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THE NEWSLETTER OF THE PASADENA LAPIDARY SOCIETY - PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
Real or Not? With global commerce making once remote markets for minerals and fossils only a computer click away it is possible for the average collector to purchase multi million-year-old treasures from a source half-way around the world. But, with the increase in such commerce comes the increase in fake fossils. For a brief insight into this world see the story on page 4.
MARCH, 2014
President’s
Message
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Club News, Contact &
Club Information
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Ed’s Corner
Workshop
Current Club News
Current Club Events
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Feature Article: Fake Moroccan Fossils
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Recent Club Events
2014 Field Trips
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Field Trip
Editor’s Quiz
Federation Reports
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Tips & Information
Shows
Member-to-Member
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Calendar 8
INSIDE THIS
ISSUE
General Meetings: 7:00 PM on the third Tuesday of each month at the Pasadena Central Library at 285 E. Walnut Street. Guests are welcome! Field Trips are scheduled each month. Refer to the bulletin and website for date, location and info. Workshop: The use of the club’s equipment is available to members from 9am to 5pm on the 2nd Sunday of each month in our shop at 123 E. Montecito Ave., Sierra Madre. There are two ses-sions - from 9am to 1pm and 1pm to 5pm. Equipment proficiency is required and instruction is free. Fees are $3 per session or $5 for a full day. Bring lunch! Refer to pages 3 for classes and 8 for dates.
Membership per calendar year is $20, $15 for a second adult member in the same house. Junior members and the third or more members at the same house are $10. Initiation fee is $2.00 per person and membership badges are $7.50. Renewals are due by the October General Meeting and delinquent after December 31st. Mail checks for membership to P.O. Box 5025, Pasadena CA 91117-0025. Board Meetings: 7:15 PM on the second Tuesday of the month at the Plymouth Campus of the Monrovia Adult School. Map and directions are on the website. All PLS members are welcome to attend. Website: www.pasadenalapidarysociety.org
Safety: Liability waivers, eye protec-tion, closed-toe, flat-heel shoes and machinery safe-practices are manda-tory for all participants. Workshops and field trips are for adult members and juniors with adult supervision.
Membership Information and Meeting Locations
FAIR USE NOTICE. This publication may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance the educational understanding of the amateur jewelry fabrication and rock collecting hobbies. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use material from this publication for commercial or purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Newsletter Articles, ads or
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editor: Mark Nelson, 1475 Paseo
Maravilla, San Dimas, CA,
91773. (909) 996-1784 or by
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Officers present: Marcia & Joe Goetz, Martha Wilson and Linda Nelson. Chairs & Members present: Chris Kyte, Carolyn Duncan, Ed Imlay and Mark Nelson. Officers/Directors Absent: Dave Kelty. The board meeting reviewed the upcoming shows, club meetings and ways to introduce events for club members to sell and swap lapidary material and jewelry.
This month we welcome a number of our new members who have joined in February (listed on page 3) and we expect more to join us at the March Show.
We will also have presentations by two of our club members - Philip Lahr on the mineral Blue G, and Tom Traeger, who will take the mystery out of mineral identifica-tion. See the information on the Home Page of the Website.
Wear your membership badge!
April Meeting
Officers
Marcia Goetz, President (626) 260-7239
Martha Wilson, Vice President (626) 798-9085
Linda Nelson, CPA Secretary/Treasurer
(909) 592-1322 (909) 394-1276 Fax [email protected]
February Board Meeting
President’s Message
Dear Members. The February general meeting was well attended! I want to thank Sylvia Cliffe, a very experienced exhibitor, for explaining options for setting up a
case to show off your items. And now......The Annual Show is here! I can really use your help at the show! Set up involves setting up tables, getting the electrical hooked up and lots of other stuff. Taking down is the same thing in reverse.
Ed Imlay has a few spots avail-able at the demonstration tables - it is a fun place to be! You get to meet people who are interested in learning and are appreciative of your expertise. Joe and Sylvia are accepting prizes for the Raffle Display. Ralph and Becky Fregoso need silent auction items (clean slabbed or clean rough rock, books or miscellany you think someone may bid on). Contact me and I’ll have your donation picked up - or you can bring it to the show. Jennifer Jang is organizing the cases in the display room for our regular and junior members. Our cases are
beautiful and all of the new lighting is installed! Your items display well in them and they are FREE for members. Ed Imlay organize the Club Case again this year, so if you have a piece you want to show off in the club case bring it on Friday. I’m looking forward to the March general meeting when Philip Lahr will intro-duce the mineral Blue G and our guest speaker will be Tom Traeger - Earth Sciences instructor La Canada High School. This will be a particularly informative evening! See you there! …….. Marcia Marcia Goetz, President
February Meeting
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Meeting and General Club Information
By Linda Nelson, Secretary
The Annual Club Show is held the second weekend of March at the Masonic Center, 3130 Huntington Drive, San Marino.
