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FM supports and promotes mineralogical education through mineral museums and mineral collections Welcome The nonprofit Friends of Mineralogy FM a national organization founded in 1970 includes nearly a dozen chapters from coast to coast whose members share a common love of minerals. FMs objective is to promote support protect and expand the collecting of mineral specimens while furthering the recognition of the scientific economic and aesthetic value of minerals and mineral collecting. Membership includes collectors museum curators mineralogists and earth science educators. The organization is affiliated with Mindat.