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SANTA ANA ROCK & MINERAL CLUBJANUARY, 2014
CHIPS ‘N SPLINTERS
President
Vice President
Rec'd Secretary
Treasurer
Corres. Secretary
Parliamentarian
Federation
Field Trip
Hospitality
Membership
Program
Property/shop
Editor
SARM EMAIL:
WEB SITE:
WEB MASTER”
WORK SHOP:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
James DeMarco
714-963-3708
Carl O’Dell
714-840-4300
Carol Williams
714-963-8448
Charlotte Spalding 714 531-4058
Julia Davidson
714) 968-4731
Carol Williams
714-963-8448
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
Jim DeMarco
714-963-3708
Mike Anglin
949-348-0808
Chris Mattison
714-828-8480
Pam Greene
949 548-0752
Carl O’Dell
714-840-4300
Chris Mattison
714 828-8480
Don Greene
949 548-0752
Pam Greene
949 548-0752
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.sarmclub.org
[email protected]
At the Greene's (members only)
first full weekend of the month 9 am to noon
call Pam Greene at 949 548-0752
to request flexible times
CLUB CALENDAR – JANUARY 2014
JAN.
JAN
4-5
15
*** SATURDAY & SUNDAY ***
WORKSHOP 9:00 AM NOON
WEDNESDAY 7PM—GENERAL MEETING
SPEAKER: LISA BABILONIA
TOPIC: PALEONTOLOGY
OF ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD MEMBERS MEET AT 6 PM
JAN 22 -26
48TH ANNUAL QIA POW WOW
QUARTZSITE, ARIZONA
FEB.
1-2
*** SATURDAY & SUNDAY ***
WORKSHOP 9:00 AM NOON
FEB.
19
WEDNESDAY 7PM
GENERAL MEETING
FLEXIBLE WORKSHOP
If you want to use the workshop at times other than the
scheduled days, call Pam or Don at (949) 548-0752 to see if
we’re going to be home. We’re pretty flexible. Short notice is
fine. If we’ll be home you can use it.
Santa Ana Rock & Mineral
P.O. Box 51
Santa Ana, CA 92702
CLUB PURPOSE
The purpose of the Club is to offer an opportunity for those who
are interested in rocks, minerals and fossils, to gather at regular
meetings, display and examine items of interest in the hobby, to
promote and also encourage the art and practice of lapidary, to
exchange experiences and ideas, to organize field trips for
members and guests, and to promote the general interest in and
knowledge of the hobby.
MEETING:
WHERE:
Visitors are welcome!
7:00 PM, 3rd Wednesday of the month
except July & December.
10739 Los Jardines West
Fountain Valley, Ca 92708
SARM is a member of CFMS
(California Federation of Mineralogical Societies)
For more information on shows and events check out
their web site at :
http://www.cfmsinc.org
CLUB PUBLICATIONS: All items may be quoted unless otherwise
noted, we only ask that credit be given and we'll do the same.
BARTER ADS: Free lines to members for trading items - as space
permits.
MARKING YOUR TOOLS
Bench Tips by Brad Smith
It makes sense to mark your tools if you ever lend them
to friends or take them out to classes or workshops.
Question is how to mark them permanently. For metal
tools, I use a very small ball bur running fast in the
Dremel or Foredom to "engrave" my initials. Other times
I'll form the initials with a number of hits with a center
punch.
But for hammer handles and other wooden tools, the
country boy in me came back and thought "Why not
make a branding iron?" If you'd like to try one, all you
need is a little scrap copper or nickel about 22-24
gauge, a piece of heavy brass or copper for a base,
about 6 inches of metal rod and a piece of wood for the
handle.
I formed my initials from a couple 4mm strips of sheet nickel.
The "S" was one piece, but the
"B" was three pieces soldered
together with hard. (Remember
to form the letters backwards). I
then soldered the letters with
medium onto a piece of 1/8 inch
thick brass bar to act as a heat
sink. Finally, I soldered a piece
of 1/8 round rod on the back of
the brass bar as a shaft to join to a wooden handle.
VIA MOROKS NEWSLETTER, JAN 2013 More BenchTips by Brad Smith are at FaceBook
facbook.com/BenchTips or at groups.yahoo.com/group/
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President’s message – January – 2014
A word of thanks to everyone who attended our Christmas party on December 18 th. Many people helped make the evening a success. I would like to thank Charlotte Spalding for her work on the decorations. Did you notice the hand-made ornaments on the
Christmas Trees in the center of the table? They were all made by her. The gift exchange seemed especially spirited this year
with a number of gifts going home with a fourth owner. I would also like to thank those who helped set up and take down the tables
and chairs. It’s such a great help to have this done and then we leave the room clean and orderly for the next group. We are able
to use this room free of charge from the Green Valley homeowners association. To show our appreciation we gave the two women
in Green Valley’s office a gift of a pen mounted on polished agate slabs. They were very pleased with our show of appreciation.