Advertising - a business card size ad is available for $99 per year or $10 per edition. Submit text, logos, business card or other copy to the editor at the address or email listed on this page.
At the Rock Of The Month talk, Briana Casay spoke about the remarkable gem - Tanzanite! . Marcia showed how to make liners for the club’s display cases. Sylvia Cliff, who has consid-erable experience in displaying cases in shows, talked about the best ways to mount, arrange and display material in our cases. Jennifer Jang announced that there were still club display cases for the use of members for the show.
March Program Meeting
2014 California Federation Show - is being hosted by our club! May 30th - June 1st at the L.A. County Fairplex in Pomona!
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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
By Ed Imlay Chair, Education Committee
On January 27th I spoke to a group of Cub Scouts in San Marino and on February 12th I visited three second trade classes at Longfellow School in Pasadena! These hands-on presentations are receiving a lot of positive feedback.
To schedule my educational presentation to your group or school contact me by phone at (626) 286-8215 or by email at [email protected]. Identification: Would you like to know the name of a rock you have acquired? Set it on the table at the rear of the meeting room with a note asking “What is this?” If the interior of the stone is not evident, chip a small piece off or “window” it to reveal the interior (if it will not damage the appearance of the specimen). Display Table: For the March meeting, please display any items of general interest, especially: workshop projects, material from locations of recent or upcoming field trips, and the birthstone of the month: Aquamarine.
Ed’s Corner
Ed Imlay at a local school
MARCH, 2014
Sunshine: Our thoughts and prayers are with Margaret Velarde upon the death of her mother. Margaret is the Jewelry and Lapidary Class instructor from Mt. San Antonio College.
Congratulations to Paolo Sanchez (2014 Junior Rockhound Of The Year) for placing an amazing 6th on March 1st among the brightest students from over 100 junior high schools at the 2014 Academic Decathlon sponsored by the Archdiocese Of Los Angeles! The Archdiocese comprises the California counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura.
Do you know anyone who is not feeling up to par, has been sick or lost a loved one? On the silver lining side of things, do you know who has achieved a goal, won a personal victory, or done something that deserves recognition? The Pasadena Lapidary Society has a Sunshine Committee to send cards and words of comfort, support and congratulations to those members who are in need or are deserving of it. Notify Trudi Krose at 323-664-9598 or by email at [email protected].
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Welcome
New Members !!
Welcome Jennifer Nishimura (talented daughter of Rex and Chuie), Scout Leader Judy Scott, skilled lapidary artist JoAnn Nakamura, earth sciences teacher Tom Traeger, nurse practitioner Monica Dybalski , illustrator Genevieve Mariani, Valerie Statathos’ nephew Nicolas Kalem, aerospace engineer Sid Valluri with his wife Andi and daughter Chaya and informa-tion technologies supervisor Sheryl Aitken to our Society! Welcome them when you see them working at our show! Share the lapidary and jewelry hobby. Invite your friends and neighbors to one of our monthly meetings to learn more about the Pasadena Lapidary Society!
WORKSHOP No less than seven new members came to this month’s workshop where we completed the grab bags, jewel trees and worked on individual projects. Antonio Franco, age 10, made substantial progress on his very first cabochon. We are looking forward to introducing our new members to projects at the April workshop.
Thanks to Ralph Fregoso, Joe Goetz and Mark Nelson for installing the new lighting that Valerie Stathatos donated in the saw room . — Carolyn Duncan, Workshop Chair
Meeting Refreshments — Thanks to Mary Kirmil, Ed and Corinne Imlay for the February refreshments! Laura Davis and Cecilia Hernandez are scheduled for March’s meeting. Thanks also to all who
signed up last month! We still need volunteers for June, September, October and November. Contact me at (323) 664-9598 or at [email protected] to sign up to bring munchies to a future meeting! ……. Trudi Krose
ROCK OF THE MONTH PRESENTATION What is BLUE G ? Philip Lahr will introduce this remark-able lapidary material at the March Meeting. Talk to us about an interesting rock or mineral - give Martha Wilson a
call to schedule a talk!
