Rock-A-Teer July 2010

Rock-A-Teer Newsletter of the Puyallup Valley Gem & Mineral Club

P.O. Box 134

Puyallup, WA 98371

[email protected]

http://puyallupgemclub.org

http://puyallupgemclub.ning.com

Editor: Dana James

[email protected]

July 2010

Volume 50, Issue 7

President’s Report Happy Fourth of July THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all those who worked so hard to make the show such a great success!! A big thank you to all the ven-dors too!! I always enjoy seeing all the beautiful treasures the venders bring. I wanted to thank Jilana Conway for her donation of a kid’s tumbler to the club. It only needs a gasket and it will be good to go. If any club member has an extra one it would be greatly appreciated! There will be a field trip to Heather Lake July 10th. July 17th & 18th will be a two day field trip to Red Top, sounds like a lot of fun! The show and tell for the first meeting is Patriotic Rocks. The second meeting show and tell will be hands on projects. There will also be a program of “How to color stones and stone enhancement”. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting on the 9th!! Happy Rock hounding! Deborrah Pursifull President

What’s inside:

2010 Officers Page 2

Committees Page 3

Sale in Idaho Page 4

Upcoming Events Page 5

How to Corner Page 6

Editor’s Report Page 7

NW & AFMS News Page 8

Upcoming Shows Page 9

June Meeting Minutes Page 10

Word Search Puzzle Page 11

We all know what this means. Time to sign up to volunteer at our club table in the Hobby Hall.

A sign up sheet will be available at the next club meeting. If you want the same time slot as last

year...just ask. Bring your calendar and sign up early so you can get the spot you want before we

take it out to our neighboring clubs.

Elected Officers for 2010

Title �ame Phone E-mail

President: Deborrah Pursifull 253-678-5492 [email protected]

Vice President: Nancy LeMay 253-952-6216 [email protected]

Secretary: Brett Lawrence 253-584-1319 [email protected]

Treasurer: Sandy Chilson 360-825-3138 [email protected]

Federation Director: Mike Siperek 253-531-7294 [email protected]

1 year Director: Mike Wunsche 253-531-5886

2 year Director: LaVon Siperek 253-531-7294 [email protected]

3 year Director: Joanne Bock 253-770-2229

1 year Trustee: Jerry Chilson 360-825-3138 [email protected]

2 year Trustee: Tony Johnson 253-863-9238 [email protected]

3 year Trustee: Allen Henneberry 253-922-5089 [email protected]

The Rock-A-Teer, our club bulletin along with our club activities are dedicated to the encouragement of

friendliness, good fellowship and to inform the members of earth sciences.

Please visit our web sites for more information about our club.

www.puyallupgemclub.org (static for visitors) or www.puyallupgemclub.ning.com (new interactive site)

The Puyallup Valley Gem & Mineral Club is a member of the

Northwest Federation of Mineralogical Societies and the Wash-

ington State Mineral Council and affiliated with the American

Federation of Mineralogical Societies.

http://www.amfed.org/nfms

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PUYALLUP VALLEY GEM & MINERAL CLUB

Meetings are held on the second (2nd) and Fourth (4th) Friday of each month except for:

August (Potluck Picnic 2nd Meeting)

December (Holiday Dinner 1st Meeting, 2nd Meeting cancelled.)

Time: 7:30 PM, except for Potluck nights and those start at 7:00 PM

Where: Fruitland Grange

(112th & 86th, Puyallup, WA)

Board Meetings are held on the Tuesday prior to the 1st meeting of the month.

Dues are $20.00 for a single membership and $25.00 for a family membership.

Committee Chairs

Committees indicated below without a contact are accepting volunteers and will be filled by the President.

Position �ame Phone E-mail

Club Show: Mark Baumann 253-756-8636 [email protected]

Editor: Dana James 253-475-8060 [email protected]

Field Trip: Tony Johnson or Mark Baumann

Hands On: Trustees

Juniors: Seani Fitzpatrick 253-476-0321

Hospitality: Kandy Henneberry & Nancy LeMay

Library: Brett Lawrence 253-584-1319 [email protected]

Newsletter: Brett & Sherry Lawrence 253-584-1319 [email protected]

Sunshine: Kandy Henneberry 253-922-5089

Puyallup Fair: Jerry Chilson & John Gottschalk

Web Master: Paul James 253-475-8060 [email protected]

Audit: volunteer needed

Historian: Brett Lawrence 253-584-1319 [email protected]

Holiday Party: volunteer needed

PLAC (Public Lands Access Chairman):

Mark Baumann 253-756-8636 [email protected]

Summer Picnic: volunteer needed

WA State Mineral Council:

Tony Johnson 253-863-9238 [email protected]

