04/14 - Kitsap Mineral and Gem Society

Celebrating 75 Years!
April 2014
A Message From Our
President, Leslie Wing:
Elected Officers for 2014
President:
Leslie Wing
(360) 275-5247
[email protected]
Hello again for April. We had a very good program
for March. Our own Garry Mahan showed us how
he groove wraps his cabochons with a single wire.
At the end of the program he wrapped a piece of
Tahoma agate triplet that had abalone shell behind
and it made the stone look very much like an opal.
Vice President:
Bryan Tallman
(360) 432-0414
[email protected]
Secretary:
Danielle Foss
(360) 621-5603
[email protected]
m
Treasurer:
Shaina Schackmann
(360) 286-1545
[email protected]
Inside this issue:
President’s Message
1
Junior’s program, refreshments,
& Feb. birthstone
2
Vangie’s wire wrapping workshop, Committee chairs, Hard
Rock beaders, Display table
3
KMGS Annual Auction info
4
March meeting minutes, photos
from the March program
5
Photos from Toutle field trip,
request for past presidents info
6
Official state gemstones, Oregon sunstones
7
Article on mammoth tusk found
in Seattle area
8
Jewelry Bench Tips, Water
found inside Brazilian diamond
9
Looking forward to April and
beyond; Editor Contact Info
Club website: http://www.kmgs.org
10
Our program for April is our annual auction. This is
a very popular event and the folks from some of the
other clubs come too so that they can buy some of
the stuff that we have for sale. Del Sack has donated a faceted ruby necklace. It
was shown at the show and tell table in March and the thing is just gorgeous. I
am sure you guys out there will have items that you will donate to the auction to
make it a success.
Remember that the proceeds of the auction go 50% to our scholarship fund and
50% to our club funds. I think you will enjoy the clowns who do the auctioning as
much as you enjoy the auction itself. Just remember we need your donations to
be there early by 6 PM at the latest so that we can get them entered on our records and set up on the auction tables.
There is a lot of work to be done by the club to get everything logged in and
keeping track of what and where it is and where it goes.
We had a very good field trip to Toutle river the day after our meeting in March.
Don't forget that we usually have our field trips the day after our monthly meeting
(that should help you in planning). Many of you folks have expressed an interest
in field trips but you are not signing up or if you do sign up you are not showing
up. We had 3 vehicles go on our trip to Toutle River where we all found more
than we liked to carry back to our vehicles. Our field trip in April is scheduled for
the day after our April meeting and we are tentatively scheduled to go to Green
Mountain in Kalama.
The Port Townsend club is having their annual open house., They call it their
Gemboree, on May the 11th. It starts about 10 Am and lasts all day. They have a
workshop and you are welcome to try out their equipment. There is usually a
workshop for wire-wrappers and beaders and metal working. Bring a potluck
dish and stay for dinner with our friends in Port Townsend at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
Leslie Wing
“Green” Hard Rock News
Hard copy readers: Would you like to see this newsletter in living color? Maybe it is time to change to an
electronic copy of the Hard Rock News? Because of printing and mailing costs, dues of $10 a year are insufficient to cover the cost of a newsletter mailed out to members.
Save trees. Help the environment. Help the club. During this time of energy awareness, isn’t it time you went GREEN?
If you wish to change to email only, just send email to [email protected]
-editor
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April 2014
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KMGS March Meeting Time and Place:
The April General Meeting will be held on Friday, April 11th, at 7:00 PM in the basement day care center (entrance in
the back) of Chico Alliance Church 3670 Chico Way NW Bremerton, Washington. This meeting will be the club’s annual auction.
Juniors: Hi Juniors!! There will not be a Junior's class this month due to the annual KMGS
Auction. I hope to see you there and that you and your parents will enjoy the Auction fun!
Kathy Reimers
Refreshment Rotation for 2014
We rely on our club members to provide snacks for our General Meetings.
For this month: If the first letter of your last name begins with “C”, “G” and “W”, you will be responsible for bringing refreshments for the April meeting.
The entire year’s listing is shown below:
January “A”, “D” and “V”
February “J”, “K” and “L”
March “M” and “N“
April “C”, “G” and “W”
May “H”, “I” and “Z”
June “E” and “F”
July and August—No Meetings– KMGS Pic-
nic /Potluck in July
September “B”, “X”, and “Y”
October “S”, “T”, “U”
November “O”, “P”, “Q” and “R” and anyone that was inadvertently missed earlier in the year
December—Christmas Potluck
