Seventeenth Annual Sinkankas Symposium
Agate and Chalcedony
CANCELLED
GIA Events will contact everyone who registered for the event or purchased a proceedings volume to advise on the process of receiving a full refund.
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13 March 2020 (Carlsbad, Calif.) – The Sinkankas Symposium organizers have been closely monitoring public health updates on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and we regret having to cancel the Seventeenth Annual Sinkankas Symposium scheduled for Saturday, May 16, 2020.
GIA is cancelling large gatherings and tours for the time being, and the general trend is to do so following the direction of the U.S. government agencies (CDC, FDA, NIAID and others), as well as municipal and state agencies. The duration of risk to public health due to COVID-19 cannot be estimated at this time, but it may last weeks or months. Therefore, this year's event will be rescheduled for April or May 2021 (Date TBD).
We are concerned that you stay safe and healthy. Please join us in 2021.
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL SINKANKAS SYMPOSIUM
– DATE and VENUE
Saturday, May 16, 2020 This event will be rescheduled for April or May 2021
GIA (Gemological Institute of America)
World Headquarters and The Robert Mouawad Campus
5345 Armada Drive
Carlsbad, CA 92008
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL SINKANKAS SYMPOSIUM – REGISTRATION
Registration: CANCELLED
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL SINKANKAS SYMPOSIUM
– SPEAKERS & TOPICS
Recognized specialists in fields ranging from geology and mineralogy to history, treatment, cutting and collecting will present on Agate and Chalcedony
Tim Adams – Fabergé's Work with Agate and Chalcedony
Meg Berry – So You Want to Carve Chalcedony…
Patrick Dreher – Dreher Carvings of Agates and Chalcedony
Dr. Peter Heaney – The Complex Mineralogy of Agates
Bill Larson – Collecting Fine or Rare Cryptocrystalline Quartz
Dr. Ciğdem Lüle – Chalcedonies of Anatolia: From Neolithic to Modern Day
Nathan Renfro – The Micro-World of Agate and Chalcedony
Dr. George R. Rossman – Cause of Color in Agate and Chalcedony
Lisbet Thoresen – The Cultural History of Agate and Chalcedony from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Wilhelm Lindemann, Will Larson and Ekkehard Schneider
Dreher Carvings: Five Generations of Gemstone Animals from Idar-Oberstein
(2018)Selected masterpieces of lapidary carving by world-renowned gem carvers Peter and Gerd Dreher.
English. Hardcover with dust jacket, 240 pages, size: 22 x 29 cm, 200 color ills. Arnoldsche.
US $48.50.
Peter Heaney, Gloria Staebler with Bill Besse, Ann Frazier, Patricia Gray, eds.
Agate – Banded Beauty
Mineral Monograph No. 21
(2020)Contributions by: Peter Heaney, Si and Ann Frazier, Patricia Gray, Michael Gray, Alfredo Petrov, George Rossman, John Koivula and Tarun Adlakhaeds. Illustrations by: Robert Weldon, Jeff Scovil.
Perfect binding, 140 pages, size: A4. Lithographie.
US $30.00
(Save 25% on PreOrders until 5/15/2020)
Johann Zenz
Agates
(2014)This book is an updated, limited edition of the first of three volumes on Agate by Johann Zenz.
English. Hardcover, 656 pages, size: 24x28 cm, 2,000 ills. Limited edition. Bode.
Euro 89.
Dietrich Mayer
Exquisite Agates
(2017)This book features 900 favorite specimens from the collection of Dietrich Mayer.
English and German. Hardcover, 424 pages, size: 24x28 cm. Limited edition. Bode.
Euro 58.
Pat McMahan
Agates, The Pat McMahan Collection
(2016)This beautifully illustrated book is a depiction of one of the most comprehensive collections of sagenite, plume, and banded agate in the world as a result of Pat McMahan's 26 years of intensive rock collecting. The author has included some personal commentary, which makes for a interesting and sometimes funny reading experience.
Hardback, 496 pages, size: 12.55 x 9.2 x 1.5", 1250+ ills. McMahan Press
US $129.99