January 15, 2014 will be our first meeting of the New Year. As usual we will be establishing our goals and activities for the coming
year. Please make a special effort to attend so we can have your input and better plan to meet the needs and desires of our members. Our general meeting will begin at 7:00 PM as usual. Board Members and anyone else interested in attending the board
meeting will take place that same evening, only it will begin at 6:00 PM. All meetings will take place in the Green Valley Family
Clubhouse. If you haven’t paid your 2014 dues, please be sure to do it at this meeting.
A very Happy New Year to all our Members,
Jim De Marco, President
JANUARY MEETING
Our speaker for January will be Lisa Babilonia, who will
speak on the paleontology of Orange County. Lisa is, the
Paleontologist who runs the Clark Paleontology Museum,
the only museum in Orange County dedicated to fossils
found locally..
The museum is housed in the Ralph B. Clark Regional
Park., which is tucked at the foot of the Coyotes Hills in
Buena Park.
Fossils were first discovered in the Clark Park area in the
1950s and '60s when Caltrans used the dirt there to build
the 91 and I-5. More were found as the park was being built
in the 1970s and '80s. The county decided to give the fossils a home, and in 1987, the museum opened.
Clark Park itself is home to about a dozen active dig sites.
The most recent find was about five years ago. A high
school senior volunteer was digging in a site, hit upon
something and soon found an entire upper row of horse
molars.
RECYCLING THE ROCKHOUND’S WAY
Source: Golden Spike News
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Old toothbrushes can clean specimens and stones, polish hard-to-get spots; the handle can be a burnish tool or
polish mixer.
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Foam meat trays are good for sorting or for small displays.
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Milk and juice cartons provide bulk storage on a field
trip. Close lid to stack.
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Plastic tubs are good for mixing, sorting, measuring or
storing grit and findings.
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Use old T-shirts for drying stones or for hand polishing.
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Metal cans are good for storing rough or tumbled
stones.
VIA MOROKS NEWSLETTER, JAN 2013
The museum showcases many Pleistocene fossils, including saber-toothed catsk, giant ground sloths, and the amazing 30 foot skeleton of a prehistoric whale.
A DOG’S NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
1.
I will try to understand that the cat is from
Venus and I am from Mars.
2.
I will circulate a petition that “Leg Humping” be a juried competition in major dog
shows.
3.
I will always scoot before licking.
4.
I will kill the sock this year. Kill the sock! Must kill the
sock!
5.
I will not chase the stick unless I see it leave his hand.
6.
I will take time from my busy schedule to stop and smell
the behinds.
7.
I will no longer be beholden to the sound of the can
opener.
8.
I will remember where I bury each and every treasure.
VIA THE INTERNET
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GARNET
Garnet, the birthstone for January, signifies eternal friendship and trust and is the perfect gift for a friend. Garnet, derived from the
word granatum, means seed, and is called so because of the gemstone's resemblance to a pomegranate seed. References to the
gemstone dates back to 3100 B.C., when the Egyptians used garnets as inlays jewelry. Garnet is the name of a group of minerals
that comes in a rainbow of colors, from the deep red of the pyrope garnet to the vibrant green of tsavorites. Today, the most important sources for garnet are Africa, Sri Lanka, and India.
Almandine in metamorphic rock
Almandine, an iron-aluminium garnet with the formula Fe3Al2(SiO4)3, is the
modern gem known as carbuncle (though originally almost any red gemstone
was known by this name). The term "carbuncle" is derived from the Latin
meaning "live coal" or burning charcoal. The name Almandine is a corruption
of Alabanda, a region in Asia Minor where these stones were cut in ancient
times. The deep red transparent stones are often called precious garnet and
are used as gemstones (being the most common of the gem garnets). Almandine occurs in metamorphic rocks like mica schists, associated with minerals
such as staurolite, kyanite, andalusite, and others. Almandine has nicknames
of Oriental garnet, almandine ruby, and carbuncle.
Pyrope (from the Greek pyrōpós meaning "fire-eyed") is red in
color and chemically a magnesium aluminiumsilicate with the
formula Mg3Al2(SiO4)3, though the magnesium can be replaced
in part by calcium and ferrous iron. The color of pyrope varies
from deep red to black. Pyrope and spessartine gemstones have
been recovered from the Sloan diamondiferous kimberlites in
Colorado, from the Bishop Conglomerate and in a Tertiary age
lamprophyre at Cedar Mountain in Wyoming.
