Field Trip December 27, 2012

Thursday, Dec.27, 2012 Field Trip Leader: Mike Spicer (541-517-3393) There will be a field trip to the Golden Shores area as shown on Rock Club Map page #5. We will meet at a paved parking lot on the west side of Rt. 66, seven miles south of the intersection of Boundary Cone Rd. and Route 66 (on Route 66, towards Golden Shores), at 9:00 AM (AZ time). We will find Mohave Jasper among other solid rocks. 4-wheel drive will be necessary for this trip. This will be a sandy wash area to search for rock. Rock Hammer gloves and bucket.

Field Trip December 21, 2012

Friday, December 21, 2012 Field Trip Leader: Rick Bickman (928-754-3386) There will be a trip directly west of Searchlight, NV to find Pearlite, Apache Tears (Obsidian) and Ryolite geodes. A 4-wheel drive vehicle is necessary for this trip. Simple rock hammers should be enough for tools. We will leave the Golden Nugget in Searchlight at 9:00 AM (AZ time) sharp. It is approximately 15 miles to the dig site from Searchlight. I’m sure there will be rider seats available if you do not have access to 4-wheel drive vehicle

December 20 2012 Pot Luck

Don' forget the December meeting will be a Pot Luck which will start at 6:00pm.
Also instead of gifts bring Can foods to donate to a church like we did last Year.

I would like to welcome the newest members to our club. Darrell & Andi Wolf.

I would like to thank Bill Gray for running the silent auction. I bought one of the grab bags at the last meeting. I was really surprised as to the amount of good stuff in the bag for only $2.00. a lot of the stuff in these bags and in the silent auction are donated by Bill and other members. All the money goes to the club so competive bidding is encouraged!.
Don’t forget to bring Rocks and things you find this month to the next meeting and see Alice Mackin She will be running the Find of the month at the meetings.
The club has some nice prizes to give away. Please see the Find Of The Month guidelines below.

It is looking like this will be a good year for field trips. Hope to see everyone at them. Don’t for get we also have a find of the day prize. If You have any good suggestion on a place to go or would like to lead a field trip please see Rick Bickman.

Find Of The Month guidelines
Rules
Only club Members in good standing may participate.
Item to be found on SCRRC club sponsored outing or on Your own outing since the last meeting. (Must be found not bought)
Item to be any rock, gem or fossil.
Item can be face cut or polished to show inside.
Entering your Item InstructionsAt meeting sign in with Your name at find of the month table and note Your #.
Put Your # on top of paper supplied.
Put area You found Your Item.
Put what Your item is, if You know.
If You don’t know what it is, write down PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IT IS.
Voting on ItemsDuring break club members will vote one time for their favorite item. by putting a check mark on the paper next to the item, You like the most.
Most checks wins.
PrizesClub will supply prizes

Field Trip Colorado River Museum

Friday November 16th 2012
We will meet at 10:00am at the Museum.
From Hwy 95/68 and Lauglin bridge go north on Hwy 68 about 1/4 mile and turn left into Museum.
This will be a guided tour for us and will be a $2.00 donation per person.

Karen Bickman

Field Trip to Kingman Onyx Mine

We will be going to the Kingman and Lake Havasu clubs Onyx mine Thursday November 15th 2012.
We will Meet at the Chevron gas station Hwy 68 and Landon Dr.
 From Hwy 95 / Hwy 68 and Laughlin bridge; Go north east on Hwy 68 for 2.9 mile and turn right on Landon Dr. After we meet we will go to Kingman and get on I-40 heading east, get off on Stockton Hill Rd and head north for about 10 miles to the mine.
Tools needed are; gloves, pry bars, hammer and chisel's. This will be surface collecting and hard rock minning. This is a 2 wheel drive trip.

Rick Bickman

Lake Havasu Gem & Mineral Show

Show will be November 11th & 12th 2012 at Lake Havasu Aquatic Center 100 Park Ave LHC, AZ
9am to 5pm Saturday and 9am to 4pm Sunday.
This is always a good show with lots of vendors and Great displays by members of the club. They also have great door prizes.

We will be car pooling to this Rock Show; Meet at 9:00am Saturday the 11th at Valley Veiw Hospitial on Hwy 95 Fort Mohave. North end of parking lot next to Hwy 95. Don't forget to wear Your club badge.

