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– Reply to message #160720 (already scrolled) Harry, You inquired about the Delaware society. I have heard of it but I can't tell you about its activities. I am active in the Delaware Valley Earth Science Society, which meets in Woodbury, NJ, and does most of its collecting in SE Pennsylvania and NJ. The Mineralogical Society of PA, which meets on the West Chester Univ. campus, in West Chester, PA, also does some field collecting in SE PA, as does the Friends of Mineralogy, PA Chapter. With the DVESS, I have collected at the old Ecton Mines, in Lower Providence, PA, for copper, zinc, lead minerals; at the Wheatley Lode, in Phoenixville, for pyromorphite and wulfenite, and at other localities in the area. Recently, the MSP organized a collecting trip to the Kibblehouse Q., in Perkiomenville, PA, for its well known zeolites. So, there's a lot of organized collecting at some highly productive sites. IF you have access to an April issue of the Lapidary Journal, it will give you contact people for all the local mineral clubs and societies. Good Luck! Nathan