Rhode Island Mineral Hunters

Thank you to everyone who attended our 2025 Christmas party/meeting! We hope that you had fun!

We kicked off the meeting with elections, with everyone running unopposed. We welcomed Eli back as our field trip coordinator, and we look forward to all the fun he has planned for us! The board is now as stated:

President: Sherri B
Vice President: Ernie Z
Secretary: Bri C
Treasurer: Tim N
Show Chair: Louis F
Field Trip Chair: Eli S
Webmaster: Kelly F
Membership Chair: Kristen L
Social Media Coordinator: Angel S
Standing Board: Claire C
Steve L
Parker L
Justin C

We next moved on to our White Elephant Gift exhange! Members received gifts like meteorites, mineral specimens, rock hammers, books, handmade jewelry, and more! Feel free to show us in the comments the amazing gift(s) you recieved.

Many incredible specimens were entered into our contest! The winners were:

Best Fossil Found in 2025: Shell Conglomerate from New Jersey
Best Mineral Found in 2025: Blue Tourmaline
Best find by Junior Member in 2025: Herkimer Diamond
Best find in RI in 2025: Smokey Quartz
Club Member who did the most this year: Sherri

We hope everyone enjoyed our meeting/party! It was filled with friendly faces, good food, and laughter. We look foward to seeing what 2026 brings us.

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Years from our RIMH family to yours.

Good evening Rhode Island Mineral Hunters!! For our November meeting, we welcomed Mark Lavoie, owner of Third Rock Emporium, who taught us about the origins of Rhode Island minerals. He shared maps showing the different geological formations in RI, and explained to us how our state was formed. He showed us detailed geological time scale charts with events and formations. Did you know that there are rock formations from the Cretaceous Period in the Mohegan Bluffs of Block Island? Or that Hope Valley used to be mountains? Mark even brought in RI minerals to show us, including bowenite, amethyst, cumberlandite, stretched pebbles, and chloratoid Masonite. Thank you so much Mark for an amazing presentation!!

Hello RIMH members! Thank you to everyone who came out for our annual holiday party last night! We were so happy to see all of you! There’s nothing better at the holidays than celebrating with friends.

We want to congratulate our award winners for the Best Self Collected Mineral, Best Self Collected Fossil, Best Self Collected Specimen by a Junior Member, and the Club Member Who Has Contributed the Most to the RIMH over this year.

2024 has been an excellent year for us as a club and a community, and we look forward to an even better 2025. And with members like you all, we can guarantee it will be! Thank you for another year of fun and adventure. Happy holidays from the Rhode Island Mineral Hunters!