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ELGAMBRISINOGem Crafters & Explorer's Club Bulletin, Las Cruces, NM

Affiliated with the AFMS and the RMFMS

January 2011 - Volume 52 - Issue 1

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Reminders & Gen. Info

Our next meeting will be as usual on the third Friday ofthe month, Jan. 21

st, Room 118, Gardiner Hall on the

NMSU campus, 6:30 PM for socializing and 7 PM forthe meeting. Refreshments will be hosted by JannetteHale and Rose Mary LaPlante. There will be noprogram or Show and Tell this month as its time onceagain for our annual raffle.

The January meeting is our one and only fund raiser ofthe year better known as THE RAFFLE. Pleasebring any of your treasures, preferably rock or outdoorsrelated, (and please no JUNK) that you no longer haveneed of and, of course, plenty of one dollar bills. Therewill be new prices this year; tickets are fifty cents eachor three for a dollar. Don and Cookie Saathoff willonce again be hosting this event. Its a fun filled, fastpaced event so come prepared to have a barrel of fun.Remember, this is our only fund raiser for the year sobe sure to show up and support your club.

Don Saathoff will hold a Mineral Meeting theWednesday (1-26) following the regular meeting. It willbe at his lab at 6 PM. If you have a specimen that youneed help in identifying please bring it along. Everyoneis welcome to attend.

There was no regular meeting, no Mineral meeting orany field trips in December therefore there are noreports.

I am happy to report that the El Paso Show was wellattended by our members this year. Its always a goodshow with good vendors who always have a lot of

treasures for sale. The El Paso club is a very activeone and it was good to see that we could support it likethat. Did you know that all are invited on their fieldtrips?

The Doa Ana Archaeological Society will meet at 7PM Tuesday, 11 January 2011, at the Good SamaritanAuditorium, 3011 Buena Vida Circle, Las Cruces. Dr.Roy Brown will give a presentation on The Threads of

Memory, an exhibition that includes over one hundredmaps, drawings, letters and plans relating to the threehundred years of Spanish presence in America. DrBrown will select fifteen items, including the first map ofthe Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (1602), the firstmap of the Texas coast, and other interestingdocuments, to give a virtual tour of the exhibition. Themeeting is free and open to the public. Info 575-524-9497. The associated exhibition will be at the El Paso

History Museum startingJan. 22

nd.

Our dues were due Jan. 1st.

If you havent already doneso please fill out themembership form that wasattached to last monthsnewsletter and send alongwith your check to the

treasurer. She will also accept them at the meetingprovided it is in an envelope along with your check.

CHRISTMAS PARTY 2010

Once again the Christmas Party was a good time with

great food and lively conversation. We have Pat Graceto thank for the use of her lovely home and hospitality.Her Christmas decorations were abundant and pretty.I believe that there was a decorated tree in every room,very pretty.

There were about thirty of us spread out in the kitchen,dining room, family room and outside by the fire pit.Its always a lot of fun to get together with and visit withpeople one doesnt necessarily see all the time.

The potluck was a success as usual. What a spreadthere was, something for everyones taste. If anyonewent away hungry it was their fault (I didnt hear anycomplaints there).

The gift exchange was again a hoot. This year a toolholder and a mineral specimen were the hot items andgot traded a number of times before finding theirpermanent homes.

Many thanks go out to Pat for her gracious hospitality

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SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW CARBONby Andr Bourque

via New Diggings, Worchester Mineral Club, Dec. 2006

Ask just about anyone what the hardest substanceknown to man is and the answer will almost always bediamond. Until just last year that answer was correct.Now, the question needs to be modified to: What is

the hardest natural substance known to man?

The information for this article was culled primarily fromWikipedia.com which is a great site to improve yourknowledge on just about anything. For instance, didyou realize that the hardest natural substance and oneof the softest natural substances are both made ofcarbon?

