Documents

  • President's Message: Hogg Mine machine dig, two upcoming symposia;
    Luminescent Strontianite from Meckley's Quarry, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
    Jun 29, 2026 FMPA-2026v54-2-web.pdf 782.2 KB
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  • Ron Sloto receives 2025 Carnegie Mineralogical Award; Tucson Review
    Mar 31, 2026 FMPA-2026v54-1-web.pdf 983.0 KB
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  • Volume 53 Number 1 -- Fluorescent Calcite and Strontianite from National Limestone Quarry #2, Snyder County, Pennsylvania; FM National meeting in Tucson

    Volume 53 Number 2 -- Fluorescence and Phosphorescence of Wavellite from National Limestone Quarry #2, Snyder County, Pennsylvania; Announcement of FM PA 2025 Symposium

    Volume 53 Number 3 -- ECGMS trip to Havey Quarry and Mt. Mica; Fluorescence and Phosphorescence of Calcite from Cavetown, Washington County, Maryland

    Volume 53 Number 4 -- 2025 Symposium and Field Trip Review
    Dec 31, 2025 FMPA-2025v53-web.pdf 3.6 MB
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  • Volume 52 Number 1 -- Tucson show review; Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials Quarry Part 6

    Volume 52 Number 2 -- 2024 FM Symposium announcement

    Volume 52 Number 3 -- Minerals of the White Pigment Quarry, West York, York County, Pennsylvania

    Volume 52 Number 4 -- Report on the 2024 FM-PA Symposium
    Dec 31, 2024 FMPA-2024v52-web.pdf 3.6 MB
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  • Volume 51 Number 1 -- Orange Planerite from Lime Ridge, Mt. Pleasant Mills; Symposium move to Johnstown

    Volume 51 Number 2 -- Symposium update; EFMLS update

    Volume 51 Number 3 -- Symposium update with speakers listed; EFMLS update

    Volume 51 Number 4 -- 2023 FM-PA Symposium report
    Dec 31, 2023 FMPA-2023v51-web.pdf 3.7 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2022 v 50

    Volume 50 Number 1 -- Tucson Travel Log and Report; National 2022 FM Meeting in Tucson

    Volume 50 Number 2 -- Report on Re-opening the Mount Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, Wavellite Occurrence; Minerals from the Phoenixville
    Mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania

    Volume 50 Number 3 -- Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History; The year in review

    Volume 50 Number 4 -- President's Annual Report
    Dec 31, 2022 FMPA-2022v50-web.pdf 4.9 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2021 v 49

    Volume 49 Number 1 -- Bill Stephens new president; Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 5

    Volume 49 Number 2 -- 2021 Symposium announcement

    Volume 49 Number 3 -- Fluorcalciomicrolite from Mineral Hill, Delaware County, PA

    Volume 49 Number 4 -- Symposium and Symposium Field Trip Report
    Dec 31, 2021 FMPA-2021v49-web.pdf 2.3 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2020 v 48

    Volume 48 Number 1 -- Minerals of the Silver Hill Quarry contact zones

    Volume 48 Number 2 -- Amethyst collecting field trip report

    Volume 48 Number 3 -- Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 4

    Volume 48 Number 4 -- Yellow Epidote from the Rock Hill Quarry; 2020 Symposium and field trip report
    Dec 31, 2020 FMPA-2020v48-web.pdf 5.2 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2019 v 47

    Volume 47 Number 1 -- Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 1

    Volume 47 Number 2 -- Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 2

    Volume 47 Number 3 -- Symposium and field trip schedule

    Volume 47 Number 4 -- Minerals of the Penn/MD Materials quarry, part 3
    Dec 31, 2019 FMPA-2019v47-web.pdf 2.7 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2018 v 46

    Volume 46 Number 1 -- Pete Dunn memorial

    Volume 46 Number 2 -- Ralph Thomas and "Pen" Ambler memorials

    Volume 46 Number 3 -- Exton mine 80-foot stope chalcanthite

    Volume 46 Number 4 -- Cobaltite from the Kibblehouse Quarry
    Dec 31, 2018 FMPA-2018v46-web.pdf 3.3 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2017 v 45

