Don't miss the Denver Gem and Mineral Show! September 18 - 20, 2009 at the Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 East 58 th Ave. (I-25 at Exit 215). This is the second largest Mineral show in the U.S.! For details see: Denver Gem & Mineral Show

The September meeting of the DGMG, Friday September 10th, will feature a slide show by Wayne Pound of DGMG rock collecting fieldtrips for the last two years. When he is not leading DGMG fieldtrips, Wayne teaches Physical Geology and Environmental Geology at Front Range Community College at the Westminster Campus. Come and find out about DGMG collecting activities!

The October meeting of the DGMG will be held on Friday October 8th at Berthoud Hall at the Colorado School of Mines, 16th and Maple Streets in room 108 at 7:30 PM. Dr. Karen Wenrich, long-time DGMG member, will take the podium to discuss the current status of uranium mining around the world.

Karen, retired from the USGS, specializes in the mineralogy and geology of uranium deposits. She has done extensive studies on the breccia-pipe uranium deposits of northern Arizona (of which the Grandview mine is one example) and elsewhere.

Karen discovered the cesium-uranium mineral, margaritasite, from Chihuahua, Mexico in 1982. Subsequently Karen spent several years working for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, as their geologist in charge of studying worldwide uranium re-sources.

As an IAEA staff member she shared in their receipt of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize “For their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way”. During the summer of 2009, Karen testified before the U.S. House Natural Resources Com-mittee about a proposed bill that would permanently bar the filing of new mining claims on 1.1 million acres of federal lands north and south of the Grand Canyon.