Carbon, whose name comes from Latin carbo, is asimple element with 6 protons and six neutrons. Theform it takes in nature is primarily that of graphiteand/or oxides of carbon. Only under extreme pressure

and temperature can graphite be converted intodiamond. These conditions can be found in natureabout 90 miles below the Earths surface or in thecrater of a significant meteor impact. The heat andpressure required are staggering. Graphite isconverted to the more stable form, diamond; attemperatures of 1200C and pressures of 725,000pounds per square inch (psi).

Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in theuniverse by mass. Only Hydrogen, Helium and Oxygenare more abundant (in that order). Carbon formschemical bonds with other elements to make nearly 10million compounds known to science. However, it iswhen carbon bonds to itself that it is most interesting.There are actually 8 known forms (allotropes) ofcarbon. They are diamond, graphite, lonsdaleite, C60,C540, C70, amorphous carbon and a carbonnanotube. Diamond (a) is the hardest naturalsubstance as discussed above. Graphite (b) formssheets of flat six-membered rings. The sheets slidepast each other easily which makes Graphite ahardness of between 1 and 2 on Mohs scale ofhardness. Lonsdaleite (c) is a corruption of thediamond structure sometimes referred to ashexagonal diamond and believed to be formed innature from meteoric graphite. C60 (d), C540 (e) and

C70 (f) resembling soccer balls are fullerenes namedafter the architect Buckminster Fuller. These occurnaturally in candle soot which means you get tobreathe them in (tasty!). Amorphous carbon (g) is anassortment of carbon molecules in a glassy non-crystalline state. Coal is a good example although itshould be noted that the carbon is not amorphous inthe true sense of the word but instead is not organizedin a macrocrystalline form. Carbon nanotubes (h) arethe newest player and were

discovered during attempts to mass produceFullerenes. In 2005 Scientists in Germanycompressed C60 fullerenes at 2700C and 2.9 millionpsi to form aggregated diamond nanorods which areabout 11% harder than diamond.

So, where is all this carbon anyway? You may besurprised to find out that the estimated global carbonbudget breaks down as follows:

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STICKS N STONES

By Jon Stewart

For over 50 years, I have been around archery andhave tallied many firsts, but this year I experienced afirst that I will remember for years to come. Growing upin the late 50s and 60s, I learned a lot about archeryfrom my dad as he shared his knowledge with me. Dad

was an iron worker by day and ran an archery shop inthe evenings and on weekends. During that timearchery was all traditional. There were no 3-D shoots.Tournament shoots consisted of target rounds, fieldrounds and hunter rounds.

Over the years, I went through many archeryphases; I first used recurve bows, followed bycompound bows, then back to the recurve and finally, Iwas introduced to the longbow by a guy on a bear huntin Quebec, Canada. He was one of five hunters in ourcamp. He brought three handmade longbows which hecarried in a six inch wide PVC tube. My interest in

longbows and longbow hunting was sparked theminute I touched one of those bows. Soon we had adeal. Since I was making custom fishing rods, I tradeda Fenwick flyrod for one of his custom bows. I shot acouple of deer with this bow, but when it started tocome apart at the riser, I had to set it aside. Although afew years passed, the longbow was fated to cross mypath again.

Last year at the GLLI, my wife, Chris, and I wereworking the Camp Cuervo booth. Steve Turay ofNorthern Mist Longbows also had a booth at this event.I wandered down to speak with him since he has beena friend of my dads for many years. We mostly spokeof my dad and his health. While speaking with Steve, Ipicked up one of his Northern Mist Baraga longbows. Ireally liked the feel of the bow and the handle. Doesthis come in a lighter draw weight? I asked. I canmake it any draw weight you want, Steve replied.

That was settled easily; now I only needed toconvince Chris that I absolutely needed another bow.Again fate was working for me. Since it was ourwedding anniversary, Chris said she would order onefor me. Finally, last February, my Baraga longbow, witha 40# draw weight, was delivered to my home byDenny Every, longtime family friend. I shot it

throughout the summer and felt very confident that Icould hunt with it this year.

