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Shasta Gem and Mineral Society, Inc
P.O. Box 990424
Redding, CA 96099-0424
Email:[email protected] The RocToc
Newsletter - January 2017
President’s Message:
Hello rockhounders!! Hope all had a wonderful Christmas and are revving up
for the new year! Thanx to all that attended our Christmas party; everyone
had a lot of fun and there was lots of good food as well.
Our 2017 field trip schedule will be out soon so keep your eye out for that.
The workshop is really doing awesome so I hope everybody is taking
advantage of that resource.
Classes are almost full for the year and new classes are being added. For
anybody with questions or interest in classes just ask around the shop or call
Steve Puderbaugh.
We are also starting to gather rocks for next year’s gem and mineral show, so
if you would care to donate please take them to the clubhouse.
Thanx everyone for a great 2016! Here is looking forward for all to have an
even better 2017!!
Your Prez... Alan Leedy
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Board of Directors Meeting Dec. 20, 2016
Meeting called to order by President Leedy at
6pm. Board members present: Leedy,
Puderbaugh (last meeting as BOD member;
thanks Steve), Sweetwood, Evans, Colbert,
Foster, Pence. Members present: Pat Foster,
Eric Sweetwood, Aaron Willoughby, Glen
Miller.
Steve P and Alan Leedy will be inventorying
the SGMS workshop in January. This will be
mostly the silver inventory, the tools and
lapidary machines and supplies like blades and
wheels.
Steve Puderbaugh related that Hugh Watson’s
father died recently and Hugh was in Chicago.
Hugh will be submitting a fieldtrip list for 2017
soon.
One of the items for consideration this year is
to have the workshop roof replaced. Steve P.
has been working with the City and our 5-year
lease for the building. Steve has attended the
McConnell Foundation grants workshop in the
past and sees that as a possible source of
funding, or partial funding for the project.
Wire wrapping and silversmith classes have
filled for the first sessions. Next sessions
information should be available at the
workshop or possible on the Facebook page.
Reminder: classes and the workshop are open
to the public upon initial checkout and payment
of fees. The workshop is supported under the
Redding Parks and Recreation Department.
Bead making class openings are available.
They will be held on the second and fourth
Saturdays
of the month. See Michelle Stein, instructor,
for information. 410-5068.
Steve P and Alan Leedy will fix the 2017 show
dates, and Steve will make the reservation with
the Shasta County Fairgrounds.
The executive BOD members will receive new
briefcases to house their official records and
other documents.
The BOD agreed to purchase higher quality
stones and lapidary-related items for the 2017
raffles. Alan and Steve P are coordinating with
members who are traveling to Quartzsite and
the Tucson gem shows as buyers for the club.
We may host a T-shirt design contest for the
club. T-shirts, and perhaps baseball caps with
logos or club designs could be useful fund
raisers.
Steve P is planning to expand a historic display
of past club members special contributions to
the SGMS. The display will be in the main
room of the workshop.
Meeting adjourned at 7:20pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Billie Evans, Secretary
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A Special Thank You to Anne Morningstar
Anne has generously donated for a long time many valuable pieces of her
jewelry to the club raffle. She also has brought many donations from her
nephew, Nathan.
These donations have been eagerly sought and the proceeds support youth and
other programs of the Shasta Gem and Mineral Society.
Thank you Anne, for your unselfish gifts to the club welfare, and for your
support of the silversmithing instruction at the workshop.
Roc Toc is your source for the goings on of the SGMS.
The editor and the club board of directors, in the names of Steve Puderbaugh
and those he can recruit to help collate, fold, address and stamp the newsletter
could use your suggestions and assistance to keep the Roc Toc useful and
interesting each month.
Can you forward items such as lapidary tips, recommendations on machine
use and maintenance? Prepared instructions or sources of information on jewelry
and lapidary arts such as intarsia or gemstone carving, would be helpful.
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Hints: Scheelite, Rhodochrosite, Silver, Emerald, Fluorite, Pyrargyrite
Fluorapatite..hardness, Chalcedony, Vivianite, stalagmites, stalactite,
light, white streak.. starts with V, Bournonite, Orpiment,
matrix, Andes Cordillera, toothpaste,
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Club Calendar
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Open Workshop Open Workshop
5:30-8:30pm 10am-2pm
StevePuderbaugh Jim&Cimdy
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Open Workshop ClubMeeting Open Workshop
5:30-8:30 pm AndersonGrange 10am-2pm
SteveLay Potluck6pm RochelleOhlson
Meeting7pm
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
OpenWorkshop Open Workshop
5:30-8:30pm 10am-2pm
John&Jennifer MichelleStein
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
OpenWorkshop Open Workshop
5:30-8:30pm 10am-2pm
KipFatout RochelleOhlson
BoardMeeting6pm
29 30 31
Open Workshop
5:30-8:30 pm
StevePuderbaugh
WorkshopNotes:
- Open Workshop Days - Ticket Purchase Required.