We encourage finger food that can be placed on a napkin. We also encourage healthy snacks as
well as those yummy treats that we are all used to having at the meeting! The club provides the
beverages. Remember that when it is your month to bring refreshments, you need to plan to help
with set-up and clean-up in the kitchen for that meeting. Any questions you may have can be addressed to Karen Eslava, our Refreshment chairperson.
April Birthstone—Diamond
As the April birthstone, diamonds are the ideal gift for a loved one. And now you have
more choices than ever. Diamonds in hues of yellow, red, pink, blue, and green range in
intensity from faint to vivid and generally the more saturated the color, the higher the value.
In fact, diamonds sparkling with intense color are rare and may be priced higher than a colorless diamond of equal size. Because fancy-color diamonds are very desirable, color is
sometimes introduced in a laboratory. These are correctly called color-treated diamonds.
When purchasing a fancy-color diamond, the shopper should ask if any enhancements or
treatments were used to improve its color and/or clarity
- See more at: http://www.americangemsociety.org/april-birthstone#sthash.6Q794xJL.dpuf
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Vangie’s Wire Wrapping Workshop
Some of the group
at Vangie’s place
Vangie will not be hosting the monthly wire-wrapping workshop in April due to other
commitments. Normally this workshop meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month at
Vangie’s house. The next workshop is scheduled for May 27th at 10 AM. Call Vangie at this
More of the group
number in May if you need directions how to get
to her place. (360) 373-3370
2014 KMGS Chairpersons
Membership
Evah Summers
(360) 689-3715
[email protected]
Silent Auction
Doug Leider
(360) 627-8142
Juniors
Programs
Kathy Reimers (& Bobbie Sack,)
(360) 731-5963
dnkreimers@
yahoo.com
November Show
Chairman
Gordon Eslava
(360) 830-4638
[email protected]
Refreshments
Karen Eslava
(360) 621-9830
[email protected]
Field Trips
Tony Schackmann
(360) 372-2777
werockon@
inlandnet.com
Display Table
Tony Schackmann
Welcome
Willma Eads
(360) 871-2445 jacke@
wavecable.com
Raffle Table
Mary Balderson
Cheer
Kathy McClure
(253) 265-3011
pogy2@
centurytel.net
(360) 372-2777
(360) 908-8063
[email protected]
werockon@
inlandnet.com
Washington State Mineral Council
KMGS
Webmaster
Jack Eads
(360) 871-2445
[email protected]
Kitsap County Fair
Doug Leider
(360) 627-8142
[email protected]
Kitsap County Fair
Mark Fawcett
(360) 308-9942
[email protected]
Education
Jack Eads
(360) 871-2445
jacke@wavecable.
com
KMGS Scholarship
Wilma Eads
(360) 871-2445
[email protected]
Historian
Bobbie Sack
(360)277-0383
[email protected]
Hard Rock Beaders
Linda Shadel
(360) 698-1562
[email protected]
Wire Wrapping
Vangie Mayton
(360) 373-3370
Newsletter editor
Garry Mahan
(360) 871-2815
[email protected]
Librarian
Woody Woodside
(360)871-1458
[email protected]
KMGS Facebook
Gordon Eslava
(360) 830-4638
[email protected]
Tony Schackmann
(360) 372-2777
werockon@
inlandnet.com
Please contact the
editor for any changes
or corrections to this
table.
Hard Rock Beaders Workshop
The beaders have a change in venue for the month of April.The Hard Rock Beaders will meet on
Wednesday, April 2 at 6:30. This meeting we’ll meet at the Group Health Conference room. Contact Linda Shadel, 360-698-1562 if you have questions or need directions.
Group Health - Silverdale Medical Center 10452 Silverdale Way N.W. Silverdale, WA 98383, Driveway is beside McDonalds. Enter through Urgent Care and ask the guard for directions. Room A102
Display Table Notice: There will be no Display Table in April due to
the KMGS Annual Auction taking place at that time.
Facebook Page for KMGS:
https://www.facebook.com/KitsapMineralandgemsociety
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2014 KMGS Annual Auction
The club’s annual auction will take place at our next meeting on April 11th, 7 PM, at
Chico Alliance Church Daycare (entrance in the back). Address: 3670 Chico Way NW,
Bremerton, Washington.
This event is one of our club’s main sources of funds allowing our annual scholarships
to be awarded and to pay for other club expenses. We need your donations and your
presence at this event to make it successful.
If you plan to donate an item to the KMGS Annual Auction....
For those of you who plan to donate an item to our annual auction, please call or email Patt Jolly.
Patt will input everything into her computer which will greatly help the organization of the auction.
She will then fill out the appropriate paperwork and have everything ready by auction time. By contacting Patt prior to the auction this will ensure that the auction workers aren’t overloaded at the last
minute before the auction starts.
Call Patt at (360) 876-6618 or email her at [email protected].
Donation ideas for the 2014 KMGS Annual Auction