In the meantime, I had picked up another hobby. Ihad been experimenting off and on with arrowheadknapping for about a year. I started lessons with ScottFessenden in Hesperia over the summer, but since myretirement in 2001, Chris and I spend our winters inNew Mexico. It was there we made friends with fellowhikers who hunted for arrowheads in the desert. This ishow I met Mitch Mauer and learned he was a knapper.

While in New Mexico, I continued knapping with helpfrom Mitch.

The arrowheads we found were not fancy works ofart, but functional weapons. After finding a few heads, Icontinued to wonder how the Native Americans madethem and what materials and equipment they used.Every head came with thoughts about who made it and

how it was used and whether the maker wassuccessful in his hunt. Most heads found on the deserthad some part missing. It is very rare to find acomplete head. Arrowhead hunting really perked myinterest in continuing to learn how to make functionalhunting heads out of stone. My goal was to make asharp, stone arrowhead I could actually use whether itwould be made with flint, chert or obsidian.

I went to a knap-in in Flintridge, Ohio where I raninto many great knappers, including our own DonGilson who is a master in flint knapping. Donscreations are works of art. I thought if I could learn tomake a couple of heads just a tenth as good as Dons,I would have something good enough to hunt with. I leftFlintridge with a bucket of rocks and a double shot ofadrenaline.

Once home, I was knapping up to four hours a daytrying to get a head or two worthy of taking into thewoods on a hunt. Finally, I got one, then another. Aftera month, I made four heads that I thought were goodenough to mount on wood arrows. I worked sodoggedly that I developed tendonitis in my rightshoulder and had to have a steroid injection. At thishappening, my wife, who is a nurse, questioned mylogic. Is this really worth the pain and effort? Chris

asked. Of course, its for deer hunting, I repliedcandidly.

At this point, I went to work on refining arrows formy newly knapped arrowheads. I have been makingarrows for years and though they may not be pretty,they are effective in the field. After finding six straightcedar shafts, I stained them, followed by a dip ingasket lacquer. Using turkey feathers I had collectedfrom years of hunts with my son, Chad, I fletched thearrows. The next step was attaching the heads; thiswas a new skill for me. I searched a couple oftraditional archery sites on the internet where I started

to ask questions and look at photos. When I had ageneral understanding, I went right to work. I finallyfinished four arrows and showed them to Chris, who isan avid hunter also. They look great, she said with abig smile. Thanks. Now I need to take them into thewoods for the real test, I said excitedly.

The archery season started out slow. Our huntingcabin and land is surrounded by farm fields, which isusually a big draw, but with a bumper crop of acorns

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the deer seemed to vanish. Chad and I decided tochange our location to some private land with oakridges just a few miles away where we had set upstands earlier in the season. The evening was perfectwith very little wind, blue skies and bright sunshine.Even if deer didnt show, I felt that just watching thebirds and critters would be worth the sit. As theevening gradually faded, a small bird landed on my

arrow, then jumped to my bowstring and sat therelooking around. - Wow, I thought silently awed. Inever had that happen before; it made my evening.

A soft crunching noise startled the bird and itfluttered away. The noise was the kind of softcrunching that a deer makes as it walks throughdowned oak leaves. I carefully looked in the directionof the noise and saw two, nice-sized does walkingtoward me. Since I am able to shoot sitting, mymovement was very minimal. Time seemed to standstill.

One doe stayed farther out in front of me, while thesecond doe walked under my stand and stopped tosniff the ladder. She looked up at me and stared. Iclosed my eyes; my dad had taught me long ago neverto look a deer in the eyes, just close your eyes andwait until you hear movement again to reopen them.When I opened my eyes, the doe was moving towardthe oak trees. I decided that I needed to wait until shegot at least eight yards away before I could draw onher. She got to that point and as I started to draw, bothdoes bolted further away. The farther doe stoppedabout twenty yards out and the doe which had beenmy target bounded past her before stopping too. Shestood a minute before walking again. First, she came

toward me, and then turned broadside to walk towardthe oaks. Her belly got the best of her brain, I musedsilently.