Almandine Garnet
Gemstone
Pyrope Garnet from
Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais,
Brazil
A variety of pyrope from Macon County, North Carolina is a violet-red shade and has been called rhodolite, Greek for "rose". In
chemical composition it may be considered as essentially an isomorphous mixture
of pyrope and almandine, in the proportion of two parts pyrope to
one part almandine. Another intriguing find is the blue colorchanging garnets from Madagascar, a pyrope-spessartine mix.
The color of these blue garnets is not like sapphire blue in subdued daylight but more reminiscent of the grayish blues and
greenish blues sometimes seen in spinel. However, in white LED
light, the color is equal to the best cornflower blue sapphire, or
tanzanite; this is due to the blue garnet's ability to absorb the yelColor-change Garnet
low component of the emitted light.
The Garnet group is a key mineral in interpreting the genesis of many igneous and
metamorphic rocks via geothermobarometry. Diffusion of elements is relatively
slow in garnet compared to rates in many other minerals, and garnets are also
relatively resistant to alteration. Hence, individual garnets commonly preserve
compositional zonations that are used to interpret the temperature-time histories of
the rocks in which they grew. Garnet grains that lack compositional zonation commonly are interpreted as having been homogenized by diffusion, and the inferred
homogenization also has implications for the temperature-time history of the host
rock.
Red garnets were the most commonly used gemstones in the Late Antique Roman world, and the Migration Period art of the "barbarian" peoples who took over
the territory of the Western Roman Empire. They were especially used inlaid in
gold cells in the cloisonné technique, a style
often just called garnet cloisonné, found from
Anglo-Saxon England, as at Sutton Hoo, to
the Black Sea.
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Denise Fry
Jeff Vaughn
Carole Heslop
Walter Lombardo
By her who in this month is born
No gem save garnets should be worn;
They will ensure her constancy,
True friendship, and fidelity.
Garnet sand is a good abrasive, and a common replacement
for silica sand in sand blasting. Alluvial garnet grains which
are rounder are more suitable for such blasting treatments.
Mixed with very high pressure water, garnet is used to cut
steel and other materials in water jets.
c. 8th century AD, Anglo-Saxon sword hilt fitting –
gold with gemstone inlay of garnet cloisonné, from
the Staffordshire Hoard, found in 2009, and not
The largest source of abrasive garnet today is garnet-rich
beach sand which is quite abundant
on Indian and Australian coasts and the main producers today are Australia and India.
(various sources from the internet)
Garnets come in many colors
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CROWN JEWELS OF ENGLAND
by Betty Jones with additional information from Wikipedia
From earliest Saxon times, the Crown Jewels have been the hallmark of the high state and circumstance of the Kings and Queens
of England. Through the centuries of Plantagenet and Tudor rule, until the defeat and execution of Charles I by Cromwell, the
Crown Jewels remained the symbol of the majesty and authority of the Sovereign. As prince succeeded prince to the throne, each
added more to the collection, which grew both in historical and intrinsic value.
The Royal Treasury has often been used and despoiled by English Kings for their own purposes. It is said that when Prince
Charles, later King Charles I, went to woo the Infanta of Spain, he took with him about; £600,000 worth of treasure. He also used
much of the treasure to finance a fleet to wage war against Spain, and later, more of the treasure was broken up or pawned by
Charles to finance his war against Cromwell. Following his defeat, the Puritans managed to dispose of the remainder. Items which
would be impossible to value for their historical associations alone, were broken up, the jewels sold for what they would fetch, and
the gold melted down and sold at 70 schillings an ounce (20 shillings to a pound).
Luckily, some of the jewels and other pieces survived the vandalism and were later incorporated in the Regalia made for the coronation of Charles II at the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
Some of the jewels have been reused many times the Koh-I-nor diamond in particular. It was first mounted in a brooch which
Queen Victoria often wore. After Queen Victoria's death it was set in Queen Alexandra's brand-new diamond crown, when she was
crowned at the coronation of her husband, King Edward VII. Queen Alexandra was the first Queen Consort to use the diamond in
her crown, followed by Queen Mary and then Queen Elizabeth, the Consort of King George VI.
St. Edward's Crown
is the traditional Crown of England and
is the one actually used for the coronation of the Sovereign. Made in 1661 for
the coronation of Charles II, it closely
follows the design of the original destroyed by the Commonwealth. It is
made of gold and set with diamonds,
pearls and colored gems.
