Hello Boston Rockhounds!

The Boston Mineral Club (BMC) was founded in 1936 to “promote the study and collecting of rocks and minerals, to encourage friendly cooperation among mineralogists and collectors, [and] to promote the study of mineralogy and related arts and sciences coming within the purview of earth sciences…” In the pursuit of these goals, the BMC offers educational programs at club meetings, mineral collecting field trips, a newsletter, and access to our mineralogical reference library.

The Boston Mineral Club is a member of the American Federation of Mineral Societies and the Eastern Federation of Mineral and Lapidary Societies.

You do not need a college degree in earth sciences to join the club! We are open to all. We welcome and encourage new members to join the club.

http://www.bostonmineralclub.org/

Minnesota’s state gemstone…

MMC members successfully lobbied the state legislature to have the Lake Superior Agate named as the state gemstone.  This is just one aspect of the club’s affair with Lakers.  In 1988, the club hosted the “Night of the Lake Superior Agate” where members and guests could actually see some of the more famous Lakers and hear from agate author, club member Scott Wolters.  In 1995, Night of the Agates II again brought many local agate lovers together for an all agate exhibit and presentation.  Night of the Agate III is tentatively planned for 2007 or 2008, as a prelude to “A World of Agates” scheduled for 2012.

Club member Mike Carlson created the coffee table book “Beautiful Agates” with photos by fellow club members Pete Rodewald and Dennis Westman and lapidary work by several club members. Pete and Mike, along with member Larry Costigan and his son Brian were invited to participate in the international Agate Show held in Munich Germany in October 2005.

A club hello to the Minnesota Mineral Club, check out their site
ALso Oct 20/21st they are having a Great Lakes/ Great Rocks show, click on the link for full rock show info- http://www.minnesotamineralclub.org/MMC2007show.pdf

Mike from Needles gem and mineral club stopped by and said hello, I checked out their club blog that posts their field trips and articles and found it to be quite interesting, check it out…  If you are in the Needles CA area, check the club out, they seem to have great field trips such as their next one-

Field Trip February 24, 2007 Saturday Ludlow Area for Zoisite (massive green and pink Thulite) 4WD High Clearance Vehicle Advised, Meet at Ludlow (off I-40 West) in the Dairy Queen-76 Station parking lot at 9 AM PST 10 AM MST

http://needlesgemmineralclub.blogspot.com/ 

Pictures from a recent trip, read about it and many others-

Terry stopped by and gave a little bio on himself, welcome Terry, here is his story:

I am a member of the Idaho Falls Gem and Mineral
Society have been a member for about 20 years. My
favorite places to rock hound is all over it just
depends on what I am looking for at the time. I like
the Lemhi Valley area around Salmon Idaho for nice
petrified wood and leaf casts(very hard to find) the
best examples of the leaf casts are in the Leadore
Forest Sevice Office on display. Fossils in Montana
agates and stuff in Nevada, The best find I ever did I
was about 13 years old our rock club went on a field
trip the the Arco, Idaho area after about a 8 hour
hike me and my gradnfather fould this really large
amythest geode. The two of us spent 5 hours digging
it out and finally gave up. We had an estimated 400
pound geode sticking out of a rock cliff and decided

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Greetings and welcome to our blog.  Remember we are always looking for rockhounders to post their story so email me anything you think is rockhounding and interesting!  Do you have a fav spot to rockhound?  Favorite find?  Make jewelry?  Tell us about it….remember we are only as interesting as the people that submit   Here is there link and info about their club-

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Went downstairs after our meeting and took a couple pics of our workshop. Here is our little wall of specimens-

Our lapidary equipment-

Check out our site www.vernonrockhounds.com

Northern California – Faceter’s Guild of Northern California
Federation: California Federation
Mailing Address: Wayne Meissner P.O. Box 357 Lathrop CA 95330
Meetings: 4 Times per year ( at various shows ) Breakfast meetings (8:00 a.m.)
Meetings are held at various shows in Northern California due to members being spread out across the state
E-mail: Wayne Meissner
Telephone:(209)858-2263
Updated 2/17/2003 12:42:34 PMSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA- Die Hards Field Trip Club
Added 4/8/2004 4:24:31 PM

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Cherokee Village – Spring River Gem & Mineral Club
Federation: Midwest Federation
Meetings: 10 am, FIRST THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH FROM MARCH TO DECEMBER
Location: Omaha Center, Cherokee Village
Contact: MARY KOCZ
Updated 10/20/2003 7:21:11 PMHot Springs – Hot Springs Geology Club
P.O. Box 257, Hot Springs, AK 71902
Meetings: 4th Thursday at 7 PM
Location: Arkansas School for Mathematics And Science
200 Whittington Ave, Hot Springs
Added April 21, 2000

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Anchorge – Alaska Lapidary Society
PO Box 110863 (99511)
Meetings 1st Friday in Members HomesAnchorge – Chugach Gem & Mineral Society, Inc.
PO Box 92027 (99509-2027)
Meetings: 2nd and 4th Thursday
First United Methodist Church
9th Ave Between “G” & “H” Streets

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