    Volume 45 Number 1 -- Banded pseudomalachite from the Perkiomen mine whim shaft, Audubon, Montgomery County

    Volume 45 Number 2 -- Stilbite-stellerite solid solution series from the Kibblehouse quarry, Perkiomenville, Montgomery County; West Chester University geology museum

    Volume 45 Number 3 -- Hiddenite North Carolina field trip report; Barite from the Perkiomen mine in the Charles Wheatley collectiom

    Volume 45 Number 4 -- Hemimorphite from the Ecton Mine 80-Foot Stope and Perkiomen Mine Whim Shaft, Audubon, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; Symposium report; James Quickel memorial
    Dec 31, 2017 FMPA-2017v45-web.pdf 3.3 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2016 v 44

    Volume 44 Number 1 -- Upcoming field trips

    Volume 44 Number 2 -- Planerite from Lime Ridge,Mount Pleasant Mills, Snyder County; National Limestone Middleburg quarry field trip report; Belemnite collecting along the Chesapeake and Delaware (C&D) Canal; Albite found at C.K. Williams quarry

    Volume 44 Number 3 -- Actinolite, augite, and titanite from the Rock Hill quarry, East Rockhill Township, Bucks County; Update on C&D Canal belemnite collecting; Penn/MD Materials quarry field trip report

    Volume 44 Number 4 -- 2016 FMPA symposium report; Cornwall field trip report
    Dec 31, 2016 FMPA-2016v44-web.pdf 2.6 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2015 v 43

    Volume 43 Number 1 -- Mineral Hill field trip report, Cornwall Big Hill field trip report

    Volume 43 Number 2 -- Texas, Pennsylvania

    Volume 43 Number 3 -- Gem & mineral show in Chenzhou, China

    Volume 43 Number 4 -- Cornwall mine field trip report, a look back at the first Friends of Mineralogy Pennsylvania Chapter symposium
    Dec 31, 2015 FMPA-2015v43-web.pdf 6.9 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2014 v 42

    Volume 42 Number 1 -- Twinned franklinite from the Sterling mine, New Jersey

    Volume 42 Number 2 -- Upcoming field trips; Charlotte Smith memorial

    Volume 42 Number 3 -- Vince Matula memorial

    Volume 42 Number 4 -- John Passaneau memorial
    Dec 31, 2014 FMPA-2014v42-web.pdf 1.2 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2013 v 41

    Volume 41 Number 1

    Volume 41 Number 2 -- Montgomery County cacoxenite

    Volume 41 Number 3 -- Upcoming symposium; New Jersey Chapter forms

    Volume 41 Number 4 -- Phosphate Minerals from the National Limestone Quarry
    Dec 31, 2013 FMPA-2013v41-web.pdf 2.5 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2012 v 40

    Volume 40 Number 1 -- Remembering Floyd Faux, Platinum group minerals new to Pennsylvania

    Volume 40 Number 2 -- Slag minerals from Hopewell Furnace new to Pennsylvania

    Volume 40 Number 3 -- Symposium program announced

    Volume 40 Number 4 -- Symposium review
    Dec 31, 2012 FMPA-2012v40-web.pdf 3.1 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2011 v 39

    Volume 39 Number 1 -- Okenite from the Dyer Quarry, Trace element content of magnetite and clinochlore from the Penn/MD Materials quarry

    Volume 39 Numbers 2-4 -- Metal deposits of the Newark Basin part 3
    Dec 31, 2011 FMPA-2011v39-web.pdf 3.2 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2010 v 38

    Volume 38 Number 1 -- University of Delaware mineralogical museum, Metal deposits of the Newark Basin part

    Volume 38 Number 2 -- Metal deposits of the Newark Basin part 2
    Dec 31, 2010 FMPA-2010v38-web.pdf 1.5 MB
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  • FM-PA Newsletter 2009 v 37

    Volume 37 Number 1 -- Allen Heyl Memorial, Neil Wintringham memorial
    Dec 31, 2009 FMPA-2009v37-web.pdf 184.0 KB
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