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The Georgia Mineral Society, Inc. 4138 Steve Reynolds Boulevard Norcross, GA 30093-3059 |
June 2019 Picnic and Auction
Potluck Picnic Food
Many people helped organize the picnic:Terrilyn Price, Barry Stewart, Diana Poppelreuter, and Juergen Poppelreuter.
Plus, members brought a panoply of potluck food!
Photos by Lori Carter
Love those dino muffins :o)
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Let's eat!!!
Awesome Auction Volunteers
Photo by Lori Carter
(Left to right) Elizabeth Lamb logged winning bids on a spreadsheet
Kim Cochran was, once again, auctioneer extraordinaire
Gabe Ori kept a manual record of winning bids
Jay Gorday helped set up lots and kept them organized during the auction
Photo by Lori Carter
Jane and Bob Stone (appropriate last name) volunteered to be "runners".
They held up 200 items during bidding and brought them to the winning bidders!
Junior Auction Items
With bidding starting at 25 cents in increments of 25 cents, juniors got some bargains!Photo by Lori Carter
Look at the cool junior stuff! The bag in the back is full of quartz crystals!
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A soapstone dolphin within dolphin carving
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This wooden dino was wagging its tail in the breeze
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Beautiful petrified wood!
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Herkimer "diamonds" -- wow!
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Fantastic green fluorite from China -- adults were jealous
Auction Items: Assortments
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Beads and other jewelry supplies
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Slabs for cabbing
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Box o' geodes
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Pre-cut agate nodules
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Corundum from India
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Partially tumbled agates and fossilized coral chunks
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Agates and other goodies
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More agates including some snakeskin agate
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Beautiful beads
Auction Items: Minerals
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Selenite clusters from Australia
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Botryoidal jade from California
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Huge cluster of selenite roses from Mexico
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Amazing azurite from Arizona
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Unusual calcite crystals
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Pretty pyrite/marcasite "dollar" from Illinois
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Gorgeous halite specimen from California
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"Cactus" amethyst from South Africa
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Calcite and pyrite crystal cluster from Peru
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Siderite and mica thumbnail specimen from North Carolina
Auction Items: Fossils
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Petrified wood slab from Indonesia (plus little blue fan thingy that attaches to a cell phone)
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Pyritized trilobite, possibly from Utah
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Incredible lobster Thalmesina anomala (Holocene) from Australia
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Excellent book about crinoids signed by the author
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Gomphotherium jaw frgament rescued from a construction site in Southeast Georgia
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Ammonite in matrix with possibly marine eaten wood from Wyoming
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Another beautiful petrified wood slab from Indonesia, no phone fan thingy though
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Fern and tree fossils from a field trip!
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Petrified wood poking a yellow ball in the eye
Auction Items: Other things that rockhounds like
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Worm-looking thing that is really the shells of a type of gastropod grouped together
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Unusual specimen of BBQ sauce and marinade
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Another specimen of BBQ sauce, just sauce, not marinade
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Hand truck apparently named Dolly
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Awesome glass display case
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Club t-shirt with artwork drawn by juniors!
Critters and Pseudo-Critters
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Lovely limestone duck
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Tiger eye tiger!
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Bowenite serpentine dragon -- it came with Turbo Tax software too!
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Buffalo fetish signed by the artist
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Butterfly pin made of sterling silver with rutilated quartz over lapis
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Frisky smoky quartz filly
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Bejeweled beetle pin
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Crocodile hatching out of a goldstone egg
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Little doggy with tape for a tongue
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One is Annie and the other is Ellie and neither holds still very long for a photo
Photo by Lori Carter
Gilligan, on the other hand, was a sleepy little slug
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Cue "Jaws" music here...
(Note the big industrial fan in the background -- Lawrence Parker made sure we were all cool :o)
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