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THANK YOU to Drew Wilson, who sent his 2015 membership renewal early! Anyone else want to make this a trend?
“A March born shall always be Soothed by Aqua, gem of sea
This mermaid’s treasured stone you wear Will bring happiness, love, affection and care.”
Source: Birthstones.org.uk
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Fossils - Real or Fake? By Mark Nelson - Pasadena Lapidary Society
Fossils automatically attract attention. Perhaps it is the marvel that one is seeing an object that is the physical representation of a living plant or animal from millennia in the past. As the conti-nents broke off from the original Supercontinent life forms were carried to all parts of the world. Seabeds are now far above the ocean level. Lush forests are now over a mile high in places like Colorado where mastodon fossils are found today - fallen so long ago by climate changes or predators. With our attraction to fossils comes the modern predator - the fossil forger! Morocco is an abundant source for fossil trilobites, ammonites, orthoceras, starfish and other extinct species - and there are great fossils from Morocco to be had at shows such as Quartz-site and Tucson! The fossils are in hard rock, uplifted from the ancient sea floor into mountains in the Moroccan desert. In this uplifting, and the process of extracting the fossils from the rock, they are often broken. To extract an intact fossil takes about 100 hours of labor, while to create a fossil from fragments takes only about 5 hours. The most abundant fossils in this area are Trilobites from the Calymenidae family. Fragments are so plentiful that they are not always worth faking the entire fossil. One method of creating a trilobite fossil is to take fragments of various body parts and assemble them to recreate a whole image. In this case the seams are evident or the glue is made to seem like rock matrix, as in the photo below. If you are knowledgeable one can tell that the body parts are out of proportion to the others.
Large trilobite fossils in matrix are sometimes made by taking real rock matrix, hollowing out a cavity, and placing a resin trilobite cast into the cavity. In some of these fakes the out-line of the cavity is still present on the matrix (photo above). In others lines, imitating the carving marks on the rock matrix, are scratched through the perimeter of the resin cast. One attractive fossil plate (rock slab below) that I’ve seen at shows is an assembly of various species of extinct sea crea-tures on the same plate. These are almost always fake, as its nearly unheard of to have different species living together in such close proximity as to be fossilized together after death.
The generally expressed opinion of those experienced in Moroccan fossils is that most of the fabrication involves the Trilobite. Those fossils of Orthoceras and Ammonite, which are typically sold polished, are real. Sources include: fakefos-
sils.webs.com/fakemoroccanfossils.htm, paleodirect.com/faketrilobites1.htm, fossilmuseum.net/collect/fake-trilobites.htm, ukafh.co.uk/fake-fossils-part-2-moroccan.
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The club’s meeting raffle has been attracting some great prizes. This deep purple amethyst crystal will be the grand prize at Octo-ber’s meeting raffle.
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Keeping an eye open for agates, Jennifer Jang shared her discovery of a rattlesnake soaking up the sun in Baxter Wash during the February Field Trip.
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Sharing Our Hobby
Photos by Valerie Stathatos and Mark Nelson
Sawmaster Philip Lahr cuts slabs for our show while Chris Kyte (behind) installs a new drive motor on Saw #4.
Carolyn Duncan super-vises the completion of the Grab Bags for the 2014 Society Show this month!
The rains at the end of February left a flooded workshop. Diana Krein-bring, Valerie Statathos and Carolyn Duncan tackle the cleanup before the members arrive.
A necklace set of Wil low Creek Jasper (left) was donated to our March Raffle by Gloria Biesterfeld (right).
Photo by Jay Valle
Photo by Valerie Stathatos
Right: Linda and Trudy Krose show members the Willow Creek Jasper necklace/earring set donated by Gloria Biesterfeld for our show raffle.
Left: Juan Franco watches his son, Antonio (age 10), use Turritella Agate to make his first cabochon at the March Work-shop.
Linda Nelson showing Lulu Smith, Becky Fregoso, Ellen Ferrell and Jo Anna Ritchey how to make a necklace from colorful ladder yarn.