- Kids Free Day: 1st Saturday after Club General Meeting
ClubNotes:
- Club General Meeting: 2nd Friday of each Month.
FieldTrip:
- To be Announced at Club Meeting
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4
Open Workshop
10am-2pm
Jim&Cindy
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
OpenWorkshop ClubMeeting Open Workshop
5:30-8:30pm AndersonGrange 10am-2pm
SteveLay PotLuck6pm RochelleOhlson
Meeting7pm
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Open Workshop Open Workshop
5:30-8:30 pm 10am-2pm
John&Jennifer MichelleStein
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19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Open Workshop Open Workshop
5:30-8:30 pm 10am-2pm
KipFatout RochelleOhlson
Board Meeting 6pm
26 27 28
Open Workshop
5:30-8:30 pm
StevePuderbaugh
WorkshopNotes:
- Open Workshop Days - Ticket Purchase Required.
- Kids Free Day: 1st Saturday after Club General Meeting
ClubNotes:
- Club General Meeting: 2nd Friday of each Month.
FieldTrip:
- To be Announced at Club Meeting
January-2017
February-2017
Indonesian Agates
I came across a display of agates from Java at the
Tucson, Arizona gem and mineral show. They were
my exposure to the colorful agates and petrified
woods of Sumatra and Java, two of the largest
Indonesian islands. Indonesia is made of islands, lots of them, in fact,
over 17,000 islands. The origins of these islands vary
from coral atolls, continental masses or slivers, accumulated oceanic plate wedges, and volcanoes
rising from the sea floor. It's a great place to hunt rocks formed by hot fluids circulating through volcanic geology. Ornamental jaspers, agates and
thunder-eggs are common across the country. Indonesians love natural stone with graphic beauty.
There is a big following for picture stones across the
country. Agates come from Timor, Irian Jaya,
Kalimantan, Java and Sumatra. There are sure to be many more locations. The stone markets in Surabaya and Jakarta on the
island of Java have a constant flow of new materials.
Of all the Indonesian agates I have seen to date, none
exhibit more variety of color and complexity than the
Sumatran agates.
The origin of agates is complicated. The important
components are geological formations consisting of
rock types in which voids occur and warm, volcano
related, silica saturated waters are present to migrate
thru the pores and cracks to fill the void. Voids are
commonly known to occur in gaseous volcanic rocks
(basalts) or solution cavities in calcareous rocks
(limestone). That does not mean there aren’t other
source rocks; there are! The origins of these rocks can
be terrestrial or submarine.
The colors of the bands in these agates vary widely.
Coloration of agates is caused by metallic ions which
are introduced with the influx of amorphous silica.
These elements join together, forming bands and
fortifications of micro or cryptocrystalline layers that
plate out on the walls of the cavity.
Crypto means hidden; the crystalline structure is not
visible to microscopes, and the quartz is translucent of
opaque. Banding and coloration depends on the
solution chemistry, temperature, pressure, and
oxidation state. The hydrothermal fluids travelling
thru the pores and cracks in the surrounding rock
formations can leach metallic ions and other elements
and deposit them in the voids and cavities creating an
agate.
Iron alone can cause purple, blue, yellow, orange or
red bands. Nickel, vanadium or chromium inclusions
show as shades of green. Manganese can exhibit pink,
violet or black and copper can be red, blue or green.
Combinations of minerals effect color as does
temperature, pressure and radiation.
A complex fortification agate is likely formed over a
long geological time, experiencing a great variety of
conditions. No two agates exactly alike. Each one is a
unique creation of nature!
The source for great color photos of Java and
Sumatra agate is here: http://www.indoagate.com/agate.html The website has a travelogue of places and stones
from Indonesia.
[the editor was unable to insert the desired color
photos for this article, so the reader must go
online for a full appreciation of Java agates.]
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New classes available in lampwork bead making.
