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Geological History of Pennsylvania Carbonates - Paul Zell
Pennsylvania Micromount Minerals, 1930 to 1960 - Jim Hurlbut
Arkansas River Valley Carbonatites - Henry Barwood
Is It Really Real? Mineral Fakes - Wolfgang Vogt
Origins of Large Calcites in Indiana - Nelson Shaffer
Occurrence and Mineralogy of Dolostone and Ironstone Septaria in Ohio - Ernest Carlson
Jeff Scovil, author of Photographing Minerals, Fossils and Lapidary Arts, Keynote Speaker
Colorado Rhodochrosite - Robert Witkowski
Unusual and Rare Igneous Carbonates and Associated Minerals in Carbonates - David Gold
Luminescence Banding in Stalagmites: A High Resolution Paleoclimatic Record - Will White
Field Trip

Color in Gemstones and Minerals - Will White
Gem Minerals from Pennsylvania - Allen Heyl
The Semi-Precious Phases of Silica - Peter Heaney
Figured Stones of the Weidhaas Collection - Joseph Dague
Tourmalines and Pegmatites - Vandall King
Gold and How to Find It - Wolfgang Vogt
Sir R.V. Raman, Diamonds, and Meteorites - Robert Witkowski
Deposits of Platinum and Gold - David Gold
The Nature of the Phases of Opal - Deane Smith
The National Gem Collection: Science and Lore -
Jeffrey Post of the Smithsonian Institution, Keynote Speaker
Field Trip: Bald Eagle Mountain megaripples; Nippono Spring and Sinkholes; Pine Creek Quarry; Crystal Point Quartz Prospect

Making Better Micromounts - John Passaneau
Photoluminescence, Cathodoluminescence, and Candoluminescence of Minerals - William B. White
Demonstrations of Unusual Fluorescence and Luminescence Properties - Lloyd Bumm
Terlingua-Type Calcites - Manuel Robbins
Luminescence and Zoning in Minerals: Phenomena of Beauty and Illumination - John Rakovan
Those Fabulous Fakes - Wolfgang Vogt
UV Lights: Variations on a Theme - Don Newsome
The Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence - Earl R. Verbeek
Fluorescent Minerals of the Sterling Hill and Franklin, New Jersey, Ore Deposits -
Richard C. Bostwick, Keynote Speaker
Field Trip: Lime Bluff Quarry

The Origin and Nature of Pegmatites - David P. Gold
The History of Some Pennsylvania Pegmatites - Jay Lininger
Beryls from Pakistan, Brazil, and more - Vandall King
The History of the Leiper Quarries, Delaware County, Pa. - J. Roger Mitchell
Charge Density Distribution in Crystals of Kovdorskite and Topaz from X-ray Diffraction - Charles Lake and Bryan Craven
Atoms and Amethyst: Causes of Color - Peter Heaney
What One Collects When It's Too Cold to Collect Pegmatites - Wolfgang Vogt
Pegmatite Phosphates of the Palermo #1 Mine, Groton, New Hampshire - Vandall King
Pegmatite Minerals - Michael Wise, Smithsonian Institution, Keynote Speaker
Field Trip: Easton, Pa.

Experiences of a Mining Geologist - Ron Mishkin
Geology of the Sterling Hill / Franklin District - Earl R. Verbeek
Possible Origin , Silicate Banding, and Paragenesis of the Franklin Marble: Field Evidence - Paulus B. Moore
Welcome to The Trotter Dump - Stephen Phillips
The Mine and Museum at Sterling Hill - Richard Hauck
The Franklin Marble: Its Minerals, Origin, and Metamorphism - Peter B. Leavens
The Geochemistry and Fluorescence of a Fluorite Band in the Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey - Patricia Buis
Collecting at Sterling Hill in the 1930s - Allen Heyl
The Desert View, A Small Mine in California with Franklin / Sterling Hill-Like Minerals - Manuel Robbins
Cahnite: its Biography and Mineralogy - Vandall King
Fluorescent Minerals - So What! - Don Newsome
A Collector's Perspective: Franklin and Sterling Hill Since 1960 - Richard Bostwick, SPEX CertiPrep, Inc., Keynote Speaker
Field Trip - Earl R. Verbeek

Field trip, vendors, children's activities, sales, and speakers:
Geology and Mineralogy of PA with a Special Focus on Central PA - Robert Altamura
The Art of Rock and Mineral Collecting - John Passaneau
The Truth about Gemstones - Bill Vance
A New Model for the Formation of Tiger's Eye - Peter Heaney
Feathered Dinosaurs and the Evolution of Birds - Russell Graham

Field trip, vendors, children's activities, sales, and speakers:
Geology and Mineralogy of PA with a Special Focus on Central PA - Robert Altamura
Exploring the Hidden World of Mineral Structures - Charles Anderson
Ultraviolet Light and the Fluorescence of Minerals - John Passaneau
Mammoths and Mastodons: Ice-Age "Monsters" of Pennsylvania - Julianne Snider and Russell Graham

Field trip, vendors, children's activities, sales, and speakers:
Quartz with Fluid-Filled Bubbles - Robert Altamura
Occurrence and Lapidary Use of Central Pennsylvania Oolitic Chert - Mark Ralston
Causes of Coloring in Quartz - Peter Heaney
The Forms of Quartz, An Overview - John Passaneau

Field trip, vendors, children's activities, sales, and speakers:
Iron Industries of the Juniata Iron District Including Centre County - Paul Fagley
Stars, Stripes and Fireworks: Beautiful Optical Effects in Gemstones - Peter Heaney
Care and Feeding of Vertebrate Fossils - Julianne Snider
Fluorescence: See the Glow - John Passaneau