2009 Calendar of Events

“Microminerals of the Iron Country, Michigan”
Dan Behnke
Associate Photographer for Rocks & Minerals and the Mineralogical Record magazines

(Part of the Copper Country Mineral Retreat 2009)
1:00 p.m. Sunday August 2 ( Dow Building room 642)

Hematite Evening

“The Iron Sea”

and reception with members of the A. E. Seaman family in the museum
starting 6:30 p.m. Friday September 18, 2009

The Miners’ Ball!
13 th annual museum fundraiser dinner, dance, and auction

6:00 p.m. Saturday September 19, 2009

Memorial Union Building Ballroom, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan

“Copper crystal collecting in Lake Superior”
Bob Barron

Dept. of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Michigan Technological University

Saturday October 17, 2009*

“Agates – Art and Science”
Doug Moore

University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

Saturday April 10, 2010*

*Program will begin with a reception and refreshments
at 6:30 p.m. in the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum;
the lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in a nearby lecture hall.