Advertising

If you are a small business owner and would like to advertise in our newsletter and on our web page,

please contact Paul James for web layout information. Members receive a link to their web site or a page

created for them on the club web site and advertising space in each newsletter for one year. Location in

newsletter is determine by the Editor. Proceeds help offset the cost of maintaining our web page. Pric-

ing is as follows:

Members: $25.00 link to your web page

$50.00 web page

Non Members: $50.00 link to your web page

$75.00 web page

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Make Idaho Your “Summer Destination”Make Idaho Your “Summer Destination”Make Idaho Your “Summer Destination”Make Idaho Your “Summer Destination”

Gem Rock Estate & AuctionGem Rock Estate & AuctionGem Rock Estate & AuctionGem Rock Estate & Auction

This is to announce the Estate Sale and Auction of Lifetime Collectors, Dick & Elaine Weeks. This is one sale

that you will not want to miss so mark your calendars. The material that will be available was collected in the

early years so know that it is some of the most unique material you will have a chance to acquire. There will be

approx. 30 tons of material available which includes various Jaspers from Biggs, Bruneau (one of the last large

quantity of Orbed), Original Picture, Wild Horse, Morrisonite, & Willowcreek; Fire Opal from Spencer, Aus-

tralia & Mexico; Geodes from Succor Creek, Beacon Hill, Richardson Ranch, Dugway & Lucky Strike; Agates

from Graveyard Point Plume, Pink Plume, Montana Moss, Maury Mtn. Moss; Rhodonite, Rhodochrosite, Sap-

phires, Exotics & petrified, agatized, opalized wood ranging from limbs to logs. The available Slabs will range

from 1 inch up to 12 inches or larger, depending on the material.

The location is in Meridian Idaho, 870 W Franklin Rd. Take exit #44 off of I-84 heading north approx. 1 mile

then West on Franklin Rd approx. 1 mile. The Sale will run from 10-5 starting Sat July 31st-Aug 7th with an

Auction on the 7th for all remaining material. This is one sale you will not want to miss as there won’t be one

like it for some time to come. Save your money and make your plans to attend as you will not be disappointed.

Telephone inquires after July 15th Dick @208-888-5816 or Caroline @ 208-288-0107.

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Schedule of Events

• July 6th, 7:00 pm Board meeting at the Grange.

• July 9th, 7:30 pm Business Mtg at the Grange

• July 10th, Field Trip to Heather Lake. Material: Garnets & Soap Stone Meet at: Lake Wenatchee Ranger Station at 9:00 am Tools: Wood saw & 1/4" mesh screen. Organizer is Mark Baumann

• July 17th-18th Field Trip to Red Top Camping. Ma-terial: Agate, Jasper & Ge-odes Meet at: 29 Pines campsite, east down Teanaway River Road at 9:00 am Tools: Hard Dig-ging Organized by Randy Summers

• July 23rd, 7:30 pm Pro-gram Night

• August 10th, 7:00 pm Board meeting at the Grange.

• August 13th, 7:30 pm Business Mtg at the Grange.

• August 21-22nd, Field Trip to various Greenwater sites. Overnighter. Leaving @ 9:00 am from the Enum-claw Ranger Station. Search for Agate & Jas-per...need all tools. Organ-ized by Randy and Tony.

• No meeting on the 27th

• August 28th, 11:00 am Summer Picnic at LaVon and Mike Siperek’s more details will be provided in the August newsletter.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10 7:00 pm

Board Mtg.

11 12 13 7:30 pm

Bus. Mtg.

14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Field

Trip

22 Field

Trip

23 24 25 26 27 no

meeting

28 Summer

Picnic

29 30 31

August 2010

Show and Tell Programs

July 9th - Patriotic Rocks

July 23rd - Hands On Projects

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3

4 Holiday 5 6 7:00 pm

Board Mtg.

7 8 9 7:30 pm

Bus. Mtg.

10 Field

Trip

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Field

Trip

18 19 20 21 22 23 7:30 pm

Program

24

25 26 27 28 29 30 31

July 2010

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How To Corner by Dana James

Multi Strand Leather Knotted Necklace

Staying with my theme of using leather in jewelry, here is a necklace that will compliment any of the other pieces that you may have made from my other tutorials. All of my tutorials do require some basic knowledge of jewelry terminology or how to make basic wrapped loops and tie knots. Enjoy!

Supplies:

• 5 yards of 1mm leather (1 yard per strand)

• Various beads that you can string on the leather (be sure to check hole sizing before starting)

• 12” of 22 gauge wire for wrapping the ends

• End caps if desired

• Closure (I used the leather loops and another bead as the toggle but you could use something different such as a lobster claw clasp.

