Speaker Schedule for 2020 Virtual Symposium: Aesthetic Minerals – Color & Crystallography

All talks will be presented via Zoom on October 17, 2020. Times are Pacific Daylight Time.

Michael Bainbridge

11:00 AM – Aesthetics in Mineral Photography

Ray Hill

12:00 PM – The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: a story of transformation

Raquel Alonzo-Perez

1:00 PM –Emerald and gemstone formation during continental growth episodes

Tama Higuchi

2:00 PM – Minerals through the Lens of Art

George Rossman

3:00 PM – Natural Radiation – A Tale of Two Minerals
How natural radiation causes color to develop in some minerals,
concentrating on feldspar and tourmaline.