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1 Rock Rollers Club, Inc. Meetings 4 th Tuesday P.O. Box E. 4 th Avenue Spokane Valley, WA Spokane Valley, WA Officers President David Rapp rappdavidl@comcast.net First Vice President---- Mike Shaw Second VP Sam Keiser Treasurer Tom Brown tom.g.brown@comcast.net Secretary Barbara Hordemann NW Federation of Mineralogical Societies Federation Director---- Dean McGill deanmcgill@comcast.net Federation Delegate--- Ben Odum Federation Alternate -- Jim Rundlett Washington State Mineral Council Delegate # Becky Gillespie gillesbj@q.com Alternate # Aaron Wigant Alternate # Dennis Carney Trustees 1 Year Trustee Terri Pratt Year Trustee Marian Knack manack@comcast.net 3 Year Trustee Leon Agee ageelap@aol.com Bulletin Committee Chairs Field Trip Mike Shaw mikeshawmoose@yahoo.com Historian Hospitality Bonnie Agee Juniors Library Dennis Carney Membership Marian Knack manack@comcast.net Public Relations/Marketing --- Refreshments Kathleen Govett kmgovett@yahoo.com Scholarship: 1 year-- David Rapp rappdavidl@comcast.net 2 year-- 3 year-- Show Board Editor Becky Gillespie gillesbj@q.com 2012/13 Chairman ---- Mike Shaw cell mikeshawmoose@yahoo.com 2011 Chairman Gerry Pfeiffer patgerrypfeiffer@hotmail.com 2010 Chairman Leon Agee ageelap@aol.com Dealer Chairman Gerry Pfeiffer patgerrypfeiffer@hotmail.com President David Rapp rappdavidl@comcast.net Treasurer Tom Brown tom.g.brown@comcast.net Bulletin Advertising: Business Card Size $12.00 yearly* or $7.00 for six months. Ad must be copy ready *any change of ad within that year is $12.00 additional fee Non-member advertisement $1.00 per line Rock Roller Club Dues: Adults $15.00 yearly Juniors no fee - Non-member newsletter subscriptions: $10.00 yearly Rock Roller Bulletin is published monthly. The editor is not responsible for the authenticity of information in articles accepted for publication, nor are the opinions expressed therein necessarily those of the officers of the Rock Rollers Club, Inc., and/or the editor. Club Affiliations: American Federation of Mineralogical Societies Northwest Federation of Mineralogical Societies Washington State Mineral Council American Lands Access Association -- // Rock Rollers Web page:

2 Vol. 53 No. 6 Rock Rollers June 2013 Page 1 ROCK ROLLER MEETING BOARD MEETING Tuesday, June 25, 6:00 pm Tuesday, June 22, 10:00 AM 9517 E 4 th Ave 9517 E 4 th Ave Spokane Valley, WA Spokane Valley, WA Juniors 6:00 pm, Tuesday, June 25 News to editor by July 10 Lapidary Shop Hours: 6-8 pm Mondays and Tuesdays except fourth Tuesday (meeting night), In bad weather look on Facebook or call Mike Shaw (cell ) to check on possible shop closure. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MAY 28, 2013 The meeting was called to order at 4:30 pm by President David Rapp. Correspondence: Erma Riese thank you and Pendleton, OR, rock sale. Treasurer s Report was given by Tom Brown. Minutes of April Meeting were approved. Newsletter: Submission due date is June 12 to Becky Gillespie. Programs: The June program will be presented by Bruce Hurley. July is the picnic. Show Report: Tom Brown presented a financial report. Mike Shaw asked for ideas for next year s show show board meetings will begin in June. Two club rock tumblers need a new home with members willing to run them to produce the stones for the grab bags. Field Trips: Mike Shaw will share details at the general meeting. Membership: Marion Knack reported 154 members. Scholarship: Next drawing will be at the June meeting. Library: Marion Knack logged in new books and the titles will be in the next newsletter. Dennis Carney will be the new librarian. New Business: Mike Shaw will put together a need list for the shop. The June board meeting will be followed by inventory. Next Board meeting will be Saturday, June 22 at 10:00 am at the club house. All members are welcome. The meeting was adjourned at 5:50 pm. GENERAL MEETING MINUTES MAY 28, 2013 Barbara Hordemann, Secretary The meeting was called to order by President David Rapp at 6:03 pm, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Guests were introduced. EWU Scholarship Raffle: The next drawing will be at the June meeting. The items are a gem book (donated by Agee Lapidary), a labradorite keepsake box (donated by Agee Lapidary), a pen set, and an amber necklace & bracelet set. Donations for the raffle are appreciated. For the preliminary scholarship drawing, the mystery rock, two Oregon limb cast agate slabs, were won by Randy Anderson and Carol Boisjolie. The meeting was temporarily adjourned for a two-part program: A show wrap-up report by Mike Shaw, who asked for ideas for next year s show. Then Show and Tell with over a dozen different specimens and their stories shared with the club.

