FIELD TRIPS
For our May Field Trip,
PGMC planned to join the Tri Club group to collect marine fossils in Somis on
the 8th, but only one member ended up making the trip. Thanks to Kevin Smith for displaying examples of
the fossils you collected at our monthly meeting.
On the horizon is a FT to the Montezuma Gold Mining District near Ranchita. A small group of members, including myself, recently accessed the road & mine conditions and have deemed it a ‘club-worthy’ trip. Dusty Rhodes has offered to talk about the geological features of the area & the mining activity which took place there in the 1920s. I am working to get a date scheduled for this day trip.
But just around the corner, from May 29 -June 5, our President Randy Beach will be in the Ludlow area to collect Thulite from Black Ridge and search for the local chalcedony source. Club members are welcome to join him for a day or two of digging/collecting. If you are interested, you can visit our Yahoo Group for more info (messages 2106 & 2113) or you can call Randy for the details.
Later on in the month, June 26 & 27, CFMS is offering a Double Tourmaline Field Trip to the Oceanview Mine & Himalaya Mine. See details below.
-Heather Valentine, FT Coordinator
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CFMS South - Double
Tourmaline Field Trip -June 26-27, 2010 WHEN: Saturday & Sunday June 26 & 27. The Oceanview on Saturday and Himalaya on Sunday TIME: As set by each individual mine. PLEASE check their websites. COST: Both mines are pay sites. Cost will be determined by number of CFMS attendees. Each mine has a limited number of spaces so reserve early. First come, first served. WEBSITES: 1. Oceanview: www.digforgems.com for location, directions, mine info, costs & reservations. 2. Himalaya: www.highdesertgemsandminerals.com for location, mine info, costs, & lodging. MATERIAL: Tourmaline, quartz, kunzite, morganite, garnet, lepidolite, aquamarine. RULES: All mine rules MUST be obeyed. When making reservations please put (CFMS) next to your name for tracking purposes and notify either Shep or Adam that your reservation was made. The Oceanview can accommodate 75 spaces, the Himalaya 50 spaces. We will meet each morning at the individual mines at the appointed times. They will handle the Waiver of Liability sign-ins. Attendees of last year's trip found tourmaline crystals weighing over 60 grams. Please see www.cfmsinc.org and click "field trips" for pictures and reviews of last year's tourmaline trip. For further information,
please contact: Adam Dean @ (909)
489-4899 or e-mail him: theagatehunter@verizon.net
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For Questions and Field Trip suggestions, please contact our Field Trip coordinator:
Heather Valentine
760-634-6760
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