Keweenaw Mineral Days benefits the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum.
Overview
Keweenaw Mineral Days joins the Copper Country Rock and Mineral Club's (CCRMC) Keweenaw Week and the Quincy Mine Hoist Association (QMHA) for a week of Keweenaw mineral-related fun (please see their websites for additional details).
This year the Museum will hold its annual Mineral Surplus Sale and a talk by author, speaker, collector, and dealer Phil Persson of Persson Rare Minerals. Additionally, if you spend $100 in the Museum's gift shop and/or at the Surplus Sale you will receive 10% off your purchases at the museum during the week long event.
Registration is not required.
Schedule of Events
Sunday August 4 through Sunday August 11:
- Spend $100 and get 10% off that purchase and any other purchases at the gift shop and/or Surplus Sale during the event
Monday August 5:
- 9 am to 7 pm, Museum will be open late!
- 7 pm to 8 pm
- A talk given by Phil Persson, of Persson Rare Minerals (title to be announced).
Wednesday August 7:
- 11 am to 3 pm: Mineral Surplus Sale
- Spend $100 and get 10% off that purchase and any other purchases at the museum during the event
- Located at the south-east end of the Museum/ATDC parking lot
- To be held outside, weather permitting
- The sale is held on a lawn, which is not a completely level surface
- After you select the items you would like to buy, a staff member will write up the invoice outside, and then you will take that invoice and pay inside the gift shop (where all forms of payments are accepted). It is about 205 feet between the invoice writing desk to the counter in the gift shop.
Questions?
Please contact Julie Stark, jlstark@mtu.edu, with any questions.