Chairman's Letter               By Ray Grant

     Our Foundation continues to promote the study of Arizona minerals.

     The Fourteenth Minerals of Arizona Symposium was very successful. We owe a great thank you to all the speakers for all the work they do in the preparation of the talks and the material handed out in the proceedings volume.

     There are also a number of important projects being worked on by Foundation members. If you have any information that might help with these projects please contact the person listed with each one.

     Type Minerals of Arizona - Harvey Jong is compiling a CD on the type minerals first found in Arizona. There are 80 of them and he is trying to get a picture of the mineral, the locality, and if it is named after a person, a picture of the person. This is a continuation of work started at the ninth minerals of Arizona Symposium.

     Photographic Atlas of Arizona Minerals - This project also being worked on by Harvey, started with scanning Bill Hunt's microphotographs of Arizona minerals. There are plans to continue to add to this collection and some of it should be available on CD or DVD in the future.

    Wulfenite Localities in Arizona - Randal Heath is collecting data on all of the known and reported wulfenite localities in Arizona. Over two hundred localities in Arizona have already been documented.

     Minerals added to the Arizona List since 1995 - The Foundation has published two updates to the Mineralogy of Arizona with 43 additional species added to the Arizona mineral list. There are two
additional minerals to add to the list - ramsbeckite from the 79 mine and hydroglauberite from the Camp Verde Salt mine. Several other minerals are being investigated, and an updated version of the

Arizona minerals list with the new additions will be published later this year. Any new information about Arizona minerals should be sent to Ray Grant.

     Symposium talks on a CD - Many of the speakers at the last symposium gave us permission to put their presentations on a CD and make it available. We need to work out some problems associated with copyrighted photographs used in the talks, but we hope to have some of the power point presentations of talks available in the future.

Lois Splendoria and Darrel Dodd at 5th  Ann Symposium,
3/22/97   Genie Howell Photo

Distinguished Service Award Winner 

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I could get in on the big pre-show pre-sale bargains if I became a member of the Foundation. 
     He said that there wasn't much work to do, and the Foundation's meetings were just a couple quick motions and then they were over.  Well, how could I resist a deal like that?
     Darrel is always willing to volunteer when someone is needed to pick up a donation for the Foundation.  For several years, Darrel has made time in his busy schedule to accompany me to the Point Resort for Central Arizona Project's Volunteer luncheon .   When it comes to tough choices, he's The Man…"hmmm, salmon or prime rib…..tough one!  Sure, I will take that $$$$ check!"
     Darrel became a Foundation Board Member in 1994, and since then at every Family Day, every Flagg Show, whenever you need him, he is always there.  It's about time he got the trophy to prove it!

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