Category: Symposium

Our 2024 Symposium will be held the weekend of October 18 – 20, 2024 at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington!
Details will start to come out soon!

Our 2023 symposium, Rare Earth Element Minerals will start Friday afternoon. Setup begins at noon. Exhibits and main floor dealers open at 5:00 pm. Satellite dealers in the north hall of the hotel open when they wish.

We will again be live-streaming our talks on Zoom, and if the tech all comes together, on Facebook and YouTube.

We recommend using Zoom because it will allow for questions. There is NO charge for watching the talks online, but we are happy to accept donations if you find it of value.

Of course, the entire, in-person experience is much more fun with dealers, auctions, displays, and “giant crystal that got away” stories. You can register here: https://pnwfm.square.site/
or at the event.

We will post a link to register for the virtual Zoom event on Friday evening, so stay tuned!

Display some of your collection!

The heart of a mineral show is always the display cases. Everyone looks at them, studies them… even drools over them! Please consider displaying part of your collection at this year’s symposium. We have 12 cases and only a few are spoken for at the time of this notice. Some things to consider:

• Cases are not required to be “on theme.”
• You do not need to have museum quality specimens to make an interesting display!
• The best guideline is to put together a display that YOU would stop to look at.
• This year’s theme may be better suited to micro-mineral specimens so consider getting creative: Perhaps add photos or an in-case slide show?
• Cases are bolted together after you place your display inside. We will have security sleeping in the room with the cases on Friday and Saturday night.
• The case dimensions are 43-1/8” wide x 22-1/2” deep x 27-3/8” high. The fronts slope in at the top. You can find detailed instructions on our web site:
  http://pnwfm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ShowCaseInstructions.pdf
• We have a variety of case liners available, so you do not need to make your own.

Contact Bruce Kelley – bruce.kelley@gmail.com to reserve a case.

Rare Earth Minerals

Online registration is now ready to go!
https://pnwfm.square.site/

Some notes on this year’s symposium:
1. The Red Lion hotel does not currently offer food service. There is still no official banquet service but we have a caterer contracted to provide our Saturday evening meal. More details soon…

2. Some presentations will be live speakers and others may be recorded and projected on the big screen. We are planning to live-broadcast the entire symposium for those unable to attend.

Stay tuned for more details in the next few weeks.

Rare Earth Element Minerals
October 20-22, 2023
Kelso, Washington

Live in Kelso and Online
Saturday and Sunday: Presentations by national experts in Rare Earth Element Minerals
Saturday Evening Banquet
Floor and Room Dealers
World Class Mineral Displays
Auctions and Camaraderie

Event registration coming soon!

PACIFIC NORTHWEST FRIENDS OF MINERALOGY
2022 Symposium
CRYSTAL HABITS: THE GOOD AND THE BAD
October 14-15, 2022

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022

12:00 pm DEALER & EXHIBITOR SET-UP
5:00 pm MAIN FLOOR OPENS
9:00 pm MAIN FLOOR CLOSES

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022

8:00 am MAIN FLOOR OPENS
10:00 am Introduction and introductory remarks
Toby Seim and Julian Gray
10:15 am The many crystal forms of quartz occurring at
Hallelujah Junction, Washoe County, Nevada
Rick Kennedy
11:05 am BREAK
11:20 am Filiform Minerals
Don Howard
12:10 pm MORNING SESSION ENDS
2:00 pm From Faces to Forms: The many habits of quartz
Jessica Robertson
2:50 pm BREAK
3:05 pm Three treasures’ from Xuebaoding, scheelite, beryl,
and cassiterite
Markus Raschke
(Virtual presentation)
3:55 pm AFTERNOON SESSION ENDS
6:00 pm BANQUET AND LIVE AUCTION

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022

8:00 am MAIN FLOOR OPENS
8:00 am FM BUSINESS MEETING
9:00 am Pseudomorphs: The Story of a Habit Erin Delventhal
9:50 am BREAK
10:05 am Mineral rings: A personal fascination Frank Ruehlicke
10:55 am Closing Remarks Toby Seim
11:00 am SYMPOSIUM CLOSES

Remember that the early registration deadline is October 1!
Our 2022 Symposium “Crystal Habits: The Good and the Bad” will have these talks and speakers:

• Three treasures’ from Xuebaoding, scheelite, beryl, and cassiterite
  Markus Raschke
• Filiform Minerals
  Don Howard
• From faces to forms: The many habits of quartz
  Jessica Robertson
• The many crystal forms of quartz occurring at Hallelujah Junction, Washoe County, Nevada
  Rick Kennedy
• Pseudomorphs: The Story of a Habit
  Erin Delventhal
• Mineral rings: A personal fascination
  Frank Ruehlicke

Thank you for your patience as we finish planning for the 2022 Symposium:
Mineral Habits – the GOOD and the BAD

Online registration is now ready to go!
https://pnwfm.square.site/

Some notes on this year’s symposium:
1. The Red Lion hotel does not currently offer food service. No breakfast in the hotel and no banquet service. We are working to find a caterer to provide our Saturday evening meal but it may stretch the concept of banquet a bit.

2. We will have COVID policy based on current conditions. Masks will likely be required in the public spaces.

3. Some presentations will be live speakers and others may be recorded and projected on the big screen. We are planning to broadcast the entire symposium to members live for a reduced fee.

Stay tuned for more details in the next few weeks.