Boston Mineral Club

Welcome to the Boston Mineral Club website! If you have suggestions, questions or comments about the site, please contact us.

You don't need a college degree in earth sciences to join the club! We are open to all. We welcome and encourage new members to join the club. 

What We Do

The Boston Mineral Club (BMC) was founded in 1936 to "promote the study and collecting of rocks and minerals, to encourage friendly cooperation among mineralogists and collectors, [and] to promote the study of mineralogy and related arts and sciences coming within the purview of earth sciences..."

In the pursuit of these goals, the BMC offers educational programs at club meetings, mineral collecting field trips, a newsletter, and access to our mineralogical reference library.

The Boston Mineral Club is a member of the American Federation of Mineral Societies and the Eastern Federation of Mineral and Lapidary Societies. The BMC also is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) educational organization.

*Pictured 2006 BMC Field Trip to Aggregate Industries in Ashland MA

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Donate to the Nathan C. Martin
Memorial Scholarship

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Members Download January 2020

Edition of BMC News

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Field Trip calendar for 2019 

               (updated as of September 18, 2019)

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January Members Meeting!

Julie Wertz, Conservation Scientist for Harvard's Forbes Pigment Collection:
"Art Materials and Conservation Science:
From Minerals to Makers"

Come in from the cold and warm up to a talk on the colorful minerals used to make pigments, how they were aquired and used, and how scientists find out what they are.

Tuesday,
January 7, 2019

7:00 p.m.

Haller Hall
24 Oxford Street
Harvard Museum of
Natural History Building
Cambridge, MA

Guests are welcome!

Our January Speaker, Julie Wertz!

Facebook

Join our Facebook group to find out more about what's going on with the club and connect with the local mineral community.

Field Trips

The Boston Mineral Club is proud of its long tradition of conducting field trips to collecting localities throughout the New England area. Information about trips planned for the current year is published in the Field Trips web page and also in the BMC News newsletter in the members only web page.

The club also organizes occasional trips to localities outside of New England. Previous destinations have included Nova Scotia, Kentucky, Georgia, and Arizona.