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Elected Officers for 2014
President:
Leslie Wing
(360) 275-5247
Vice President:
Bryan Tallman
(360) 432-0414
Secretary:
Danielle Foss
(360) 621-5603
Treasurer:
Shaina Schackmann
(360) 286-1545
President note, 2015 Elections,
KMGS booth at the POPM, KMGS
meeting time & place
1
Refreshments, msg. to past offic-
ers,& Nov. birthstones, Juniors
2
Committee chairs, Wire Wrapping
workshop info
3
Msg, from Gordon Eslaca, Of-
ficer’s breakfast, Pictures needed,
Critter Work party
4
October meeting minutes, Last
month’s program
5
Egg carton request, Hard Rock
Beaders, Monthly raffle & silent
auction, Facebook page link
6
Monthly bench tips, 7
More bench tips, Fluorescent rock
article.
8
Bench tips, Fall Festival of Gems
info
9
Looking forward to November and
beyond; Editor Contact Info
10
Inside this issue:
As many of you know Leslie suffered a stroke in August which left his left side paralyzed. He is now recovering at Liberty Shores Assisted Living facility located at 19360 Viking Ave, NW, Poulsbo, WA 98370. His cell phone number is (360) 649-7162, but if you leave a message he probably will not be able to respond to it.
You might want to pay Leslie a visit or give him a call. Please keep Leslie in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. Get well soon, Leslie!
A Note About Our
President, Leslie Wing
Celebrating 75 Years! November 2014 Club website: http://www.kmgs.org
2015 KMGS Officer Elections
We will have our annual election of officers at the November meeting. There are two officers that we need to elect: Treasurer and Vice President. We still need members to consider taking a position. If we can't get officers, we can't have a club!
Kathy Reimers
KMGS Has Been Invited to Display at the
Port Orchard Public Market (POPM)
We recently received an invitation to display at the POPM Nov. 7th (Friday, 10AM-7PM), Nov. 8th (Sat, 9AM-7PM), and Nov. 9th (Sunday, 11AM-7PM). The location of the POPM right in the middle of Port Orchard on Bay Street. We have been allotted a 10’ X 10’ area in the center of the building.
This will be a great opportunity to promote not only our club but also the Fall Festival of Gems, which will occur 2 weeks later. Selling of items at the POPM will be allowed.
Please stop by to help out or just come and visit.
Garry Mahan
KMGS November Meeting Time and Place:
The October General Meeting will be held on Friday, No-vember 14th, at 7:00 PM in the basement day care center (entrance in the back) of Chico Alliance Church 3670 Chico Way NW Bremerton, Washington. Members with disabili-ties are encouraged to arrive early as convenient parking spaces are difficult to find for those arriving late.
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Refreshment Providers for November 2014
For this month: If the first letter of your last name begins with O”, “P”, “Q” and “R” and anyone that was inadvertently missed
earlier in the year you will be responsible for bringing refreshments for the No-
vember meeting.
We rely on our club members to provide snacks for our General Meetings.
November Birthstones
There are two birthstones for November; Topaz and Citrine
Topaz is a gemstone available in a rich rainbow of colors. Prized for several thousand years in antiquity, all yellow gems in antiquity were called topaz. Often confused with citrine quartz (yellow) and smoky quartz (brown), quartz and topaz are separate and unrelated mineral species. The most prized color of topaz is called Imperial topaz after the Russian Czars of the 1800s and features a magnificent orange body color with pinkish undertones. Topaz also comes in yellow, pink, purple, orange, and the many popular blue tones.
Citrine, the other birthstone for November is known as the "healing quartz". This golden gemstone is said to support vitality and
health while encouraging and guiding hope, energy and warmth within the wearer. Citrine can be found in a variety of shades ranging from pastel yellow to dark brownish orange. It is one of the most affordable of gemstones and plentiful in nature. Citrine is found most frequently in Brazil, Bolivia, and Spain. - See more at: http://www.americangemsociety.org/november-birthstones
Topaz Citrine
Juniors
Hi KMGS Junior Rockhounds! Mrs. Sack will lead us in making a craft at our next meeting. It should be fun and you can show your creativity!
