NEXT MEETING: Saturday, March 17, 2012
9am - 1pm

ALL ARE WELCOME - KIDS AND VISITORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO JOIN US AND ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING THEIR UNKNOWN SPECIMENS

Meeting location: directions here

Club Officers

President
Joe Mulvey
(603) 880-4018
bassmeister_2000
@yahoo.com

Vice Pres.
Gordon Jackson
gsj8544
@aol.com

Treasurer
Tom Mortimer
(603) 673-4039
tjmort@comcast.net

Secretary
Robert Wilken
(603)-536-2013
rwilken@
roadrunner.com

Director
Carlos Gristani gristani@gmail.com (603) 465-6292

Director
Bob Janules
(603) 424-9269
janules@worldnet
.att.net

Newsletter
P. Michael Hutchins
(978) 287-4723
pmh232@yahoo.com

Website
Joe Mulvey
(603) 880-4018
bassmeister_2000
@yahoo.com

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We encourage young people to join our club, we offer a discounted rate for youth memberships. We welcome non-members to visit our monthly meetings.

As the name implies, we are unique, different from other mineral clubs, and try to emphasize this difference. Most of, but not all of, our members already have a basic knowledge of minerals and usually are members of one or more unspecialized mineral clubs. We try to restrict our programs, publish articles, and notices of other events to items relating to micromounting and to localities in or adjacent to New England.

JOIN OUR CLUB: Download our club brochure here

WHY JOIN???
Members benefits are many! Our giveaway tables are legendary! Every meeting we have a car load of micro material free to all who attend. Many of our members can ID your unknowns and answer many of your questions!

We do have occasional field trips and can also point you in the right direction for your personal field collecting. Club newsletters are sent out 8 times per year. Newsletters are packed with articles and event notices. See our archives in the member area. Club equipment is available to all members on a first come first served basis for month-long terms. We have a scope, digital camera, SLR camera with bellows and several DVD recordings of well known micro speakers.

At the end of our meeting season, members have the opportunity to hear a prominent speaker on a topic of value to micromounters, and may purchase good specimens at bargain prices. We try to keep dues and other expenses to a minimum in order that everyone may participate. See Thoughts on Micromounting by Pat Barker.

JANET CARES
Janet was a founding member of the Micromoumters of New England. Along with her husband Steve, the mineral caresite was named in their honor. Members of the Micrmounters Hall of Fame, both Janet and Steve were respected for attention to detail and exuberance in the field as well as at the scope. Their contributions to the Harvard University micro collection are the basis for the majority of this expansive, historical collection. Read Janet's obituary.

JOHN STEWART
Our condolences go out to his wife Martha, his daughter, his many friends and our mineral family. If you have a story to share about John, please email it to us; the club would be very glad to add it to a memoriam article. Please see our photo album

MindatNH The ultimate mineral database of New Hampshire minerals, built, created and maintained by our own Tom Mortimer! Dedicated to the documentation and confirmation of New Hampshire mineral species truly it is an excellent resource!

Cataloging your collection It must have been said by somebody that unless you catalog your collection, all you really have is a box of rocks! Getting started in cataloging your mineral collection

Build your own LED Microscope Illuminator - Construction of a SOLUX incandescent lamp based microscope illuminator by Tom Mortimer

Mineral education for children: Feel free to download this 35mb powerpoint presentation to be used as a tool to help present minerals to kids download here

Stacking Software Options: There are more than just a few different versions of software that allow a micromounter to layer multiple pictures into one high-res digital photograh the shows the true beauty of your specimens. See Some Options

Review of mineral trimmers by Bryan Manke: Our 2010 Symposium door prize was a very nice c-clamp style mineral trimmer. We looked at trimmer options based on research by club member BryanManke. Read more here.

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