http://www.amfed.org/sfms/index.html
The KYANA Geological Society video produced by member Dave Shuffett can also be found on KET EncyloMedia internet site: http://www.ket.org/itvvideos/offering/science/ksroc.htm
Electronic Edition of "LODESTAR” http://www.amfed.org/sfms/lodestar_newsletter.html
MEETING TIME: 3rd Tuesday of each month - Social/Swap at 7:00 p.m. Meeting Starts at 7:30.
Go To: http://www.kyanageo.org LOCATION: The Louisville Nature Center 3745 Illinois Avenue, Louisville, KY 40213 handicap accessible facility - visitors welcome http://www.louisvillenaturecenter.org
DIRECTIONS: From the Watterson Expressway (I-264) -Take Exit 14 to Poplar Level Road North. Take Poplar Level Road to Trevilian Way (1.0 mi). Turn Right on to Trevilian Way. Take Trevilian Way to Illinois Avenue (0.2 mile) (to your left, Illinois Avenue is the first intersecting KYANA’s mission is to provide educational, road just before the Zoo entrance). recreational and social opportunities to those Turn left on to Illinois Avenue. interested in geological sciences and lapidary arts. Take Illinois Avenue to the Louisville Nature Center parking lot on your right (0.2 mile).
Except for items specifically copyrighted by authors, other non-profit societies may use material in this newsletter. KYANA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Indiana and Kentucky / Volume 45, Number 3
THE GEMSCOOP c/o Sherry Lindle 6004 Highplace Dr Louisville, KY 40291
Revised July 7, 1999 at the AFMS Annual Meeting KYANA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Member of the The Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Inc. and American Federation of Mineralogical Societies “Code of Ethics”
I will respect both private and public property and will do no collecting I will cause no willful damage to collecting materials and will take home only on privately owned land without the owner’s permission. what I can reasonably use. I will keep informed on all laws, regulations or rules governing I will practice conservation and undertake to utilize fully and well the materials I collecting on public lands and will observe them. have collected and will recycle my surplus for the pleasure and benefit of others. I will to the best of my ability, ascertain the boundary lines of property I will support the Rockhound project H.E.L.P. (Help Eliminate Litter Please) and on which I plan to collect. will leave all collecting areas devoid of litter, regardless of how found. I will use no firearms or blasting material in collecting areas. I will cooperate with field trip leaders and those in designated authority in all I will cause no willful damage to property of any kind, such as fences, collecting areas. signs, buildings, etc. I will report to my club or federation officers, Bureau of Land Management or I will leave all gates as found. other authorities any deposit of petrified wood or other materials on public land I will build fires in designated or safe places only and will be certain which should be protected for the enjoyment of future generations for public they are completely extinguished before leaving the area. educational and scientific purposes. I will discard no burning material - matches, cigarettes, etc. I will appreciate and protect our heritage of natural resources. I will fill all excavation holes which may be dangerous to livestock. I will observe the “Golden Rule,” will use “Good Outdoor Manners” and will at I will not contaminate wells, creeks or other water supplies. all times conduct myself in a manner which will add to the stature and public image of Rockhounds everywhere.
2010 BOARD OR DIRECTORS
(with area code = long distance from Louisville)
President Past President Director Betty Hansel (451-6953) Ellen Christian (290-4551) Luther Peak (239-8656)
Vice-President Past President Director Bill Beasy (245-5335) Charlie Oldham (241-8755) Jean Peak (239-8656)
Treasurer Director Show Chair Sandy Haley (222-0749) Cathy Neely (606-367-2225) Mike Whitehouse (905-4988)
Secretary Director Newsletter Editor Lisa Duran (245-3057) Leo Gallaher (968-5535) Sherry Lindle (231-2268)
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THE KYANA GEMSCOOP Monthly newsletter of the KYANA Geological Society in Louisville, Kentucky http://www.kyanageo.org/
Volume 45, Number 3 March 2010 Page 1
Next meeting is March 16th - Social 7:00/Program starts 7:30 PM
March Program: Crystalline Forms of Quartz by Bill Beasy
SPEAKER: Charles Oldham Charlie will touch on crystal forms, scepters, TOPIC: Crystalline Forms of Quartz fensters, twins, phantoms, and windows. He Charlie is one of KYANA’s charter members and will bring examples of cut and uncut stones. retired Kentucky State Geologist will present the March 16th program about crystalline forms of This talk should be of interest to those the mineral quartz covering both the gemstone members involved in the lapidary arts and and mineral forms. This presentation is the mineral collectors. companion to the former talk on the cryptocrystalline forms of quartz. This talk Special Auction: will cover Amethyst, Citrine, Amethrine, Rock Bill Beasy has donated some cut Crystal, Smoky Quartz, Rose Quartz, Milky Quartz, etc. It will also cover heat treatment, gemstones for auction. color enhancement, dyeing, and other All proceeds go to KYANA. treatments such as irradiation.
