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30th Annual CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW

2009 Schedule of Speakers

Saturday, July 25  
1:05 PM Tom Rich
"Ida--a Missing Link"
2:05 PM Bob Whitmore
"Gem Collecting in New England" ”
Sunday, July 26  
1:05 AM Bob Whitmore
"New England Mineral Localities"
2:05 PM Tom Rich
"Vermont--Red Gold"

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.

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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