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Sedona Red Rocking News Sedona Gem and Mineral Club PO Box 3284, Sedona, AZ 86340 https://sedonagemandmineral.org/ General SGMC meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m., at the Sedona Public Library in West Sedona The library may have some COVID rules or restrictions, depending on circumstances. Member: American Federation of Mineralogical Societies Member: Arizona Coalition of Rock Hound Clubs Newsletter Editor: Galen Worthington Email: [email protected] September, 2021 Volume 68, Issue 7 Welcome back Rockhounds! Fall is finally here and our 20 th annual Rock Gem and Jewelry Show on October 16 and 17 th is right around the corner. We’re so excited to finally host the Show again after two years. Please tell all your friends and family about the Show and participate. It’s a great way to meet and engage with other like-minded rock lovers. Don’t miss out, sign-up for something you’d like to do during our first meeting of the new season on Tuesday September 21 st at 7:00 p.m. at the Sedona Public Library. Bring your rock stuff for Show and Tell. Our first meeting in September is the Ice Cream Social. It’s fun. It’s an opportunity to get reacquainted with all those familiar faces from last year or two years ago if you’ve been away a long time. We’ll have the usual attractions that include ‘Show & Tell’, the ‘Big Raffle’ and a Silent Auction. In addition, Galen will inform you about the upcoming Field Trip, your board will bring you up to date with the ‘State of the Club’, upcoming speakers and future events. We welcome not only your participation but your input. If you have an idea don’t be shy, tell me. I sincerely want to make the club better each year. During the summer we’ve not been idle. Many of our board members and show volunteers have been actively working their magic to ensure our Show and our club is a success this year. On behalf of the club I want to thank Marge and Bill Schwartz, Sharon Sherman, Galen Worthington, Pat McMahon, Tom Helgesen, Angie Maiorano, Evelina Dunton and Susan Read for all they did this summer for benefit of all of us. We’re so lucky to have such a dedicated team! I look forward to seeing all your smiling faces again and your latest lapidary creations. What did you do this summer? We can’t wait to hear! – Mark President Moorehead’s Message For September
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Sedona Red Rocking NewsSedona Gem and Mineral ClubPO Box 3284, Sedona, AZ 86340https://sedonagemandmineral.org/
General SGMC meetings are held on thethird Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m., atthe Sedona Public Library in West SedonaThe library may have some COVID rules orrestrictions, depending on circumstances.
Member: American Federation ofMineralogical Societies
Member: Arizona Coalitionof Rock Hound Clubs
Newsletter Editor: Galen WorthingtonEmail: [email protected]
September, 2021Volume 68, Issue 7
Welcome back Rockhounds! Fall is finally hereand our 20th annual Rock Gem and JewelryShow on October 16 and 17th is right aroundthe corner. We’re so excited to finally host theShow again after two years. Please tell all yourfriends and family about the Show andparticipate. It’s a great way to meet and engagewith other like-minded rock lovers. Don’t missout, sign-up for something you’d like to do duringour first meeting of the new season on TuesdaySeptember 21st at 7:00 p.m. at the SedonaPublic Library. Bring your rock stuff for Showand Tell.
Our first meeting in September is the Ice CreamSocial. It’s fun. It’s an opportunity to getreacquainted with all those familiar faces fromlast year or two years ago if you’ve been away along time. We’ll have the usual attractions thatinclude ‘Show & Tell’, the ‘Big Raffle’ and a SilentAuction. In addition, Galen will inform you aboutthe upcoming Field Trip, your board will bring youup to date with the ‘State of the Club’, upcomingspeakers and future events.
We welcome not only your participation but yourinput. If you have an idea don’t be shy, tell me. Isincerely want to make the club better each year.
During the summer we’ve not been idle. Many ofour board members and show volunteers havebeen actively working their magic to ensure ourShow and our club is a success this year. Onbehalf of the club I want to thank Marge and BillSchwartz, Sharon Sherman, Galen Worthington,Pat McMahon, Tom Helgesen, Angie Maiorano,Evelina Dunton and Susan Read for all they didthis summer for benefit of all of us. We’re solucky to have such a dedicated team!
I look forward to seeing all your smiling facesagain and your latest lapidary creations. Whatdid you do this summer? We can’t wait to hear!
– Mark
President Moorehead’s Message For September
Field Trip in September is the Mingus Mountain Area(Daisy Mountain Rock Club will be joining us!)
By Galen Worthington
Hello fellow Rockhounders! Our Septemberfield trip will be to the Mingus Mountain areawest of Jerome to find some beautiful bandediron deposits (also known as Jasper & Hematite)as well as some possible agate and silicatesamples (see photo below).
See the map on the next page for directionsand instructions. We will rendezvous at 9:00a.m. I will bring some samples to the Sep-tember 21st club meeting and have a sign-upsheet available. This will be a coalition field tripwhere members of the Anthem, Arizona club willpartner with Sedona for the experience.
“Photosynthetic organisms were making oxygen,but it reacted with the iron dissolved in seawaterto form iron oxide minerals on the ocean floor,creating banded iron formations.
The dark layers in (banded iron) are mainlycomposed of magnetite (Fe3O4) while the redlayers are chalcedony, a form of silica (SiO2)that is colored red by tiny iron oxide particles.”
— from the American Museum of NaturalHistory – see article from the url listed.
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/planet-earth/how-has-the-earth-evolved/banded-iron-formation
We often identify the red layers as jasper.Below is a photo of a sample of banded iron(hematite-jasper) found in the area we will becollecting in.