FIELD TRIPS By Joe Goetz
MARCH, 2014
FEDERATION NEWS by Joe Goetz, Federation Director
From President Jennifer Haley Hello Everyone, I am really looking forward to when we all get
together at our annual show and convention hosted by the Pasadena Lapidary Society on May 30 - June 1, 2014. The theme is California’s Gem & Mineral Bounty, so let’s get ready for the show. We all know what it’s like preparing for a big event so please try to send in your forms and reservations early. Show and convention information is on the CFMS website. Warning: If you receive an email with the Subject: CFMS Society Shows Invitation and Member pass Please just delete it, DO NOT OPEN IT. This has been going around and it is NOT from the California Federation of Mineralogical Societies (CFMS). It is a Scam or worse yet a virus.
The AFMS is offering training to people who would like to learn to be exhibit judges or for exhibitors who want to improve the quality of their displays. Thursday, April 10th through Sunday morning April 13th during the Ogden, Utah, Club’s annual show. The registration form is available at the same CFMS website link as listed in the article above.
Adults: Which of the fossils found in Morocco are least likely to be faked?
CFMS - California Federation of Mineralogical Societies
The answers are in this bulletin! The first Adult and Junior Members to cor-rectly answer these questions will win a special prize at the Meeting. See the Editor’s contact info on page 2.
Juniors: What do farmers call the March full moon? Double Prize Bonus: Why do they call it that?
AFMS - American Federation of Mineralogical Societies
Congratulations to Chris Kyte for being the first to correctly identify
the minerals that make up Septarian Nodules - Calcite, Aragonite, and Limestone. A prize for this answer to the December Quiz will be awarded at the March meeting!
Unfortunately, there were no correct responses to Editor’s Quiz for the month of February. Better luck this month!
Editor’s Quiz
Joe Goetz Field Trip Chairman
FIELD TRIPS
By Joe Goetz Lavic Jasper Site - March 22nd & 23rd
There are few places you can go and, once there, you park and step out of your vehicle and start collecting immediately. Lavic is one such place. In the
bowl where our camp is, there are smaller pieces of jasper in various colors and patterns. The area to explore is quite a large one; it actually starts a couple of miles to the west. However, it is more concentrated closer to camp. There is also areas south of the railroad tracks and north across the freeway are the Southern Cady Mountains with all of the different materials that can be collected there. Besides all the great rock to collect is the chance to see things beyond what is seen from the freeway and, of course, the development of new friendships and people who will guide you as you start this great hobby! You MUST notify me at (626) 620-7239 or Mark Nelson at (909) 996-1784 in advance if you are planning to attend the field trip . You may ask “What should I bring?” or “Where will we meet? or “If I camp or mo-tel camp - what are the options?” Well, there are answers to all these questions on the LAVIK link on the Calendar page of our website. Be at the camp site or meeting spot designated on the website maps before 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 if coming for the day.
Joe Goetz Field Trip Chairman
CAMP ZZYZX 2014 Reservations are now being accepted for the ZZYZX Earth Sciences week March 30 - April 6, 2014. Zzyzx is in the Mojave
Desert near Baker, California. Classes Include: Cabochon Making, Faceting, Wire Wrap Art, Soft Stone Carving, Silver Smithing, Chain Making, Lost Wax Metal Casting, Ming Trees, Beading, Glass Bead Making, Dichroic Glass Fusion, Enameling, Precious Metal Clay, Intarsia and Inlay. Not all classes are offered at every session. The fee for the week is $375 and includes your room or RV space, three meals per day and classes. Zzyzx has a meal hall, lapidary classrooms, a shower building and dormitory rooms. Bring any creature comforts you may desire (lamp, throw rug, ice chest, etc). Rooms are limited and couple’s rooms fill early - so if you are planning to attend now is the time to send in your reservation. Contact: Camp Zzyzx Registrar, Audrey Harvey, 3363 Tuxford Place, Thousand Oaks CA 91360-4626, 805-492-2253. Reservation forms are available at the ES Camps tab at http://www.cfmsinc.org.
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Having an adventure
somewhere in California ……… Joe Goetz
March 1 - 2: ARCADIA, CA - Monrovia Rock-hounds, Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Gar-dens, 301 Baldwin Avenue, Hours: 9:00 - 4:30 daily.
8 - 9: PASADENA LAPIDARY SOCIETY, San Marino Masonic Center -
3130 Huntington Drive, San Marino. Free admission. Hours: Sat 10 - 6, Sun 10 - 5. 14-16: SPANISH FORK, UTAH — Timpanogos Gem & Mineral Society; Spanish Fork Fair Grounds; 475 S. Main St., indoor tennis court; Fri. 10-7, Sat. 10-7, Sun. 10-5; free admission. 29-30: TORRANCE, CA - South Bay Lapidary & Mineral Soci-ety, Ken Miller Recreation Center, 3341 Torrance Blvd, Tor-rance. Sat. 10 - 5; Sun. 10 - 4.