Kathy Reimers, Juniors Leader
To KMGS officers past and present
We will be celebrating our 75th year (1939 to 2014). The November show will be the site of special displays.
We will honor our officers, past and present with a breakfast on Sunday morning at the Eagles Nest (across
from the Pavilion) at the Fairgrounds 8AM to 10AM.
For anyone flying in for this occasion, Bobbie and Del can pick you up at a Kitsap Air Porter site or if needed
at the airport. We can be your transportation during this time.
I am attempting to get a discount at a hotel/motel locally.
For more info contact Bobbie Sack (360-277-0383), email [email protected] or Kathy Reimers (360-275-
5986), email [email protected]
For general Info see the October Hard Rock News/www.KMGS.org.
Saturday evening after the show closes we will have dinner at the AZTECA in Silverdale.
Photos are needed for past officers. Check our web site.
We will have a great time reminiscing about the past.
Please RSVP before NOV 15th.
See you all,
Bobbie Sack, club historian
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2014 KMGS Chairpersons
Membership
Evah Summers
(360) 689-3715
Juniors
Programs
Kathy Reimers (& Bob-
bie Sack,)
(360) 731-5963
dnkreimers@
yahoo.com
November Show Chair-
man
Gordon Eslava
(360) 830-4638
Refreshments
Karen Eslava
(360) 621-9830
Field Trips
Tony Schackmann
(360) 372-2777
werockon@
inlandnet.com
Silent Auction
Doug Leider
(360) 627-8142
Display Table
Tony Schackmann (360) 372-2777
werockon@
inlandnet.com
Welcome
Willma Eads
(360) 871-2445 jacke@
wavecable.com
Raffle Table
Mary Balderson (360) 908-8063
Cheer
Kathy McClure
(253) 265-3011
pogy2@
centurytel.net
Washington State Mineral
Council
Tony Schackmann
(360) 372-2777
werockon@
inlandnet.com
KMGS
Webmaster
Jack Eads
(360) 871-2445
Kitsap County Fair
Doug Leider
(360) 551-6921
Kitsap County Fair
Mark Fawcett
(360) 308-9942
Education
Jack Eads
(360) 871-2445
jacke@wavecable.
com
KMGS Scholarship
Wilma Eads
(360) 871-2445
Historian
Bobbie Sack
(360)277-0383
Hard Rock Beaders
Glenda Moore
(360) 286-9035
Wire Wrapping
Vangie Mayton
(360) 373-3370
Newsletter editor
Garry Mahan
(360) 871-2815
Librarian
Woody Woodside
(360)871-1458
KMGS Facebook
Gordon Eslava
(360) 830-4638
Please contact the
editor for any changes
or corrections to this
table.
Wire Wrapping Workshop
Normally this workshop meets on the fourth Tuesday of the
month at Vangie’s house. The next workshop is scheduled for
November 24th at 10 AM. Call Vangie at this number if you
need directions how to get to her place: (360) 373-3370
Spencer Opal
St. Helen’s blue agate
Make new friends
and keep the old.
One is silver and
the other is gold.
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Let the Show Begin
Final preparations are underway for our 31st annual Fall Festival of Gems. Most of vacancies have been filled and the floor plan and program has been completed. We had another successful Critter Making party and have 500 ready for the show. Now after a year of preparation, let the show begin.
This year, there will be three events taking place at the fairgrounds complex. There will be an event in the Van Zee building (on the left when facing the President's hall). That means parking will be at a premium. During show hours club members are encouraged to either park below on the left of the Pavilion or follow the road between the soccer fields and fairgrounds to the back side of the President's hall.
I'd like to thank everyone in advance because you are the ones that make a successful show. The following schedule will be used to get it accomplished.
