Regional Federations

Derived from a diagram by Dale Miller

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 7 Regional Federations

The American Federation of Mineralogical Societies is composed of seven regional organizations of rock, gem, mineral, fossil, and lapidary societies. Click a logo below for a list of clubs in each region and links to the regional websites.

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AFMS Rope

This poster illustrates how the AFMS is composed of regional federations of clubs made up of individual members, and how everyone comes together by doing their part to form a strong national organization. Dale Miller, SCFMS, devised this chart as a simple explanation of the federation chain in 2001. The image was slightly revised in 2021 for the AFMS website.

From the SCFMS newsletter May-June 2001