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Volume XX, Number 4
Fallbrook, California
Rhodochrosite, Colorado Displayed in 1993 Tucson Show
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Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society, Inc.
123 W. Alvarado Street, Suite B, Fallbrook, CA 92028
Phone: (760) 728-1130 Web site: www.fgms.org e-mail: [email protected]
President.........................................................Vanessa Jones.............(760) 889-9587
Vice President................................................Mary Fong/Walker.......(760) 723-3484
Secretary........................................................Rhonda Byer.................(760) 728-9319
Treasurer/Director of Finance .....................Gina Palculich..............(760) 728-2196
Director of Facilities.......................................Bill Hollingsworth...........(760) 726-5878
Director of Public Programs.........................Joella Olson..................(760) 451-3217
Director of Education...................................Mike Evans....................(760) 414-9722
Director of Member Services.......................Mishell Rose..................(760) 728-6599
Director of Development.............................David Mitchell..............(760) 723-4197
Lithosphere Editor..........................................David Mitchell..............(760) 723-4197
fgms.org Webmaster.....................................Karl Ahnell....................(760) 723-9994
California Federation Representative.........Gina Palculich.............(760) 728-2196
Volunteers for Minerals Representative......Garth Bricker.................(760) 728-1333
Membership...................................................Janice Bricker...............(760) 728-1333
Refreshments.................................................TBD
Publicity..........................................................TBD
Programs........................................................Mike Evans....................(760) 414-9722
Field Trips.........................................................Karl Ahnell....................(760) 723-9994
Fund Raising...................................................Board of Directors
Historian..........................................................Gina Rawson................(951) 695-0305
Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society Museum
Museum Curator............................................Garth Bricker................(760) 728-1333
Assistant Curator............................................Mike Evans....................(760) 414-9722
Gift Shop.........................................................Gina Palculich.............(760) 728-2196
The Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society is a §501(c)(3), non-profit, educational
and recreational organization dedicated to promote the study of mineralogy
and allied earth sciences; to study and practice the art of lapidary; and to
promote good fellowship.
Regular meetings are held at 7:00 PM on the second Thursday of each month,
except February (generally the third Thursday) and July and August (no meetings), at 123 West Alvarado Street, Fallbrook, California. The public is invited to
attend our museum located at 123 West Alvarado Street. The museum is open
Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11:00 am to 3:00 PM and during special events
in the downtown area or by appointment.
Annual dues are $25 for adults, $20 for each additional adult in the same
household; $6 per child to age 17. The initiation fee is $6 per person. Membership fees must be submitted along with an application, obtainable from the
Society or its web site.
Affiliations: California Federation of Mineralogical Societies and the American
Federation of Mineralogical Societies.
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April Meeting
Thursday, April 14, 2011
7 PM FGMS Auditorium
Speaker: Walt Lombardo
“Diamond Occurrences in North America”
Diamonds are found in a variety of rock types and from a wide range of
geologic ages. In a relatively short time, Canada has become one of the
world’s leading diamond producers. Several diamond-bearing pipes are
known in the United States, and more are suspected. This talk will cover
the geology of the diamond host rocks, indicator geology, areas of known
diamond fields, and areas of future potential (including California). Besides
Walt’s program we’ll also have Greg Anderson giving us details on the
upcoming San Diego County Fair’s Gem and Mineral exhibit. We hope to see
you on the 14th!
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Walt Lombardo is a geologist/mineralogist with 30 years experience working
within the mining industry. For sixteen years he managed the Southern
Nevada office of the Nevada Division of Minerals, a state agency which
oversees the state’s mining, oil, gas, and geothermal industries. He has also
worked as geologist for American Borate Company (Death Valley), Cyprus
Gold (California Mother Lode), Eagle Hill Exploration (Arizona uranium),
and Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas. Most recently he was Manager
of North American Exploration for War Eagle Mining Company where he
coordinated germanium and gallium exploration projects in Indiana, Illinois,
Kentucky and the Czech Republic.
Walt owns Nevada Mineral & Book
Company located at 342 S. Tustin Street, Orange, CA 92866 (in Eldorado
Plaza).
Michael T. Evans
Michael T. Evans
Assistant Curator Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Museum
Refreshments for the April 14th meeting
will be Provided by:
Bonnie Parsley and Laurie Huber
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President’s Message
Last Friday we had a couple of rockhounds from Montana who came
to Fallbrook to visit our Gem & Mineral Museum after reading about us in
the January/February issue of the Rocks & Minerals publication. They were
impressed with our museum and gave us a very nice donation. It’s good
to know that we are getting recognized for our hard work and our museum
collection.
And, thanks again to Michael, Mary, Jim and Mark for putting
together that great article in Rocks & Minerals!
Vanessa
$$ Wear Your Name Badge $$
This month we will have a very special
‘Name Badge Raffle Prize’, a beautiful
prehnite with epidote specimen. Wearing our name badges makes it easier to
get to know each other!
Special Minerals For Sale
and Some Added to Raffle!
There will be an exciting batch
of new minerals for sale ranging
from $4 to $65. (Help out our
museum acquisition fund with
your purchases.) Also, a special
Morganite crystal from the White
Queen Mine, Pala, (value $150)
has been added to our group of
raffle prizes for this meeting..
