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Next General Meeting March 6, 2019 Santa Rosa, California March, 2019 Letter from Your President Volume 43, Number 3 I hope everyone is handling our constant rain and staying warm and cozy. I saw some blue IN THIS ISSUE: birds this weekend so spring must be close at hand. I hope some of you had a chance to attend last weekend’s Vallejo Gem & Mineral Show. I attended with Jolene and Denny. President’s Message 1 We spent some time observing and came away with some things that we want to bring Meeting Notes 2 into the planning of our own show. If you did go, please make sure to share pros/cons Show Meeting Info 2 with either myself or Jolene. Board Meeting 3 Shop Clean-up report 3 Unfortunately, we now have a new opening on the board. If anyone is interested in Crossword Puzzle 3 joining the board as the Activities coordinator, please let me know. I will discuss this at The Mineral… 4 the next general meeting. The level of activities we have available to us may suffer if we Dues Due 5 don’t get some help added to the board to coordinate activities. Existing people can only Upcoming Shows 5 do so much. Our field trip coordinator Tim has promised a full calendar of field trips is on Upcoming Classes 5 the horizon. We had a good conversation with him at last week’s board meeting. For this Upcoming Events 5 year we will have some scheduled trips on the calendar on weekends, plus we may have Crossword Answer 5 more ad hoc opportunities that come at the last minute during the week. Of course not Mighty T-Rex 6 everyone can make “during the week” trips, so we won’t be planning those specifically. As Sugilite 7 they come up we’ll use our blast email capabilities to make members aware and obtain a Grape Agate 7 participant head count. I hope to have a calendar available to share at the next general Club Info 8 meeting. On the program front, our March general meeting will be focused on petrified wood. I’m Next General Meeting still trying to coordinate a formal presentation by a wood formation expert. Please bring any samples from your collection to share with other members. Perhaps we can help you First Wednesday of the Month identify what you have if you are unsure. I have been in contact with Rick Kennedy who you will recall appeared at a meeting last year and did a great presentation on March 6, 2019 Franklin Park Clubhouse Aquamarine mining. He is excited to come back and see us, and he and I are working on the specific topic of his upcoming talk. I also reconnected with Connor from Geotrope 2095 Franklin Ave, Minerals at the Vallejo Show about coming to an upcoming as well. While he is a regular Santa Rosa vendor at our show, he also is a trained geologist and a regular speaker on a variety of 7:30 pm topics with other clubs/groups. More to come on potential topics from Connor. PROGRAM: Looking forward to seeing all of you at our March Meeting General Meeting Petrified Wood Talk & Share Ken Raffle Refreshments Gem-N-I….. March, 2019 Page 1 Up Coming Meeting Notes Refreshment Reminder *Bring a piece of Petrified Wood to share *We will be having a Raffle. Feel free to bring a donation to Savory: Bill H. add to the raffle goodies if you like. Drinks: Janyce V. Sweet: ??? *Be ready to sign up for helping with the Gem Faire, Mark West Science Fair and the Club Show. It’s not too late to get your Nice plastic engraved Name Badge… See Heidi at the meeting to give her your name and $$. We’ll be ordering soon! Yes!! We’re gearing up for the show now! The next Show meeting will be after our March 20 Board Meeting…7:30 pm. If you had a job last year and would like to do it again this year, please let me know. If you’d like to try your hand at something different, please let me know. If you are NEW to the club and would like to help with the show… Let Me Know! I will have a list of jobs that need volunteers at the March meeting. Please be sure to sign up, before all the good ones are gone… It takes a village to put on a great show, so put it on your calendar and jump in with both feet. Also, looking for new ideas to make our show even better. Bring your ideas to the Show Meeting March 20, 7:30 pm at the Workshop ~Jolene – 707-849-9551~ Gem-N-I….. March, 2019 Page 2 Board Meeting Shop Clean-Up Day The March Clean-up Day went very well. There were 7 of us that came Board Meeting out to work on the Shop. Will be held A BIG thanks to Dennis, Heidi, Frank, Andy, Patrick, Jolene March 20, and Andrew (who was not even a member yet, but came to ~6:30 pm~ help anyway.) At the Workshop The mats were all degreased, grinders well cleaned as well as Followed by Show meeting the floor. Moved some equipment around too. 7:30 We have plans to replace the old lights over the saws. That Can you find the hidden crystal? If you spot it, fill out the form at the next should be happening soon. General Meeting. You will be entered Be sure you come out and help at the next clean-up…and into a drawing for a prize. Good Luck! we’ll get even more accomplished. Across 1. Yellow sapphire or yellow quartz gem The Mineral…. 