If you don't hear the music, try
clicking on the song title.
"Fields of Gold"
by Sting is playing.
The Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation, once known as the Flagg Foundation, is an organization formed to support the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum by providing specimens and exhibits. We also have a respectable collection of our own, which is on display at the Museum. Over the years, many Arizona Rockhounds have donated cherished collections to us, and though all donations are greatly appreciated, they can not all be displayed and given proper care. We preserve what we can, and hold sales to allow others to add some of these treasures to their personal collections. The funds from these sales are held in Trust and the interest earned used to acquire specimens and fund the projects of the Museum. Some of these gifts have been traded to enhance The Foundation collection. An advantage of Membership in the Foundation is an opportunity to have first pick of the minerals that are to be offered to the public. (My personal collection has greatly benefitted from this little perk!)
The pleasure I have experienced studying our beautiful specimens has only been surpasssed by that which I have found meeting and learning from our members. Many are respected educators and authors in the Mineral community, and the other guys like me just like to mess around with pretty rocks... I am on the Collection Committee, which I think is one of the best jobs in the Foundation. The Collection Committee is working on a big project right now, building a Database to catalogue our collection. We are hoping some of our members will see the fun we are having, and want to get involved, too! Next, we will mark the minerals and create labels for them. Handling those beautiful crystals is a kick, but you sure have to be careful!
Foundation Activities
The Foundation holds it's annual Flagg Show each January at Mesa
Community College, and also hosts a Symposium each March on
Arizona Minerals and Localities, where noted speakers share their
knowlege and a terrific spread of food with us. Another sale is
held at the Museum in October, usually in conjunction with other
activities. We will soon be going on fieldtrips to localities
such as working mines, that might not be available to individual
collectors.
Well, I hope I have shown you some of the excitement I feel in being a member of this organization, and if you would like to join, here is a form you can print and send to us. Hope you do!
Email: Steve Decker
Membership Application
Arizona Mineral & Mining Museum Foundation
(A Memorial to A. L. Flagg)
Your membership in the Foundation will help us to continue supporting improvements at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum. For $25 you can be a member and you will be entitled to the following:
You would like to be a member!
So Sign Up!
Name:___________________________________________________________________
Address:________________________________________________________________
City:_____________________________State:________Zip
Code:_______________
Phone:____________________________
Send To:
Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation
(A Memorial to A.L. Flagg)
P.O. Box 41834
Mesa, AZ 85274