Gene Bearss 2015 Memorial Symposium
The 2015 Gene Bearss Memorial Symposium hosted by the
Micromounters of New England will be on Saturday, June 20 at
the Trinity Lutheran Church in Chelmsford, MA. Event
festivities include a catered lunch, give away material like you
dream about, a fantastic sales table, a door prize available to
those present at the drawing, a remembrance of Gene Bearss
and a discussion of his favorite locale, Mineral Hill, in
Wakefield New Hampshire. The featured speaker will be Harold “Fritz” Moritz. This is
our annual club fund raiser. We encourage everyone to attend and meet up with
fellow Micromounters old and new.
Gene Bearss
Presenter: Harold "Fritz" Moritz
Harold "Fritz" Moritz is a geologist and mineral specimen
collector and photographer. A Nutmegger, he has been
collecting and researching the history of minerals from there
since the mid-1970s. He took his first micro-mineral photos in
high school in the late 1970s. As a founding member of the
Sterling Hill Mining Museum he has been collecting and
learning about the magnificent Franklin-Ogdensburg, New
Jersey, USA zinc deposits ever since. His collection of 3661
specimens comes mostly from these two areas. He is very
active in several Connecticut mineral/gem clubs. After 24
years as an environmental consultant, he now works part time
as a contract photographer for MineralMovies.com,
Stonetrust.com and others. He is gradually photographing his
and other’s local collections and posting them to mindat.org
with the goal of documenting those specimens from historic
places written about but never photographed.
An older photo of Fritz in his natural habitat.
© 2015 Harold Moritz
Connecticut DEEP Collecting Sites by Harold Moritz
This brand new program covers the history, geology and minerals of the three permitted collecting area on
state land. These popular places are: 1) CCC Quarry & Prospect, Haddam; 2) Clark Hill Quarries: Nathan Hall,
State Forest #1 & a small prospect, East Hampton; and 3) Case Quarries, Portland. It is packed with photos of
minerals, micro and macro, common and rare, and like the places themselves, is full of surprises! Some of
these places are much older than we thought, one may be centuries old…But don’t think everything has been
found already! Come and find out why….
IT’S NOT TOO SOON TO BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR THE JUNE 20 GENE
BEARSS MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
Reserve Your Space by contacting Tom Mortimer at [email protected]