| Sunday, September 7, 2008 |
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| 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm |
Registration – CSM Geology Museum |
| 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm |
Welcoming Reception – CSM Geology Museum |
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| Monday, September 8, 2008 |
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| 8:00 am |
Registration and set up of poster papers |
| 9:00 am |
Welcoming Remarks and Announcements |
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Session I: Chair, Dr. Lydie Touret |
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| 9:10 am |
Influence of Clay in Pyrite Oxidation/Hydrolysis and Implications for Storage - Chris Tacker, USA |
| 9:30 am |
Agents of Deterioration - Jean DeMouthe, USA |
| 9:50 am |
Moving Specimens - Penny Williamson, Australia |
| 10:10 am |
Expanding Collections Access: The Online Sample Curation System - Carl Francis, Kerstin Lehnert, & Charles Langmuir, USA |
| 10:30 am |
Coffee Break and set up of poster papers |
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Session II: Chair, Dr. Carl Francis |
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| 11:00 am |
Amazing New Minerals: Freak of Nature or the Key for Solution of Nature Enigmas? - Igor Pekov, Russia |
| 11:20 am |
Flashes of Color: Stones and Wines of Legend - Gian Carlo Parodi, Agnes Fougeron, & Gérard Ferriere, France |
| 11:40 am |
Finish set up of poster papers |
| 12:00 noon |
Buffet Lunch |
| 1:00 pm |
Group Photo |
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Session III: Chair, Dr. Jeffrey Post |
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| 1:20 pm |
From "Green Earth" and "Green Sand" to Celadonite and Glauconite - Almost 200 Years of Mineral Concept Evolution - Erzsébet Toth, Tamás Weiszberg, & Dana Pop, Hungary |
| 1:40 pm |
The Relationship Between Phosphofibrite and Meurigite - Anthony Kampf, Uwe Kolitsch, USA |
| 2:00 pm |
Crystal-Chemical Relationships Between Beta-Fergusonite-(Y) and Related Phases from Mount Cervandone and Genetic Implications - Alesandro Guastoni, Fernando Cámara & Fabrizio Nestola, Italy |
| 2:20 pm |
Mineralogical and Geochemical Features of Romanian Gold - Dana Pop, Bogdan Constantinescu, Mihály Pósfai, Péter Pekker, Adrian Vasilescu, and Daniele Ceccato, Romania |
| 2:40 pm |
Coffee Break |
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Session IV: Chair, Dr. Tony Kampf |
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| 3:10 pm |
Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of the Structures and Behaviors of Phyllomanganates - Jeffrey Post and Peter Heaney, USA |
| 3:30 pm |
Gold-Bismuth-Tellurium Mineralization at Maldon, Victoria, Australia: A Classic Locality Revisited - Cristiana Ciobanu and Bill Birch, Australia |
| 3:50 pm |
21st Century Brazilian Minerals - Daniel Atencio, Brazil |
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Session V: Chair, Dr. Bill Birch |
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| 4:10 pm |
The IMA-CNMNC Dominant-Constituent Rule Revisited and Extended - Frederick Hatert and Ernst Burke, Belgium |
| 4:30 pm |
New Minerals Related to Tourmaline and Possible Implications on Nomenclature - Stuart Mills and Lee Groat, Canada |
| 4:50 pm |
Memorial to Dr. Joseph A. Mandarino |
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Poster Session and SMMP Reception. Reception sponsored by SMMP. |
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| Tuesday, September 9, 2008 |
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| 8:00 am |
Poster Session |
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Session VI: Chair, Dr. Bruce Geller |
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| 9:00 am |
Fluorescent Properties of Minerals From Darai-Pioz Massif, Tien-Shan Mountains, Tajikstan - Dmitriy Belakovskiy, Natalia Pekova and Viktor Rasulov, Russia |
| 9:20 am |
Spreading the Gospel of Glow - Paul Carr, Earl Verbeek, Richard Bostwick and Tema Hecht, Australia |
| 9:40 am |
Report of the 2007 German Antarctic Meteorite Expedition to Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica - Jochen Schlüter, Germany |
| 10:00 am |
Evolution of a Museum Gemstone Research Project, Over 35 Years of Technological Advancement: The Story of Barrington Ruby Mine, Australia - Frederick Lin Sutherland and Gayle Webb, Australia |
| 10:20 am |
Coffee Break |
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Session VII: Chair, Dr. George Harlow |
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| 10:30 am |
The Argyle Diamonds Pink Diamond Collection at the Western Australian Museum - Peter Downs and Alex Bevan, Australia |
| 10:50 am |
Building Stones in the City of Bonn - a Project of the Mineral Museum of Bonn, Germany - Renate Schumacher and Ingo Braun, Germany |
| 11:10 am |
The Royal Museum Project - Vicen Carrio and Peter Davidson, UK |
| 11:30 am |
Museum Web Outreach Combining Research with Collections - George Harlow, USA |
| 11:50 am |
Buffet Lunch |
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Session VIII: Chair, Dr. Tamás Weiszburg |
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| 12:50 pm |
Long Term Viability of Small Mineral Museums, Step 1: Building a Constituency - Virgil Lueth, USA |
| 1:10 pm |
The Afghan Geological Survey Museum - A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes - Brian Jackson, UK |
| 1:30 pm |
The Beginning of Mineralogy in Eastern North America - Lydie Touret, France |
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Session IX: Chair, Dr. Virgil Lueth |
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| 1:50 pm |
Natural History Museum in Magadan, Russia and Its Role in Region's Life - Anna A. Plyashkevich and Lidia A. Trushnina, USA |
| 2:10 pm |
Field Trips in Transbaikal and Baikal regions: for Mineralogists, Gemologists, and Museums - Maria Alferova and Brian Jackson, Russia |
| 2:30 pm |
Two Major Discoveries Concerning the "French Blue" Diamond at the MNHN in Paris: A Forensics Tracing of the "Hope" Diamond - François Farges, Scott Sucher, and Jean-Marc Fourcault, France |
| 2:50 pm |
Coffee Break and Begin Poster Removal |
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Session X: Chair, Dr. Jean DeMouthe |
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| 3:20 pm |
GIA's Edward J. Gübelin Memorial Gem Database: A New Gemological Resource - Mark Mauthner, Elise Misiorowski and James Shigley, USA |
| 3:40 pm |
Robert B. Ferguson Museum of Mineralogy: Past and Present - Anton Chakhmouradian and Ekaterina Reguir, Canada |
| 4:00 pm |
The Camillo Gualteroni Collection: A Time Capsule from One Century Ago - Federico Pezzotta, Renato Pagano and Alessandro Guastoni, Italy |
| 4:40 pm |
Announcements, Closing Remarks, and Poster Removal |
| 5:30 pm |
Reception and Dinner at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science |
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Buses leave from the Green Center |
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Additional Pick-up Times and Locations |
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5:40 pm - Table Mountain Inn |
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5:45 pm - The Golden Hotel |
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6:00 pm - Hampton Inn |
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6:30 pm - Reception |
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7:00 pm - Dinner |
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8:00 pm - Viewing of Gems and Minerals Collection |
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9:00 pm - Depart Museum |
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Reception and Dinner sponsored by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science |
