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Check out the January 1997 Flagg Mineral show. The Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation's main job is to help The Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum show people the value and beauty of our Mineral resources, but there are some fun benefits of membership. If you would like to learn more, Let me tell you about The Foundation!
Read about the Blanchard Mine fieldtrip on Mother's Day 2003.
Click on one of
the odd symbols below to see the The Arizona
Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation went on a trip to the Red Cloud Mine on
March 21, 1998. Let
me tell you about it! On Saturday, September 26,
1998, we went to Amethyst
Hill, north of Wickenburg Arizona. Ed
Davis also took us to the Purple Passion Mine and the Monarch
Mine, where we found Wulfenite, Fluorite Octahedrons, Fluorescent
Minerals, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, and who knows what else! Ed
and his friends did a bunch of work to make sure we had a
successful and enjoyable collecting trip, and it sure payed off
for us! Ed even hired two rattlesnakes to do the Lambada for us,
just across the street from the Geode locality he showed us! Click here to see those Rattlers
dance!. If you
would like to see more mineral stuff, check these pages. This is where I
stash stories about our recent collecting trips! We went to the
Four Peaks Amethyst Mine in the late summer of 1998. Click on the
Dog to Take a look. Eureka! I have
found it! Here are my songs, "To
Another Day", Copyright 1990 by Steven Decker, and "Rebirth
of a Nation" copyright 1990 by Steven Decker Click on the song Title to
listen. I made them into MIDI files with a shareware program
called Mozart. How do you like the tunes? Click on the
Sapphire Summer of 99 we
vacationed in California. We visited the Eastern Sierras, and
collected Garnet and Epidote at North Lake above Bishop. We
toured Yosemite, and saw the Bridal Veil Falls which are so
lovely, like a picture from a story book land. We took a day and
went to the Coast and played in the surf at Santa Cruz Harbor.
The people outside the big cities of California are mellow,
comparitively speaking, even on the busy ocean shore. The nicest
part of the trip for me was to finally see the General Sherman
Tree and the other Giant Sequoias. The feeling was like being in
a Cathedral. The signs claim that these are the largest living
things on earth, but a friend hasread of a soil fungus back east
that may be bigger. Do you think that would qualify as a single
living thing? All original material on this
page is Copyright 1998 by Steven Decker. Permission to use it for
non-commercial purposes will probably be granted if you ask nice,
give me credit, and add a link back to this URL:
Newsletters of the Arizona
Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation.
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Here are some pictures Bill Gardner
took of minerals from the Purple Passion.
Click on the Horse and Rider to see a Rodeo! I created
this animation from an image of Darrel Dodd's Pewter figures. 
Send me E-mail!
Steve Decker sundog@azminfun.com 
http://azminfun.com/sundog1/