Message from the Prez. by Betty Hansel
SPRING GREETINGS, present last month. I know it will be well worth the wait! I am a big fan of crystals of all kinds, and I am certainly I hope you are all well and enjoying a few days of the looking forward to it. You can see Charlie’s notes of the beautiful spring weather. I can almost hear the fossils program in pages below. tumbling from their frozen beds! We will also have our first auction of gemstones. Bill Beasy, Are you back in the mood for collecting and getting out in our V.P. donated them during the talk on gemstones that he the wild for a while? I can’t wait! gave at the January meeting. He used them in creating a “Small Business” in his Oldham County Middle School class. Sorry we had to cancel the February meeting, but the His students created a company, sold stock, bought supplies, weather, icy roads and conditions of parking at the Nature made jewelry, sold jewelry and split the profits … sort of a Center made it necessary. We didn’t want to take any model business, Junior Achievement style! chances on anyone getting hurt. My thanks, to the Board for helping me make the decision to cancel the meeting, and for Some of the stones he has left from his middle school venture making so many phone calls to help get the message out. will be auctioned at the March 16, meeting. Be sure to bring a little extra money and take home a treasure! All proceeds Our speaker this month will be Charlie O. He will give the all go to KYANA. talk on Crystalline Forms of Quartz which he planned to 2 Bill has also been hard at work on planning a trip for our transportation in D.C. and other incidentals. However, with club. This special trip would be to the Smithsonian Museum such a low base cost, it would still make it a great price! in Washington D.C. Yes you read that right! He has all the Please think about this amazing opportunity Bill has put details ready to present to the club at the meeting. Bill has together for the club. I have been to the Smithsonian once, done the research for a trip to the Smithsonian. He has a bus for one day. It was a long time ago, but it was unforgettable. arranged that will seat approximately 55 people. The cost I think we could spend every minute of every day in the works out to about $100 per seat. We are hoping we can fill various museums there. However, if you tire of the most of it with KYANA members and their families. If there Smithsonian, you are in the heart of D.C. and you could opt are extra seats, we will invite other clubs to join us. If we to go see other sights. It is a memorable place. can not fill all the seats, we may have to add a little to the cost to make up the difference. I want to thank Bill for all the work he has done getting the details worked out for this trip. I know I speak for the board The rooms are approximately $100 per night. That is for when I say his efforts are GREATLY appreciated! double occupancy. So if you share a room it would cost you around $200 for the room for four nights. That gives you the About refreshments: KYANA will no longer be furnishing basic’s for the trip for about $300! I thought that was a great soft drinks at the meeting. Please bring something you would deal! KYANA would need to collect the money for the bus like to drink, or perhaps a bottle of soft drink, etc. to share. ahead of time, but the room would be paid individually to the We will have cups and ice and always tap water! We also hotel. plan to have coffee as usual.
The trip is being planned for sometime this coming Fall. I I hope to see you all at our March 16 meeting, 7:00 (7:30 know that not everyone will be able to go at that time. There program) at the Nature Center. I believe it will be a great would never be a date that could accommodate everyone, but one! it is a wonderful opportunity for those who can go. Betty I do not have all the details. I hope Bill can fill in the blanks at our March meeting. Note from editor: I am looking for reporters. Please send me dates and times of rock, mineral, fossil, & jewelry shows Bill tells me there is no charge for admittance to the that would be of interest to members. Send me short article Smithsonian. There would be cost of meals and too.
