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No Stone Unturned No Stone Unturned Club Rooms: Youth Centre Grounds, 129 Mulgrave Rd. Cairns, Postal Address: PO Box 389, Westcourt. Qld 4870 Phone: 0450 185250 Email: [email protected] Club Hours: Monday: 7:00pm-9:30pm: Wednesday: 8:30-4:00pm Saturday: 10:00am-4:00pm President Allan Rose ph 40545850: Secretary: Jeanne Mora ph 40330028 Editor & Publisher: Jeanne Mora SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR GEM FESTIVAL BOOK LAUNCH: The Cairns City Council granted us the money to produce a booklet to commemorate the Club’s 50th birthday. The book, written by Bronwyn Webb, using material from the Club’s archives, will be launched by CCC Mayor Val Schier on Saturday morning at the Gem Festival, 30th July. Get your copy hot off the press! (I’ve just seen the proofs & it looks terrific) GOLD NUGGET TO BE WON: As a part of the club’s celebrations, there is a chance to win a gold nugget, gener- ously donated by Trevor Hannam. For your chance to win, when you attend the Gem Festival, visit the Information Tent (near the front door) and register your name and address. This will be put into the barrel and the winner will be drawn on Sunday afternoon. And it’s free! Good luck! Wait there’s more: If you buy any item for the Monster Raffle, let us site the tickets for more chances to win. If you buy from a stall, they’ll give you another ticket to bring to the tent and we’ll toss it in too. DEMONSTRATIONS: Making Cabochons, Faceting stones, silver smithing, gold panning, using a metal detector Above: A magnified micro specimen. Minerals viewed through a microscope. Pure magic!! Below: Kids of all ages fossicking. FOR THE KIDS: Kids can fossick in the “Sand Pit” to find genuine gemstone rough. Then there are the usual lucky dips! Always popular, and only $1:00 a try! AND: Great club displays of mineral specimens, member’s work etc. FOOD Sausage sizzle, cold drinks, tea/coffee and sandwiches or cake or biscuits L to R:Dragonfly by Tre- vor Hannam; Gem-tree by Kay Gaad; Replica of pewter plate nailed to a tree by ship-wrecked Dutch sailors off the coast of WA; Michael Hardcastle cooks BBQ last year. JUNE 2011 ISSUE This Year, Our Club is Celebrating 50 Years of Lapidary 1 CLUB PHONE NUMBER: 04 5018 5250 CLUB HOURS CLUB EMAIL [email protected] Monday Nights: 7:00pm to 9:30pm CLUB PATRON HON. DESLEY BOYLE MP Wednesday; 8:30am to 4:00pm MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Wednesday Night: 7:00pm to 9:30pm (Classes) Allan Rose* President 40545850 Saturday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm David Croft Vice President Club closed on long weekends and public holidays. Jeanne Mora* Secretary 40330028 WORKROOM FEES Carolyn Whittaker* Treasurer Monday Night: $4:00 Tim Franklin Wednesday: $8:00 all day $4:00 morning only Saturday: $6:00 all day $4:00 half day Vic Lahtinen* NB: OTHER PERSONNEL Assistant Secretary David Croft • NON-FINANCIAL MEMBERS MAY NOT USE THE WORK ROOMS. Assistant Treasurer Jan Saal Purchasers Bill Hall*, Betty Reece • VISITORS ARE NOT PERMITTED IN WORK ROOMS UNLESS THEY ARE BEING SHOWN AROUND THE CLUB BY A Specimen Curator David Croft, MEMBER Cabochon Instructors Trevor Hannam • MEMBERS MUST ABIDE BY CLUB RULES AT ALL TIME Silver Instructors Bill Hall, Sylvia Rose, Jan Saal, . INSTRUCTION CLASS COSTS Faceting Advisor Jim Lidstone*, Joe Ferk, Dates will be advertised on notice board.. Carving Advisors (position vacant) Cabbing $30:00 (includes material) Field Trip Officer (position vacant) Jewellery $100:00 (may change subject to Machinery Curators David Croft, Jim Lidstone silver costs) Specimen Testers David Croft, Trevor Hannam Faceting $72:00 (includes material) Gem Consultant & Tester Vic Lahtinen Carving $8:00 (includes materials) QLACCA Delegate Bill Reece Casting $5:00 firing/flask (materials extra) Youth Centre Delegate Bill Reece (Purchase of all materials for casting., can be made at the Librarians Betty Reece, Jean Morrow front counter. Please see Bill Hall to order commercial Events Coordinators (position vacant) waxes, which take up to three weeks to arrive. We sell carving wax, for those who’d like to make their own wax Honorary Auditor Vic Cummings mould.) * Club key holders Please give these people all the help and support that you can! INSTRUCTION CLASSES ARE ADVERTISED ON THE SANDWICH BOARD NEAR THE FRONT DOOR. MEMBERS SHOULD CHECK MEMBERSHIP FEES (due January 1st) DATES AND DETAILS AND SIGN UP AT THE FRONT COUNTER IF INTERESTED. Family: New $60:00 / year Inquiries may also be made at the front counter Family: Renewal $40:00 / year ROCK CUTTING FEES 30c / inch² (members) Adult Member: New $30:00 / year 50c / inch² (non-members) Adult Member: Renewal $20:00 / year MEETINGS Junior Member: New $ 20:00 / year General Meetings are held at 1:00pm on the first Saturday Junior Member Renewal $10:00 / year of each month. (unless otherwise advised). We keep the (Members are those