• Ruler (I know I show a tape measure but that’s what I had handy)

• Pliers

• Wire cutters

If you would like to submit a letter to the Editor, an article, pictures from a recent field trip, poem, recipe or

anything at all that club members might fine interesting, please send to E-mail address:

[email protected], or mail to 5044 S. Park Ave., Tacoma, WA 98408.

Editor’s Report by Dana James Today it feels like Summer but it has been a long time getting here. I’ve learned though that in my 20+ years of living in Washington never to rush the hot weather coming. I really enjoy the mild Summers that we do have versus the hot Summers of the mid-West. Paul and I have had a fun month of dealing with some remod-eling and we are ready for it to be completed but I fear we have another month to go which is why I am ex-tremely grateful that the weather has started to get better. It is even better for those of you that like to get out and go rockhounding. Now is the time to take advantage of those great trips that the club has planned for this month and next.

The last meeting in June was our mini demo night and it appeared that we had a good turn out and lots of demonstrators. I hope our newer members enjoyed seeing some of the great activities and projects that we teach here at the club. Our regular hands on activities will start up again in October as we take the Summer off.

Since we are discussing learning new things, each month I publish one of my tutorials for club members. These are proprietary instructions and are to only be used for your personal enjoyment. I do publish them on my blog but eventually they will be taken down and published in a book, so don’t loose your copies as you may want to make one of the projects at a later date and may not want to purchase the book.

If you have an idea for a new tutorial but don’t know how to write it up, I would be glad to help you. I’m al-ways looking for new and interesting things to publish.

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Instructions:

1. Gather all your beads and cut your leather into 5 36” lengths.

2. Make a knot at the end of the leather about 3” from the end.

3. String a bead on and knot to secure.

4. Continue adding knots and adding beads. Be sure to knot before and after your beads unless you want them to move around. The more knots you make in the leather the shorter it will become.

5. Leave at least 3” of leather at the other end.

6. Continue making strands of leather and beads until you have your desired number.

7. Gather one end of each leather piece and loop over and secure with wire by wrapping around all leather tightly. Complete the other end the same way.

8. Trim the loose ends evenly unless you like that rough look, be sure to leave about ½-¼“ from the wraps.

9. To make your own toggle closure, wrap a rectangle bead. Be sure the bead will fit through the loops on the other end of your necklace securely. See picture for an idea of how this works.

10. Make a wrapped loop through all strands of your leather loops.

11. Finished necklace at 24”.

12. Finished back of necklace with handmade closure. You could also use a button vs. a bead.

Northwest Federation News Northwest Rockhound Retreat, September 6-12, 2010, Hancock Field Station, Fossil, Oregon

NFMS Convention and Annual Meeting, September 17-19, 2010, Washington County Fairgrounds in

Hillsboro, Oregon

Link to the NW Newsletter

http://www.amfed.org/nfms/nwnews/nw0710.pdf


American Federation of Mineralogical Societies If you haven’t checked out the AFMS web site there is a lot of good information on our hobby. If you

like to travel to other areas of the country then there are plenty of shows from other regions to take in.

http://www.amfed.org/ newsletter: http://www.amfed.org/news/news2010.htm

The Northwest Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Inc. is a member of the American Federation of Min-eralogical Societies. It was founded in 1938, and one of the original four founders of the AFMS in 1947. It encompasses the Northwest region of the United States, including Alaska and consists of about 70 member clubs with over 4400 total members.

Club PicnicClub PicnicClub PicnicClub Picnic Mark your calendars for August 28th for our

annual Picnic at LaVon and Mike Sipereks

More details in the August Newsletter


Upcoming Shows in the Northwest Date Club/Show Name Show Location Contact Person

July 16- -18 Fri 10-6, Sat 10-6, Sun 10-4

Lower Umpqua Gem & Lapidary "Treasures Of The Earth"

Reedsport community building 415 Winchester Ave, Reedsport, OR

Bill Hendrickson 541-271-6816 or [email protected]

July 24 – 25 Sat 9 - 6 Sun 9 - 5

Washington Agate and Mineral Society (WAMS) and the Te-nino Rock Cruisers Rock & Gem Ren-dez-Vous

Parkside Elementary School, Stage Street South Tenino WA Exit 88 from I-5, go east approx 8 miles. Turn right on Stage Street South. Go one block. The school is on the left.

Contact: Daniel De Boer [email protected] 5107 Brenner Dr. NW Olympia WA 98502

August 2010 6th 10am - 6pm 7th 10am - 6pm

8th 10am - 5pm

Far West Lapidary & Gem Society

Rock & Gem Show North Bend Community Center 2222 Broadway. North Bend, OR

Rocky Pribble 541-572-8301 PO Box 251

Coo Bay, OR 97420

August 2010 13th 10am - 9pm 14th 10am - 9pm

15th 10am - 6pm

Port Townsend Rock

Club

Annual Rock & Gem Show during the Fair Jefferson County Fair Grounds 49th Street Port Townsend,WA.

