Minerama Festival in Glen Innes.
This Minerama Festival in Glen Innes has been getting better each
year. Many people join the Fossicker's tours that are offered in Glen Innes and
Emmaville
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Minerama Festival in Glen Innes.
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Looking around the Minerama Festival in Glen Innes. Are you looking
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A Minerama Festival Stall in Glen Innes |
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Stalls in Minerama Festival |
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A few more stalls at the Minerama Festival in Glen Innes |
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The second row of stalls for the Minerama Festival in Glen
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Minerama Festival in Glen Innes was happy to supply these cars for
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Looking hard for that special rock. Treasure for so many people |
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Hey, where are the children. Is that car running with an invisible
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I see a child (below) near the attraction above.
Hey, lady the cars are waiting for a driver.
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Inside the RSL the Minerama Festival in Glen Innes had a
outstanding display of rocks, gems, gold. |
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RSL again. |
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An outstanding display in the RSL and the Minerama Festival
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Grant Banks
Thursday, 9 March 2006
VOLUNTEERS at the Emmaville Mining Museum are looking forward to the busy period
created by this weekend's Minerama Festival.
The museum that opened in June of 1999 expects around 30 to 40 people through
its doors each day of the festival, with visitors bound to be struck by the
superb quality stones on displays.
The displays include thousands of mineral and precious stone specimens,
around 350 historic photographs depicting the rich mining heritage of the area,
a number of excellent private collections including intricately carved animals
from soapstone , an 1890's general store and an excellent collection of antique
bottles.
Minerama and the Celtic Festival are the busiest times for the museum along
with the Christmas holidays were we generally get a lot of kids with their
families coming through, Museum president Ron Jillett said.
The museum is visited by between 3500 and 4000 visitors every year.
People come in from all over the world, it's amazing, said museum treasurer
Kay Shroder.
The 20 strong team of volunteers which operates the museum is expecting
plenty of visitors to head to Emmaville under their own steam this weekend. In
addition, the museum is on the schedule of guided tours being led by fossicking
enthusiast John Paix, who will also take fossickers to some secret locations in
pursuit of precious stones.
There will also be guided tours running from the Museum each day of the
festival, taking people to different sites of interest. On Friday Ron Jillett
will conduct a tour to Terry Clifford's Emmaville property where there are
significant deposits of the mineral Flurite, while on Saturday and Sunday Rodger
Faulkner will be guiding gem enthusiasts to other fascinating locations.
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