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Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Gov. Doug Ducey signed the Fiscal Year 2017 state budget today, that includes transfer of the Arizona Geological Survey to the University of Arizona, effective July 1.
The bill also transfers the former Mining & Mineral Museum in Phoenix from the Arizona Historical Society to AZGS, to be re-opened as the Mining, Mineral, and Natural Resources Education Museum. AZGS is given two years
The Arizona Senate Appropriations Committee with hear SB1440, the Mining & Mineral Museum Transfer bill, at a meeting starting at 2 PM, Tuesday, February 16, in Senate Hearing Room 109.
During a hearing in the Government Committee last week, committee members repeatedly quizzed the lobbyist for the Arizona Historical Society about whether there are any plans or intent to re-open the
A hearing is set for Wednesday, February 10, in the Arizona Senate Government Committee for SB1440, the bill that would transfer the Arizona Mining & Mineral Museum from the Arizona Historical Society to the Arizona Geological Survey. The museum would be redesignated as the Arizona Mining, Mineral, and Natural Resources Education Museum. [Right, view of the displays in the former
Sen. Gail Griffin has reintroduced her bill, SB1440, to transfer the former Arizona Mining & Mineral Museum in Phoenix, rom the Arizona Historical Society to AZGS to be re-opened as the Arizona Mining, Mineral, and Natural Resources Education Museum. The bill is essentially the same as the version that passed last year in the Legislature, 25-0 in the Senate, and 58-2 in the House.
The giant diorama of an open pit mine that was a feature of the former Arizona
Mining & Mineral Museum in Phoenix, has found a new home at the Arizona Historical Society's Papago Park Museum.
A grand opening of a new mining gallery is planned for mid-November.
Volunteers Bob Mertz and Larry Dykers briefed the Arizona Mining Alliance luncheon meeting in Tucson on Friday, showing pictures
The Arizona Historical Society has opened a new exhibit in Tucson of the map collection of Robert Lenon.
Robert Lenon was a surveyor and mining engineer from
Patagonia, Arizona. In addition to creating a vast number of maps
depicting mining resources in the Sonoran desert region of Southern
Arizona and Northern Mexico, Lenon collected historical maps dating back
to the mid-1800s.
The Arizona Senate approved SB1200 this morning by a vote of 25-3 and transmitted it to the Governor. The bill transfers the former mining and mineral museum from the Arizona Historical Society to AZGS to be re-opened as the "Mining, Mineral, and Natural Resources Education Museum." It was closed in 2011 to be converted to the Arizona Experience centennial museum but the private funds were
The bill to transfer the former Mining & Mineral Museum from the Arizona Historical Society to the Arizona Geological Survey is generating heated debate. Although both AHS and AZGS have taken official neutral positions on SB1200, supporters and opponents are squaring off. [Right, artists rendition for the proposed Centennial Museum to be built in the former museum space. The building
The Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee passed the museum transfer bill, SB1200, by 9-0 on Monday. It now goes to the full House for approval and then on the to Governor for signature.
SB1200 transfers the building that housed the former Mining and Mineral Museum from the Arizona Historical Society to the Arizona Geological Survey to be converted to a Mining, Mineral,
The Arizona State Senate yesterday approved SB1200, transferring the former Mining & Mineral Museum from the Arizona Historical Society to Arizona Geological Survey, to be re-opened as the Mining, Mineral, and Natural Resources Education Museum.
The legislation transfers the current rent and curator budget from AHS to AZGS but a floor amendment by the bill sponsor's Sen. Gail Griffin,
Senate Bill 1200, which would transfer the former Mining & Mineral Museum from the Arizona Historical Society (AHS) to the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS), passed 5-0 in the Arizona Senate Rural Affairs and Environment Committee yesterday.
The bill directs AZGS to re-open the museum as the Mining, Mineral, and Natural Resources Education Museum, to include the elements planned for the
Legislation was introduced late on Friday afternoon that would transfer the former Mining & Mineral Museum building in Phoenix [right] and all of its assets from the Arizona Historical Society to the Arizona Geological Survey to re-open it as the Arizona Mining, Mineral, and Natural Resources Education Museum. A hearing on the bill, SB1200, is scheduled for 9 a.m., Tuesday, February 17 in
Image of a Harpes perradiatus trilobite fossil. This creature existed in the Middle Devonain Period.
While visiting the Gallery of Natural History at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw this fossil specimen (AHS-NH#20671).
It was found in what is now Alnif, Morocco, North Africa.
Images of museum specimen taken October
I saw an interesting fish fossil for sale at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park gift shop in October 2014.
The label said, "The Beipiao sturgeon was discovered in the area of west Liaoning Province of China. It was formed in land facies layer of the Late Jurassic Period. It was about 130,000,000 years ago."
If I recall correctly, the length was over 20 cm and the price
While visiting the Gallery of Natural History at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw fossil specimen (AHS-NH#9854) Encope micorpora (Agassiz, 1841) sand dollar. Creatures like this are alive today and existed back to the Pliocene This one was found in El Golfo, Mexico.
Image of museum specimen taken October 2014.
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While visiting the Gallery of Natural History at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw fossil specimen (AHS-NH#9854) Clypeus plotii (Leske, 1778) sea urchin fossil. This creature existed in the Jurassic Period (Bajocian to Oxfordian). They were found in what is now Europe and North Africa.
Images of museum specimen taken
While touring the Natural History section of the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw fossil specimen (AHS-NH#11646) from Chinle Formation of Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona USA. It is a Woodworthia arizonica Jeffrey 1910 tree fossil. This plant existed in the Upper or Late Triassic Period.
Images of museum specimen
The Arizona Historical Society has opened two museum curator positions for the new "Arizona Experience." The new museum is being built from the Arizona Mining & Mineral Museum which was transferred from the Dept. of Mines & Mineral Resources last year. The original concept for a Centennial Museum [right] based on Arizona's historical 5 C's has undergone considerable evolution and will
The Arizona Dept. of Mines & Mineral Resources (ADMMR) is running out of state operating funds and is being shut down on Friday. The Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix was transferred from ADMMR to the Arizona Historical Society last year to become the Arizona Centennial Museum. This left ADMMR with 3 state-funded and a couple of grant-funded positions. They moved out of the
Governor Brewer's budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2012 (starting July 1) was released today and includes requests to the Legislature to consolidate five agencies, including merging the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources with the Arizona Geological Survey.ADMMR was broken up last year, with the Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix being transferred to the Arizona Historical
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