3 Vol. 53 No. 6 Rock Rollers June 2013 Page 2 Attendance: Fifty members, five junior, and seven guests. Door prize winners were Dennis Carney (sunstones) and Cyndie Doppler (box of sea shells). Beginning with the June meeting, one prize will be reserved for a name badge wearer. Junior door prizes: Emma Evans (amethyst bracelet), Jalina Colvin (painted owl necklace), Delaynie Jennings (pink geode), J. Jennings (wolf head painted rock), Jared Imel (bismuth crystal). There were eight items in the Silent Auction: a vibra tumbler, a quartz geode, a pair of elk antlers, a butterfly jasper specimen, and four Biggs jasper specimens. The business meeting was resumed after a refreshment break organized by Kathleen Govett. Treasurer s Report was given by Tom Brown. The show s net will cover the club s expenses for next year. The club bought material from an estate several weeks ago, and needed membership approval for the expenditure. A motion was made, seconded, and approved to spend the money. Correspondence: Erma Riese sent a thank you. Glen Lee of Pendleton Oregon sent a flyer on the sale of his rock collection. Details were in last month s newsletter. Programs: The June program will be a presentation by member Bruce Hurley. July is the annual picnic. Newsletter: Becky Gillespie (gillesbj@q.com) needs your submissions by June 12. WA State Mineral Council: Becky Gillespie could not attend our meeting. She told Mike Shaw that the Mineral Council did not have a quorum, so no business was conducted. NW Federation: Ben Odum received a flyer on the Forest Service s Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA). If you want to know what is happening in a particular national forest, type in the forest name followed by SOPA. Show Report: For the last five years, each show date has been different. The last weekend in March is now supposed to be permanent. We will lose some vendors due to this change, but there is a waiting list. Show advertising was discussed. Library: Marion Knack logged in new books and the titles will be in the next newsletter. Dennis Carney will be the new librarian. Field Trips: Mike Shaw. Check the club website forum for up dates. May 29 trip to Loon Lake for azurite & malachite with the Panorama club. June 8 trip to Solo Creek for quartz crystals. June 15 trip to Emerald Creek, ID for garnets. July 12 trip to Lolo Pass for smoky quartz. September 8 trip to southern Oregon for sunstones. Membership: Marion Knack said new members are listed in the newsletter. Lapidary Shop: The shop is closed on Saturdays till fall. The estate sale included a shop saw. Two silversmithing classes: 6/21-22 a beginning class and 6/23-24 an adv. bracelet class. Lost wax casting class-6/27-6/30. Old Business: The summer picnic will be Sunday July 21, at Brown s Park, at 32 nd and Pines Road in Spokane Valley (the same location as last year). There will be a rock swap. New Business: Next Board of Directors meeting is Saturday, June 22 at 10:00 am at the club house. All members are welcome. The meeting was adjourned at 7:45 pm Barbara Hordemann, Secretary

4 Vol. 53 No. 6 Rock Rollers June 2013 Page 3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING: Saturday, June 22nd at 10:00 am. JUNE PROGRAM Mike Shaw At the June meeting, Bruce Hurley will talk about the history and geology of the former Nevada Test Site (NTS), now known as the Nevada National Security Site. Approximately one thousand above-ground and subsurface nuclear tests were conducted on the NTS from 1950 through 1992, and geology was the most important component of radiation containment for the final thirty years of the test program. HOSPITALITY Bonnie Agee member ill, etc.,?? Call Bonnie Agee REFRESHMENTS Kathleen Govett A big thanks to David Camargo, Aaron Wigant, Jim Rundlett and Kathleen Govett for the May 28th General Meeting refreshments. As usual, we were treated to a good feast. Tom & M.J. Brown, Cathy Reynolds, Vonnie Dillion, Mildred Scheel and Marian Knack have signed up to furnish refreshments for the June 25th General Meeting. Just a REMINDER - the