29th Annual CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW
2008 Schedule of Speakers
| Saturday, July 26 |
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| 1:05 PM |
Tom Rich
“Opalized Fossils” |
| 2:05 PM |
Bob Whitmore
“Collecting Beryl and Other Treasures in Brazil” |
| 3:05 PM |
Jim Tovey
“Collecting Beryl and Other Treasures at the Tripp Mine, New
Hampshire” |
| Sunday, July 27 |
|
| 11:05 AM |
Jim Tovey
“Faceting Your Tripp Mine Treasures” |
| 12:05 PM |
Tom Rich
“Collecting in an Ordovician Lagerstatte in
Martinsburg, New York” |
Here
are brief bios for the speakers: |
| Tom
Rich is the Chemical Technology Manager for A. W. Chesterton
in Groveland, Massachusetts, with degrees in aeronautical engineering,
chemistry, chemical industrial engineering, geology, and business
administration. He has his own business preparing and restoring
fossils. He has collected minerals, fossils, and mining
antiques throughout the world. His trilobite collection alone is
in excess of 500 specimens. |
| 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 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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