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This week and last, the Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences Jerónimo Molina has witnessed various acts in order to highlight and promote the rich heritage that houses the cultural area of ​​Jumilla, being one of the museums most rich content across the region.
Angel Francisco Cutillas, Jumillano mineralogist, and avid explorer of the municipality, had passed its latest study on minerals, with special attention to the "apatite" or Jumillita, as this material is known commonly in the week.
With the conference "The Mines of Celia. Celia apatite is not only" revealed the wealth of minerals are there in this jumillana extension, which also single pieces are found throughout the peninsula.
Angel Francisco, is a regular contributor to the Department of Culture, and for this reason, effort with a commemorative plaque was recognized for its work with the Museum of Ethnography in the field of minerals.
Moreover, this week, Sebastian Martinez, a student of paleontology and fossil collector, gave a lecture on the fossil beds are there in the town of Jumilla, emphasizing the "great quantity and quality of the parts found, with which you can hear more about the situation of the land and the life that inhabited the area millions of years ago. "
Sebastian also received recognition for his work, and much of donation funds today fossils paleontology section of the museum consist.
The Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences of Jumilla has a section on geology and contains a remarkable collection of fossils, all from the town of Jumilla, mostly from the collection of Sebastián Martínez.
It also includes an extraordinary collection of over five hundred minerals, most of them from different points of the Spanish geography, from the collection of Angel Francisco Cutillas.
Both now have a special recognition from the Department of Culture for his collaboration with science in Jumilla.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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