annual picnic is July 2lst. We plan on eating around 12:00 pm. The club will furnish the hamburger and hot dogs (and the fixings) and ask members to bring side dishes and desserts. Cathy Reynolds is running bingo this year and has gathered up some new prizes. She is asking anyone with some games, i.e., croquet, badminton, etc., to bring for us to play. Don't forget to bring rocks to swap. Hopefully the maintenance crew won't wash the area down before we arrive this year! Hope to see y all there! CLASSES Mike Shaw The Don Norris classes (silversmithing, lost wax casting) have been cancelled due to poor attendance. The summer time is not the best time for classes. SHOP NEWS Mike Shaw Don't forget the big shop cleanup on Friday, June 21st at 3pm. We'll be working on the equipment, cleaning it, replacing the sandpaper, cleaning out the slabsaws, going through the shelves and boxing up the rocks for the silent auction at the show. As you've noticed, we're getting more crowded on shop nights and don't have time for the little things. It's time to take care of them. Wear old clothes! Shop Realities If the club keeps growing as it has been, we're going to have to have more room and more power to the equipment. We have more equipment available, but we need to start thinking about how to have more room. Also, the equipment can't stand up to any abuse. If you wouldn't do it to your several thousand dollar machine, don't do it in the shop! Work larger rocks on the 8" wheels, don't do anything but cabs on the Genies. Don't use the fine trimsaws for anything over 1/2" thick. There is a trimsaw for that and we'll show it to you if you're unsure of which one it is. Only use one slabsaw at a time, unless you check first to see if anyone else is interested in using it. If you aren't using any equipment, sign out at the front desk. If you come over at the end of the evening and say you only worked a short time, you'll be charged for the entire time unless you sign out. You can always sign back in. If you forget to sign in, you'll be charged for the entire evening. We're unable to keep track of each and every one in the shop. Time is charged in ½-hour increments.

5 Vol. 53 No. 6 Rock Rollers June 2013 Page 4 MEMBERSHIP Marian Knack Welcome New Members: Ryan Hennessy Peter Jenson Ron LaPoint Rikki Martin LIBRARY Marian Knack Junior Trinity Stanton (sponsored by Ryan Hennessy) Richard Rueger Marshall Shapiro Dennis Carney has offered to take over the Library Position and he took it over as of May 28, I really appreciate this Thank you Dennis. The following books were with one of the rock collections we purchased. They were logged and filed in the library in May. 414 Rhodes, Zim, & Shaffer Fossils, A Guide to Prehistoric Life 415 Zeitner, June Midwest Gem Trails 416 Pearl, Richard M. Rocks & Minerals 417 Orchard, W. J. The Stone Age (Arrow Heads, etc.) 418 Sabina, Ann Rock & Mineral Collecting in Canada 419 Newman, William Geologic Time 420 Tilling, Robert Volcanoes 421 Heliker, Christina Volcanic & Seismic Hazards on the Island of Hawaii 422 Pakiser, Louis Earthquakes 423 The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington: The Geologic Story of the Spokane Flood 424 Walker, John Elementary Geology, Applied to Prospecting 425 Hagar, DeWitte Guidebook to Rocks & Gems 426 Minton, Robert & Hazel How & Why of Picking Agates 427 Pearsons, Howard More B.C. Gem Trails w/maps 428 Pearsons, Howard B.C. Gem Trails, 3rd Edition 429 Minerals Note #1: Book #429 is a book of information and beautiful pictures of various minerals. Note #2: A correction to the books listed in the previous newsletter ALA Casting Company book #404 should be book #413. FIELD TRIPS Mike Shaw photos by Tina Long The trip to Squaw Valley was a beautiful day to be out in the woods. It was cool and sunny up in the mountains, with lots of great people to share in the adventure. Enough crystals were found to show us they were there, but the mother lode eluded us. We all had fun, though, and it was a real treat for the kids to be allowed to get as muddy as they wanted!