She walked to a lone pine tree eight yards in frontof me; that is when I remembered another piece ofsage advice from my dad. When the deer are eating orwalking, it can impair their hearing providing a greatopportunity to draw on them. I waited until she got herhead behind the tree, and then drew on her. As I drewthe bow back, she crouched down as if getting ready tobolt. I let the arrow go and it hit her in the chest withabout a third of the arrow sticking out. She ran straight

away from me before hooking to the right; it was then Isaw the arrow moving up and down in her chest as sheran.

There is some real damage being done, I thoughtas I pondered the effectiveness of my handmade,stone arrowhead and wooden shaft

As it was getting close to dark, I walked back to mytruck. I told my story to Chad as we drove back to thecabin to wait for hunting buddy and longtime policepatrol partner, Joe Mahan. I told him the story too. We

were all eager to look for the deer; but, we have a rulewe follow: unless we hear our deer fall after the hit, wealways wait two hours before looking for it. So, it wasafter supper when we took to the woods with flashlightsand lanterns. At my stand, I pointed out where I hadlast seen my deer. She had run into an area filled withtall, doe-brown ferns. After an hour of searching wehad not found her or a blood trail, so we decided that

returning in the morning would be best. When we gotback to the truck, I noticed blood on my pants and Iknew that we would find her in the morning. Luckily, itwas supposed to be a chilly evening.

After the morning hunt, we took off to find my deer.Back at my stand, I again pointed out where I had lastseen my deer. Joe checked the immediate area forblood and Chad walked a runway. It was not even fiveminutes before Chad hollered out. Heres your deer,Dad! Like a young kid who had just shot his first deer,I ran toward Chad. My deer was lying on the ground. Itwas high fives all around, with my son patting me onthe back. Way to go, Dad!

I admired my deer, noting that she was quite large(testing by the DNR showed she was five and a halfyears old). Lets find my arrow, I said. This toowould prove memorable. I have shot many deer withwooden arrows and have yet to find one still in onepiece; they always seem to break. After looking aroundfor a few minutes and five yards, there was my arrow inone piece with the stone head still attached. My firstcompletely handmade arrow, still intact after the kill,was a great trophy.

For an archery hunt, this one will be long

remembered because I took a deer with merely a stickand a stone.

Jon Stewart and the deer

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You Might be a Rockhound If . . . .Reprinted from www.amfed.org

You describe your vacations by the rocks youbrought home. The rock pile in your garage is over your head. Your PC screensaver features pictures of rocks. You find rocks when you empty your pockets at night.

You gave rocks, tumblers, or rock tools forChristmas. When friends say theyre going to Tucson, youassume itll be in February. You can find quartz sites on a map in less than 5seconds. You can pronounce molybdenite correctly on thefirst try. The polished slab on your bola tie is six inches indiameter. The bookshelves in your home hold more rocks thanbooks; and the books that are there are about rocks. On a trip to Europe, youre the only member of the

group who spent their time looking at the cathedralwalls through a pocket magnifier. You are thinking about giving out rocks forHalloween. You planted flowers in your rock garden. You purchase things like drywall compound just tohave another nice bucket to carry rocks in. The club you belong to uses rocks for center piecesfor the annual Christmas dinner. The first thing you pack for your vacation is a chiseland a hammer. You spend hours and hours in the ugliest room inyour home. You bought the ugliest boots available because theywere waterproof. You know what findings are. You watch the scenery in movies instead of theactors. Your company asks you to not bring any more rocksto the office until they have time to reinforce the floor. The local jewelry stores and libraries give out yourname for information on rock clubs. You examine individual rocks in driveway gravel. Your local rock shops send you get well cards whenyou dont stop by in more than a week. The baggage handlers at the airport know you byname and refuse to help with your luggage. The city sends you a letter informing you a landfillpermit is required to put any more rocks in thebackyard. You shouted Obsidian! to a theater full of movie-goers while watching the Shawshank Redemption. Your children have names like Rocky, Jewel, andBeryl. You get excited when you find a hardware store with16 lb. Sledge hammers and 5 long pry bars.

