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PUEBLO GEM & MINERAL SHOW 2014
AT THE ARIZONA RIVERPARK INN
350 South Freeway Road, Tucson Arizona.
Tel: 520-239-2300

TUCSON MINERAL LECTURE SERIES
at the International Fine Mineral Building
All Events Start at 7 PM with Reception Following

FEBRUARY 4:

STANLEY KEITH / MAGMACHEM EXPLORATION
“New Ideas on the Origin of Oil: A Herkimer Diamond Case History
from New York”

JOLYON RALPH / FOUNDER OF MINDAT.ORG
“Mindat and Its Uses”

FEBRUARY 6:

JEFF SWANGER / OWNER & OPERATOR OCEANVIEW MINE
“Recent Workings at Chief Mountain”

DR. DAVID LONDON / AUTHOR OF THE BOOK “PEGMATITES”
AND PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
“A Collectors Guide to Pegmatites & Their Minerals”

FEBRUARY 10:

FEDERICO BARLOCHER / INTERNATIONAL VIDEOGRAPHER
FROM MILAN & A PROMINENT DEALER OF HIGH QUALITY UNHEATED
BURMESE GEMS
“Mogok Myanmar (Burma): A secret overview of the most famous mining area for colored stones in the history of gems”

DR. FEDERICO PEZZOTTA, PHD / PETROLOGIST,
MINEROLOGY MUSEUM CURATOR, MUSEO DI STORIA NATURALE,
MILAN, ITALY
“Color Zoning in Multicolored Gem Tourmaline”

FEBRUARY 11:

GAIL COPUS SPANN / RENOWNED COLLECTOR OF FINE MINERALS
“The Continuing Perspectives of A Woman Collector”

FOLLOWED BY A 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
IN HONOR OF MICHAEL LEYBOV & LUDMILA CHESHKO
OF THE MINERALOGICAL ALMANAC

[Don Lum]

Dear Aisha and Arif,

Thank you so much for posting the schedule for your lecture series. It looks like you have lined up a terrific group of speakers and I am looking forward to attending as many as I can with my notebook in hand.

Sincerely yours,

Don