The Imperial Crown of India
This crown was created when King
George V visited Delhi as Emperor of
India. To prevent the pawning of the
Crown Jewels, British law prohibited
the removal of a Crown Jewel from the
country. For this reason, a new crown
was made. It has not been used since.
The Imperial Crown of India is not a
part of the British Crown Jewels,
though it is stored with them.
Queen Elizabeth's Crown
The Crown of Queen Elizabeth is the platinum crown of
Queen Elizabeth, the wife of
King George VI. It was
manufactured for the coronation of her husband in 1937.
It is the first crown for a British consort to be made of
platinum.
It consists of four half-arches, in contrast to the eight halfarches of Queen Mary's crown. As with Queen Mary's crown,
its arches were detachable at the cross-pattee, allowing It to
be worn as a circlet.
The crown is decorated with precious stones, most notably
the Koh-i-Noor diamond in the middle of the front cross,
The Imperial State Crown
The original Imperial State Crown was made for Queen Victoria in 1838,.
Mounted at the center of the cross
above this crown is the sapphire worn
by Edward the Confessor at his coronation in 1042, the oldest jewel in the
treasure of England. Lower is the
splendid red spinel known as the
"Black Prince's Ruby," presented by
Peter the Great to Edward, Prince of
Wales, the Black Prince. Below the
spinel, the large diamond is the second largest of the stones cut from the
Cullinan diamond (317 carats)
In 1937 an exact copy was made for the coronation of King
George VI. The original was worn out and the frame became
unsteady, but the discarded frame can be seen in the Museum of London.
The State Crown of Queen Mary
Commissioned by Queen Mary, consort of King George V, for
the coronation 1911.
The largest diamond of this
crown was the Koh-I-nor diamond. The two other large diamonds are Cullman III, of 94
carats and Cullinan IV, of 63 1/2
carats.
The eight detachable halfarches each taper towards the
top, and terminate in scrolls,
and contain six graduated brilliants, between borders of
stones.
Mary also wore the crown without its arches as a circlet, in particular for the coronation of her
son, King George VI at the coronation in 1937.
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January 18 - 19: EXETER, CA
Tule Gem & Mineral Society, Visalia
Exeter Veterans Memorial Building
Highway 65, 324 N Kaweah Avenue
Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4
February 15 - 24: INDIO, CA
San Gorgonio Mineral & Gem Society, Banning
Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival
46350 Arabia Street
Hours: 10 - 10 daily
QUARTZSITE 2013
48th ANNUAL QIA. POW WOW
Jan.22th to Jan. 26th 2014
BLYTHE BLUEGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL
January 17-19, 2014
NEW CHRISTIE MINSTRELS (QIA )
January 11, 2014
DESERT GARDENS GEM & MINERAL SHOW Jan. 1st -Feb. 28th 2014
HI ALI SWAPMEAT
Oct. 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014
GREASEWOOK PARK & SELL
Nov. 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014
MARKET PLACE SHOWGROUNDS
Nov. 1, 2013 - March 2, 2014
PROSPECTOR’S PANORAMA
Jan. 2—Feb.15, 2014
QUARTZSITE MARKET PLACE
Nov 1st 2013—March 2, 2014
RICE RANCH "Yawl Come" SHOW
Nov 1st 2013 - April 1, 2014
THE NEW MAIN EVENT
January 6-26, 2014
QUARTZSITE SPORTS & RB SHO
January 18-26, 2014
TYSON WELLS SHOWGROUNDS
ROCK & GEM SHOW
January 3-12, 2014
SELL-A-RAMA
January 17—26, 2014
ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR
Jan. 31—Feb. 9, 2014
QIA BUILDING AND SHOWGROUNDS
NEW CHRISTIE MINSTRELS
January 11, 2014 (two shows 2pm & 7pm)
CANADIAN GOLD RUSH!
Prospectors around the world have searched for gold in some strange places, but until recently no one thought to look in downtown Ottawa, Canada. Someone finally did and they found hundreds of millions of dollars worth in the Ottawa River -- just outside
the mint. For 60-70 years a combination of old technology and no environment controls left a small patch of the river bed - 30 by
15 meters - laced with waste gold and other precious metals from the coin stamping process of the Canadian mint. A
small consortium of mining companies headed by JAG of Montreal expect to recover about $450 million from about
1,000,000 ounces of gold in the small area after processing 50,000 tons of sludge and sediment.
From Cowtown Cutter , via The Tumble rumble 3/2001
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