Directions: Take 89-A,either from the Cottonwoodside or the Prescott Valleyside of the mountain andmeet in the SW parking lot(X marks the spot) at theintersection of 89-A andForest Road 104, near theMingus Summit Rest Areaand Picnic Site.
We will gather here at 9:00a.m. Collecting sites forBanded Iron samples arewithin a few miles of themeeting location. Thereare traces of Agate alongthe route but we may notstop for those. Bringwater, food-snacks, goodhiking footwear. Highclearance vehiclesrecommended
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September 25 – Mingus Mountains – BandedIron. See specific information on pages 2-3this issue.
October – No field trip planned due toOctober 16-17 Show
November 20 – Cleator, a return to“Tourmaline Hill” discovered at end of lasttrip
December – No field trip (or club meeting)planned due to proximity to holidays –Holiday Party in first week of December
2022
January 22 – fieldtrip to Quartzsite Pow Pow,may try a 2nd attempt for Red Cloud Mine.Recommend overnight stay
February 12 – Tucson Gem and MineralSociety Show (Jan 10-13). Recommendovernight stay
March 19 – Perkinsville Agates
April 23 – Grapevine Canyon – “Root Beer”Onyx deposits. Spectacular specimens
May 21 – Flagstaff area – Obsidian Hill orGray Mountain (petrified wood and largeoutcrop of thick banded iron strata discoveredlast trip)
General Plan for SGMC 2021-2022 Field Trips – Subject to Weatherand New Site Discoveries
2021-2022 Rock and Mineral Shows!
Tucson, AZ
JOGS Gem and Jewelry Show, September 2-5,2021, Hours: 10-6. Venue: Tucson ExpoCenter, 3750 E. Irvington Rd, Tucson, AZ85714. JOGS will occur again Jan 26-Feb 6th,2022. The winter show happens during theTucson Gem Show. Buyer and Guestregistration: https://jogsshow.com/account/
https://jogsshow.com/
Payson, AZ
23rd Annual Rimstone Rock and Mineral Show,September 17-19, 2021, Hours: Friday 2-7,Saturday 9-5, Sunday 10-4. Venue: EventCenter Mazatal Hotel and Casino, Payson, AZ85541. Admission $3, children 13 and underfree. Phone: 928-363-8170, Address: P.O. Box1641, Payson, AZ 85541.
https://rimstonerockclub.org
Clarkdale, AZ
Clarkdale Rocks, Gem, and Mineral Show,September 24-26, 2021. Hours: Friday andSaturday 9-5, Sunday 10-4. Venue: ClarkMemorial Clubhouse Auditorium, 19 N. NinthStreet, Clarkdale, AZ 86324. Free admission,free child starter rock kit, fun for the whole family,vendor information: 928-634-0269
http://www.mingusgem.club/
Buckeye, AZ
7th Annual HelzaRockin’ Gem and Mineral Show,October 8-10, 2021. Hours: Friday & Saturday9-5, Sunday 9-2. Venue: Buckeye Arena, 802N. 1st Street, Buckeye, AZ 85326. Admission:Adults $3, children under 13 free. Contacts:Lara, 602-405-2926, Alice, 602-329-2519; email:[email protected]
http://www.westvalleyrockandmineralclub.com
Sierra Vista, AZ
47th Annual Hauchuca Mineral, Gem and JewelryShow, October 9-10, 2021. Hours: Saturday 9-5,Sunday 10-4. Venue: The Mall at Sierra Vista,2200 El Mercado Loop, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635.Free admission and parking.
http://hauchucamineralandgemclub.info
Sedona, AZ
Sedona Gem and Mineral Show, October 15-16,2021. Hours: Saturday 10-5, Sunday 10-4.Venue: Sedona Red Rock High School, 995Upper Red Rock Loop Road, Sedona, AZ86336. Admission: $4 for adults, children under12 free.
https://sedonagemandmineral.org/
Wickenburg, AZ
Wickenburg Gem and Mineral Show, November27-28, 2021. Hours: Saturday 9-5, Sunday 10-4.Venue: Hassayampa School, Wrangler EventCenter, 251 S. Tegner Street, Wickenburg, AZ85390. Raffle, door prizes, kids’ area, silentauction. https://wickenburggms.org/
https://wickenburggms.org/gem-%26-mineral-show
Quartzsite, AZ
There are ten or more shows in Quartzsitebetween January 1 and February 28, 2022.There are four that are strictly rock and mineralrelated: Desert Gardens Show, QIA Pow Wow,Prospector’s Panorama, and Tyson Wells Show.
The 55th Annual QIA Gem and Mineral Pow Powis January 19-23, 2022, 235 E. Ironwood, 928-927-6325, ask for Carolyn & Mike Zinno PowWow Show Promoters. Free admission, freeparking. http://www.qiaarizona.org/POWWOW-Show.html
Last May’s Field Trip to Rodeo Flats
Over a dozen intrepid rockhounds braved avery warm day to explore the salt deposits inCamp Verde and then on to the Club’s claimsite where agates were a “target richenvironment” as described by one satisfiedhunter.
The salt deposits have been described in thegeologic literature as containing “ glauberitepsuedomorphs.” The original mineral (glauberite),over time was replaced by other minerals, mostlygypsum, but left the original shape of “large, well-formed, tabular- to wedge-shaped crystals” Seephoto below! The psuedomorph is on the left side.And check out the following blog page for moredetails of this geological locale.
https://csmsgeologypost.blogspot.com/2012/09/glauberite-pseudomorphs.html
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