6 Vol. 53 No. 6 Rock Rollers June 2013 Page 5 Emerald Creek Our next trip was to Emerald Creek in Idaho which rewarded us with some larger garnets this time. Ben Odum found a 3-ounce garnet, Dale Ruperd found a 2-ounce one and Vonnie Dillon found a partial one that weighed at least an ounce. It's going to be very interesting to see if there are stars inside. It was a warm sunny day, almost too warm. We all did well, though. Madras PowWow June Wednesday, 6/26 begins the big Madras PowWow, which is a huge gathering of rockhounds in Madras, Oregon. I've never been, but I've been to some of the places they go and the PowWow is on my bucket list of things to do. Some of the ranches they go to are only open during this trip. Here is information from their website: SUMMER EXTRAVANGANZA: June 26 - June 30, 2013, the Madras Pow-Wow Gem and Mineral Show is at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Madras, OR. Camp on a grassy field for a small fee. The grassy field has no hookups but water, showers and toilet facilities are close by. A sewage pumping truck will be available during the event and will pump holding tanks for a fee. The fairgrounds RV Park is adjacent to the event, has full hookups and is managed by the fairgrounds. The daily field trips (depart 8:00 am) to dig for agate, jasper, thunder eggs and petrified wood are on private ranches. There is a small fee for materials taken. Bring your rock hounding tools. Daily events include a rock toss for the kids, rock swapping for both kids and adults, free nightly entertainment starting at 7:30: movies with popcorn, bingo, door prizes or a great auction. Come visit the many dealers with everything from rough rock to finished jewelry and equipment to fill all your lapidary needs. Lolo Pass July Our trip to Lolo Pass for Smoky Quartz takes place on Saturday, July 13th and Sunday, July 14th. We'll meet at the Lolo Hot Spring Resort parking lot aross the street from the camping area at 9:00 am Mountain Time which is 8:00 am our time. You'll need to make reservations right away as RV sites are limited and the cabins may already be gone. The phone number for the campground is Lolo, MT, is about 1/2 an hour from the Resort and has many hotels. We've always found some smoky Quartz up there, but you have to shovel to find it. Lake Wenatchee July 27 We'll be going to Lake Wenatchee for Garnets on July 27th. These are different than the garnets found at Emerald Creek. They all will be almost perfectly shaped crystals. For those stretching their brains still, their shape is called a "rhombic dodecahedron". For those of us desperately trying to remember their own address like me, retention isn't required. Most are occluded (cloudy), but some are facet grade. I'm going to try panning, as there are literally thousands that slip through your screen that would be perfect for the treasure dig at our show. The basic tools needed are a shovel and a screen approximately 12 x 12 with 1/4 inch hardware cloth, similar to the ones at Emerald Creek. A box made of 2''x 2" s with a 1/4" screen bottom held on with thin strips of plywood is all it is. I'll bring one to the meeting so everyone can see it. Oregon Sunstones Sept Get prepared for the Oregon Sunstone trip to Pana Mines near Plush, OR, September 27th through the 30th. We'll camp near or on the Pana Mine property Friday the 27th and dig on Saturday. This will be a pay dig, with several ways of digging for different prices. The most expensive is $150 a day to stand at a screened table while they load sunstone bearing gravel for you to sort through. We'll stop on the way home Sunday to go to Glass Butte for obsidian and on to Hampton Butte for their colorful red and green petrified wood. We'll camp at Hampton Butte and continue home Monday.