Rough lapidary material

Used lapidary equipment & tools

Jewelry - pendants, rings, rings, bracelets

Bolo ties & belt buckles

Fossils

Motors

Shelf specimens

Display cases

Anything else in good condition

Easter gift (Easter occurs 9 days after the auction)
Help our
club!
Participate in
our annual
auction!
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March Meeting Minutes
The meeting was called to order and the club joined in the pledge of allegiance. There were a couple of guests at the meeting, Virginia Steen was
introduced and it’s always good to see a new face! Garry Mahan got up
and did the show and tell. Jack Eads brought a beaver tail to show and
some interesting rocks from his back yard including apache tears, rhyolite
and possibly some saddle mountain wood with druzy. He also brought a
piece from Howard Jackson, a nice carving Howard had started. Del Sack
brought a nice faceted lab grown ruby set in silver to help promote the annual auction. Leslie brought in some faceted sunstones to show that he
Danielle Foss, secretary had wire wrapped. Linda Shadel brought a couple of pine needle baskets
she had beaded while out on knee surgery and they are lovely! There is a
really neat necklace by Karen Schoeppel out of succulent plants. Pat Fagan has some nice necklaces to show and hair barrettes. John Hubbard had a great variety to show of everything you can
find at Toutle, to showcase the field trip on Saturday. He had some good advice on cleaning up
your rocks to get the mud and clay off. He also had some nice specimens of crystals and carnelian
that are all found in the Toutle area. Bryan Tallman has a great book to suggest for everyone as
well with great information on Washington area gems and minerals.
Eric Foss gave info on the field trip on Saturday to Toutle to hunt for crystals and agates. The juniors were released to their program at this time and now it’s break time with cookies and goodies
brought in by our members.
Garry Mahan did the program tonight on wire wrapping. He had a great display and PowerPoint to
show with some lovely examples. He discussed tools and materials needed. He had a nice explanation of the grooving techniques to get a nice edge for your cabochons. He also had information
on where to buy supplies and a practical demonstration prepared.
As always it is a fun time had by all. Welcome to the new members and visitors, we look forward to
seeing you again!
Your Secretary, Danielle Foss
Photos from the March Program
The March program was a tutorial on how to (wire) groove wrap a stone by Garry Mahan. There
was a short slide presentation and then an actual demonstration for those interested in trying this
wire wrapping technique themselves.
Garry starting the
slide presentation.
Final product of the tutorial - a groove-wrapped
dendritic jasper from
Burro Creek, AZ.
Putting the
groove into the
cabochon using
a grooving machine.
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Photos of the Toutle field trip
Eric
Frank
Shea
Randy
Sean
Sal
Leslie
Still Searching for information on past KMGS presidents
We will be celebrating our club’s 75th anniversary at our November 2014 show. At the show we would
like to have a display of past presidents and possibly officers. I need pictures of as many of our past
presidents as we can get. Pictures can be good copies on 5” X 7” paper. If you know of any families
of our early years, especially past presidents that we could contact for a picture we would appreciate
that information. If anyone has any ideas or history, quotes, etc, we would appreciate any information.
If you are a past president please provide to me a good quality 5” X 7” picture of yourself.
Thanks,
Bobbie Sack, KMGS Historian, ([email protected])
KMGS auction—The perfect way to recycle your rocks, jewelry, minerals and fossils. Don’t miss it! April 11th. Show up
early so you can check out the items that
will be going up for bid. Take note of the
auction items you will want to bid on.
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April 2014
Official State Gemstones
Thirty-five of the 50 states have designated an official
state gem. (Montana and Nevada have named both a
precious and semiprecious gemstone.) A gemstone is
not necessarily a sparkling crystal—the majority of
state gemstones are not crystalline minerals, but colorful rocks that look their best as flat, polished cabochons, perhaps in a bolo tie or belt buckle. They are
unpretentious, inexpensive stones with democratic
appeal. The gem names are linked to the picture gallery of state gemstones. The "source" link goes to the
