Hello PIGs, please see below an announcement for a conference on pegmatites in July, 2016, at Colorado School of Mines, Boulder, CO. David London Stubbman-Drace Presidential Professor, Norman R. Gelphman Professor of Geology, and Director, Electron Microprobe Laboratory School of Geology & Geophysics, University of Oklahoma 100 East Boyd Street, Room 710 Sarkeys Energy Center Norman, Oklahoma 73019 Electron Microprobe Laboratory: http://ors.ou.edu/Microprobe/OUEMPLhome.html (405) 325 3253 (o) (405) 325 3140 (f) ************************************************************************************************** Dear colleagues from PEG2015, We wanted to write to you, as soon as we had established the dates, with a preliminary announcement about a field + lecture conference on pegmatites that a group of us in Denver/Golden, Colorado, have begun to plan for July 15-19, 2016. Our working title is the "2nd Eugene E. Foord Symposium on Pegmatites, Golden, Colorado". It will be held on the Colorado School of Mines campus, Golden, Colorado, and is being co-sponsored by the Friends of the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum and the Friends of Mineralogy, Colorado Chapter (plus some other likely cosponsors, including the Denver Region Exploration Geologists Society, DREGS). It is planned to consist of two days of oral and poster presentations, plus a welcoming social evening, and two days of field trips to pegmatite localities in Colorado (and perhaps, adjacent Wyoming). We hope those of you who are interested will consider arranging your schedule for July 2016 so that you may attend this conference, and consider presenting something about your research on pegmatites. The conference will focus on Colorado pegmatites, but papers will definitely not be limited to this geographic area, and will be welcome on any aspects of pegmatite mineralization, genesis, and economic geology. We will try to make this an outstanding opportunity to visit some of Colorado's classic pegmatite localities! We will be sharing more information about the conference as soon as it is available. For the moment, you may direct any inquiries back to myself or to our group's ad hoc chair and coordinator, Mark Jacobson, markivanjacobson@gmail.com . Sincerely, Pete Modreski -- ****************************************** Peter J. Modreski U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado Office of Communications - Community Relations and Educational Outreach Geochemist and Geologic Specialist for Abrasives, Gemstones, Quartz, Beryllium, Cesium, and Rubidium USGS, Mail Stop 150 Box 25046, Federal Center Denver, CO 80225-0046 tel. 303-202-4766, fax 303-202-4742 email pmodreski@usgs.gov SCIENCE FOR A CHANGING WORLD http://www.usgs.gov http://ask.usgs.gov Follow us on Twitter: @USGSASK and on Facebook at : http://www.facebook.com/USGeologicalSurvey ******************************************

Are there further details on the July Conference? There may be a small group from Bozeman MT interested in attending, as we prospect and collect often in the Boulder Batholith here in Montana. Dr. Ken Zahn 406-582-8752 ----------------------------------------------------------------- On Nov 2, 2015, at 8:01 AM, msa-pegmatite@minlists.org wrote: > > Hello PIGs, please see below an announcement for a conference on pegmatites in July, 2016, at Colorado School of Mines, Boulder, CO. > > David London > Stubbman-Drace Presidential Professor, Norman R. Gelphman Professor of Geology, and Director, Electron Microprobe Laboratory > School of Geology & Geophysics, University of Oklahoma > 100 East Boyd Street, Room 710 Sarkeys Energy Center > Norman, Oklahoma 73019 > > Electron Microprobe Laboratory: http://ors.ou.edu/Microprobe/OUEMPLhome.html > > (405) 325 3253 (o) > (405) 325 3140 (f) > > ************************************************************************************************** > Dear colleagues from PEG2015, > > We wanted to write to you, as soon as we had established the dates, with a preliminary announcement about a field + lecture conference on pegmatites that a group of us in Denver/Golden, Colorado, have begun to plan for July 15-19, 2016. Our working title is the "2nd Eugene E. Foord Symposium on Pegmatites, Golden, Colorado". It will be held on the Colorado School of Mines campus, Golden, Colorado, and is being co-sponsored by the Friends of the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum and the Friends of Mineralogy, Colorado Chapter (plus some other likely cosponsors, including the Denver Region Exploration Geologists Society, DREGS). It is planned to consist of two days of oral and poster presentations, plus a welcoming social evening, and two days of field trips to pegmatite localities in Colorado (and perhaps, adjacent Wyoming). > > We hope those of you who are interested will consider arranging your schedule for July 2016 so that you may attend this conference, and consider presenting something about your research on pegmatites. The conference will focus on Colorado pegmatites, but papers will definitely not be limited to this geographic area, and will be welcome on any aspects of pegmatite mineralization, genesis, and economic geology. We will try to make this an outstanding opportunity to visit some of Colorado's classic pegmatite localities! > > We will be sharing more information about the conference as soon as it is available. For the moment, you may direct any inquiries back to myself or to our group's ad hoc chair and coordinator, Mark Jacobson, markivanjacobson@ gmail.com . > Sincerely, > > Pete Modreski > > > -- > ****************************************** > > Peter J. Modreski > > U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado > > Office of Communications - Community Relations and Educational Outreach > > Geochemist and Geologic Specialist for Abrasives, Gemstones, Quartz, Beryllium, Cesium, and Rubidium > > USGS, Mail Stop 150 > > Box 25046, Federal Center > > Denver, CO 80225-0046 > > tel. 303-202-4766, fax 303-202-4742 > > email pmodreski@usgs.gov > > SCIENCE FOR A CHANGING WORLD > > http://www.usgs.gov http://ask.usgs.gov > > Follow us on Twitter: @USGSASK and on > > Facebook at : http://www.facebook.com/USGeologicalSurvey > > ****************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > MSA-pegmatite mailing list > http://lists.minlists.org/mailman/listinfo/msa-pegmatite > > The MSA-pegmatite Listserv is an announce-only list serve. It was created by the Pegmatite Interest Group (PIG) to send its members news.