You cant remember the last time your car still fit inthe garage. Local science teachers plan field trips to yourbackyard. You begin fussing because the light strips you

installed on your bookshelves arent full spectrum. Youve spent more than $10 on a rock. You still think pet rocks are a pretty neat idea. You have amethyst in your aquarium. You associate the word hard with a value on theMhos scale instead of work. You know the location of every rock shop within a100 mile radius of your home. You plan on using a pick and shovel while youre onvacation. Your spelling checker has a vocabulary that includesthe words polymorph and psuedomorph. You put a web page about rocks on the internet. Your car hasnt seen the inside of your garage for tenyears. You associate the word saw with diamonds insteadof wood. You begin wondering what a set of the MineralogicalRecord is worth. You decide not to get married because youd ratherkeep the rock. You make a backpack for your dog. Youve spent more than $10 for a book about rocks. You have mineralogical database software on yourcomputer. You send your family on ahead into MacDonald's so

you can check the gravel in the flower beds. You have 137 empty squeeze syrup bottles washedand ready to use as squeeze bottles on the next fieldtrip.

Via Pick & Pack, Sept. 2005

This list was written by members of the GMEDITORSE-Mail Swap Group. Contributors include Mel Albright,Richard Busch, Betty Commean, Dan Imel, Bob Keller,and Paul Kline.

For more surefire signs that you are a rockhound visit:Bobs Rockshop Surefire Signs Context

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How Geologic Time Periods Got Those Crazy Names.

The three geologic periods are the Paleozoic,Mesozoic, and Cenozoic, from the Greek forancient, middle and recent life. They are dividedinto 11 periods most of them names for places

where rocks from that period were first discovered.

The Cambrian Period (570 to 500 millionsyears ago) is named for Cambria (or Wales). Thenext two periods also have Welsh names:Ordovician and Silurian for the two Welsh tribes,the Ordovicies and the Siluries.

The Devonian is named for the Devonshire,and Cretaceous comes from Creta, Latin for chalk.Creta refers to the white cliffs of Dover.

The Jurassic is named for the Jura Mountainsin Germany and the Permanian for Perm in

Russias Ural Mountains.

The Triassicgot its name because it was reallydivisible into three parts. And the Carboniferousisnamed of carbon, because most coal deposits dateto that period.

The most recent periods are the Tertiary andQuaternary named for types of rocks dated tothose times. They are divided into epochs, whosenames all end in cene, a Greek root meaningrecent.

Pleistocene is from the Greek for the mostrecent. Preceding it are the Pliocene, Miocene,Oligocene, Eocene, and Paleocene, for the mostrecent, less recent, little recent, early recent, andoldest recent.

via Breccia 12/05

Alaska the Fragmented FrontierVia Fire & Ice, (Aug. 03)

Alaska is not the usual solid chunk of continent. It may consist of at least fifty separate terrains or rock masses, manyof which come from some other location. The only piece that may be an original part of the North American continent isa small area near the Canadian border, north of the Yukon River, but they are not sure even of that. David Stone of theUniversity in Fairbanks says the state is a garbage heap.

Alaska is an example of a relatively new concept in plate tectonics that the edges of many continents are made upof blocks of foreign rocks that have been slapped against them by plate motions. With the acceptance of the theory ofplate tectonics in the early 60s, they began to understand how, in the jostle and rearranging of continents, pieces couldbe broken off one land mass and attached to another that was nearby. Scientists who scoffed at even short distance

journeys by rock masses are now proposing an exploding continent in the ancient Pacific that scattered as pieces toevery side.

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of extinct single-celled organisms that are characteristic of Asia ratherthan North America. Paleomagnetic evidence in southwestern Alaska indicates that those rocks were formed furthersouth within 15 degrees of the equator, about 2000 million years ago. The block would have had to travel as muchas 9000 kilometer to its present position in Alaska and British Columbia.