March Field Trip by Charlie Oldham, Field Trip Chairman
GET YOUR NAME ON THE SIGN UP LIST FOR FUTURE TRIPS: Call 241-8755 or e-mail: [email protected]
TAYLORSVILLE, KY on MARCH 20 – Field trip in Taylorsville area will depend on the weather forecast for the Saturday following the March meeting, and the interest of the membership. If the weather looks favorable Charlie will lead the trip. Whether to go or not will be decided the night of our March 16th meeting.
Lapidary Arts Workshop Form and Information:
A registration form and class schedule were sent with the The website address is: www.sfmsworkshops.com February Gemscoop.
Danny Griffin asked me to notify our membership that the Feel free to contact the Workshop Directors, Registrars or workshop website is up and running with the latest schedule myself for additional information. Thanks so much! and information about the classes and instructors. You can select/click on the class name for a description and the Danny Griffin, instructors name for a bio. All the forms can be pulled up SFMS Education Chair from the registration header. (865) 406-8802 [email protected]
March 26-28 2010 Fossil Expo, Western Hall, < www.midamericapaleo.org Western Illinois University, Malcomb, Illinois
Rock Crystal – Clear, transparent, free from impurities, Lemon Citrine – a light yellow citrine with a greenish hue Herkimer Diamonds – Limpid, nearly perfectly formed found in Russia, the majority of which is a natural color. crystals, from the Silurian Dolostone, centering on Herkimer, Prasiolite – Leek green quartz that was found naturally, but New York. since 1950 has been produced by heat treating amethyst and Pecos Diamonds – Double terminated, quartz crystals, naturally occurring citrines from the Montezuma deposits in found in the river gravels along the Rio Grande. Minas Gerais, Brazil to 932 degrees F. Can be included with various suspended minerals: gold, pyrite, Rose Quartz – light to dark pink, sometimes with a lavender rutile, goethite, chlorite, tourmaline, etc; cast [Madagascar], color due to the presence of magnesium. Rutilated Quartz – contains rutile crystals, generally long Rarely forms crystals, first reported crystals were in the alpine hair-like crystals, can cause the “star” effect in cut stones. pegmatite pockets high in the Alps. Also found in a pegmatite Cats Eye Quartz – with fibrous, parallel hornblende at Newery, Maine, occurring with transparent tourmaline needles. crystals. And then sizeable crystals were found in Brazil Tourmalinated Quartz – contains suspended tourmaline associated with Brazilinite. Most deposits are large crystalline crystals, generally the black form – schrol, but may be any color masses found in the cores of large pegmatite bodies. Notable of tourmaline, other colors are rare. occurrences are Brazil, and in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Phantom Quartz – growth stages within the quartz crystal Small pegmatite occurrences in Georgia produce Rose Quartz are marked by other minerals such as chlorite, creating single or which will “star” due to inclusions of rutile. multiple ghost crystals within a single quartz crystal. Smoky Quartz – light brown to jet black, in most smoky quartz Garden Quartz – Originally from a locality in California, the color is due to being exposed to radiation from associated material on the market now is from Brazil, and China. Quartz radioactive minerals. However some smoky quartz has included crystals [some quite large] included with various iron hydrocarbons. To fill the demand of smoky quartz for compounds, chlorite etc. gemstones, most smoky quartz in the market place is rock Milky Quartz – White – usually, caused by freeze thaw, crystal that has been irradiated, most notably the quartz crystals inducing cracks and flaws, can also be caused by inclusions of from Arkansas are ideal for this process. minute bubbles filled with gases, liquids, or empty. Morion – black variety Cape May Diamonds – Beach pebbles of different tints Cairngorn –a somewhat smoky-citrine colored stone from [pastels] of quartz Scotland. Gold Quartz- Milky Quartz with Native Gold, mostly from Crystal Forms – Because Quartz is one of the more California commonly occurring minerals and is found all three rock types Amethyst – February’s Birthstone - Quartz colored by iron, and in almost every rock in the earth’s crust, it has many forms. various shades of lavender through a deep purple with color Through the processes of growing out of solution, and being re- flashes of blue. Close examination of amethyst under dissolved, wholly or partially, quartz, like calcite is found in magnification will reveal color blotching surrounding a nucleus. many common and bizarre shapes and forms. Sometimes the center will be a bit of iron oxide; this is very Scepters, reverse