Mineral Locality Symposium

Sources of Iron (terrestrial or not) and Vanadium in the Mohave Desert

October 20 & 21, 2007

Followed by a field trip to the Iron Hat Mine on Saturday and the Bessemer Mine on Sunday

$20.00 Fee includes: Saturday Lectures, Coffee, Lunch, & Field Trip & the Sunday Field Trip

Sponsored By

Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy

Roy 's Gas & Café

6666 National Trails Highway

Old Route 66

Amboy, CA 92304

Take I-15 from LA to Barstow . Gas up at Barstow . Take I-40 east past Ludlow . Exit south at Kelbaker Road to Old Route 66, then west to Amboy.

Directions from Twentyunine Palms

Delicious Juan Pollo chicken dinner will be served for lunch on Saturday. Please R.S.V.P. to:

Jennifer Rohl, rohlon@yahoo.com or via cell phone (714) 293-0156 no later than October 5, 2007 .

Saturday Symposium & Field Trip

9:00 AM    Registration for Symposium and Field Trips – (Coffee and snacks available)

9:30          Welcome, Bob Reynolds, President, SCFM

9:40          Stratigraphy and Structure of the Bristol & Marble Mountains —Howard Brown, OMYA

10:10         Iron Hat Mine, Marble Mountains —Bruce Bridenbecker, Professor, Copper Mountain College

10:40         Iron Ore Emplacement in the Soda Mountains — Kim Bishop, Professor, CSULA

11:00        Vanadium and California Vanadinite Localities—Paul Adams, SCFM

11:30        Meteorites in the eastern Mojave Desert —Bob Verish, SCFM

12:00        Trip To Bessemer Iron Mine, Upper Johnson Valley —Robert Housley, SCFM

12:15 – 1:30 PM

                Lunch Break

                Lunch Meeting  -  SCFM meeting

1:30         Afternoon field trip led by Bruce Bridenbecker to the Iron Hat Mine, Marble Mountains.

6:00         [Picnic Dinner in Twentynine Palms, location announced at symposium]

Sunday Field Trip Information

Field trip begins at 9 AM at Hwy 247 & Bessemer Mine Road. Details of the field trip will be announced at the meeting. High clearance vehicles are recommended. Maps and directions will be supplied during that time. Out of town visitors can stay in Barstow or Twentynine Palms.