30th Annual CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW
2009 Schedule of Speakers
| Saturday, July 25 |
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| 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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