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1 The next meeting will be held on Friday, September 14th at 7:00 PM. Everyone is welcome, including members, member guests, and visitors. We meet at the Chico Alliance Church Daycare (entrance in the back). Address: 3670 Chico Way NW, Bremerton, Washington. Elected Officers for 2018 President: Shane Schackmann (360) Vice President: Bill Little (360) Secretary: Talena Webb-Klumper (360) Treasurer: Wendy Carlson (360) Club website: Club Facebook page: Mineralandgemsociety/ Club September 2018 Greetings fellow rock hounds! Thank you to all who participated and donated materials and time to this years fair. It was a great turn out and we even ran low on tumbled rock, which the club still needs plenty of and it does not have to be perfect, just something without sharp corners for kids at next years fair. Please use the trading post in the news letter, contact Danielle Foss to put in any items for sale or requests. In accordance with the bylaws I have requested a change to article 5 section 5 which states the number of officers and members at large to constitute a quorum. This would allow two fewer members at large be in attendance to hold a vote on issues that may arise for the club in the future. On another subject I have been moved to a swing shift for my work and I will not be able to attend the meetings from September through November. The vice president Bill Little has been informed and will be filling in for me during that time. I will still be available to be contacted for any reason, and I will continue to help where and when I can in any capacity. Jack Eads needs volunteers for rock talks, please contact Jack if interested. Thank you all for this opportunity to serve as president. Very respectfully, Shane Schackmann From the Port Townsend Club: We are back on the workshop schedule, with workshops on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. That means one is coming right up on the 8th. Workshops are from 10am to 4pm. We have meetings on the last Monday of the month at 7 pm, this month its on Sept 24th, we have snacks and talk about rocks, this month we will be talking about the upcoming club elections, so if you would like to run, please let me know. In December, we don't have any meetings but we do have a party and an auction of rock stuff, then it's back to normal in January.

2 SE P TE MBE R Year s Schedule: PAGE 2 September Refreshment schedule: Show and Tell (Display Table) If your last name starts with A thru B it is your turn to bring refreshments! Finger foods are always best as they can easily be placed on a napkin. Please stay and help Karen in the kitchen with setup and clean-up. C thru D Oct We will have a display table (show and tell) at the September meeting. You can bring in any lapidary, mineral, or fossil-related item that you wish. Of particular interest would be things you ve found or crafted yourself. You can also bring in items that you have bought if you feel they would be of interest to other members. Juniors are encouraged to participate in this part of the meeting. E thru F Nov -Garry- G thru H Jan I thru L - Feb M March N thru R April S May T thru Z = June A thru B Sept Monthly club raffle There will be raffle tickets sold at the entry door located where you come into the meeting. Tickets are 3 for $1. If you wish to donate something to the raffle, just bring it in and set it on the table. Raffle tickets are drawn until all items on the table are gone. Money from the raffle is used to pay our monthly rent at the church. Donations are always needed and appreciated! Monthly Silent Auction There will be a silent auction at the club meeting. There is usually one table set up for adults and another one set up for juniors. If you wish to donate something to the silent auction, please give it to Doug Leider at the meeting. Fall Festival of Gems 2018 November 17th and 18th, join us in the President s Hall at Kitsap County Fairgrounds Hours are 10am 5pm, Saturday and Sunday Free Admission Demonstrators, Mineral Displays, Vendors, Child Friendly Activities, Crafts, Silent Auction and more!

3 Critter Making We will be preparing prizes for the spinning wheel at the upcoming "Fall Festival of Gems" show. We will be doing rock painting and critters and possibly one other rock craft. We will be meeting at the Reimers' home. Dates are tentatively set for September 22nd, October 13th and 27th. We will start around 11:00 AM and stop around 3:00 or 4:00 PM each day. Lunch is included. If you are interested in attending, please contact Kathy Reimers for directions at or (360) We always have a good time making these prizes and it helps the club get ready for our big show! Kathy Reimers PAGE 3 From the Rock Club Crafters: The Rock Club Crafters had a group display in the fair as well as individual displays by: Karen Demerick, Pat Fagan and Andrea Homan. Andrea expressed much gratitude for the help of the Rock Club Crafters for helping her with getting her fulgurite display set up. It was after 7 PM when Andrea got to the fair after work so she was quite relieved to see what a great job Annie Laurie Burke and Cathy Cowsert had done setting up the fulgurite display. AnnieLaurie Burke and ViQ'Tree Keefer will be demonstrating their jewelry making techniques in the Hobby Hall at the State Fair on September 12th starting at 2pm for a couple of hours. One of the things that will be displayed at the Puyallup Fair in the Hobby Hall Puyallup club lapidary exhibit is the Rock Space Needle that was at the 2009 Fall Festival of Gems. Rock Club Crafters have scheduled the third Wednesday of September and October for workshops in Silverdale's Michael's Crafts classroom. September, 19th 1-4pm October, 17th 1-4pm

4 PAGE 4 From the Mineral Council: The next combined board meeting in Ellensburg will be 09/28/18 at the Palace Cafe at 9:30am. The next Mineral Council field trips are below: Upcoming Shows (

5 The Kitsap County Fair PAGE 5 The fair was a great success, and as usual, Doug Leider pulled off a great booth for our club with the help of Lorene and some great volunteers! Doug nearly ran out of polished rocks to hand out to the kids, so be sure to keep your tumblers going because more polished rocks will be needed in November! There s Doug, doing a little demo! Lorene is below, manning the table! Thanks for all your hard work!

