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Welcome...on this page you will find some important updates or last minute cancellations.  Bookmark this page, as it could be updated at the last minute. 

Effective 8/14/08 - NEW Membership Dues are $15 for Single, and $20 for Family.  This change is for anyone who joins or renews after 8/14/08...if you already paid prior to 8/14/08 you do not need to send more money.  Thanks!

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Don't forget our first fall meeting September 4th at 7:30pm at the Rochester School for the Deaf. Look for details in the newsletter that will come out the last week of August.

Upcoming Field Trips!!!

Kim Pandina is organizing a field trip to the Barton Garnet Mines in New York later this year...for more information, read this notice:  Tentative dig at Barton Garnet Mine Saturday 9/6 or 9/13. Please send me your name and how many people would like to go on the dig. Cost to go into the mine is about $10 per person. Date will be finalized around 8/28/08. I can be reached via email at: kim<at>pandajewels<dot>com

August 16 & 17, 2008...Rochester Academy of Science Mineral Section...Lewis & St. Lawrence Counties for albite, calcite, diopside, fluorapatite, talc, titanite, unakite, uvite, wollastonite. No facilities. Limit 10 EFTA. Contact mineraltrips<at>rasny<dot>org for more details.

August 16, 2008...Mid-Hudson Gem and Mineral...Ilion, NY...fluorescent & phosphorescent travertines. No age restriction. No facilities. Contact Carolyn Reynard at sunstone3<at>hvc<dot>rr<dot>com for directions and further instructions.

August 23, 2008…St. Lawrence County Gem and Mineral…Bowers Powers Farm for Uvite, quartz, apatite. Meet at St. Lawrence County Gem and Mineral Show, Canton Sportsman Club, Gouverneur, NY at 9am to sign up. Contact Bill at wdellie<at>northnet<dot>org.

Sept 6 or Sept 13, 2008...Rochester Lapidary Society...Barton Garnet Mine-Gore Mtn, NY...date to be finalized by 8/28/08. Contact Kim at kim<at>pandajewels<dot>com by 8/28/08 for fees and other details.

Barton Garnet Mine website: http://garnetminetours.com/index.html

 

Workshops--new time...workshops start at 7pm.

Click here to see the photo gallery of all the past events.

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