Midwest Mineral Collecting and a Friends of Mineralogy History
Fri, Oct 14
|Sharon Woods Park Visitor's Center Audit
Jeff Spencer, a longtime field mineral collector, presents minerals from the Midwest. He talks about his personal experiences and friendships.
Time & Location
Oct 14, 2022, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Sharon Woods Park Visitor's Center Audit, 11450 Lebanon Rd, Sharonville, OH 45241, USA
About the event
Jeff Spencer is a longtime field collector, who began collecting rocks, minerals, and fossils on his first trip to Colorado at the age of 7. He remembers collecting his first calcite pocket in 1979 at an Indiana quarry and was hooked for life. His favorite specimens are, of course, self-collected. In his own words he “owes his collecting success to his friends (Ohio natives) Stan Esbenshade, Richard Reiter, and Tim Smith and has many wonderful memories of trips with them.”
In 2009 he joined the Friends of Mineralogy (FM), Midwest Chapter and became Treasurer in 2012 and continues to serve that office admirably. Jeff notes that FM field trips have given collectors like himself access to safety training and wonderful field trip opportunities.
His presentation will focus on three topics: 1) his personal collecting experiences, and specimens; 2) FM field trips and specimens collected by others; and 3) other interesting…