Thursday November 20th 5 p.m. Take control of the President's hall and set up tables
Friday November 21st 8 a.m. Continue setup
Friday 6 pm Potluck for Dealers and members
Saturday November 22nd 10 a.m. Show opens
Saturday 5 pm Show closes
Sunday November 23rd 8a.m. Breakfast for past officers
Sunday 10 a.m. Show opens
Sunday 3 p.m. Raffle drawing
Sunday 5 p.m. Show closes
Sunday 5 - 9 p.m. Teardown and clean up
Gordon Eslava, show chairman
Officers Breakfast
Officers Breakfast at the Show: The Officers Breakfast will take place on Sunday November 23rd, across the street from the President's Hall at the Eagle's Nest. We will serve from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM. The show starts at 10:00 AM. We have received no RSVP's for the Officers Breakfast. Please give Bobbie or Kathy a call if you plan to attend. This is for officers and their spouses. We need some volunteers to help with prepa-ration of food and to help with the breakfast. Please contact Bobbie Sack or Kathy Reimers for further infor-mation. Kathy's contact information is (360) 731-5963 text or phone and home number is (360) 275-5986, email [email protected]. Bobbie's phone number (360) 277-0383. Kathy Reimers
Pictures of Presidents for the Show
We still need photos of our Presidents for a case at the show. If you do not want to provide a actual picture, please email one to Kathy Reimers [email protected]. ASAP please! Thanks!
Kathy Reimers
Thank You Critter Makers and Case Refurbishers!
We finished up critter making for the 2014 show on Saturday, October 25th. We got quite far in the refurbishing of cases over the three Saturdays. Those that participated: Terry Iversen, Jack and Wilma Eads, Gordy and Karen Eslava, Doug and Lorene Leider, Tony, Heather and Nathan Schackmann, Jim and Kathy McClure, and Del and Bobbie Sack (and of course, Dave & Kathy Reimers, ed.).
Kathy Reimers
October Meeting Minutes
The meeting was called to order by Bryan, our acting president, with the pledge of allegiance. There were many guests and they were welcomed with applause. We always love to see new faces!
Bryan moved right into show and tell. He had some jasper to show from Brown Creek campground. Garry had some “PBR” rocks to show (pretty black rocks) that he got in Port Townsend at the kinetic sculpture show. He had some possible black jade found on the beach and some nice “turquoise” which is actually dyed howlite. He also had an “UBR,” ugly brown rock! A sweet little Junior member named Ben had a nice marble key chain from Ire-land and some coprolite which is fossilized poop from a stegosaurus (he theorizes it’s from a stegosaurus anyway)!! He had slate as well! What a great show and tell. There were some faceted stones by Jim McClure and they are gorgeous. Jason brought a belt buckle and bead-ing that he has been working on and it looked great. He has been finding good stuff at yard sales and turning them into lovely projects. Carlos, a junior member brought petrified wood
and some flint and some fun stuff to show with some great stories. It was a great show and tell for the junior members to-night! Jack Eads finished up the show and tell with his arrow heads nicely framed and some buffalo nickels.
The club will have a booth at the Port Orchard Public Market on November 7, 8, 9th to promote our club and the November Gem show. There will be display cases and information for anyone interested in the show or the club. Please sign up to help! It should be a fun weekend.
Kathy McClure had some news about our president, Leslie Wing, who has been hospitalized for over a month. He seems to be improving slowly and his speech is getting better. His recovery will be slow. Please consider sending him a note or stop-ping by to see him if you get the chance.
Jill had an excellent program about geology. She went on a field trip to collect samples of pyroclastic flows. Pompeii is has a great example of a pyroclastic flow as well as Mt. St. Helens. She had some interesting pieces she collected to show includ-ing pumice and “pyroclastic material.” Pyroclastic basically means fire rock. All the rocks are igneous rocks and can be any variation of basalt to andesite to many other materials. She had a slide show with some animations of Mt. St. Helens where she studied the pyroclastic flows. She had all kinds of interesting information about the flows and what her team observed and documented at the mountain.