Tom Madsen 2915 SR20 Port Townsend, WA 98368

[email protected]

September 2010

11th 10am - 6pm 12th 10am - 4:30

Umpqua Gem & Mineral Club Annual Gem & Min-eral Show "Rough to Gems"

Douglas Co. Fairgrounds 2110 Frear St. I-5 exit 123 Roseberg, OR 97470

Bob Sampson PO Box 1264 Rose-burg,OR 97470 541-459-1755

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PVGMC Business Meeting for June 2010 Meeting called to order at 7:37 pm, 6/11/10. Nancy officiating. Visitors/new members greeted. Secretary’s report. Read. Treasurer’s report. Read. Committee Reports as follows: • Auctions. Mark stated we will have a silent auction at each business meeting to raise funds to

help offset the cost of show cases being constructed. He also named a committee to include Mark, Sherry, Brett, Jerry, and Sandy to help.

• Education. Jerry read a letter submitted by our scholarship candidate John Turner. He has a 3.93 GPA with a 4.00 this quarter.

• Sunshine. Kandy reported a card sent out. Nancy said that Barry Boyle was not feeling well. • Library. Brett asked that materials checked out for over a month be returned. • Hospitality. Members will be issued a clip on name tag. • Field Trip. The upcoming overnight field trip for this weekend was mentioned. The group

will be leaving the Enumclaw ranger station at 9:00am. • Federation. Mike reminded everyone about the upcoming Federation event at Portland Re-

gional Show. • Club Show. Mark mentioned the volunteers for the show. He also reminded • the group of the wrap up meeting to be held and Allan and Kandy’s house this Tuesday and

encouraged anyone with comments to attend. • Rock-A-Teer. Dana updated the membership on newsletter distribution issues. This included

current new costs for the club website. She discussed current testing for new sites to find the best fit.

• Show and Tell. Tonight will be jade. The next one will be a mini hands on and the following one will be patriotic rocks. The second July meeting will be showing your lapidary projects.

• Juniors. Juniors had no meeting due to a power outage at the Grange at the start of the main meeting.

• Public Land Access. No report, other than Mark reporting he joined the group. • Puyallup Fair. John asked for sign up help as he will be gone for most of the month. • Old Business. No report. • New Business. Nancy stated we will have a suggestion box for membership to take advantage

of to offer advice and suggestions for the good of the club. Meeting adjourned at 8:06 pm. Respectfully submitted, Brett Lawrence Secretary, PVGMC

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A COLORFUL HOBBY AND SCIENCE

A P P L E G R E E N I R A D N A M

T U R Q U O I S E E G Y L E W B I

C O L O R L E S S X R Z W U E R L

I H I N D I G O F A E P H L V O K

N F O U X F R N N S E T I B I W Y

N M T N W H G A D W N O T S L N W

A S C O U R C A R M I N E S O H O

M Z U I A G H I L U S Z O I N I L

O S X S F E U A N F H E H W E T L

N A S Q H L P E X N U C N S E C E

H P C R O P E I G L A T O P R D Y

L P A O E R B D B T K B U R G S Y

C H R C G U H Y S I C U A Q A S E

A I L K N P K I Q P A Z U R E A N

L R E X A S P V I O L E T O S R O

I E T W R B U R S T B N U T S B H

L O N D O N B L U E E M E R A L D

1. APPLE GREEN 12. GRASS 23. PISTACHIO

2. AZURE 13. GREENISH 24. PURPLE

3. BLACK 14. HONEY YELLOW 25. ROSE

4. BRASS 15. INDIGO 26. SAPPHIRE

5. BROWN 16. LEEK GREEN 27. SCARLET

6. CANARY 17. LILAC 28. SEAGREEN

7. CARMINE 18. LONDON BLUE 29. SKY BLUE

8. CINNABAR 19. MANDARIN 30. SWISS BLUE

9. CINNAMON 20. MILKY 31. TURQUOISE

10. COLORLESS 21. OLIVE 32. VIOLET

11. EMERALD 22. ORANGE 33. WHITE

Clip and Donate Stamp to the

Club for Cancer Research –

please leave about 2” of paper

around the stamp if possible. July 2010

Rock-A-Teer Newsletter of the Puyallup Valley Gem & Mineral Club

P.O. Box 134

Puyallup, WA 98371

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Material, Fossils and Aussie Items.

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4203 East 99th St., Tacoma, WA 98446

253-531-7294 [email protected]

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Mike Wendt

6423 S. Island Dr.

Bonney Lake, WA 98391

[email protected]

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