Wednesday March 1st – All about Micro Minerals including photographing them.
Bill Lechner will be speaking about micro minerals, focusing on the benefits of collecting them, some of the misconceptions associated with them, as well as photographing micros through the microscope. He also plans to show some of his favourite photomicrographs. His wish is that he will entice a few more people into this aspect of the hobby.
Bill taught high school science, mostly chemistry, for over 30 years, all in the Etobicoke system. He has always been a great fan of chemistry, so interest in mineralogy and mineral collecting came very naturally to him. He “formally” started collecting micros in 1993, which was the first time he went collecting at Mont Saint-Hilaire (MSH) & the Varennes quarry in Quebec. Since 1993, MSH has been his chief point of interest, but since then, he has also learned to appreciate minerals from other quarries such as the Varrenes quarry, the Francon quarry in Montreal, the Ariskop quarry in Namibia and the Clara quarry in Germany. He also likes all pretty and rare minerals. Over the years he has done considerable trading with many people all over the world.