Bryan led us to break and the raffle. Then we moved to the business of the meeting. Gordy discussed the November show and reminded everyone to help out and participate. The show is a big part of what we do and we always need volunteers. Donations are needed for the silent auction and of course case displays for the show, as well as tumbled rocks. Bryan an-nounced that he will be doing a presentation on jade next month. Bryan mentioned the need for the vice president. Woody volunteered to be vice president for the rest of this current year, and it was seconded at the meeting and voted affirmative. This will help finish out the year with our need for officers. We will still need a vice president and a treasurer for next year so please consider running. Bryan adjourned the meeting at about 8:55.
Danielle Foss, Secretary
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Danielle Foss
Last Month’s Program
Below are two of the photos Jill Wetzel showed us during her geology presentation. The program was very
educational and interesting and was presented as a PowerPoint presentation.
Jill Wetzel gave the program Mt. St. Helens - before eruption Mt. St. Helens - after eruption
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Save those egg cartons & small samples for the Scouting Clinic at our November show
The clinic and the scouts will be ready to play again for the 10th year at our annual November show. If club mem-bers have egg cartons or samples of rocks (at least 50 of any kind that would fit in an egg carton) that they would
like to donate, I will be there in November at the meeting to get them. Thank you! Mike Heesacker
Monthly club raffle
As usual there will be raffle tickets sold at the entry door located where you come into the meeting. Tickets are
50 cents each. 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.
Monthly Silent Auction
There will be a silent auction at the October club meeting. There is usually one table set up for adults and anoth-
er one set up for juniors. If you wish to donate something to the silent auction, please give it to Doug Leider at
the meeting.
Facebook Page for KMGS
https://www.facebook.com/KitsapMineralandgemsociety
Hard Rock Beaders
Many of the Hard Rock Beaders will be selling some of their beautiful bead work at the Port Orchard Public Market KMGS booth November 7th & 8th. Stop by and take home some special treasures!
We will be teaching “How to Make a Beaded Cabochon” at the November Gem & Mineral Show. Over 100 kits are made and ready to go! You can sign up to share your skills for a short time-slot to help others learn how to embroidery beads around a cab.
The Hard Rock Beaders gather twice a month to bead on our own projects and learn new techniques. Please join us on November 5th and 19th at the Silverdale Vintage Apartments at 6:30 pm.
The easy to find Vintage is the large yellow complex above the Silverdale Target store. The best parking is behind the building, or in any un-numbered space. Follow signs to the “Leasing Office” and call Glenda at 360.286.9035 for building access. We meet in the lobby at 6:30 before going to the large crafting room.
Glenda Moore
Some of the beaders
pause for a photo op
Some of the kits
made by the beaders
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Monthly Bench Tip from Brad Smith
SILVER DISCOLORATION Working with jewelry involves an ever increasing number of skills. Chemistry is one of them that comes into play when dealing with a discoloration on the metal caused by a chemical reaction between it and the environment. In the case of Sterling silver there are three discolorations we typically encounter: a tarnish, a firescale, and a firestain. Each is different in its cause, in its cure and in its prevention. All three have to do with the metals in the Sterling alloy (92.5% silver and 7.5% copper) and how they react with oxygen and the heat of soldering or with pollutants in the air over the long term. Tarnish is a grayish coating that builds up slowly on the surface as a result of a reaction of the silver with sul-fur-based compounds in the air. Typically these are pollutants from the burning of petroleum fuels, but they can come from other sources as well. I once tarnished all the silver in my display case by putting a pretty specimen of iron pyrite in with the jewelry. Turns out pyrite has sulfur in it! Sulfur combines with the silver to form a grayish silver sulfide film on the surface. Preventing tarnish involves keeping sulfur away from the metal. Plastic bags will help, and anti-tarnish strips are available from jewelry supply companies to pack near your items. Tarnish