6 SETTING A RIVET Brad Smith Bench Tips PAGE 6 Riveting is usually done with a cross peen hammer, but I've found it's a lot easier for me to hit the rivet wire when using a small ball peen - and the smaller the better. Shown here is one I typically use. It s about 3/8 inch diameter on the back of a chasing hammer, but I ve been thinking that a 3/16 inch ball might be even better. Look for a yard sale hammer you can modify to work. SHEET WAX WITH ADHESIVE While shopping in the Los Angeles jewelry district for supplies for our class, I found a new product that may interest some of you. Often before casting, I want to increase the thickness of a model by adding a layer of wax on the back side. For instance, models like a leaf or a flower petal do not cast well unless you add a little extra thickness. The problem is trying to apply a coating of wax that's smooth and even. The new product I found is an easily moldable sheet wax with an adhesive coating. This lets me easily add thickness to a very thin model. With a leaf, just press it onto the wax, trim excess wax around the outer edges, and then gently bend the sandwich to the contour you would like. The wax is available in a number of different thicknesses from about 26 ga to 14 ga. If interested, my supplier is Jewelry Tools & Supplies 412 W. 6th Street #1011 Los Angeles, CA jtstech@sbcglobal.net For more tips or to learn new jewelry skills see Amazon.com/author/bradfordsmith Many thanks, - Brad

7 PAGE 7 Check out this cool website! Looks like Bob offers classes and trips about rockhounding around Washington and Oregon! Gator Girl Rocks America's Best Rockhounding Resource Rockhounding Arkansas Arkansas is a terrific state for rockhounding. The state nicknamed the Natural State, includes the best place in the United States to look for diamonds. At Crater of Diamonds State Park, rockhounders may find diamonds as well as amethyst, jasper, garnet, quartz, and agate. In addition, Arkansas is home to Mount Ida, which is nicknamed the Quartz Crystal Capital of the World. More bauxite and vanadium ore has been mined in Arkansas than in all other states combined. Arkansas also is an important source for novaculite. The state, with its karst topography, has numerous caves. In addition, Arkansas has Ice Age fossils (mammoth, saber-tooth cat) and over a dozen meteorites have been discovered in the state. State Rocks, Gemstones, Minerals, Fossils, & Dinosaurs Rockhounding Tip: Knowing state rocks, gemstones, minerals, fossils, and dinosaurs often can be very useful information for rockhounders. Ordinarily, states with significant mineral deposits, valuable gemstones, fossils, or unusual or significant rock occurrences will designate an official state mineral, rock/stone, gemstone, fossil, or dinosaur to promote interest in the state s natural resources, history, tourism, etc. Accordingly, such state symbols often are a valuable clue as to potential worthwhile rockhounding opportunities. State Rock: Bauxite (1967) The Arkansas General Assembly designated bauxite as the state s official state rock in Bauxite is a light brown or reddish-brown rock composed primarily of aluminum hydroxide, with smaller quantities of silica, iron oxide, and titania. Its form varies from massive (of uniform consistency) to pisolitic (composite containing many spherical concretions). Bauxite forms by the weathering of nepheline syenite under tropical conditions (a process called laterization) and is a type of lithified soil that is relatively low in silica and high in aluminum. Arkansas made bauxite its official state rock in recognition of the ore s importance in Arkansas and the nation. Bauxite deposits in Arkansas (especially Saline and Pulaski Counties) are far greater than in any other U.S. location. Bauxite was found in Arkansas, without being properly identified, in At the time, the rock was practically unknown, having been discov-

