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SUMMARY:OVMC March 2025 Meeting - The Geological History of Southern Ontario
DESCRIPTION:5:30 PM Mineral Identification \n\n\n\n“Rock Doctor” Clinic: Starts at 5:30\, ends at 6 PM. Members are free to bring in a reasonable number of samples or specimens to be identified by the expert mineralogists in the club. This has been a very popular activity for the membership (at times exceeding our capacity to deal with everyone present!). \n\n\n\n6:00 PM Meeting \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Laura Mancini\, P.Geo\, Southern Regional Resident Geologist\, Ontario Geological Survey \n\n\n\nTopic: The Geological History of Southern Ontario \n\n\n\nLaura’s presentation will cover the formation of Laurentia and the Grenville Province starting in the Proterozoic around 2.5 billion years ago through the Quaternary Period. The presentation will briefly cover the variety of mineral products that are mined from 3 very distinct geological areas which are the Paleozoic\, Central Metasedimentary Belt\, and the Central Gneiss Belt.  \n\n\n\nUpon completing an M.Sc. at the University of Waterloo in 2011\, Laura worked for Lake Shore Gold Corp as an Exploration Geologist for eight years on several surface and underground projects during an exciting time in gold exploration and mining. She began working with the Ontario Geological Survey Team in March 2020\, as southern Ontario’s Regional Resident Geologist. Laura enjoys participating in geoscience outreach and education\, particularly teaching about the amazing geological history and complex geology of Southern Ontario. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation and Directions: Canadian Museum of Nature\, 240 McLeod St.\, Ottawa. Enter through the main entrance and turn left\, go to the end of the hall past the cafeteria
URL:https://www.ovmineralclub.ca/event/ovmc-march-2025-meeting/
LOCATION:Canadian Museum of Nature\, 240 MacLeod Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2P 2R1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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SUMMARY:OVMC February 2025 Meeting - Ice River Alkaline Complex - BC
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Paula Piilonen Field WorkIce River Complex BCAncylite Mineral\n\n\n5:30 PM Mineral Identification and Kids Corner \n\n\n\n“Rock Doctor” Clinic: Starts at 5:30\, ends at 6 PM. Members are free to bring in a reasonable number of samples or specimens to be identified by the expert mineralogists in the club. This has been a very popular activity for the membership (at times exceeding our capacity to deal with everyone present!). \n\n\n\n“Kids Corner”: We will now be having a table set aside for children to learn the basics of mineral identification and other related activities. Thank you to Tara Conroy for setting this up! \n\n\n\n6:00 PM Meeting \n\n\n\nSpeaker Dr. Paula Piilonen\, Research Scientist\, Mineralogy Dept.\, Canadian Museum of Nature \n\n\n\nTopic:  The Ice River Alkaline Complex\, southeastern British Columbia \n\n\n\nTopic Details: The Ice River Alkaline Complex\, 23 km south of Field\, British Columbia\, is a J-shaped\, multiphase intrusion comprised of highly alkaline rocks – carbonatite\, ijolite\, nepheline syenite\, and numerous post-intrusive dikes. It is host to at least 92 different minerals including fine examples of relatively rare minerals such as ancylite-(Ce)\, edingtonite\, natrolite\, and catapleiite\, as well as abundant sodalite. For the last 2 years\, Dr. Piilonen and a team from the Canadian Museum of Nature\, partnered with Chris Robak of Silver Cove Minerals\, have undertaken expeditions to this mineralogically important locality in order to study the late-stage pegmatites in the Moose Creek Valley. Paula will share her experience discovering and collecting minerals from a new type of pegmatite and her discoveries back in the lab. \n\n\n\nAbout our Speaker: Dr. Paula Piilonen is a research scientist in the Mineralogy Section at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa where she has worked for the last 23 years. She completed a B.Sc. in geology at Laurentian University (1997)\, a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa (2001)\, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Université de Marne-la-Vallée (France\, 2002) before starting with the Museum in 2002. Her work is