Lavena Setnor is offering lessons in how to make lampwork beads every Tuesday evening
at the SGMS Gilman School workshop. All skill levels are welcome for the class hours of
5:30-8:30. Students will sign up via the Redding Parks and Recreation Department
process. Costs will be SGMS club dues of $15 and $5 for each class night. Prospective
students with questions may call Lavena Setnor at 530-646-9689. They may also reach her
by email; [email protected], please include in the subject line: Glass beading SGMS.
January Birthstones January birthstones offer three ways to fight the winter blues: tanzanite, zircon and turquoise; all of
them best known for beautiful shades of blue.
These gems range from the oldest on earth (zircon), to one of the first mined and used in jewelry
(turquoise), to one of the most recently discovered (tanzanite).
All of these stones are relatively inexpensive, but their beauty rivals even precious gems. Colorless
zircon is a convincing replacement for diamond, tanzanite often substitutes for sapphire, and turquoise
is unmatched in its hue of robin’s egg blue.
Tanzanite is the exquisite blue variety of the mineral zoisite, found in only one part of the world. Named for its
limited geographic origin in Tanzania, tanzanite has quickly risen to popularity since its relatively recent
discovery.
Zoisite had been known for more than a century and a half before this rare blue variety was found in 1967.
Trace amounts of vanadium, infused by extreme heat, cause the blue color – which ranges from pale blue to
intense ultramarine with violet undertones.
Tanzanite can display different colors when viewed from different angles, an effect known as pleochroism.
Stones must be cut properly to highlight the more attractive blue and violet hues, and deemphasize the
undesirable brown tones.
The majority of tanzanite on the market today is heat treated to minimize the brown colors found naturally, and
to enhance the blue shades that can rival sappire.
Tanzanite is still only found on a few square miles of land in Tanzania, near majestic Mount Kilimanjaro. Its
price and availability are directly tied to mines in this region.
Tanzanite measures 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs scale of hardness, about like quartz – which is not nearly as hard as
the sapphire it often substitutes. Given its vulnerability to being scratched during daily wear and abrasion,
tanzanite is better suited for earrings and pendants than rings.
Between its deep blue color and its limited supply, tanzanite is treasured by many – whether one is born in
January or not!
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SGMS Field Trips: The schedule is tentative and subject to change. For further details about field trips please check
with the Shasta Gem and Mineral Society Facebook page, or contact Hugh Watson at 530-605-
5454; email him at, [email protected] . Members should “like” our Facebook page and
spread the word about the page.
Also check the Rock and Gems magazine show listings online and in the magazine.
January – February Rock and Gem Shows
January 2017
26-12—TUCSON, ARIZONA: Annual show; Eons Expos, Corner of I-10 and 22nd Street; 600 West 22nd Street;
Daily 9-6, Fri. -, Sat. -, Sun. -; Free Admission; Public welcome; Located on the Green shuttle route; the 7th Annual
22nd Street Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show is in a colossal 250-yard heated tent and features dinosaur exhibits as
well as minerals, fossils, meteorites, jewelry, cabochons, beads, carvings, silver, gold, coins, findings, lapidary,
related art, tools, equipment, rough, displays, books, and more. Retail and wholesale. ; contact Heather Grana,
235 1st Street, Keyport, NJ 07735; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.22ndStreet.Show
There are many other “shows” held around the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show at the Convention Center. Look
them up online.
February 2017
10-12—QUARTZSITE, ARIZONA: Annual show; Quartzsite Gold Show, QIA; 235 N Ironwood; Fri. 9-4, Sat. 9-4, Sun.
9-3;
Admission $5, Children free; There will be selling & demonstrating gold prospecting equipment, nuggets, jewelry,
coins and more. There will also be speakers, demonstrations, questions and answers for metal detectors and other
prospecting equipment. Door Prizes including gold nuggets and metal detector. ; contact Richard Trusty, PO Box
4051, Quartzsite, AZ 85359, (928)-927-5479; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site:
quartzsiteazgoldshow.com
February 18 - 19: ANTIOCH, CA Antioch Gem Club Contra Costa County Fairgrounds 1201 West 10th Street
Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Brenda Miguel, (925) 301-6957 Email: [email protected]
Website: www.antiochlapidaryclub.com
25-26—SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: Show and sale; Pacific Crystal Guild, Fort Mason Center; 2 Marina Blvd;
Sat. 10-6, Sun. 10-4; Admission $12, Children free; Get ready for the 30th Anniversary of the San Francisco Crystal
Fair. Fort Mason Center is hosting this crystal and gem extravaganza. Vendors from Asia, Europe, and Africa (as well
as California artisans) will have awe-inspiring products. Minerals, gems, beads, jewelry -an amazing array of
merchandise, plus for your delight and entertainment, you can meet up with healers, psychics, aura readers, and get
a good massage ; contact Jerry Tomlinson, PO Box 1371, Sausalito, CA 94966, (415)-383-7837; e-mail:
[email protected]; Web site: www.crystalfair.com
California Federation of Mineralogical Societies Show and Convention
June 9, 10 & 11, 2017: VENTURA, CA VENTURA ROCKS THE NATION!
