Optical Mineralogy with Kyle Trostle
Location
In the Shop
3600 Clipper Mill Road
Baltimore, MD 21211
USA
Event Contact(s)
Kay Kron
classes@gemcuttersguild.com
Category
Educational Classes
Registration Info
Registration is closed - Event is full
Payment In Full In Advance Only
Registration cancellations will be accepted until Friday, February 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Capacity
5 Total Slots
Event is full - Waitlist available
About this event
Optical Mineralogy with Kyle Trostle
We can use light transmitted through a mineral to better identify, orient, and understand minerals. One of the tools useful in investigating how light interacts with a mineral is the polariscope. In this course we'll build a simple polariscope to help in understanding how a polariscope works, and then use the polariscope to investigate the optical properties of mineral specimens. In addition to the provided mineral specimens for exploration, bring your own transparent minerals or gems to investigate as well. You'll leave the course with a simple polariscope and a better understanding of minerals! No experience needed, but a previous gem ID course is certainly useful.
Date: February 21, 2026
Start and end times: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Materials Fee: $30.00
Includes: Homemade polariscope (light stand, 2"x2" linear polarizers, marble), muscovite plate, smoky quartz sphere
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