Sunday, November 4, 2012

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

Monday, October 22, 2012

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

Monday, October 15, 2012

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


Sunday, September 16, 2012

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

Friday, April 6, 2012

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.