Hosted by Ventura County Gem & Mineral Society, Ventura County Fairgrounds 10 West Harbor Blvd.
Hours: Fri & Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4
Contact: Diane Cook, (805) 312-8467 Email: [email protected] Website: 2017CFMS-AFMSShow.com
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Officers and Committees
Shasta Gem and Mineral Society, Inc. Roc Toc 2017
Blog Site: www.shastagemandmineral.com email: [email protected]
Elected Officers
President: Alan Leedy 840-6550 Treasurer: Mary Colbert 549-3254
Vice President: Marianne Sweetwood 347-1819 Board of Directors:
Secretary Billie Evans 921-0981 Jim Foster 1rd yr 347-1819
& Assistant Sherrie Papowich 917-4398 Jan Gutkowski 2nd yr 605-4471
Alan Pence 3st yr 244-7385
Appointed Committees
Programs: Steve Puderbaugh 604-2951 Scholarship: Kelly O’Leary 722-7133
Field Trips: Hugh Watson 605-5454 Hospitality: Pat Foster 347-1819
Jim Foster 347-1819 Roc Toc Editor: Glen Miller 247-6951
Publicity: Kelly O’Leary 722-7133 Librarian: Cindy Williamson 530-527-8550
Show Chair: Steve Puderbaugh 604-2951 Club Historian: Cindy Costa 241-2010
Dealer Chair: Alan Leedy 840-6550 CFMS Director: Glen Miller 247-6951
Properties, annual inventory: Alan Leedy Kitchen: All Members
Steve Puderbaugh, Sandy Park Workshop Coordinators:
Steve Puderbaugh, Operations 604-2951
Sandra Park, Finance 355-6643
Education/School Event Coordinators:
Kelly O’Leary 722-7133
Ruby Runyon 604-1986
Community Event Coordinator: Vacant Workshop Equipment Manager:
Kip Fatout 547-5553 Special Events Food Coordinator:
Peggy Herndon 247-7615 Workshop Interior Maintenance:
Sunshine: Carol Reginatto 710-3712 Jim & Cindy Williamson 530-527-8550
Raffle: Gabby Costa 241-2010
Eileen Bassle 221-8050
Cindy Costa 241-2010
Workshop Cleanup Foreman, quarterly:
Hugh Watson 605-5454
Workshop Steering Committee: All attendees & teachers
Membership: Gareth Ohlson, Eileen Bassle
Mail membership forms or renewals to:
Eileen Bassle 221-8050
3244 Forest Hills Dr.
Redding, CA 96002
Juniors Leaders: Rochelle Ohlson 221-8050
Gabby Costa 241-2010
SHASTA GEM AND MINERAL
SOCIETY, INC.
P.O. Box 990424
Redding, CA 96099-0424
GILMAN LAPIDARY SCHOOL
6471 Airport Road
Anderson, CA 96007
(No Mail Delivery)
Hours:
Tue: 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Sat: 10:00am – 2:00pm
MONTHLY MEETING
Second Friday each month
ANDERSON GRANGE HALL
8085 Airport Road
Redding, CA 96002 Potluck Set up 6:00pm
Potluck 6;30pm
Meeting: 7pm Raffle: 8pm
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About Our Organization Shasta Gem and Mineral Society, Inc. is a member of the
California Federation of Mineralogical Societies. SGMS is a non-
profit organization dedicated to increasing the knowledge of gems,
minerals, fossils, and the lapidary arts through programs, reading,
classes, and field trips to promote the friendship of fellow rock
hounds.
Shasta Gem And Mineral Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 990424
Redding, CA 96099-0424
Email:[email protected]
Mail new and renewal
membership applications to:
Eileen Bassle
3244 Forest Hills Dr.
Redding, CA 96002