Member Benefits ARE Quarterly Subscription and Digital Archive Every issue of the ARE Quarterly in print and a searchable digital archive back to the first volume.
Merchandise Azurite and Malachite Bookend Pair A polished pair showing azurite weathering into malachite — blue on one face, green on the other, geology on your shelf.
Merchandise Streak Plate Three-Pack Three unglazed porcelain streak plates: one for the field bag, one for the bench, one for the inevitable loss.
Field Guides Pegmatite Prospecting: Where the Big Crystals Hide How to recognize pegmatite bodies in the field and read their zones for topaz, beryl, tourmaline, and giant micas.
Field Guides Desert Evaporites: Halite, Gypsum, and Playa Minerals A pocket reference to the minerals of dry lakes and salt flats: halite, gypsum, and the borates, and how playa crusts form.
Publications Evaporite Localities of the Great Basin: A Collector's Guidebook A locality guidebook to halite, gypsum, and borate occurrences across the Great Basin's playas and dry lakes.
Publications Beyond 8: Extending Your Mohs Kit to Corundum and Diamond A practical brief on testing above topaz: affordable corundum points, when a 9 actually matters, and why nobody carries a diamond reference.
Publications ARE Quarterly: Winter 2026 — Corundum at the Top of the Scale A feature issue on ruby and sapphire: why corundum anchors Mohs 9, where members find it, and how to document gem-grade finds.
Certification Specimen Photography Winter Workshop A hands-on January weekend on specimen photography and documentation, feeding directly into the documentation specialist credential.
Annual Meeting Bonneville Salt Flats Halite Field Trip A summer day trip to the Bonneville Salt Flats to study evaporite crusts, collect hopper-faced halite, and run the only sanctioned taste …