Karen Bickman

Field Trip to Whipple Mts October 18th

We will be going to the Wipple Mountains in Calif on Thursday Oct 18th
We will meet  at 8:00am at the Arco Gas station AZ Hwy 95 and Courtwright rd.
This will be 4wheel drive trip. Please see SCRRC Map # 7
This will be mostly surface colecting for agate and jasper.
Bring Your Lunch and Chairs.
We will Have a find of the day prize.
Hope to see You there

FIELD TRIP REPORT
We had a good field trip to the Whipple Mountains. 8 people attended. We found lots of pink & green and brown agate. Wayne found a nice piece of Jasper in the wash and gave it to me. (Thanks Wayne). Darlene Berry found a nice piece of pink & green agate with a nice Chalcedony Rose on one side and She won the find of the day for

Meeting Thursday October 4th 2012

Hope everyone had a great summer and is ready to find some rocks. I had one good rock trip to Davis creek, California. Collected some nice rainbow obsidian. I will bring some to the next meeting.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Oct meeting. Don't  forget 6pm AZ time.

Bring some of Your summer finds to the meeting to share with all of us.

We still need someone to step up and be the Field Trip Coordinator.

I will be leading the first field trip this Year. We will be going to the Wipple Mountains in Calif.
We will meet  at 8:00am Thursday Oct 18 at the Arco Gas station AZ Hwy 95 and Courtwright rd.
This will be 4wheel drive trip.

Mike Spicer

MOHAVE COUNTY GEMSTONERS SHOW April 14th & 15th 2012

This has been a pretty good show in the past. Lots of vendors and slabs for sale. Show will be on Saturday from 9am to 5pm. Sunday 9am to 4pm.
Location is 3420 N Burbank Kingman, AZ
From I-40 and Stockton Hill Rd; Go North on Stockton Hill rd and turn right on Airway Ave. go one block and turn right on Burbank. Go half way down the block and show will be on the left. Addmission is free.

List of Vendors  http://www.gemstoners.org/

Field Trip April 17th 2012

We will be going to a new area that was a old gold/silver mine. There is some good Yellow materal good for cabbing. I have seen a sample that looked like it had silver ore in it. Rich and Judy Kluge will be leading Us on this trip. We will meet at 9:am Tuesday April 17th 2012.
Directions; From Hwy-95 and El Rodeo Rd, Go East on El Rodeo Rd for 5miles to end of pavment. Meet on the right across from road to dump. YES this is the road Taco Bell is on. Sorry for My mix up at meeting.

Kirby & Marji Sims Open House April 7th 2012

Don't forget Sat April 7th open house from noon to 3pm. Kirby has done alot of great things with rocks and other things over the years. Address is 1472 Mirada.

March 2012 Field Trip to Burro Creek

We will be going to Burro Creek March 22nd, 23rd, 24th & 25th 2012.
We will have a Pot-Luck Saturday night at 5:00pm. Club will supply the BBQ chicken.
This is 2 and 4 wheel drive trip.
The Club has rented the group camping area at the BLM camp ground.
We will be going to a few of the areas we have been before and exploring some new areas.
Please see the flyer to the right under SCRRC Information.

Pat New's Shop tour February 18th 2012

Pat & Gisela New will be hosting a Open house for Club Members of Pat's rock shop on February 18th 2012. Between 10:00am and 3:00pm.  Address is 7344 Kaiser Drive Mohave Valley

Geolgogy of Mohave County Presentation Feb 11th 2012

Saturday Feb 11th 9:00am to 11:00am at the Shriners club. The presentation will be given By Doyle Wilson who teaches at MCC Lake Havasu.

Quartzsite ROCKS In January 2012

Wed January 18th to Sun Jan 22nd 2012 Ouartzsite POW WOW. Lots of good rocks and equipment vendors. Last Year I went for the first time and realy enjoyed it. For Location See Link to their Web site under SCRRC Favorite Links.

January 1st to 30th At Desert Gardens. Located South side of  I-10 and  west I-10 exit to Quartzsite.
Lots of Rocks and Vendors

Also Rocks every place else in Quartzsite.

Have Fun
Mike

Field Trip to Silver Creek Saturday January 14th 2012

Alan LaVo will lead Us to Silver Creek to get squigly jasper on Saturday Jan 14th.
 We will meet at 9:00am at Silver creek road and Bullhead Parkway in Bullhead City. The trip is 4 wheel drive. We will be going in sandy washes. Tools needed are rock hammers and pry bar.
Hope to see You all There.
Mike