Lecture Saturday on World-Famous Mineral Discovery
Bryan Lees of the Collectors'
Edge Mineral Company in Golden, Colorado, will give a lecture, "Rhodochrosite
Discoveries at the Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado: 1999-2000," on
Saturday, July 14, at 8:00 p.m., in Room 642 of the Dow Environmental
Sciences and Engineering Building at Michigan Technological University.
His lecture will be preceded
by a 7:00 p.m. reception in the Seaman Mineral Museum, located on the
fifth floor of the Electrical Energy Resources Center. Both the lecture
and the reception are free and open to the public.
Since reopening the mine in
the early 1990s to search for fine mineral specimens, Lees and his associates
have used traditional geological and remote sensing methods to locate
some of the most beautiful rhodochrosite specimens in the world. Rhodochrosite
is a manganese carbonate which, at the Sweet Home mine, has vivid red
and pink crystals up to six inches on edge.
Lees's visit is part of the
Seaman Mineral Museum Society's lecture series. For more information,
contact John A. Jaszczak, Seaman Mineral Musuem Society chair, at 487-2255
or jaszczak@mtu.edu.
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