Saturday at the Franklin Fire House, Franklin, New Jersey.

Tickets may be obtained at the F.O.M.S. show table.  The meal is an all-you-can-eat buffet; soda, tea, and coffee are included.  B.Y.O.B.  After the banquet there will be an auction for the benefit of the F.O.M.S.  Please plan on donating a good specimen, artifact, book, etc.!
 

 **Saturday only from 6:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M.
Sterling Hill Mining Museum Night Dig on the Mine Run Dump and Passaic and Noble Pits.

Admission fee is $5.00 for museum members and $20.00 for nonmembers. Poundage fee is $1.50 for each pound of material taken. 

**“Garage Sale” of minerals, etc., at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum on Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. 

The Mine Run Dump and Passaic and Noble Pits will also
be open to the public for collecting from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M., Sunday only.

Admission fee is $5.00 (members and nonmembers) plus $1.50 for each pound of material taken.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

**9:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M. –10:00 P.M.  Day and night collecting,

Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Mine Run Dump and Passaic and Noble Pits, for museum members only.  No admission fee; $1.50 for each pound of material taken. 

Saturday, October 20, 2007

9:00 A.M. – Noon — Collecting at the Taylor Road site.  Meet at the Franklin Mineral Museum.   Park, and walk from there.  (Note:  a lunar mineral, pyroxferroite, has been found at this site.  An article about this mineral, written by Tony Nikischer and Joe Orosz, was published in the August 2007 Mineral News.)

1:30 - 3:30 P.M. — F.O.M.S. Meeting and Lecture — Franklin Mineral Museum:

Preparations of Petrographic Thin Sections, or, How to See Through a Rock

by Joe Orosz, curator of mineral science , Franklin Mineral Museum. 

Sunday, October 21, 2007

9:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.---Lime Crest Quarry.  Meet at the gate prior to starting time.

We will enter as a group and the gates then will be closed.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

** 18^th Annual ULTRAVIOLATION, a Show-Swap-Sell-Session featuring fluorescent minerals only. 

First United Methodist Church, 840 Trenton Road, Fairless Hills PA.

9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., $2 donation.  “If your rocks don’t glow, you’re at the wrong show.”

Table space available.  For information, call 856-663-1383 or e-mail ultraviolation@yahoo.com.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

**9:00 A.M – 3:00 P.M.---Sterling Hill Mining Museum. 

Flea market and collecting on the Mine Run Dump.  Admission fee $5.00;

poundage fee $1.50 for each pound of material taken.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

**6:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M. — Night Dig on the Buckwheat Dump, for the benefit of

the Franklin Mineral Museum.  Doors open at 6:00 P.M. for check-in and mineral sales. 

Admission $10.00 adult, $8.00 children 3-12 years of age. 

Poundage fee:  $3.00 per pound.  Call for details: 973-827-3481. 

Saturday, November 17, 2007

9:00 A.M. - Noon — F.O.M.S. Field Trip — Location not confirmed. 

Meet at the Franklin Mineral Museum at 8:30 A.M.

1:30 - 3:30 P.M. — F.O.M.S. Meeting and Lecture — Franklin Mineral Museum:

Volcanic Fumaroles, Salt and Sulphur Deposits and Stromatolites in Bolivia,

by Alfredo Petrov, President, Petrov Rare Minerals..

Sunday, November 25, 2007

**9:00 A.M – 3:00 P.M.---Sterling Hill Mining Museum.  Flea market and collecting on the Mine Run Dump.  Dump admission fee $5.00; poundage fee $1.50 for each pound of material taken.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

**10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. – Fluorescent Mineral Society Meeting.

GeoTech Center at Sterling Hill Mining Museum.

RSVP necessary to Dick Bostwick <rbostwick@att.net>, home phone 212-749-5817.

$7.00 donation is requested for food and drink.

Night collecting for FMS members at the SHMM Mine Run Dump, 6:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M.

$5.00 admission fee is required plus $1.50 for each pound of material taken. 

Most F.O.M.S. field trips are open only to F.O.M.S. members aged 13 or older.

Proper field trip gear required: hard hat, protective eyewear, gloves, sturdy shoes.

**Activities so marked are not F.O.M.S. functions but may be of interest to its members.

Fees, and memberships in other organizations, may be required.

 The FOMS Activity Schedule is compiled by Tema Hecht thecht@att.net. 

Thanks go to Fred Young, Dick Bieling, Ralph Thomas, the Franklin Mineral Museum, and the Sterling Hill Mining Museum for this information.