best existing material from the respective state government. Some states have official rocks, minerals,
gems, etc. Some just have an official “state stone”.
You can see all these at netstate.com.
Alabama: Star blue quartz
Alaska: Jade
Arizona: Turquoise
Arkansas: Diamond
California: Benitoite
Colorado: Aquamarine
Florida: Moonstone
Georgia: Quartz
Hawaii: Black coral
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Idaho: Star garnet
Kentucky: Freshwater pearl
Louisiana: Agate
Maine: Tourmaline
Maryland: Agate
Massachusetts: Rhodonite
Michigan: Chlorastrolite (pumpellyite)
Minnesota: Agate
Montana: Sapphire and Agate
Nebraska: Blue agate
Nevada: Turquoise and Fire opal
New Hampshire: Smoky quartz
New Mexico: Turquoise
New York: Almandine garnet
North Carolina: Emerald
Ohio: Flint
Oregon: Sunstone
South Carolina: Amethyst
South Dakota: Agate
Tennessee: Freshwater pearls
Texas: Topaz
Utah: Topaz
Vermont: Grossular garnet
Washington: Petrified wood
West Virginia: Fossil coral Lithostrotionella
(Partially excerpted from About.com Geology)
Oregon Sunstones
The above sunstones were shown by our president, Leslie Wing at the March meeting. Leslie had
these stones sent overseas to be faceted and then he wire wrapped them.
To see upcoming 2014 local gem and mineral shows, go
to:
http://www.mineralcouncil.org/shows.pdf
April 2014
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Mammoth Tusk Lifted from Seattle
Construction Pit
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Mammoths and mastodons were ancient elephant relatives that roamed North American lands that were not
covered in ice. Both became extinct as glaciers retreated
at the end of the Ice Age. Columbian mammoths grew to
SEATTLE (AP) Feb. 2014. A fossilized mammoth tusk
12 feet at the shoulder, or about the size of today's Asian
discovered in a Seattle construction site was retrieved
elephants, the museum said. Fossilized mammoth reFriday evening from a 30-foot-deep pit to the sound of
mains have been found numerous times in the Seattle
cheers and clicking from people taking pictures. Scienarea and across the state, so much so that the Columbitists and construction crews used a crane to retrieve and
an Mammoth is the state's official fossil. Still, most of the
hoist the tusk, which was placed on a pallet, encased in
Burke Museum's collection is fragments. The tusk found
plaster and covered in blankets, to a waiting flat-bed
this week would be one of the largest
truck. The tusk headed to its new
and most intact specimens found. The
home a few miles away at the Burke
museum's collection has 25 mammoth
Museum of Natural History and Culfossils from King County, including a
ture on the University of Washington's
tooth that was found a few blocks
Seattle campus, where it will be preaway from the tusk when the Mercer
served, studied and eventually put on
Street on-ramp to Interstate 5 was built
display.
years ago.
The tusk, believed to be of a ColumbiChildren at a daycare next door and
an mammoth, was measured at 8.5adults all cheered as the pallet hung over the construcfeet long after it was fully exposed over night. It's betion site. At the day care, there was a hand-made sign
tween 20,000 and 60,000 years old and with the plaster
that said, "Woolly U B my Valentine”.
encasing could weigh up to 500 pounds, said Christian
Sidor, a paleontologist from the Burke Museum. The tusk Below you see the exposed side of a mammoth tusk earis water-logged, and scientists say properly restoring and ly Friday morning, Feb. 14, 2014. The mammoth tusk
was discovered days earlier during excavation at an
preserving it could take at least a year. Construction
apartment construction site just north of downtown.
workers found the tusk Tuesday about 30 feet below
Measured at eight and one-half feet, the tusk appears to
street level, thinking at first that it might be a pipe or a
be one of the largest and most intact specimens ever
root. The company building a 118-unit apartment comfound in the area. Before removal, the tusk was encased
plex at the site has nearly stopped construction to acin plaster which will protect the tusk from bending and
commodate the scientists. No more fossils were found
cracking throughout the drying process, which may take
during the overnight dig, the museum said Friday.
up to 12 months.
"Generally tusks like these are the last thing left" after
animals and time remove
the bones and the rest of
the creature, Sidor said.
The tusk's fate was entirely up to the landowner,
who decided to donate it
to the Burke Museum. The
