Calendar of Coming Events
July 12-14, Four Corners Gem and Mineral Show, La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave., Durango, CO.
Sat., July 13, Outdoor Display & Demo Day at the Western Museum of Mining & Industry, Colorado Springs. “Join WMMI for our next Demonstration (“Demo”) Day on Saturday, July 13th. Watch our amazing outdoor machinery displays and exhibits in live action including an Osgood Steam Shovel, Trammer, and a 10-Stamp Mill. Learn all about the important uses of these such machines (and others) during the early mining days and how they played a role in mining and industry history. All ages welcome! Handicap parking is available. Regular museum admission applies. See https://www.wmmi.org/ or call 719-488-0880 for more info. Schedule of Demonstrations:
9a-11a: Blacksmithing Demo
10a-11a: Museum Guided Tour
11a-11:30a: Shovel & Trammer Demo
12:15p-12:45p: Stamp Mill Demo
1p-2p: Museum Guided Tour
July 18-21, “Home Rock Show” (sale), by John Haney, 9 to 5 daily, 4242 Thompson Ct., Denver 80216. “Rough rock, slabs, cabs, fossils, amber, turquoise, minerals, metaphysical crystals, gemstone bowls & boxes, lapidary equipment & supplies”. Contact rocksisme@comcast.net, or 303-296-8268.
Sat., July 20, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., O’Dark Thirty Boyz Mining will have a mineral/lapidary/antique glass bottle clearance garage sale in Littleton. “We will have minerals by the flat, build your own flats or single specimens, tubs of petrified wood and other misc. minerals, slabs and other rocks/lapidary rough and antique bottles. This is a clearance sale/inventory reduction. There will be a lot of good low-priced material and several hundred bottles for sale, Everything will be priced to sell. Bring a bucket or basket and fill them up. We have acquired several estates of various minerals/lapidary and it is priced to move. Discounts throughout the day. Come early for the best selection, come late for slashed prices. 9661 S. Johnson street, Littleton Colorado 80127. contact John 303-903-3663 or Odarkthirtyboyzmining@gmail.com”
Sunday, July 21, 10:00 a.m., Florissant Scientific Society (FSS) Field Trip, to examine “Culturally Modified Trees” (CMTs) at and near the Glen Isle Resort, just west of Bailey, CO. Meet at Glen Isle at 10 a.m.; bring something to share for the FSS’ traditional potluck picnic lunch at noon, and perhaps another stop to see more CMTs elsewhere along US-285. Hosts will be John Anderson, Glen Isle Resort, and perhaps Janet Shown, NASTaP (Native American Sacred Trees and Places) Executive Director. The FSS is an informal earth science organization that holds a monthly meeting or field trip; anyone is welcome to take part. If you want more info, contact Beth Simmons, cloverknoll@comcast.net .
Tues., July 23, and Tues., July 30, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Pikes Peak Minerals: Beyond Amazonite and Smoky Quartz; “EDTalks” sponsored by the School of Mines Library. “The next “EDTalks” will be on minerals of the world-famous Pikes Peak area. The talks will be in GRL 201 (in the General Research Laboratory building; 201 is the conference room across the hall from the main floor entrance of the CSM Geology Museum) on Tuesday, July 23 and Tuesday, July 30, from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. The talks will given by Ed Raines, noted expert on Colorado minerals and mining history, and Collections Manager for the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum. Part I, July 23; Part II, July 30. Brown bags welcome.”
Aug. 2-4, Creede, CO Rock & Mineral Show, at the Creede Underground Mining Museum and Community Center. See http://creederocks.com/ .
Aug. 8-11, Contin-Tail rock & mineral show, Buena Vista Rodeo Grounds, Buena Vista, CO; see www.facebook.com/ContinTail
Aug. 15-18, Woodland Park Rock, Gem, & Jewelry Show, Woodland Park, CO; see https://www.facebook.com/woodlandparkrockandgemshow/
Aug. 16-18, Lake George Gem & Mineral Show, sponsored by the Lake George Gem and Mineral Club, Lake George, CO. See http://www.lggmclub.org/
Sep. 6-15, Colorado Mineral and Fossil Fall Show, Crowne Plaza Hotel – Airport, 15500 E. 40th Ave. Denver, CO.
Sep. 7-8, 1st Annual Denver “Just Minerals Event”, Embassy Suites Hotel, 4444 N. Havana St., Denver; wholesale and retail mineral dealers.
Sep. 8-16, Denver Coliseum Mineral, Fossil, and Gem Show, Denver Coliseum; see http://www.coliseumshow.com/
Sep. 11-14, Denver Fine Mineral Show, Denver Marriott West, 1717 Denver West Blvd.; see http://finemineralshow.com/denver/
Sep. 13-15, 52nd annual Denver Gem and Mineral Show, Denver Mart, 451 E 58th Ave., Denver, CO. Minerals of Canada is the 2019 show theme. See http://denvershow.org
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Leonardo da Vinci at the Colorado School of Mines, Arthur Lakes Library: In addition to the Leonardo da Vinci: 500 Years of Genius exhibit now in progress at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (see https://secure1.dmns.org/leonardo-da-vinci-500-years-of-genius ), there is another excellent exhibit about his work, currently on display at the Lakes Library on the CSM campus. The Machines of Change: The Da Vinci Machines exhibit includes “over 60 authentic reproductions of machines and devices designed by Leonardo DaVinci were created using similar materials, building techniques and tools that Leonardo would have had access to in his time”, plus full-size reproductions of Leonardo’s most famous paintings. The exhibit, free to all visitors, is spaced around the corridors and reading rooms of the main floor of the library. Library hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. most days, 12 to 6 weekends. They say that the exhibit at CSM will be open until mid-July.