7 Vol. 53 No. 6 Rock Rollers June 2013 Page 6 PANORAMA CLUB FIELD TRIPS Mike Shaw Rock Rollers joined the Panorama club for a May 29 trip to Blue Bird Mine near Loon Lake looking for azurite and malachite. photos by Jamie Dahlke A second trip was on Wednesday, June 5, to collect serpentine and pyrite at the Serpentine Mine near Chewelah. The remaining Panorama trips will be to Horseshoe Mountain (near Republic) for quartz and fluorite on Saturday, June 22; the Metaline Falls Quarry for trilobites on June 29; and a two-day trip to Idaho to the Clarkia Fossil Bowl for Tertiary plant fossils and Mica Mountain for pegmatite minerals on September 7-8. Additional information on these trips will be in upcoming issues of the Panorama Prospector newsletter. The June 29th trip will be lead by Bruce Hurley, the president of the Panorama Club in the Colville/Chewelah area and a member of Spokane Rock Rollers. He's very knowledgeable about trilobites and even can tell you what type of trilobites you're finding. You'll want to bring a hammer and cold chisel in order to split the shale they are found in. Also bring newspaper to wrap the shale pieces in, as they are rather soft and can be worn off the rock if they rub together. Meet at the North Division Rosauer s at 9:00 am near the Goodwill van. We ll join up with the Panorama club at the Tiger Store (Hwy 20 & Hwy 31) at 10:30 am. NFMS GEM & MINERALS SHOWS July Lower Umpqua Gem & Lap. Soc. Reedsport Comm. Ctr., Reedsport, OR July NW Montana Rock Chucks Flathead Co. Fairgrounds, Kalispell, MT July Washington Agate & Min. Soc. Parkside Elementary, Tenino, WA for more information see Some additional summer shows from the WSMC newsletter: July 4-7 Sisters Roundup of Gems Sisters Elementary, Sisters, OR July Darrington Rock & Gem Grange Hall, Darrington, WA

8 Vol. 52 No. 6 Rock Rollers June 2013 Page 7 CLUB CALENDAR: Field Trips, Classes and Other Events Date Event Meet at Materials Tools Cost 6/21 Shop Cleaning 3:00 pm Clubhouse Wear old clothes 6/25 Nevada Test Site by Bruce Hurley 6:00 pm Clubhouse 6/26-30 Madras Powwow Madras, OR Agate, Jasper, Thundereggs Digging & hard rock tools 6/29 Metaline Falls Quarry 9:00 am N Division Rosauers Trilobite fossils Hammer & Chisel 7/12-14 Lolo Pass Lolo Hot Spgs Resort 9am MT Smoky Quartz Digging 7/21 Annual Picnic Noon Brown s Park Dish to pass Chairs, table 7/27 Lake Wenatchee Cole s Corner (Hwys 207 & 2) Garnets ¼ screen, waders, shovel 8/3 Chewelah mines 9:00 am Chewelah Safeway Magnesite, Serpentine Light digging & hard rock tools 8/9-11 NFMS 75th Anniversary Show Butte Civic Center, Butte, MT Vendors, exhibits, speakers & field trips 9/6-8 Red Top Mountain Swauk Ck SP Friday Evening Geodes, agate, jade Digging & hard rock tools 9/27-30 SE Oregon Pana Mine, TBD Sunstones, Obsidian All Tools $150 Glass Butte, Hampton Butte Petrified Wood 10/? Saddle Mountain 9:00 am Sprague Rest Area Petrified Wood Digging & hard rock tools Notes: Sign-up sheets are available before each trip at the clubhouse. Updates and changes to calendar will be published in the monthly newsletter whenever possible. It can be found at Sometimes changes occur after the publishing deadline, so to be safe, contact Mike Shaw before each trip. Facebook will always have the latest information, as it can be updated immediately. Contact Mike Shaw at , cell or mikeshawmoose@yahoo.com

9 CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT in SE Idaho According to the sign, when it cooled, this lava tube shattered like pie crust and this lava tube collapsed like a soufflé. Spot the chipmunk (left photo) on the pahoehoe (ropy) lava formed when a thin skin of cool lava was shoved into folds by hot, more-fluid lava just below the surface. ROCK ROLLERS CLUB PO Box SPOKANE VALLEY, WA Save Stamps for Cancer Research