Regional Chapters

Chapter Contacts and Upcoming Symposia

Colorado Chapter

For Chapter information, contact Larry Havens, President; P.O. Box 5276, Golden, CO; Tel: 401-5276; E-mail: Lghavens@aol.com.

FM members participate in exhibits and other educational programs at the Denver Gem and Mineral Show in addition to other club activities

You may order: Antero Aquamarines by Mark Jacobson (1993), Friends of Mineralogy – Colorado Chapter, P.O. Box 5276, Golden, CO 80401-5276. Price: $15.00 (tax and postage included).

Midwest Chapter

For Chapter information, contact Bob Harman; President; E-mail: Chapter website bobannhar@aol.com.

Chapter website: http://www.indiana.edu/~minerals

Pacific Northwest Chapter

For Chapter information, contact Wes Gannaway, President, 1604 Brookwood DR, Ferndale WA 98248; Tel: (360)384-4209; E-mail: debnwes@comcast.net.

Chapter Website: www.pnwfm.org

Symposia: Minerals of Africa, October 22 – 24, 2009, Red Lion Hotel, Kelso-Longview, WA.

Current projects include update of Washington State Locality Index and an Oregon State Locality Index to provide information on rare minerals and obscure localities, please contact Aaron Wieting (Oregon) pdxpounder@hotmail.com, and John Lindell (Washington) lindell4@aol.com.

Pennsylvania Chapter

For Chapter information, contact: Arnold Mogel, President, 570-739-4034, email: Pioche@Verizon.net. or Doug Rambo, Past President, 302-739-9945; email: drambo417@comcast.net.

Chapter website: www.geocities.com/sajas.geo/FM/index.htm.

Order now! Reminiscences of a Mineralogist by Arthur Montgomery. Price: $6+$3 S&H. Order from: Doug Rambo, 105 Delaware Ave, Wilmington, DE 19803; E-mail: drambo417@comcast.net.

Southern California Chapter

For Chapter information, contact Bob Reynolds, President, 220 South Buena Vista St., Redlands, CA; Tel. 909-781-9310; E-mail: RReynolds220@verizon.net;. Alternate contact is Bob Housley; E-mail: rhousley@its.caltech.edu.

Chapter website: http://www.mineralsocal.org/scfm/welcome.htm, features Minerals of California on-line..

Mississippi Valley Chapter

For Chapter information, contact Larry Nuelle, President; Bruce Stinemetz, Past President; 816-795-1641; Email: bruce.stinemetz@ssa.gov

Southeast Chapter

For Chapter information, contact Anita Westlake, President, 1253 Spencer Ave, East Point, GA 30344; Tel: h) 404-761-7849, w) 404-727-4066; E-mail: libawc@emory.edu

Chapter website: http://www.southeastfm.net/. Annual Fall Symposia and Field Trip.

Tucson Gem and Mineral Society

Contact, Peter Megaw Tgmsgb@azstarnet.com

TGMS is not a Friends of Mineralogy chapter, but TGMS and FOM have similar missions and also work together to produce a Symposium at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show each February.

Friends of Mineralogy - National Members "at-large"

See membership application if you live away from one of the chapters listed above.

Friends of Mineralogy is affiliated with The Mineralogical Record Magazine, The Mineralogical Society of America(MSA), the American Geological Institute(AGI), and Rocks & Minerals magazine.