Continuing with the…

Continuing with the commentary that the CCFMS concerns are included in this ERO 019-6692 submission.

Please note that Central Canadian Federation of Mineralogical Societies (CCFMS) is identified below.
The CCFMS is a public entity in Ontario; therefore, does NOT expect "personal" privacy.
The CCFMS is not ashamed to publicly acknowledge our commentary as well as our involvement.

This is comment THREE of 11 comments that the CCFMS feels are critical to the Ontario Hobby Mineral Collecting Guide:

Page 3, About hobby mineral collecting – third bullet
• This bullet states “the collector has no intention of selling, and does not sell, the minerals collected.”

• In the version reviewed by the CCFMS in 2014, the equivalent clause reads “the collector has no intention of selling, and does not sell commercially, the minerals collected.” The word “commercially” has been dropped from the current version.

• Later in the section on hobby mineral collecting (page 4), the guide states that “the exercise of enforcement discretion also include(s) the practice of swapping minerals collected as part of building a collector’s personal collection.”

• This practice can include the sale of a self-collected specimen to one collector so that the money so acquired can be used to purchase a self-collected specimen from another collector, even though neither collector intended to, or did sell self-collected specimens commercially.

• The CCFMS asks that the word commercially be returned to the third bullet.