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Mineral Locality Symposium

Minerals from the Mantle with Saturday Field Trip

October 24, 2006

Followed by a field trip in the Area on Sunday, October 25

Donation: $10.00, Saturday Lectures & Saturday Field Trip - Donation,
$5.00, Sunday Field Trip

Sponsored By

Friends of Mineralogy (Southern California Chapter) & Copper Mountain
College

Copper Mountain Community College

6162 Rotary Way

Joshua Tree, CA 92252

CMC Tel: 760.366.3791 x0266 (Bruce Bridenbecker)

Cell contact if lost: 714.293.0156 (Jennifer Rohl)

Take Interstate 10 Past Whitewater to Highway 62, then northeast
approximately 35 miles on Hwy 62 to the Town of Joshua Tree. East of Joshua
Tree on Highway 62 is Sunfair Road. Continue two miles to Rotary Way, Turn
North (Left).

Turn left at 6162 Rotary Way, which intersects with the Highway 62 and is
about seven minutes east of the town of Joshua Tree.

Follow the signs to: Room MC 108, Phase 1 (upper level)

Saturday Symposium & Field Trip

9:30 AM Registration for Symposium and Field Trips

Coffee and snacks available

9:50 Welcome - Professor Bruce Bridenbecker

10:00 The Stratiform Copper Deposits and Mineralogy of the
Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the
Congo - Andrew Turner

10:50 Break and examine copper specimens.

11:15 Minerals from the Mantle: Mojave outcrops offer data about
mantle composition and the Eastern
Transverse Ranges. - Professor Bruce Bridenbecker

12:00 - 1:15 PM Lunch Break - Lunch Tables Available

Lunch Meeting - SCFM meeting

1:15 Silent Mineral Auction, Please bring mineral specimens for
auction.

1:35 Minerals from the Mantle: Ruby Mountain - Professor Bruce
Bridenbecker

1:50 Minerals from the Mantle: Dish Hill - Tina Tuttle

2:40 Field trip logistics - Leaders: Bridenbecker, Tuttle and
Housley

Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday.

Saturday & Sunday Field Trip Information

To be announced.

High clearance vehicles will be needed for the field trips, 4WD recommended.
Car pooling will be available

Robert Housley

210 S. Catalina Ave. #3

Pasadena CA 91106

Phone 626-449-6454

rhousley@its. caltech .edu (remove spaces)