[Rockhounds] Clement Mineral Museum Show

[Alan Goldstein]

The 4th annual Clement Mineral Museum Show (Marion, KY) is coming up on June 6 & 7. This year the vendors will be in Fohs Hall, a historic community center about 30 feet from the Clement Mineral Museum. Marion is located 30 minutes from I-24 and the Western Kentucky Parkway on the Kentucky side of the Illinois - Kentucky fluorite district. It is an hour from Evansville, IN or Paducah, KY and 20 minutes from the Cave in Rock ferry (30 if you are on the wrong side of the river!)

Dig sites will be set up as in the past, probably these five locationds: Eureka prospect, Columbia mine (also site of night fluorescent dig), Lafayette mine, Hutson zinc mine, and the Hickory Cane mine. Last year I poked around on the last one on Sunday morning and found the largest hemimorphite-bearing boulders I've ever found there! Velvety cloud-shaped masses of crystals throughout several large and many small specimens. 

This is one of the few shows east of the Mississippi River that gives show participants to buy from vendors and get outside to dig, dig, dig! The show helps keep the museum operating - so if you are up for a little collecting and seeing world-class minerals in a museum, this is a good way to do both. 

The Friends of Mineralogy is organizing an impromptu get together on Saturday at the museum and I'm doing a program on Mississippian-age fossils from the Midwestern U.S. on that day, too. 

If you have any questions, contact Tina Walker (beclement at kynet.biz) at the museum or just Google them to see the website describing the show and museum. 

Alan G. 

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