Officers and Contact
| President | Kirsten Maki |
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| Vice President | Bev Trynoski |
| Secretary | John McCabe |
| Treasurer | Elizabeth Hoffmann |
Trustees
Eric Rehorst, Glen Kivela, Ernest Johnson
| Correspondence (physical) | Ishpeming Rock & Mineral Club Po Box 102 Ishpeming, MI 49849 |
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| Correspondence (email) | irmc@ishpemingrocks.org |
| Our Publication | The Jaspilite (more information) Kirsten Maki (Jaspilite Editor) |
| Gem & Mineral Show | showinfo@ishpemingrocks.org Kirsten Maki (Show Coordinator) Dawn & John McCabe (Vendor Coordinators) |
| Webmaster(s) | webmaster@ishpemingrocks.org John McCabe assisted by Dan Fountain |
About the Club
Our club offers meetings and field trips with open attendance. We strive to provide good presentations, experts in attendance, auctions and door prizes in meetings, and a welcoming environment to everyone! We work with local mine owners for opportunities to visit and explore. Every year we have an annual Gem and Mineral Show with a wide variety of local, national and international treasures from our many vendors. If you have extra items to sell and you think you'd fit, feel free to reach out to our vendor coordinators!
If you join our club and the email list, we also offer the Jaspilite, a publication for relevant local and club news. It isn't released on a regular schedule - it comes whenever its Editor has time and content to offer. Old releases are available on our jaspilite page.
We provide a list of planned meetings and events. Check out our other links for interesting content.
Membership is $10 a year, but meetings are free and you can still show up on our trips if you're not a member! Please reach out by email if you have any questions or concerns.
Common Questions
Can you recommend sites to visit?
To respect local land owners, as well as for liability purposes, the Ishpeming Rock and Mineral Club or its Officers cannot suggest or recommend rock and mineral collecting areas and sites. For this reason, we try to plan and organize Summer Field Trips where we receive permission from local land owners to visit and collect from their sites, as a group, on certain days, during certain times. We will continue to post the organized Field Trip dates and times on this Website.
For other places to check out and visit however, please visit the resources page!
Can I go on field trips if I'm not a member?
Absolutely! Non-members can participate for a slightly extra fee on most field trips. Anyone is welcome so long as they follow the rules and sign our release forms.
Is the website updated?
The website is updated before and after club functions, intermittently in between. If information is out of date, unclear or incomplete, please message the webmaster! Reports for bugs and issues, or suggestions for features are welcome. If a page does not seem to be updated when it should be, try 'force refreshing' (ctrl + f5 on desktop).
Another question not covered here?
Send a message to the IRMC club email! The response may appear in this section later.