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Garth’s World
Over the many years I’ve related many of my mining
adventures in my ‘Garth’s World’ articles in the
Lithosphere. This month I have put together an index of
those articles for those who would like to look up some that
they may have missed. From 2005 through the present
most of those articles can be accessed via our new
Garth Bricker,
website (www.fgms.org) on the internet. After accessing
FGMS Member
the website, navigate via the ‘Meetings & Newsletters’
and
header to the year and month for the Lithosphere that
will contain the Garth’s World adventure that you want to
Museum Curator
see. For a few Lithospheres that couldn’t be linked via our
website, you can find hardcopies available in the FGMS office. I’ll try to add
to this index in a future issue.
Lithosphere Issue
Garth’s World Topic
MARCH 2011
HAMBURG MINE NEAR RED CLOUD MINE
FEBRUARY 2011
CHAMPION MINE WHITE MT. RANCH OUT OF BISHOP
NORTH ON 395
JANUARY 2011
INESITE MAD RIVER DAM TRINITY CO. CA
DECEMBER 2010
INESITE MAD RIVER DAM TRINITY CO. CA
NOVEMBER 2010
INESITE MAD RIVER DAM TRINITY CO. CA
OCTOBER 2010
VANADINITE HAMBURG MINE NEAR RED CLOUD MINE
ARIZONA
SEPTEMBER 2010
FLUORITE ROCK CANDY MINE BRITISH COLUMBIA
CANADA
JUNE 2010
RED CLOUD MINE RED CLOUD WASH ROAD FROM
MARTINES LAKE
MAY 2010
FALLBROOK GEM & MINERAL SOCIETY HISTORY
APRIL 2010
TEACHING KIDS IN THE MUSEUM AND
CLASSROOM
MARCH 2010
HISTORY OF PALA AND WHITE QUEEN MINE
FEBRUARY 2010
MINING AT THE WHITE QUEEN MINE
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JANUARY 2010
WHITE QUEEN MINE PALA, CA
DECEMBER 2009
NEW METHOD MINE AMBOY TO KELBAKER RD. NORTH TO
HEADFRAME
NOVEMBER 2009
MOLYBDENUM MINE ON DIRT ROAD SOUTH OF SANTA
MARGARITA PK AND UP TO AN OLD BULLDOZED TRAIL
ROAD
OCTOBER 2009
STEWART MINE PALA SAN DIEGO CO CA
SEPTEMBER 2009
POLITICS ABOUT COLLECTING ON PUBLIC LAND
MAY 2009
FGMS EVENTS
MARCH 2009
INVITING STEINAR NORDRUM CURATOR OF NORWAY’S
SILVER MINES TO GIVE A TALK IN FALLBROOK AND TOUR
SOME OF OUR MINES
FEBRUARY 2009
GOING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE RED CLOUD MINE WITH
FRED RASP
DECEMBER 2008
MICRO MINERAL INFO. FROM GARTH’S NEW TO SCIENCE
MINERALS
NOVEMBER 2008
ANSERMATITE, NEW MINERAL FIRST FOUND BY GARTH IN
INESITE MINE
SEPTEMBER 2008
DEL MAR FAIR GARTH’S NEW MICROMINERALS
JUNE 2008
WULFENITE MINERALS AND ARTIFACTS FROM THE RED
CLOUD MINE
MAY 2008
CLIP MINE PAST THE RED CLOUD AND RED CLOUD MINE
APRIL 2008
OUR MUSEUM RED CLOUD DISPLAYED AT TUCSON.
MARCH 2008
RED CLOUD HISTORY
FEBRUARY 2008
DESCRIBING THE RED CLOUD MINE WAYNE THOMPSON
EXCAVATES THE RED CLOUD DIKE DOWN 60 FEET & I FIND
1880 DOLL IN GOOD CONDITION. WAYNE’S MINERS AND
MYSELF DID THE WORK.
JANUARY 2008
SICKLER DIGGING IN PALA, WHITE QUEEN
DECEMBER 2007
WHITE QUEEN MUCH INFORMATION
SEPTEMBER 2007
INTERVIEWING MINERS THAT OWN MINES IN OUR AREA
INTERVIEWED CAROL WOOLERY ABOUT HER 1880
ANCESTOR WHO WAS THE MINE AGENT FOR THE RED
CLOUD MINE, AZ
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MAY 2007
RED LOUD MINE, ARIZONA
APRIL 2007
RED CLOUD MINE
MARCH 2007
RED CLOUD MINE WITH PHOTOS
FEBRUARY 2007
RED CLOUD MINE
JANUARY 2007
RED CLOUD MINE
DECEMBER 2006
RUTILE WHITE MOUNTAINS CA NEAR BISHOP
NOVEMBER 2006
RUTILE WHITE MOUNTAINS
OCTOBER 2006
WHITE QUEEN MINE PALA INFORMATION ON SICKLER
IMPORTANT MINER AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY IN
PALA
JUNE 2006
MORE RUTILE DIGGING INFORMATION
MAY 2006
MORE RUTILE INFORMATION
APRIL 2006
NOTES ON WALLS OF MINING BOSS’S ONE ROOM LIVING
QUARTERS FROM VISITING ROCKHOUNDS AFTER WWII
MINERS WERE GONE. NOTES DESCRIBED MINERALS
FOUND AND ADVENTURES
MARCH 2006
HALE CREEK INESITE LOCALITY MAD RIVER, TRINITY
COUNTY
FEBRUARY 2006
HALE CREEK CONTINUED
JANUARY 2006
HALE CREEK INESITE LOCALITY TRINITY CO. JUST WEST
OF MAD RIVER DAM
JUNE 2005
BLUEBELL MINE--TURN LEFT AT ZZYZX ROAD AND
FOLLOW ROAD UP INTO THE HILLS FAMOUS FOR ALL
THE NEW MINERALS FOUND THERE.
