The thirty-fourth annual Friends of Mineralogy symposium will be held in conjunction with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show and will take place on Saturday, 16 February 2013. In addition to the Friends of Mineralogy, the symposium is sponsored by the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society and the Mineralogical Society of America.  The theme is the same as the show theme: Fluorite, A Rainbow of Color. Presentations on descriptive mineralogy, classic and new localities, and related subjects are welcome.  An audience of amateur and professional mineralogists and geologists is expected.

Anyone wanting to present a paper should submit a 200-300-word abstract to Julian C. Gray, Tellus Science Museum, PO Box 3663, Cartersville, GA 30120; email juliang@tellusmuseum.org; phone 770-606-5700, ext. 415.  Presentations will be twenty minutes in length.  Abstracts must be submitted by 31 August 2012.

Pacific Northwest Chapter

37^th Annual Symposium: Sulfate Minerals, Longview, WA (north of Portland, OR), October 12-14, 2012.  Contact Robert Meyer, pyrite111@hotmail.com, 425-433-1088.

There is more information at http://www.pnwfm.org/symposium.html

The New Mexico Mineral Symposium

33^rd Annual Symposium, Socorro, New Mexico, November 10-11, 2012.  Titles of papers must be submitted by July 15, 2012, Abstracts must be in no later than September 15, 2012.  Contact Dr. Virgil Lueth, vwlueth@mtu.edu.

There is more information at http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/