Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum
Foundation News

   Volume 9 Number 1                         In Memory of A. L. Flagg                                       Winter   2000

The Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation was formed to support the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum.

The Benefits of the Space Program
Long ago, when I was a boy,
People would say, sure, space travel would be a hoot, but look at all the money they are spending, and what possible good can it do for me?  Send a cat into space, send a monkey, so what?  Wouldn't it be better to feed a starving Antebellum Flower, or even the Spawn of a Carpetbagger? 
Well, here at last we are going to be enjoying the benefits of NASA's far focused vision of the future (besides, Tang, I mean).  Look at this cool Kinoite image that Barry Murphy captured with his new

lives, with an ever increasing momentum.  Now we can talk about little bitty crystals and mail them to each other across the Internet, seek help from our knowledgeable friends on other continents with identification and localities of specimen images, and just share the Treasures from our latest adventures.  Are you on the Shuttle or off the Shuttle? Just $89 a ticket, and it's gonna be a heck of a ride!

This little group of Kinoite crystals has formed a complete sphere, and is one of a group of 6 or 7 crystals on a recently acquired specimen.  Have you ever seen anything like this?  Next time you do, send me a picture and a story!  We have the Technology,  now lets show it who is Boss!

QX3 computer microscope,  first image, Right out of the Box!  The QX3 is the offspring of Intel and Mattel, a marriage made in Dr. Frankenstein's Laboratory. Technology is bubbling up in all of our

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