Schedule & Curriculum
The Maine Pegmatite Workshop schedule includes daily in-depth classroom sessions and field trips, evening lectures, a private tour of the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, and much more.
The Maine Pegmatite Workshop curriculum delves deeply into a broad array of pegmatite-focused topics including, but not limited to:
- The origin of magma
- Relationship to plate tectonics
- Pegmatite mineralogy and chemical character
- How Maine pegmatites have the world's largest crystals of spodumene, montebrasite, and beryl
- Plumbago North spodumene
- Bumpus Quarry beryl
- The world's richest lithium oxide content of any pegmatites
- North America's richest gem-quality tourmaline pegmatites
- North America's most species-rich pegmatite
- The best watermelon tourmaline in North America
- Pocket formation
- Anatexis
- Pegmatite classification
- How Gulf Coast salt domes and rock in the Grand Tetons, WY contribute to our theories of the origin of pegmatites in Maine
The Maine Pegmatite Workshop course book is a newly revised and updated second edition of the textbook, “Pegmatology 2nd edition: Pegmatite Mineralogy, Petrology and Paragenesis,” written by the workshop faculty. Full of details which have been gathered specifically to complement the workshop, it is full of information not easily found anywhere else, and will be a text you can use for many years. Each participant will receive a copy of the textbook, which is included in the registration fee.
We invite you to join us in 2026 and enjoy this experience.