43rd FM-TGMS-MSA Tucson Mineral Symposium: Shades of Green: From apatites to zeunerites – more than just emeralds.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, AZ
Call for papers
The forty-third Mineral Symposium, held in conjunction with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®, will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2025. This symposium is co-sponsored by the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society®, the Friends of Mineralogy, and the Mineralogical Society of America. As a tie in with the show, the symposium theme is the same as the show theme: “Shades of Green: From apatites to zeunerites – more than just emeralds.”
An audience of amateur and professional mineralogists and geologists is expected.
Presentations are sought on Green minerals – localities, geology, mineralogy, crystallography, cause of color, or geochemistry. Some examples of desired topics, but not restricted to these, are emeralds and hiddenite from the Hiddenite, NC locality; chrysoberyl localities and geology; emeralds, geology and mineralogy; variscite, Fairfield, Utah locality, history and mineralogy; malachite from Arizona; gaspeite, type locality, geology and Western Australia deposits; annabergite localities; pyromorphite, phoenixville, PA; dioptase, Tsumeb locality; prehnite from zeolite localities; wavellite – PA and Arkansas; torbernite, best of; epidote – Prince of Wales island and Tyrol, Austria localities; and of course the cause of the green color on minerals.
Interested speakers, should first submit their desired talk title for a presentation length of 30 minutes (or 25 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions). There will be 10 minutes between talks to handle introductions, and computer and sound. There will be a wireless lapel microphone for mobile speakers who do not wished to be restricted to the podium or a mounted stationary microphone for the speaker.
We will acknowledge all submitted presentations. Accepted presentations will need to be followed up with a 200-500 word abstract (single spaced in 12 point font, Word or equivalent format) with one graphic or photograph associated with the abstract desired by the author (but not inserted into the text), a 5-10 sentence speaker biography and a photographic headshot of the speaker (submitted separately), also in word format. All abstracts, biographies, and photos will be combined for creation into an abstract-program booklet. The speaker will also provide their preferred email address and contact phone number. This is NOT for the program but for communication with the symposium organizer.
Presenters will provide the digital talk in PowerPoint (pptx or ppt) and PDF format either on a flash drive or a downloadable internet site. Presenters will not be permitted to use their own computers. The symposium computer is a PC using an up-to-date Microsoft operating system. The talks will be projected, live, to remote viewers using a second computer, not used for the presentations.
The Symposium will be a live streamed via Zoom (using a separate computer) by FM Members to remote viewers who have pre-registered on the FM Website. Only pre-registered viewers will receive the Zoom invite, which will be emailed to registrants prior to the symposium and annual meeting. The symposium will be recorded only to verify participants, particularly those who have registered as Professional Geologists seeking certificates of attendance for professional development credits. No individual recorded presentations will be released without presenter approval, and then only to attendees who pre-registered and experienced a bandwidth issue, got dropped or were otherwise unable to get on and stay on the live presentation. FM has a growing remote audience that includes Professional Geologists (PG) looking for Continuing Education Credits (CEU) and we intend to promote this extraordinary event to those unable to attend in person.
Please send submitted titles (and later abstracts and speaker biographies) by one of two methods:
By email: fm.mineral.symposium@gmail.com
By the form on the Friends of Mineralogy website – see below
Presentation titles must be submitted prior to July 31, 2024.
Abstracts, presentation images, speaker biographies, and photographic headshots must be submitted prior to September 1, 2024. The final abstract booklet with the speaker program is expected to be posted on the FM national website by December 15, 2024. The speakers and their presentation title will also appear in the January-February 2025 Rocks & Minerals magazine.
Registration to submit a presentation title for symposium