4. Molten rock that issues from volcanoes Welcome to a new column 5. Very hard and very precious stone made for this year. I will be of crystalline carbon featuring a different mineral 7. Lustrous gem found within the shells of each month. I think it is very some molluscs 8. Ornament of precious metal often set with interesting and important to stones and worn as an accessory understand more about the 10. Rich green gemstone – May’s birthstone rocks we collect. Most of the 11. Small plane surface on a cut gem information in this column will 12. Transparent deep blue gem be from www.minerals.net . A 15. Deep yellowish green transparent gem web site that I found that (anagram of ‘diopter’) explains things in a fairly easy 18. (A metamorphic rock (anagram of to understand way. So, I am ‘singes’) 20. Gem carved in relief simply passing on someone 21. January’s birthstone (anagram of ‘argent’) else’s info to you, but I think it 22. Outer part of our planet, composed is quite informative. essentially of crystalline rocks, shares its I hope you enjoy and even name with the part of toast eaten least learn a thing or two. Feel free 23. This stone, much sought by ancient Down to visit the site for information 2. Transparent blue, blue-green, or green beryl; March’s birthstone alchemists, was believed to turn base metals 3. Art of cutting gems into gold on other minerals. 25. Study of the history of the earth as 4. Rock chiefly formed from organic remains (shells, coral) recorded in its rocks 6. June’s birthstone, named for a Russian Emperor 9. Small rounded stone worn down by the action of water Jolene 13. Carving or inscription on rock 14. Fibrous mineral that was used for insulation, but which is now removed from buildings as it causes some forms of cancer 15. Method of searching for gold 16. Famous stone that allowed historians to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics 17. Purple or bluish violet quartz used as a jeweler’s stone 19. Very hard igneous rock used for making buildings and monuments (anagram of ‘tearing’) 24. Precious stone made or red corundum; July’s birthstone and an anagram of ‘bury) Gem-N-I….. March, 2019 Page 3 THE MINERAL JASPER Jasper is an opaque variety of Chalcedony, and is usually associated with brown, yellow, or reddish colors, but Jasper: may be used to describe other opaque colors of Chalcedony such as dark or mottled green, orange, and black. Jasper is almost always multicolored, with unique color patterns and habits. The appeal of Jasper is its interesting color patterns and formations. Though it can be a solid color, it is most often mottled, spotted, ringed, or striped. Each Jasper has a unique color or pattern, lending this gemstone much variety. Jasper is an ancient gemstone, and is mentioned in the bible and other classical sources. Though fairly common and affordable today, Jasper in antiquity was regarded as a valuable stone. Jasper is generally an inexpensive gemstone when used in jewelry. It is cut and polished into cabochons, and used as beads for necklaces and bracelets. It is also carved into cameos which can be worn as pendants. Jasper has an over-abundance of variety names. Some variety names are generally used by collectors and dealers, but there are many made up by dealers to describe a locality or other habit. The varieties below are the well-known names or varieties that are commonly encountered. Seldom-used and localized trade names are not described here. Agate Jasper - Opaque multicolored Jasper, or Jasper with banding; may also refer to a single stone with a combination of both Agate and Jasper. Biggs Jasper - Jasper from Biggs Junction, Oregon, with varying light and dark color brown bands and pretty formations.
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