26th Annual CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW
2005 Schedule of Speakers
| Saturday, July 30 |
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| 1:05 PM |
Bob Whitmore
“New Hampshire Mineral Localities” |
| 2:05 PM |
Jim Tovey
“Goodbye to the Wise Mine and Hello to the Clark-Tripp Mine ” |
| 3:05 PM |
Mike Hawkins
“The Ken Hollmann Collection” |
| Sunday, July 31 |
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| 11:05 AM |
Mike Hawkins
“The Ken Hollmann Collection” |
| 12:05 PM |
Jim Tovey
“Goodbye to the Wise Mine and Hello to the Clark-Tripp Mine ” |
| 1:05 PM |
Bob Whitmore
"Mines of Grafton County, New Hampshire
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We have an exciting slate of speakers
lined up for our lectures at the Show! Here
are brief bios for each of them: |
| Mike Hawkins is the Geology
Collections Manager at the New York State Museum in Albany, where
he has been since 1988. He is the chairman of the New York State
Academy of Mineralogy. A mineral collector since childhood, he is
an avid field collector with a specialty in New York State minerals
and mining history. |
| Jim Tovey holds
a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Keene State College and works
as a contract mechanical design engineer. Between 1994 and 2003,
he was the co-owner and operator of the William Wise mine. He currently
owns four pegmatite mines in Alstead, New Hampshire and presently
operates the Clark-Tripp mine there. Jim enjoys all of the mining,
specimen preparation, gem cutting, and selling that is part of a
mineral specimen mining operation. |
| Bob
Whitmore, the owner of the Palermo mines in North Groton,
New Hampshire, is an avid mineral collector and well-known authority
on New Hampshire mineral localities. He is the co-author of the
recently published book The Pegmatite Mines Known as Palermo. The
mineral whitmoreite, a hydrous iron phosphate whose type locality
is at the Palermo No. 1 mine, is named in his honor.
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