is easily removed by hand pol-ishing with a jeweler's cloth or with one of the products sold for cleaning the good silverware for holiday din-ner. Another way is to remove it chemically. Put a piece of aluminum in the bottom of a dish large enough to con-tain your piece. Heat enough water to cover the silver. Mix in 2 tablespoons of sodium carbonate per cup of water and pour into the dish. Be sure the silver touches the aluminum. Sodium carbonate is the main ingredi-ent in washing soda. Read the labels in grocery and hardware stores. The second type of tarnish is called firescale. It is the dark gray to charcoal colored film that forms on Sterling or other copper alloy like copper or bronze when we heat it with a torch. The copper in the alloy reacts with oxygen in the air to form a dark cupric oxide coating on the surface. Luckily, the oxide is easily removed by dissolving it in a mild acid - generally called a pickle. It's important that we not let firescale form on a solder joint because it will block the flow solder over the joint. Prevention can be done two ways. Most common is to use a flux, a borax-based solution applied to the metal before soldering. When melted, borax forms a thin glassy layer that keeps oxygen away from the metal. A second way is to do your soldering on a charcoal block. Together with the flame, charcoal greatly reduces the amount of oxygen in the area being soldered. In either case oxygen is prevented from reaching the metal, so no cupric oxide firescale is formed. A second oxide can also be formed when soldering copper or a high copper content alloy like bronze or brass. It's called cuprous oxide and is reddish in color. That's why a black looking piece you put in the pickle sometimes comes out red. Problem is that while the black cupric oxide is dissolved by a pickle, the red cu-prous oxide is not. The discoloration can be sanded or polished off, but an easier way is to use a "super pickle". This is a mixture of fresh pickle with a healthy shot of hydrogen peroxide from the local store. I've saved the worst form of discoloration, firestain, for last. Think of firescale (above) as like getting dirt on your shirt that you have to wash off. Firestain is like getting ink on it. The discoloration is not just on the sur-face, it seeps down and stains the material. Firestain happens when we heat a piece of silver too hot, too long, and/or too many times. Firestain ccurs when the oxides start to build up below the surface of the metal. You generally don't notice it until after polishing. It appears as a darker area of the surface and is easy to spot (continued on next page)
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when viewed under light (bounced off a piece of white paper. Because firestain is below the surface, there's no easy bench tip solution. Depletion guilding may work for some pieces. Otherwise, removing it calls for sandpaper and aggressive pol-ishing. A much better approach for a piece that will require a large number of solderings is to protect the metal from developing firestain by applying liberal coats of a firecoat. Regular soldering flux will provide some protection but will not be as effective as preparations made specifically for the task. _____ SOLVENT DISPENSER Frequently I need to fill a small bottle with alcohol, like an alcohol lamp or one of the nail polish bottles that I use for the yellow ochre anti-flux. Often I can't find a small fun-nel and end up spilling almost as much as I get into the bottle. It's wasteful, and the fumes can't be too good for you either. A neat and inexpensive solution is to use a lab dispensing bottle to store small quanti-ties of the solvents you frequently use. It has a wide mouth for filling and a fine tip for dispensing. You can get a small stream or just a drop or two. With the bottle's fine tip I don't spill a drop. There are many suppliers on Google. One I've used is Carolina Biological Supply Company at www.carolina.com The bottle is Catalog # 716580 Unitary Wash Bottle, Low-Density Polyethylene, 125 mL US$ 5.35 Get all 101 of Brad's bench tips in "Bench Tips for Jewelry Making" on Amazon.com: http://amazon.com/dp/0988285800/
WHY DO ROCKS FLUORESCE? (from Washington Agate & Mineral Society newsletter Nov. 2014)
The word takes its name from fluorite and was first discovered by Vincenzio Cascariolo, cobbler and part-
time alchemist. In 1602, he tried to smelt a heavy white metal he thought was gold. He was very disappoint-
ed, and at one point he put it into bright sunlight. It seemed to drink in the warm light and afterwards it would
glow in the dark (it was calcined barite.)
