Dear MSA colleagues, Registration for the 2025 NM Mineral Symposium is now live! via the symposium website, https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/museum/nmms/home.cfml The New Mexico Mineral Symposium provides a forum for both professionals and amateurs interested in mineralogy. The meeting allows all to share their cumulative knowledge of mineral occurrences and provides stimulus for mineralogical studies and new mineral discoveries. In addition, the informal atmosphere encourages intimate discussions among all interested in mineralogy and associated fields. This year's symposium will consist of a day and a half of formal papers presented in 30-minute time blocks. Many papers will focus on mineral occurrences from New Mexico and adjacent states, as well as Mexico. Other selected papers may be presented from other parts of the world. An informal pre-symposium social and tailgating session will be held at local motels beginning on Friday, and will last through the weekend. The Mineral Symposium is organized each year by the New Mexico Mineral Museum. 2025 Featured Speaker: History and Highlights, including New Mexico specimens, of the Natural History Museum, London, England — Mike Rumsey, Principal Curator of Minerals and Planetary Materials for the Natural History Museum in London, England The new online registration (and payment) system is secure, encrypted, and PCI-compliant. You will be able to pay via credit card, but if it is a necessity, there is still an option to mail a check for payment. However, still enter your registration information online. The new registration system allows you to register yourself and others, sign up for the Saturday night Banquet (for yourself and others), as well as join or renew your membership to the Friends of the Museum Group, and to make donations to the museum, all in one transaction. To do this use the *Continue Shopping* button when you get to the shopping cart. You can navigate to different parts of the registration system using the path links at the top of each page. They look like this, for example: *Mineral Symposium Registration/Registration 2025/Symposium Registrations* Sincerely, John Rakovan -- *Dr. John Rakovan <https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/staff/detail.cfml?name=rakovan>* *Mineralogist & Senior Mineral Museum <https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/museum/home.cfml> Curator* *New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources * *801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801* *Phone: 575-835-7625* *Executive Editor of Rocks & Minerals <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vram20/current>Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University <http://www.cas.miamioh.edu/~rakovajf/>*