GMS     The Georgia Mineral Society, Inc.
4138 Steve Reynolds Boulevard
Norcross, GA 30093-3059

June 2016 Picnic and Auction

Photo by Lori Carter

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Petrified wood from Columbus, GA
Photo by Lori Carter

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A pair of pyrite suns
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Nice green fluorite cluster from Illinois
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Classic septarian nodule
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Beautiful spheres and a geode
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A little kiln
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Tiger eye rings
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Heulandite -- very pretty
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Fossilized coral and crinoids from Tennessee
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Copper sphere
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A slab saw!
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A cabbing unit!
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Two pretty spheres -- jasper (top), serpentine (bottom)
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More lapidary equipment
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Tumbled lapis
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Quartz with chalcopyrite in a little nest
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Beautiful soapstone jar from Africa
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Splash copper and some spheres
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Pyrite spheres
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Some big fossilized shark teeth!
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Copper cubes (man-made but so cool!)
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Robin's egg blue glass eggs
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Celestite from Madagascar -- in a little nest
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Rock tumbler!
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Pretty citrine
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Water lily gutter thingies
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Jack Lalanne power juicer plus a crinoid fossil
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Botryoidal hematite
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Intricately carved soapstone egg
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Beautiful coral
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Geode!
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Agate slab butterfly
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Lovely turquoise and silver ring!
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Agatized coral
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Spectacular sulfur specimens
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Another turquoise and silver ring!
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Mineral book -- love those books!
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Real stone light shades!
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Barite from Morroco -- in a nest
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Weird fossilized oyster shells
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Helmet shell with Apollo carving
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Jade and silver ring
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Magic tree kit!
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Cherry quartz eggs (dyed, but really pretty!)
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A package of carrots, sliced and microwavable -- plus a laboradorite egg
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Impressive handmade knife
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Petrified wood from Wyoming
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Habanero salsa to spice up some citrine from Brazil
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Decisions, decisions...
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So many great lots -- need to start a list
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Looks like Shelley is eying those water lily gutter thingies...
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Barbara Larsen won a beautiful amethyst specimen for volunteering at the May show!
Photos by Lori Carter

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I always forget to take pictures of the food before it is decimated...
Photos by Lori Carter

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Kim was the auctioneer with Jay Gorday and Margaret Ronan as runners,
then Bill Waggener filled in to give Kim a break
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Juniors only lot -- laboradorite egg and a book about rocks & minerals!
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Juniors only lot -- a book about dinosaurs in the South plus a chicken that poops bubblegum eggs!
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Junior chair Mary Gurney brought supplies for juniors to make bejeweled fans!
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Gilligan had his own DVD player so he was pretty happy...

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...but then he broke it -- oh well

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