Repurposing Old Jewelry

On March 6th 2021 a group led by Gale Langford made a field trip to the Lighthouse Art Center in Tequesta, FL. Members of the group included Arlene Lazzaro (Club President), Lo Rain Dudley, Jenny Wright, Kelly Azor as well as Gale Langford.  The exhibit consisted of Radical Makeover Jewelry by a group of artists. Radical Makeover Jewelry is taking old or broken jewelry (junk) and using all of part of it to create a new piece.

 

 

More of the pieces and more of the group are shown below:

Franklin Museum Trip

Member Gale Langford gave a fascinating talk at the September 2019 membership meeting about her recent trip to The Franklin Mineral Museum in New Jersey.  The museum is an hours drive from Penn Station in Newark, NJ and is best known for the fluorescent minerals found there. In the short time available to her, Gale found a number of fluorescent specimens. She demonstrated how the specimens come to life under the short wave UV light. Gale also explained the different types of UV lights available and how you need a short-wave or UVC light for fluorescent minerals*.

 

Below are some photos Gale took while at the museum

Gale created a demo showing the rocks under ordinary light and under short-wave UV:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* UVA or long-wave is 315-400 nm, UVB or medium-wave is 280-315 nm and UVC or short -wave is 100-280 nm. You should wear eye protection when using UVC.

Field Trip to Hogg Mine

Shir-Lee Rosenburg organized a field trip to the Hogg Mine in LaGrange Georgia. The trip was a great success as you can see from the group photo below:

Shir-Lee said the following about the trip: “I want to thank everyone in the picture and all others that attended who helped make such a great successful field trip for all! Two days of digging bliss!
Buckets and buckets of Rose Quartz, Clear Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Aquamarine Beryl, and congratulations to those that found Aqua. A big find was a Huge Rose Quartz, extremely clear and of facetable material, and worth a nice sum of money!!! And not for sale!!!

Everyone dug to their best ability. Some created small caves where others dug along the side banks. Some brought home rocks that were so large that they required extra care and extra help to get them out.This is where the guides really helped. They not only helped to dig, identify and educate us on Hogg Mine, but their goal was, if we wanted it, they would help us get it.
The guides were instrumental in our club having such a great time and successful dig!!!

Again thank you so much for attending. Spread the word and hopefully I can organize another successful field trip in the fall to Hogg Mine. If you have any questions or would like to attend please reach out to me at anytime.”

To learn more about the Hogg Mine visit: http://hoggmine.com/

 

Some photos of the finds from the Hogg Mine