It was two centuries before the significance was noted by Sir George Stokes. With the mineral fluorite, he
recognized the principle of fluorescence. He set it apart from other known forms of fluorescence, such as
"thermoluminescence," the beautiful flow radiated by many minerals when heated gently, from
"chemiluminescence," the cold light produced
by some chemical reactions, from
"bioluminescence," as seen in decaying
wood, and from "triboluminescence," the
sparks of light seen in the dark when struck
or scratched with a sharp object.
At that time the only known source of ultravi-
olet light was sunlight. Then in 1867, a
Frenchman by the name of Becquerel, using
a new "phosphorescope" detected a delicate
red fluorescence in calcite and timed its
phosphorescence at one-half second.
Rockhound Special June 2002 Fluorescent rocks
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More Bench Tips from Brad Smith
SOURCE FOR PLASTIC We often use plastic in our studios, like for a single part die or for a template. So it's handy to have a small supply along with the rest of your sheet, wire, copper and bronze. But we seldom think to buy and stock any plastic. The plastics store I go to has a scrap bin out back where they give away small pieces and scraps. I usually opt for the 3/8 and 1/2 inch thicknesses for use as forming dies, but there's always a variety of sizes and col-ors to choose from including thin sheets that are good for templates. You can find a shop with Google or the Yellow Pages. Next time you go to your local shop, it's worth asking to see if they have a scrap bin. ---------------- SMALL PARTS CONTAINERS I'm always on the lookout for small containers to use for holding those various little parts and tools we deal with in making jewelry, especially since I go back and forth to classes and workshops. My latest find are some plastic vials about 15 mm in diameter and 75 mm long. Best part is they are free. The vials are used in hospitals and doctor's offices to draw blood sam-ples. They must be thrown out after their expiration date. On my last doctors visit, I asked the nurse if they had any expired vials. She tried to give me 400 of them. We settled on 200. The ones I have are called "Vacutainers", but there are probably other brand names. They are sterile and made of clear plastic with a rubber stopper and a paper label all ready to write on. I find them really handy for small parts like jump rings, prong settings, small drills, nuts & bolts, faceted stones, and precious metal filings. Also shown are some other handy containers - pill bottles, the old 35mm film cans, and metal breath mint boxes. Get all 101 of Brad's bench tips in "Bench Tips for Jewelry Making" on Amazon.com: http://amazon.com/dp/0988285800/
See You at the 2014 Fall Festival of Gems! When: November 22nd and 23rd, 2014 (10a.m. to 5 p.m.)
Where: Kitsap County Fairgrounds, in the President’s Hall
Free admission
Free parking
Lots of dealers, display cases, silent auction, raffle prizes, demonstrators, & junior activities,
including a scouting clinic on Saturday.
Editor Contact Information: Garry Mahan
[email protected] Phone: (360) 871-2815
6162 E. Beaver Creek Rd, Port Orchard, WA 98366 Deadline for the November, 2014
Newsletter is
October 25th, 2014
Save Those Stamps
“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.
KMGS will be displaying at the Port Orchard Public Market (POPM) November 7th, 8th and 9th. Be sure to check it out!
The 2014 KMGS November show, the Fall Festival of Gems, will be here before you know it (November 22nd and 23rd). Bring
friends!. Tell your neighbors! This is our major funds producer and we need your help to make it successful.
Our Christmas potluck will be on December 12th at the Hillcrest Church located at 6750 State Highway 303.NE. Bremerton, WA.
Across from Wal-Mart. Set up at 5 pm—eat at 6:30. Slab bingo.
Feel free to contact me if you want to put an an-
nouncement in the newsletter. Keep in mind the
monthly deadline and that the newsletter usually
arrives around the beginning of each month, so
plan your announcement accordingly.
Contact information is at left. - Editor
November 2014
PO Box 3342
Silverdale, Washington
98383-3342
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