We meet every odd-numberd month in person at the Colorado School of Mines campus!
Our next general chapter meeting will be March 12th, 2026 at 7:00 pm in Berthoud Hall, room 108
Speaker: Phillip M. Persson – Persson Rare Minerals
Topic: “Crystallized Mineral Specimens from the Fissure Vein Type Copper Deposits of Keweenaw County, Michigan”
Chapter News:
- We are planning our next field trip, which will be on April 4th at the White Raven Mine in Boulder County, Colorado (underground!!) thanks to access provided by Markus Raschke. Stayed tuned for an email to members coming soon with more details!
- Our yearly silent auction will be at the Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church on Saturday, May 16th.
2026 Symposium:
- Registration is NOW OPEN for our 2026 symposium. REGISTER HERE
- The Friends of Mineralogy Colorado Chapter symposium will be returning in 2026 from June 11th – 15th, at the Mines Museum of Earth Science & Hill Hall at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado with a theme of “Colorado 150: Celebrating 150 Years of Colorado Statehood”
Please go to the Symposium page for more details
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.