The 50 major terrains identified as far, range in size from one mile to several hundred miles square, and each isbounded by major faults, believed to be the structures along which the terrains moved. Some are clearly from theedges of some unknown continent, while the others formed from ocean crust. Most believe that continents grow as softsediments and are scraped off the top of a plate as it plunges beneath a continent, like butter on a piece of bread. But,in Alaska the blocks are stacked side-by-side like plates in a dish drainer. They do not understand how this occurred.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid thewrong thing at the tempting moment

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Gemcrafters and Explorers Club "EL Gambrisino" Volume 52, Issue 10, November 2010 - 8 -

Why Try Micromounting?The Top Ten Reasons to Try Micromounting

An article by Julian Gray

Here's a top ten list - just like Letterman's, but without thecanned laughter. There are many reasons to get intomicromounting, but these are the top ten.

10 - STORAGE - While you probably can't fit a thousandmicromounts on the head of a pin, you can sure fit them in abox under your bed, making micromounting ideal forapartment dwellers or anyone who has heard the immortalphrase "Get those rocks out of here!"

9 - EASY COLLECTING - Field collecting superb 10 cmcrystals of a rare mineral isn't particularly easy, but themicromounter can find something of interest almostanywhere. Even poorly mineralized road cuts, or fossillocalities will often yield something of interest tomicromounters, if only calcite or pyrite crystals.

8 - PERFECTION - Micro crystals are perfectly formed andundamaged far more often than cabinet specimens. They are

the peak of aesthetics.

7 - VARIETY- There's only a few hundred minerals out therethat come in nice big crystals, and almost no new species arefound in sizeable crystals. Go to any mineral show and whatdo you see - table after table of aquamarine, quartz, andfluorite. Micromounters work with far more species thanhand-specimen collectors, and are familiar with far morerarities.

6 - LOW PRICES- The average price of a micromount is $3.Really expensive ones are $20. The initial expense of a goodscope and proper light is pretty steep, but after that you're set- you can buy fifty great specimens without breaking thebank. (Or why pay at all; trading your duplicates to other

micromounters around the world is a huge part ofmicromounting.)

5 - NO FAKES- When a lot of money is changing hands fora fine cabinet piece, one has to be wary that the specimenhasn't been altered or faked in some way. Fakingmicromounts is not only extremely rare, it's nearlyimpossible, as a microscope easily reveals glue where itshouldn't be.

4 - CHEAP SHIPPING- Sending 100 micromounts by airmailto Europe is far more affordable than 100 cabinet pieces.

3 - YEAR ROUND FUN - A large part of what drives field

collectors is the thrill of discovery. The micromounter with agood hoard of material doesn't have the constraints of a fieldseason - no matter what the weather is like he can pull somerocks out of storage, trim them down, and find fantasticcrystal-filled vugs never before seen by man. Themicromounter can delve through his stock of material andfind new stuff any day of the week, and he can go collectingin his basement even if it's 2:00 am and 20 degrees belowCelsius outside. It's a year round hobby.

2 - WEIRD & WONDERFUL- The micromounter sees thingsthat aren't even imagined by 'macro' collectors. Things likespiral Millerite crystals, Sweet Home Mine rhodochrosite

rhombs with moving bubble inclusions, or minerals like rutile,pyrite, and boulangerite in ring crystals, to name a very few!

1 - FREE STUFF! - Last time you went to your average,garden-variety mineral show, did they have tables filled withfine cabinet specimens free for the taking? At micromountsymposia, give- away tables loaded with interesting stuff arestandard practice. Micromounters are a very generousbunch! What, you need more convincing?

The financial crisis explained in

simple terms......................................

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Berlin. In order to increasesales, she decides to allow her loyal customers - most ofwhom are unemployed alcoholics - to drink now but pay later.She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (therebygranting the customers loans) .

