RHS1 member, Bob Young (coldwatergold) just emailed me the other day about a huge rockhound pow-wow going on next weekend in Calaveras County, so of course I had to stop by the Gazette and tell everyone about it.  I’ll be at the show around noon on Saturday to meet Bob and his rockhound friends.  If you are in the area I hope you stop by.  It sounds like it is going to be a lot of fun.   I’ll  have pics and some gab about the show in a few weeks, so if you don’t get to go,  you can come here and find out what it was that you missed.

Here’s the Info about the Pow-Wow if you are interested in dropping by and having some rockhound type fun, too.

36th Annual Snyders’ Valley Springs POW WOW

May 7-9, 2010

Tags: California rock shows, children's activities, gemstones, gold prospectors, lapidary rough, rock and gem hunters, rockhound equipment, rockhound events, rockhound supplies

HEY NEW JERSEY ROCKHOUNDS

If you have a puzzling specimen sitting on the shelf that you just can’t identify or have other questions about mineral identification, you really don’t want to miss the 42nd annual open house at The Geology Museum at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on January 30th.

At the open house people can have their own samples professionally examined.  There will also be a mineral sale for those looking to add some great material to their own collections, as well as hands-on geology activities for children.

Along with the rock and mineral identification program, earth science presentations include:
Earthquake Detection for the Citizen Seismologist 3:00 pm
Madagascar’s Buried Treasure: Dinosaur and other Vertabrate Fossils from the Land that Time Forgot 2:00 pm
Paleoclimatic Framework of Human Evolution: Examples from Olduvia Gorge 11:00 am
Monitoring our Ocean Planet: The Scarlet Knights Trans-Atlantic Challenge 10:00 am

Saturday, Jan. 30, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Geology Museum at Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Scott Hall
43 College Avenue
New Brunswick presentations in room 123
mineral sale in room 135
hands-on children’s activities in room 115.

Additional presentations in Geology Hall
85 Somerset Street
New Brunswick
rock and mineral identification, children’s activities in Geology Museum, 2nd floor

Tags: children's activities, earth science, Geology, Geology events, Mineral Identification, New Jersey events, rock and gem hunters, rockhounds