Maybe you should consider what is costing the most and tailor accordingly. Membership at about $20.00 per month is about normal. Your shop fees are very low...
Some personal thoughts on this issue, and "clubs" in general. Eva makes some excellent points, and suggestions. At last count, I have belonged to at least 7...
*Did any of you feel this?* *A light earthquake occurred at 10:29:14 AM (PDT) on Sunday, September 2, 2007. The magnitude 4.7 event occurred 13 km (8 miles)...
Thanks for the info. I felt it and looked on CFMS Site where it did not make mention of it. ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the...
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Sep 2, 2007 8:54 pm
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Has anyone actually been there and can remember how to get there (or had GPS along)? I have 3 separate and widely scattered dots on my map for this site ...
If that is the site I think it is, I tried to go there about 20 or 25 years ago. It was in the national forest, which at the time was an approved target ...
I highly recommend Lew's fieldtrip, especially to all the new rock hounds I talked to at the Culver City Show this summer. This was the first fieldtrip that my...
This is in response to Jim's request for information regarding the Pacoima Canyon pegmatite. The road through the canyon has been closed by the USFS for about...
Where Kramer Junction Gephart Road hwy's 14,395 and 58 WHEN SATURDAY SEPT 22nd 2007 What to find Chalchedony petrified wood dendritic opal palm root jasper...
Hi all The third issue of the Australian and New Zealand Mineral Collector magazine is now out. This issue includes articles on Modern Mineralogy and Mineral...
This information is for those of you that live in, or near, Bakersfield. This is actually a new program. I don't have the exact info on it. Tim's programs are...
We have a Crown Lapidary expandible drum grinding wheel set up at our shop (FYI, this is a diff one than the last one I asked about!). It is fed by a water...
Only two weeks to the BAM Picnic! After the traditional summer hiatus, the year’s activities resume with the annual Bay Area Mineralogists picnic. This...
Sbogosian@...
Sep 8, 2007 8:15 pm
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Hi all, been out of the loop for quite awhile but getting back into the field trips which I dearly missed with Lew & Janet...Both of you were wonderful...? I...
From todays L.A. Times Travel section: Jeffery E. Post, curator of the National Gem & Mineral Collection at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, will speak...
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Sep 9, 2007 7:00 pm
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I have trashed the blade on my rock rascal trim saw and am in the process of replacing it. I am having difficulty removing the nut holding the blade to the...
Thanx to everyone who answered my question, the answer is a left handed thread. Logically the answer is whichever way the rotation of the blade will tend to...
There will be a group from the Culver City Rock & Mineral Club meeting to carpool and caravan to the CFMS fieldtrip to Boron on Saturday, 9- 22-07. We will...
Bryozoan colony, also known as sea lace. Occurs in dense enough reefs to make Bryozoan limestone. The only worm tracks I have seen are from the White Mtns....
A geologic text describes tufa as very porous and forming around cold springs with algae, while travertine is dense, often flow banded, and honey colored,...
For others to say copal is amber is like saying zircon is diamond. From sources I have seen over the years, and those online, copal is the next stage of the...
Please plan to attend our show. September 22-23 2007, Downey, CA Delvers Gem & Mineral Society Woman's Club of Downey 9813 Paramount Blvd Hours: Sat. 10 - 6;...
Mineral Locality Symposium Sources of Iron (terrestrial or not) and Vanadium in the Mohave Desert October 20 & 21, 2007 Followed by a field trip to the Iron...
Hello, I would like to inform you, that I have finished works on my website www.czechmine.com. At this address you can find rare or common minerals from the...
Fellow rockhounds: On reading the request for any land snail shells that you may have come across in your collecting or digging in southern California I am of...
Glen, you're absolutely right on target! Stan ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com [Non-text portions of this message...
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Sep 12, 2007 11:11 pm
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Sorry if this has been already mentioned. I couldn't find it on a search of archives. Does anyone know planned dates for Stoddard Wells this year? Our club...