JUNE 2005
WAR EAGLE MINE
MAY 2005
HALE CREEK INESITE NEAR MAD RIVER DAM, CA
APRIL 2005
HALE CREEK #5
MARCH 2005
HALE CREEK #4
FEBRUARY 2005
HALE CREEK #3
Garth
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Save These Dates!
April 17th, Sunday - AVOCADO FESTIVAL - Downtown Fallbrook.
April 30th, Saturday - FIELD TRIP - Sagamore Mine, Mojave National Preserve. Information and maps will be available at the April
meeting or contact Karl at [email protected].
May 21st, Saturday - BARBEQUE - San Diego Fair kick-off. FGMS
auditorium.
May 28th, Saturday - FIELD TRIP - Audrey Lynn Claim, Cahuilla
Mtn./Anza.
June 11th, Saturday - FIELD TRIP - Ant’s Hill / Bakersfield - for
shark’s teeth.
August 20th, Saturday - PICNIC & MINERAL SWAPMEET - FGMS
auditorium.
and MUCH MORE....stay tuned.....
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Help FMGS save $$$ on office supplies.
Bring us your used
ink jet printer and toner cartridges
for us to recycle for credits toward future
office supply purchases.
Camp Paradise Classes Available
Camp Paradise Located 50 miles east of Maryville, CA. Earth Science
Study Program (open to all members of CFMS) . 1st Week. Registration
9/4/2011. Classes 9/5 thru 9/9/2011 2nd Week. Registration 9/11/2011.
Classes 9/12 thru 9/16/2011 Classes available include: faceting, carving, lapidary, silver-smithing, wire art, enameling, and more. You build
your own class schedule. Contact Marion Roberts at (209) 538-0197 or
[email protected]
Museum Docents Needed
The Good Ship “FGMS Museum” is sailing every weekend. She needs
to have a “Captain” to manage the “Helm”. Who wants to be in charge?
The dates needed are: April 15,16,21,28, May 7,14. You may sign up at
the meeting April 14. Let’s all of us do our “tour of duty” to keep this proud
vessel afloat.
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Vista Club to Hold Show
The Vista club will be having their 3-day show next weekend from
Friday the 8th thru Sunday the 10th. Address: Antique Gas & Steam
Engine Museum 2040 North Santa Fe Avenue, Vista CA 92083 Call
them for more information: Tel. (760) 941-1791
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Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society, Inc.
123 W. Alvarado Street, Suite B, Fallbrook, CA 92028
Phone: (760) 728-1130 Web site: www.fgms.org e-mail: [email protected]
Copyright © 2009 by the Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society, Inc. Except for items that
are specifically copyrighted by their authors, other societies may use material published in
Lithosphere provided proper credit is given and the sense or meaning of the material is not
changed.
Lithosphere is published monthly (except July and August) and is sent to all members of the
Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society as part of their membership.
Exchange Bulletins: Free reciprocal exchanges for the bulletins of other gem and mineral
societies are welcomed. Please send all exchange bulletins to:
Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society
123 West Alvarado Street, Suite B
Fallbrook, CA 92028
Lithosphere Editor: David Mitchell – e-mail: [email protected]
Lithosphere Staff: Garth Bricker
FGMS Web site: http://www.fgms.org
Contributions: Copyrighted material must be accompanied with a written release from the
copyright holder. Original, personally-written articles will be published with a copyright
notice in the author’s name if requested; otherwise submissions will be published without
individual copyright. No anonymous submissions will be considered; however, the submitter’s
name may be withheld, or a pseudonym used, upon request. All material is subject to editing.
Unless previously arranged, submissions become the property of the Fallbrook Gem and
Mineral Society. Send all submissions to the Editor.
Deadline: The deadline for all material is the 25th of the month prior to publication.
Disclaimer: The opinions and conclusions expressed in Lithosphere are those of the authors
and do not necessarily represent those of the Officers, Editor, Advertisers, or members of
the Society.
Advertisers: Adverts must be related to the focus of FGMS and Lithosphere. All display advertising must be paid in advance. Full page $120.00 for 10 issues, equivalent to 1 year, or
$15.00 per issue Half page $60.00 for 10 issues, equivalent to 1 year, or $7.50 per issue
Classified advertising is free for FGMS members, but is subject to editing and placed based
on availability of space.
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