Calaveras County, CA Rockhound Pow-Wow May 7-9

HeySal — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:28:18 +0000

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

1290 Paloma Rd.
Valley Springs 95252
valleyspringspowwow.com

This is going to be a big show folks. There are around 200 vendors in line, demonstrations, Native American Dancing, music, food, camping, crafts and all sorts of various activities and displays.

If you’re wondering what the heck this kind of Pow-Wow is going to cost you…

IT’S FREE

Try to beat that for a weekend of education and entertainment.

Hope to meet you there, too!

NJ Rockhounds Got a Specimen You Can’t Identify?

HeySal — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:57:35 +0000

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.