Word gets around and as a result increasing numbers ofcustomers flood into Heidi's bar. Taking advantage of hercustomers' freedom from immediate payment constraints,Heidi increases her prices for wine and beer, the most-consumed beverages. Her sales volume increasesmassively.

A young and dynamic customer service consultant at thelocal bank recognizes these customer debts as valuablefuture assets and increases Heidi's borrowing limit. He seesno reason for undue concern since he has the debts of thealcoholics as collateral .

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert bankerstransform these customer assets into DRINKBONDS,

ALKBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are thentraded on markets worldwide. No one really understandswhat these abbreviations mean and how the securities areguaranteed. Nevertheless, as their prices continuously climb,the securities become top-selling items .

One day, although the prices are still climbing, a riskmanager (subsequently of course fired due his negativity) ofthe bank decides that slowly the time has come to demandpayment of the debts incurred by the drinkers at Heidi's bar.However they cannot pay back the debts. Heidi cannot fulfillher loan obligations and claims bankruptcy .

DRINKBOND and ALKBOND drop in price by 95 %.PUKEBOND performs better, stabilizing in price after

dropping by 80 % .

The suppliers of Heidi's bar, having granted her generouspayment due dates and having invested in the securities arefaced with a new situation. Her wine supplier claimsbankruptcy, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor.The bank is saved by the Government following dramaticround-the-clock consultations by leaders from the governingpolitical parties. The funds required for this purpose areobtained by a tax levied on the non-drinkers.

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UP COMING SHOW Dates:

JAN 1-FEB 28--QUARTZSITE, ARIZONA: Show, "Desert Gardens International Gem & Mineral Show"; DesertGardens RV Park; 1064 Kuehn St. (I-10 Exit 17, south side); 9-6 daily; free admission; crystals, minerals, rough,polished, jewelry, lapidary equipment; contact Sharon or Sandy, 1064 Kuehn St., Quartzsite, AZ 85346, (928) 927-6361; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.desertgardensrvpark.netJAN 7-16QUARTZSITE, AZ: Tyson Wells Rock & Gem Show.JAN 19-23QUARTZSITE, AZ; Pow Wow

JAN 19--QUARTZSITE, AZ: ALAA, American Lands Access Assn. is having a meeting in beautiful down townQuartzsite, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 9am (Mountain Time) This will be at the Senior Center on MoonMountain Road. ALL are welcome. The desert will be changing and not for the good of the public; no matter what youenjoy in the desert, large tracts of land will be taken for solar projects, and we will loose a number of collecting areas.YOU can help, please attend.JAN 22--QUARTZSITE, AZ: The annual meeting and officer installation of SCRIBEwill be held at the Senior Centeron Moon Mountain Road, just north of Main Street. Bob Jones, senior editor of Rock & Gem Magazine will be theguest speaker. SCRIBE is an international organization of current and former Bulleting Editors, Writers, andWebmasters of amateur gem, mineral, and earth science societies. There is a $2 registration which helps pay forrefreshments and building rental. Registration begins at 9am MST. If you come, please bring a rock or mineral toshare. We have a free drawing at the end of the meeting. Bring your bulletins, too, to share with the other editors. Thisis a great opportunity to visit with collectors from all parts of the country. In the past, we have had members fromCalifornia, Arizona, North Carolina, Idaho, Washington State, Utah, and even Alberta, Ontario and Nova Scotia,