focused on the mineralogy\, crystal chemistry and behavior of rare elements in alkaline systems\, in particular the minerals that are formed during late-stage autometasomatic or hydrothermal processes. Her fieldwork has spanned the globe\, from Mont Saint-Hilaire to Norway\, Thailand and Cambodia\, Baffin Island and British Columbia. She lives in rural Dunrobin on the Ottawa River with her husband\, Reni. She is an avid squash player\, a certified Muay Thai instructor\, enjoys mountain biking\, kayaking and fishing on the Ottawa River but more likely can be found relaxing on the deck with an adult beverage watching the sunsets. \n\n\n\nLocation and Directions: Canadian Museum of Nature\, 240 McLeod St.\, Ottawa. Enter through the main entrance and turn left\, go to the end of the hall past the cafeteria
URL:https://www.ovmineralclub.ca/event/ovmc-february-2025-meeting/
LOCATION:Canadian Museum of Nature\, 240 MacLeod Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2P 2R1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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SUMMARY:OVMC January 2025 Meeting - Crystal Habits and Forms\, and What They can Tell us
DESCRIPTION:5:30 PM Mineral Identification \n“Rock Doctor” Clinic: Starts at 5:30\, ends at 6 PM. Members are free to bring in a reasonable number of samples or specimens to be identified by the expert mineralogists in the club. This has been a very popular activity for the membership (at times exceeding our capacity to deal with everyone present!). \n6:00 PM Meeting \nSpeaker:  Dr. Inna Lykova\, Research Scientist and Acting Curator of Mineralogy at the Canadian Museum of Nature \nTopic: Crystal habits and forms\, and what they can tell us. \nDr. Inna Lykova holding a world-class catapleiite crystal from Mt. St. Hilaire\, PQ. Photo by Pierre Poirier/CMN \nDr. Lykova will talk about different shapes of crystals and their aggregates\, and how they can help us decipher the origin and geological history of a mineral specimen. \nInna joined the Canadian Museum of Nature in 2019 after working as a research scientist at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum RAS\, Moscow\, Russia\, for six years. She is the lead author or co-author of over 70 papers and has described 40 new mineral species. \nLocation and Directions: Canadian Museum of Nature\, 240 McLeod St.\, Ottawa. Enter through the main entrance and turn left\, go to the end of the hall past the cafeteria
URL:https://www.ovmineralclub.ca/event/ovmc-january-2025-meeting/
LOCATION:Musée canadien de la nature\, 240\, rue McLeod\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2P 2R1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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SUMMARY:OVMC December 2024 Meeting - The Amazing Treasures of the Major Mineral Museums in Germany
DESCRIPTION:5:30 PM Mineral Identification \n\n\n\n6:00 PM Meeting \n\n\n\nJoin us for Christmas treats\, a mineral auction and free minerals for the kids. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Michael Bainbridge\,  Assistant Curator of Mineralogy\, Canadian Museum of Nature\, Ottawa \n\n\n\nTitle  The Amazing Treasures of the Major Mineral Museums in Germany \n\n\n\nLocation and Directions: Canadian Museum of Nature\, 240 McLeod St.\, Ottawa. Enter through the main entrance and turn left\, go to the end of the hall past the cafeteria
URL:https://www.ovmineralclub.ca/event/december-meeting/
LOCATION:Musée canadien de la nature\, 240\, rue McLeod\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2P 2R1\, Canada
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SUMMARY:OVMC November 2024 Meeting and Annual General Meeting - An Arctic Adventure – Collecting Minerals on Southern Baffin Island
DESCRIPTION:5:00 PM  Mineral Identification \n6:00 PM AGM Meeting \nSpeaker:  Brad Wilson\, geologist\, gem cutter\, field collector extraordinaire \nTopic:  An Arctic Adventure – Collecting Minerals on Southern Baffin Island \nLocation and Directions: Canadian Museum of Nature\, 240 McLeod St.\, Ottawa. Enter through the main entrance and turn left\, go to the end of the hall past the cafeteria
URL:https://www.ovmineralclub.ca/event/annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Musée canadien de la nature\, 240\, rue McLeod\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2P 2R1\, Canada
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