scepters, tabular, double terminations, common in the Thunder Bay Amethyst of Ontario. The best twins, fenster, skeletal, star shapes, and stalagmites, to name a Amethyst comes from the Ural Mountains in Russia, a deep few. purple [grape juice] with brilliant color flashes of blue on cut Odd and strange crystal faces, bubbles, included crystals, stones. phantoms, multiple colors in one crystal, veils, rainbows, growth Ametrine – the combination of Amethyst and Citrine lines, twisting, etch and growth artifacts [triangular patterns] Quartz in one stone either depressed or raised, have awed and mystified man for Chevron Amethyst – alternating bands of white [milky] centuries. Many mystical and holistic attributes have been and purple, from Africa assigned to the myriad of crystal forms. And quartz also has Strawberry Quartz- A red Amethyst with large diameter many physical properties: rutile crystals, originally cut as strawberries, very rare, Piezoelectricity – pressure applied along the crystal axis occurrences in Italy and Mexico. produces an electrical charge. Lepidrochrosite included Amethyst - is often mistaken for Piezoelectricity – changes in temperature produces an strawberry quartz. electrical charge. Citrine – a pale yellow to deep orange colored quartz colored Bleaching – Effects caused by Irradiation, [darkening or by iron which has been subjected to heat, naturally or induced clear quartz] can be reversed by exposing the specimen to 180 F. by artificial means. Thermo luminescence – Blue-white glow produced by Almost all citrine specimens and cut stones in the market place heating. are amethyst that has been heated to about 450 degrees F and Luminescence – Quartz is not naturally fluorescent, then allowed to cool slowly. This oxidizes the iron and turns the artificial irradiated quartz does exhibit a brief and weak bluish amethyst to an orange color. The most common heat treated white fluorescence. All other reported fluorescence is attributed amethyst is the smaller crystals from Brazil and Uruguay. But to impurities within the crystal lattice. all citrine is suspect, as citrine is not a common color of quartz. There are many other minor or rare physical effects, books have been written on the subject.
4 Board Meeting Minutes held March 4, 2010 byEllen Christian
Submitted and Hosted by Ellen Christian Business calendar: Check our calendar for any additions or corrections. We are going to try to collect Appoint a new Corporate Agent for KYANA: Board our old historical club data from past members to help nominated Charlie Oldham to be our new Corporate us with this task. Example: Pay Federation dues pay Agent with our club’s blessing. prior to January 1 each year. IRS non-profit form is due in April. Board/Regular Meeting minutes in 3-ring P.O. Box for KYANA: purchase one near the Nature binder. Center. To prevent more lost mail going to non-current members, we are proposing to get a box near the Constitution: Discuss changes in our constitution- meeting area so it is more easily accessible to the board tabled for another meeting. on our regular meeting nights. Things to do: Create a month to month list for each Define: “Official and Unofficial” KYANA field trips. Board member so all know jobs of all and make for Field chairman has a list of members who wish to smoother transition and training for new board attend any official field trip. Field trips need to be members. Charlie Oldham will try to make a Board of announced so they can be covered by insurance. Any Directors task list each month so training is easier for field trip announced to the club at a meeting, through next year. Gemscoop, e-mail, field trip chairman's list of interested collectors, or phone calls, is an official KYANA field Club Show: profit, loss, purpose, advertisement, trip. Interested members need to get their name on list discussion. to get short notices of trips. Announce in Gemscoop to contact Field Trip Chairman Charlie Oldham to get on Other new items: We need a volunteer to e-mail the list. Call 241-8755 [email protected] members about meeting, dues, etc. Sherry is going to help us with membership list and Ellen is going to help 2010 KYANA budget: Board recommended a budget Treasurer with Excel. Betty is researching making for the club, but is still waiting for the final 2009 show copies of our 13 minute Educational DVD. figures from the Show Chairman to complete it.
INVITATION TO HELP PRE-SCHOOL Thank you, Hello! Diane Deitel, Head of School I am a preschool director for children ages 2-5 Prospect Latin School years. We are doing a summer unit on Independent Academic Preschool dinosaurs from May 24- June 18. Would 8907 U.S. Highway 42, anyone in your organization be available to Prospect, Kentucky 40059, 502.292.0123, come out and talk to the children about