Welcome to the Colorado Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy
We are back to meeting in person at the Colorado School of Mines Campus!
Next meeting: Thursday, January 11th at 7:30pm
Presentation speaker and topic TBD
Location: Colorado School of Mines, Berthoud Hall, Room 108 (lower level),
1516 Illinois St. Golden, CO
Who we are – Friends of Mineralogy – Colorado chapter:
Dedicated to the advancement of serious interest in minerals and related activities. We are collectors, professionals, and curators who share a love of mineral specimens and the desire to promote understanding and appreciation of mineralogy. The National society was founded in 1970 in Tucson, AZ. The Colorado Chapter was founded in Denver in 1978.
We participate in and are members of the greater community of Colorado mineral clubs, museum support groups, mining historical societies and the Greater Denver area, Gem and Mineral Council which is responsible for staging the annual Denver Gem and Mineral Show.™
Members include collectors, museum curators, mineralogists, and earth science educators. The organization is affiliated with Mindat.org, the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), the American Geoscience Institute (AGI), and the Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC).
Our Vision:
FMCC’s vision is to promote, support, protect, and expand the collecting of mineral specimens, while furthering the recognition of the scientific, historical, economic, and aesthetic value of minerals, mineral collecting and mineral collectors.
The local chapter works to fulfill this mission by participating in and sponsoring Colorado-themed and based symposiums, the joint organization of numerous clubs that organizes and executes the annual Denver Gem and Mineral Show™, legal collecting trips or tours to quarries, mines and rock dumps in Colorado where access is difficult to obtain, publications on Colorado localities and minerals, supporting Colorado museums and their objectives, maintaining access to collecting sites and sites of special mineralogical significance and providing a forum for individuals both experienced and developing to share their enthusiasm on mineralogical matters via presentations and displays.
The national FM has made its voice heard whenever proposals are made to close mineral museums or collecting sites. The National FM co-sponsors symposiums held annually at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show, and contributes support and speakers to other mineral symposiums. FM presents annual awards for best article published in each of the following publications: The Mineralogical Record, Rocks & Minerals, Mineral News, and Mineral Monographs. It also gives awards to the best institutional and individual educational exhibit cases displayed at the Denver and Tucson gem and mineral shows.