over 12 years of age. Children meetings as short as practical. under the age of 12 are welcome on field trips and in Please come along and meet fellow club members and the main Clubroom under their parents’ supervision. have your say on how your club should be run. (They must not enter the workrooms.) JUNE 2011 ISSUE This Year, Our Club is Celebrating 50 Years of Lapidary 2 PRESIDENT’S REPORT BIRTHDAYS Hear Hear mark Two. We send birthday greetings to all members born in June 2011. A few months ago I mused on the fact that so many of our members have Jean Morrow, Trevor Hannam, John Evans, Trevor Mur- hearing difficulties. Not a surprising fact ray, Allan Rose, Peter Muller considering that most of our member- (If I have missed your name, please let me know so that I can send ship is in the vintage category. you a birthday “hello”. Jeanne) I have used hearing aids for the past fifteen years yet Those born in June have pearl and moonstone as your found myself dissatisfied due to the comfort factor or even the technical distortions and the screeching that birth stones. occurs during normal usage. Because of their colour, lustre, form and rarity, gem- I had been exposed to something different in the hearing stones have always been regarded by humans as department that immediately captured my imagination. special. They have always been surrounded by a touch Fortune had it that I packed my newly acquired “personal of mystery and many people believe they possess the amplifier” together with the e-reader; laptop computer ability to protect the wearer against injury, to enhance and of course the mp3 player. inner strength and to alleviate the symptoms of medical In the first days overseas my regular hearing aids conditions. packed it in and would not function. With some appre- hension I searched through my chattels and found the “The Crystal Bible” by Judy Hall has this to say about new amplifier kit. From the first usage I determined that the May birth stones: (# Pearls are not stones so are not this would be my future means of hearing the world. mentioned). I appear to be listening to music through some mysteri- ous box suspended from a chain around my neck . “Moonstone is a stone of new beginnings. As it’s name Wearing standard earphones , I look like most teenagers suggests, it is strongly connected to the moon and to about the place. By the way it is locally available intuition. Like the moon, moonstone is reflective and (Melbourne) and has a built in lithium-ion battery re- reminds us that , as the moon waxes and wanes, so charging in two hours. everything is part of the cycle of change. It’s most pow- In essence for less than $400 I have found an alternative erful effect is that of calming the emotions. and positive way to hear the world. Without making this an advertisement anybody wishing information regarding It can be worn as a pendant to encourage acceptance of acquisition might contact me at the Club on any open your psychic gifts.” day. I will be wearing the device and will be happy to forward the necessary information. For those interested in the Zodiac: If you have any earphones you can try out the device Those born under the zodiac sign Gemini (21/5 to 21/6), yourself. Allan Rose. Citrine and Tigereye are your birth stones but the follow- ing are said to be closely aligned to your sign: agate, Dates to Remember aquamarine, rock crystal, chrysocolla, jasper, onyx, to- 4 QLACCA Management Meeting paz and turquiose. Gunya Club Rooms. J of Cancer (22/6 to 22/7), Chrysoprase and aventurine 4 Club Meeting U are your birth stones but the following are said to be N 13 Queen’s Birthday (Club closed closely aligned to your sign: white chalcedony, chryso- E Saturday 11th & Monday 13th) lite, diamond, carnelian, moonstone, rhodochrosite and 18 Deception Bay Gem Show, Community emerald. Centre, Cnr Baily Rd & Bayside Drive # In “Gemstones of the World”, Walter Schumann calls 25 Gold Coast Gem & Craft Show , 80 Pacific pearls (along with coral, jet, ivory, odontolite, and amber Av Miami, Pizzey Park. “Organic Gemstones” . He goes on to say this about pearls:- 2 Club Meeting “Most pearls are products of bivalve mollusks mainly of 2 QLACCA General Meeting, Gunya Club the oyster type (family Ostreidae). They are built up of J Rooms mother-of-pearl (nacre), which is mainly calcium U 23-24 Townsville Gem & mineral Show, Club carbonate (in the form of aragonite), and an organic L Rooms, 96 Mooney St, Gulliver horn substance (conchiolin) that binds the microcrystals Y 30 –31 Cairns Mineral & Lapidary Gem concentrically around an irritant, (grain of sand etc.).” Festival, Club Rooms, 129 Mulgrave Rd, Cairns JUNE 2011 ISSUE This Year, Our Club is Celebrating 50 Years of Lapidary 3 Lapis Lazuli With it’s glorious deep blue colour, sometimes referred to as “ultramarine”, a good specimen of Lapis Lazuli has to be one of the most beautiful gemstones of all.
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