Maine Pegmatite Workshop - Rules & Regulations

Pegmatite Workshop
Rules and Regulations

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For on Campus, Classroom, Field Study Classes & Mineral Collecting
You will be asked to sign a copy of these Rules & Regulations when you sign in at the Workshop.

The Basics:
At Poland Mining Camps (PMC) and all Quarries visited, the Workshop Faculty or Guides are the authority and have the last word on your activities. All rules governing our customers activities are common sense and follow the Rules set forth by the Maine Pegmatite Workshop, Poland Mining Camps and the Quarry Owners. Any additional Field-Study or mineral collecting rules will be explained each day.

While at Poland Mining Camps, we also ask that you treat the facilities and the owners with respect. You must agree to 1] leave the facilities the way you found them; 2] you may not "invite" anyone (non-Workshop) to stay at your lodgings on Campus; and 3] you may not invite anyone (non-Workshop) to visit you on Campus without the Workshops or PMC's knowledge.

Copyright Rules:
The Workshop Course Book and all handouts may not be copied, sold or distributed in any manner! No audio or video recording of any Workshop Classes (in the classroom or in the field)! No transcript of the Workshop proceedings shall be created for publication, distribution or sale in any manner! All information presented remains the copyrighted property of The Maine Pegmatite Workshop and its staff.

	Rules In the Field: 1. If quarry operators restrict an area, you will not collect or approach that area. We owe them this right and respect as visitors.
	2. No climbing on quarry vertical walls, buildings, equipment or over barrier tape. No borrowing or use of quarry equipment.
	3. No digging in or undermining of any quarry roads, ramps, landings, trees, etc. Cave in all holes dug when done.
	4. No rocks bigger then a golf ball left on quarry roads, landings or paths where vehicles drive and people walk. Smaller pieces okay (road grit). Help the miners by discarding your waste rock over an edge or onto a pile.
	5. What you bring in, take out! Police all garbage and remove! No food left on site. Attracted animals cause major problems to equipment and buildings.
	6. Stay on roadways. No parking in roadways at collecting sites. Only park in designated places. Leave room for additional and emergency traffic.
	7. Photography or video of quarry locations for personal use only! No images for publication use or sale in any manner, without written permission from landowner and/or quarry operator!
	8. Hand tools only! This does included shovels, hoes, sledge hammers and sifting screens under 20 inches square. No mechanized equipment, explosives or wheelbarrows!
	9. No waste rock from collecting trips left at Poland Mining Camps without permission.
	10. No alcoholic beverages of any kind will be allowed on any Field Study Trip or at the Field Study locations. Please, no drinking and driving!
	11. No Commercial Collecting Allowed! All minerals collected at a field-study location during the Pegmatite Workshop and while at Poland Mining Camps shall ever be sold or disposed of commercially. Quarry operators/owners are gracious enough to allow you to find specimens for your private collections, but not to profit from their labor. Sharing specimens (hobbyist to hobbyist) is permitted. Any specimens purchased from a mineral shop, landowner, miner, etc. have no restrictions. Important Notice: At Poland Mining Camps, there are mineral specimens all over the Campus. This material belongs to PMC or other customers and friends of PMC. You may look at them, but you may not move them elsewhere or "collect" them in any manner. Material on or underneath the Mineral Washing Table at the Pavilion may be collected!
	Notice of ForfeitureMisconduct or an infraction of the above Poland Mining Camps/Maine Pegmatite Workshop Rules & Regulations will subject that person or persons to lose their Field Trip and collecting privileges for the day, with forfeiture of all fees involved for the day. A Major, Continued or on-going misconduct or infractions of the above Camps/Workshop Rules & Regulations may also be grounds for a person or persons to be asked to leave the Workshop and Poland Mining Camps entirely, forfeiting all fees involved and paid to the Maine Pegmatite Workshop. Poland Mining Camps, the Maine Pegmatite Workshop, including all owners, Directors, Faculty or employees of same, will not be held responsible for the actions of the registrants or visitors to the Workshop, before, during or after the time frame of the Maine Pegmatite Workshop 2009.

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