costs of the delay aren't
known yet, said Scott Koppelman of AMLI Residential, which also owns
apartment complexes to
the south and west of the
construction site. The benBruce Crowley, Burke Museum curator
efits to the community
for the Paleontology Division, exam"outweigh the costs," he
ines the mammoth tusk that was unsaid Thursday.
covered by construction workers.
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Jewelry Bench Tips for April 2014
By Brad Smith
RESHAPING SILICONE WHEELS
Silicone polishing wheels in the Dremel or Foredom are a great time saver, but after using them a bit they often need to
be reshaped. This is particularly true with the knife-edge wheels.
The natural thought is to grab one of your files and hold it up against the rotating wheel to reshape it. But this gives you
a problem. The grinding grit in the silicone wheel is much harder than steel, meaning that you end up grinding down the
teeth of your file.
The best way to reshape your polishing wheels is to use a diamond file. If you don't have one and must use a steel file, I
sacrifice the area of the file that is closest to the handle. That's an area which is not used in normal bench work.
Get all 101 of Brad's bench tips
in "Bench Tips for Jewelry Making" on Amazon. See :
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dp/0988285800/
Diamond found in Brazil proves huge water reservoirs 400 kilometers inside Earth
(NVONews.com)
There may still be some loose ends in the theory. Nonetheless it gives hope to a water starved world.
The scarcity of water has become an important topic for almost every region across the world. There is no
part of the world where scarcity of water hasn’t become a burning issue and it is being taken as one of the
most pressing issues across the world.
But now there are signs that the whole world is sitting on a huge pile water.
A recent report suggests that there is a huge cache of water that might be as big as earth itself in its
deepest part. But that deposit of water within the depth of Earth is unimaginably deep, approximately 400
kilometers (248 miles) under the earth’s outer surface.
The first indication of the presence of water so deep inside the Earth’s surface came from a tiny crystal
found inside a rock that reports suggest came from 400 kilometers from inside earth’s surface. This was
brought onto the surface of the Earth by a ferocious volcano in Brazil.
Scientists have come out with the latest and really startling finding recently. They say that very close
study of the diamond found in Brazil through X-ray and spectroscopic analysis showed that the diamond
actually contained around 1.4% water. The report was first published in very respected magazine Nature.
Another report while further throwing light on the new information says “Ringwoodite is a variant of the
mineral olivine, which makes up much of the earth’s mantle. Olivine does not absorb water. Below 400
kilometers, however, the immense heat and pressure changes its crystal structure, and the resulting substances can contain as much as 2.5 percent water”. But it is still beyond imagination as to which form the
water is in when the inside of the Earth which would be as hot as an inferno.
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“The Hard Rock News” is the Official Publication of the Kitsap Mineral and Gem Society. Meetings are held at 7:00 PM on the
second Friday of most months at Chico Alliance Church Daycare (entrance in the back).
Address: 3670 Chico Way NW, Bremerton, Washington.
The object of the Society is to provide a general dissemination of knowledge pertaining to the earth sciences; to sponsor
regular meetings and field trips for the benefit of the membership and to be helpful along these general lines to one another.
The Society is social and educational in character.
Looking Forward to April and Beyond... Update Your Home Calendars!
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The KMGS annual auction is coming up on April 11th. Please plan to attend this important club event.
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There will be a picnic on July 12th (Saturday) this year at Raab park in Poulsbo.
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The 2014 KMGS November show, the Fall Festival of Gems, will be here before you know it. Think about how you will participate in it this
year!
Feel free to contact me if you want to put an
announcement in the newsletter. Keep in
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Editor Contact Information: Garry Mahan
[email protected] Phone: (360) 871-2815