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Monday-Friday: 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Saturday: 9a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Supplies, displays, boxes, jewelry tools, precious metal, findings, fine jewelry, stones, settings and wedding bands. A wide variety of lighting, photography boxes, inventory software and product labeling supplies. Metalsmithing and lapidary supplies. Free catalog! www.aajewelry.com. We carry the best quality tools and equipment available in the industry, at the best prices in the United States! We can confidently say that no sup-plier has lower prices. Jewelry and Lapidary clubs are welcome !
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Member - To - Member
Student computer desk $25. Compact commercial-quality freezer, 34”h-21”w-27”d, 110volt - $50.
Call Trudy or Mike Krose (323) 664-9598.
Members are welcome to place a FREE message for items or services wanted, for sale or for trade. Email submissions to [email protected].
Articles and photographs printed in this bulletin are as credited to their author. Items not so credited are written by the Editor. Photographs not credited are from the public domain or from the Editor and are used for educational purposes. Articles and photographs submitted for publication are welcome and must be received by the 15th of the prior month. The Editor reserves the right to edit any article submitted for publishing.
Look for the gem shows symbol on the calendar on page 8.
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Bench Tips By Brad Smith
On Tool Organization: An easy way to keep all your files organized at the bench is to use a magnetic tool strip. They're not expensive and help keep a lot of small tools
from cluttering the bench top. I got a couple of them from Harbor Freight for about $5 each. See http://www.harborfreight.com and search on "magnetic-holder". My only regret was putting some of my small drills on the magnets. The drills got a little magnetized and now stick together when I carry them in a bottle in my tool box. On Storing Metal Sheets: The more you work with jewelry, the more problems you have finding the piece of metal you need. My pieces of sheet were generally stored in various plastic bags, and the wire was in separate coils. Few were marked, so it often took me a while to locate that piece of 26 ga fine sheet I bought last year, espe-cially since I usually take my supplies back and forth to classes. A tip from a friend helped me organize everything. I bought an expanding file folder from the office supplies store (the kind that has 13 slots and a folding cover) and marked the tabs for each gauge of metal I use. Then I marked all my pieces of sheet with their gauge, put them in plastic bags, marked the gauge on the bag, and popped them into the folder. I usually store coils of wire loose in the folder, but they can also be bagged if you prefer. I use one tab for bezel wire and one for the odd, miscellaneous items. The resulting folder is really convenient when I want to take my metal out to a class or workshop, and it's colorful enough for me to easily find in the clutter of the shop ! Editor: Brad Smith will be the guest speaker at our May Program Meeting - don’t miss it !
Choosing a Radio By Mark Nelson, Pasadena Lapidary Society
Walkie-Talkies: I strongly encourage our members to invest in a hand-held radio for communication on
field trips. Nominally known as FRS (Family Radio Service) or GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) radios, most now have 22 channels available and offer 1 or 2 watts of power. Make sure that when you select a radio - it can be set to one of the primary channels (such as 1 to 14) and also a sub-channel fre-quency to reduce the “chatter” from the single-channel users. Get the type that use batteries, not the rechargeable variety. These radios are readily available at sporting goods stores and at electronics stores such as Best Buy or Big 5 and the cost should be less than $50. To make sure you get a compatible radio ask, before you buy, if the radio can be tuned to frequency 4-10.
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Telephone Invented 1876
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National Anthem Day -1931
Sunday Morning March 9th Daylight Savings Time Starts
Set Clock Ahead 1 hour at 2am
Hug a G.I. Day
Girl Scouts Day
Bunsen Burner Day - Bunsen Burner Day celebrates the birthday of its creator. German chemist Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen was born on March 31, 1811. And, you guessed it, von Bunsen created the Bunsen Burner.
At 2:30 a.m. on March 26, 1872, a large quake hit Inyo County in the Owens Valley of central California. Worst-hit was Lone Pine, where 52 of the town's 59 homes were destroyed, killing 27 people as they slept. The ground moved a full seven feet horizontally in some places near Lone Pine. Major buildings in every town in Inyo were also seriously damaged.
Faceted Aquamarine
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