Canada. Visit us at www.scribe.rbnet.net or our new Facebook community page (search for SCRIBE and select thephoto of our meeting building in Quartzsite).FEB 10-13, 2011 TUCSON, AZ: 2011 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, "Minerals of California", Tucson ConventionCenter, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Sunday; 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. contact [email protected] orsee www.tgms.orgFEB 14-16--GLOBE, ARIZONA: 54th annual show; Gila Co. Gem & Mineral Society; Gila County Fair Grounds, 3 mi.north of US 60-70 Junction; Fri. 9-5, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-4; live demonstrations, door prizes, displays, minerals, jewelry;contact Val Lathem, (602) 466-3060; e-mail: [email protected] 15-16--FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS: 42nd annual show, "Hill Country Gem & Mineral Show"; FredericksburgRockhounds; Pioneer Pavilion, Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park; Sat. 9-6, Sun. 10-5; free admission; contact JeffSmith, 208 Castle Pines Dr., Kerrville, TX 78028, (830) 895-9630; e-mail:[email protected]; Web site:www.fredericksburgrockhounds.orgMAR 18-20--ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO: 42nd annual show, Treasures of the Earth"; Albuquerque Gem &Mineral Club; Creative Arts Center Bldg., State Fair Grounds, EXPO NM (San Pedro entrance); Fri. 10-6, Sat.10-6, Sun. 10-5; adults $1 Fri., $3 Sat. and Sun., kids 12 and under free; more than 40 dealers, displays, doorprizes, silent auctions, mineral and gem identification, juniors' booth, live wolf, geode cracking, facetingdemonstration, gold panning and more; contact Paul Hlava, (505) 255-5478; e-mail: [email protected]

For further information or shows please check: www.rockngem.comWho knows, there just might be a good rock show in the area of your travels.

Thought for the Day: Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a bananaClassifieds: Dennis Applegate, a former member, has an Estwing Rock Scoop that he would like to sell.He used it only once and its like new. He would like $25 for it. You can reach him at 649-8746.

Some Interesting Web Sites for you to CheckOut Please send me any of your favorites that youthink others might be interested in and I will pass them along.

http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm Here is what happened when professional astronomers pointedthe Hubble Space Telescope at what appeared to be absolutely nothing and left it there, first for 10 days, and then for11 days. Then they made the images into a 3-D presentation. Watch this one, it's "incredible". Clinton Gill sent this in.

http://dalesdesigns.net/rock-on.htm This is fun no matter who you are. Nancy McDonald sent this one in.

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Gemcrafters & Explorers Club, P.O. Box 3091, Las Cruces, NM 88003Member of: American Federation of Mineralogical Societies www.amfed.org

Rocky Mountain Federation of Mineralogical Societies www.rmfms.orgBlue Ribbon Coalition www.sharetrails.org

2009 OFFICERS & volunteers:President Kathy Fuller 534-0204 [email protected] President Al Spencer 405-1939 [email protected] Pat Grace 915-472-6313 [email protected] Brenda Gadberry 202-0200 [email protected] Pat Mauer 526-4939 [email protected] Don Saathoff 382-3464 [email protected] Director - Eric Fuller 524-0204 [email protected] Editor- Maxine Wyman 649-4900 [email protected]

We meet on the third Friday of the month at Gardiner Hall, Room 118, NMSU campus, Las Cruces, NMat 6:30 pm for social and 7 pm for the meeting. There are no meetings in July and December. Duesare $10 per person per year and each additional family member is $2 per year. They are due Jan. 1st

of each year. A membership form will be emailed or mailed to you in December to be filled out andreturned with your check BY MAIL to the treasurer.

Our purpose shall be to gather knowledge and provideeducational benefits to members on geological,archaeological, lapidary, and mineralogical topics ofinterest, to include assistance to members in all lapidaryproblems, the study and identification of minerals andgem stones in the rough, the field study of geologicalformations which produce minerals and gem stones, thecollection of minerals and gemstones, and theexploration of any geological or archaeological topic or

area which may be of interest to the membership.

NOTE: All articles and photographs are by theEditor Maxine Wyman unless otherwise noted.

Any address or email changes must be sent to meat: [email protected]

Info for the Newsletter: If you have information, articles, pictures or a website related to gemcrafting, rock collecting or exploring and would like to share please give me a call at 649-4900 or email me [email protected] If you have a good idea or story to tell I will be more than happy to help you write itup. Also if you have minerals, outdoor or camping equipment, etc. that you would like to sell please let meknow for our FREE "Classifieds." Maxine Wyman, Editor

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