MSA MEETING PROGRAM & PLACE
Franciscan Renewal Center, (Piper Hall),
November 21, 2024 @ 7.30 pm Arizona time
"An Album of Mineral Oddities”
Presented by Jeff Scovil
FLUORITE, 6.4cm
Erongo Mountains, Namibia.
Marcus Grossmann collection & Jeff Scovil photo.
RUTILE & quartz, 7cm
Ibitiara, Bahia, Brazil.
Tiziano Bonisoli collection & Jeff Scovil photo.
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* Meeting is on 3rd Thursday.
* Okay to bring refreshments.
* MEETING will be (In-Person and Zoom).
* Mineral of the Month: MINERAL ODDITIES
Okay to bring 1-2 examples of Mineral of the Month.
Our November 21st program will be presented by MSA Life Member and Past President, Jeff Scovil. His talk “An Album of Mineral Oddities.” In spite of the regularity, we have come to expect in crystals, they can be very irregular and be nonconformists. Seemingly, crystals do not always follow the rules and do things that befuddle mineralogists and collectors. In this program, Jeff will present a short survey of minerals as "mutants."
Save the date on your calendars for this very special program for Mineralogical Society of Arizona!
Jeff is a world-renowned mineral photographer, author and lecturer. He travels all over the United States, Canada and Europe photographing at minerals shows and for private collectors, dealers and museums and writes reports on what is new at shows for several mineral magazines. Jeff lectures at Mineral shows, symposia and for mineral clubs across North America and Europe including Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Wolfach and Siegen, Germany, Lwowek, Silesia, Poland; Kongsberg, Norway and Beijing, China. He is a regular presenter at the Cincinnati Mineral Show and does the annual report on what is New at the Rochester Mineral Symposium.
He is Associate photographer for Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogical Record and our own The Rockhound Record. He is recipient of 2007 Carnegie Mineralogical Award and 2014 inductee in Mineralogical Society of Arizona Hall of Fame.
Jeff is an MSA Milestone Life Member and MSA President 1985 and 1991.
For 30+ years Jeff has run the Seminar in Mineral Photography at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® as well as the Mineral Photography Competition. Over 15 of the posters for the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show® have featured Jeff’s photographs. His work has also graced show posters in Ste. Marie-aux-Mines, Grenoble, Lyon and Paris (all in France), Siegen, Wolfach and Munich, Germany and Peshawar, Pakistan. Displays of Jeff’s work as prints have been held at numerous Mineral museums worldwide.
Jeff’s work has appeared several times in Arizona Highways including a special Gallery section devoted to his photos of Arizona minerals. He is also a regular contributor and is on the mastheads of Lapis (Germany), Le Regne Mineral (France), Lapis International and is a contributor to Revista Mineralogia (Spain), Mineralienwelt (Germany), Otoczak (Poland) as well as World of Stone and the Mineralogical Almanac (Russia). Jeff’s first major publication was the fine “coffee table book” Minerals by George Robinson, published contributor to include by Simon and Schuster (1994). In 1996 Jeff published Photographing Minerals, Fossils & Lapidary Arts (Geoscience Press) and is the only book ever written on the subject. Jeff has also written several articles on locality mineralogy for the Mineralogical Record and Rocks and Minerals as well as travelogues on his trips to China, Russia and Madagascar. He averages 23 magazine and book covers and over 1,000 published photos each year.
Thank You Jeff for your life-long membership and support of Mineralogical Society of Arizona and hobby worldwide!
Meeting starts at 7.30PM Arizona time.