8 PAGE 8 ered only 21 years earlier. At the turn of the century, when industrial processing of bauxite was being developed, Arkansas state geologist, John C. Branner, identified the rock, and within a decade, production had begun in what would become the town of Bauxite. A subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America (later the aluminum giant Alcoa) began mining and processing the ore in 1899, and by World War I, in 1918, Arkansas produced 560,000 tons about one half the world s supply. During World War II, Arkansas supplied 98 percent of U.S. aluminum, a critical contribution to the war effort during a time when Nazi submarines made importation of aluminum too hazardous. Arkansas quarried 6,000,000 long tons in 1943 alone, and state officials placed a 20-ton boulder with a commemorative plaque in the state capital. State Gemstone: Diamond (1967) Arkansas designated diamond as its official state gemstone in Diamond is a transparent crystal of tetrahedrally bonded carbon atoms that forms the diamond lattice. Diamond is typically colorless, yellowish to yellow, or gray. Defects, irradiation, and impurities such as boron or nitrogen color the gem shades of brown, black, blue, translucent white, or pink, or rarely, green, red, orange, or shades of purple. Diamond is among the hardest natural substances known, and four times harder than the next harder natural substance. It was long thought to be the hardest substance found in nature, but early in 2009, scientists discovered two rare substances harder than diamond. Arkansas is the most significant diamond-producing state in the United States (diamonds also can be found in Colorado and a few have been reported in other states, likely the result of prior glacial activity). Diamonds were first discovered in Arkansas in Since that time, over 100,000 diamonds have been recovered from the site now known as Crater of Diamonds State Park. The average size recovered is about.21 carat. Colors of the diamonds range from white to yellow and brown and the natural crystals are usually rounded. The largest diamond found in Arkansas is The Uncle Sam, found in This diamond weighed carats. The Crater of Diamonds State Park, located in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, is the only place in the nation where you can dig for diamonds and keep what you find. This park is located over a kimberlite pipe that contains diamonds, garnets, and other gem crystals. State Mineral: Quartz (1967) Arkansas designated the quartz crystal the its official state mineral in Sometimes called "Arkansas diamonds," quartz is mined in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Rock quartz, such as that found in Arkansas, is colorless. The quartz found in the area surrounding Hot Springs, Arkansas is considered among the best quartz in the United States because of its exceptional clarity. Quartz is the most common mineral found on the Earth s surface, and the second most abundant mineral in the Earth s crust after feldspar. Quartz composes an estimated twelve percent of the continental crust; it makes up less of the oceanic crust. Made of silicon and oxygen, quartz occurs in basically all mineral environments. Quartz is hard, durable, weather-resistant, and relatively common. Quartz crystals formed as hot waters percolated through fractured rock in the Ouachita Mountains some 245 million years ago. Chemically pure sources of quartz are in much demand by industry as a source of the raw chemical feedstock for the manufacture of quartz wafers, silicon metal, glass, fused quartz, and optical fiber. Arkansas has the most significant economically valuable deposits of high-quality quartz in the United States. Read more at Gator Girl has a plethora of resources listed on her website. For links to other sites about Arkansas, check out her sight!

9 Juniors Section PAGE 9 Hello Junior Rockhounds! We will have a program in September. We will have a short talk on what to take on a field trip and some rockhound rules. Hope to see you there! Sincerely, Kathy Reimers, Jill Wetzel and Bobbie Sack - Juniors Leaders Check out this website for games and resources! Guide to Collecting Rocks Once you have determined you want to start a rock collection, the first thing you must do is decide what you want to collect. To begin, you may just start with rocks you find around your home and local neighborhood. Pick rocks that are attractive to you and unique in some way. Good organization skills are key when starting any type of collection. Rock collecting, stamp collecting, sea shell collecting, and coin collecting all have one thing in common: Organization. In order to display a great collection, you must be organized. The process begins with your first specimen. Here are the steps to Organizing your rock collection. Steps to Organizing a Rock Collection 1. Identification - Once you have a rock specimen, you need to identify it. There are hundreds of different rock types that can be identified, but all rocks can be grouped into one of three basic types of rocks, Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic. Begin by determining the type of rock. 2. Labeling - Now that you have identified your rock type, label it. Write down on an index card the rock s common name if you know it, the type of rock it is, where it was found and the date it was collected. By labeling your rocks, you can now organize them into groups which can then be stored together or displayed. 3. Cataloging - Cataloging is an extension of the labeling process. A catalog is a written archive of your rock collection. Each rock specimen has its own label which identifies it. Your catalog keeps a record of all your rocks. As your rock collection grows, your catalog will also include information on where your rocks are stored. An example of cataloging can be found at your local library. You can search for books by using the library s card catalog or computer catalog. Because everything is very well organized, you can find what you are looking for quickly. 4. Display - The last step to organizing your collection is to decide how you will display and store your rocks. By displaying your rocks both you and others can appreciate their natural beauty. When displaying your rocks be sure to keep the rock specimen and label together. If you keep your rocks in small cardboard, plastic, or wooden containers they will be easier to display as well as store. Using a protective container is an especially good idea for fragile samples. Acid free tissue papers can be used to protect especially fragile specimens.

10 PO Box 3342 Silverdale, Washington September TO: The Hard Rock News is the Official Publication of the Kitsap Mineral and Gem Society. Meetings are held at 7:00 PM on the second Friday of most months at Chico Alliance Church Daycare (entrance in the back). Address: 3670 Chico Way NW, Bremerton, Washington. The object of the Society is to provide a general dissemination of knowledge pertaining to the earth sciences; to sponsor regular meetings and field trips for the benefit of the membership and to be helpful along these general lines to one another. The Society is social and educational in character. Looking Forward to September and Beyond... Normal meetings resume in September. This month s meeting is Friday, September 14th. November 17th-18th is the Fall Festival of Gems. December 14th is our Christmas Potluck and Party! Club website: kmgs.org Club Facebook page: Editor Contact Information: Danielle Foss kitsapmineralandgem@outlook.com Phone: (360) Feel free to contact me if you want to put an announcement in the newsletter. Deadline for each newsletter is the 25th of the previous month.