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The Georgia Mineral Society, Inc. 4138 Steve Reynolds Boulevard Norcross, GA 30093-3059 |
48th Annual Mother's Day Show 2016
Photos by Lori Carter
Hospitality
Photos by Lori Carter and Shelley Stubbs
GMS volunteers are the secret to a great show!
Photos by Lori Carter
Ivy "the Grab Bag Guy" Edwards takes his grab bag duties seriously (seriously fun!)
Auction
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A lively auction with Bill Waggener as the auctioneer
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Assorted items in this lot
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Volcanic peridot bomb
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Aragonite clusters
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Malachite slabs
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Glow in the dark dino puzzle! Oh, and some wavelite from Arkansas
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Various specimens from Virginia
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Skeletal quartz clusters from Diamond Hill, SC
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Huge, colorful fluorite crystal!
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Beautiful agate pendant
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Fire opal from Mexico plus some little chocolate rocks
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Petrified wood log!
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Selenite gypsum crystals
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Cone-in-cone specimens -- an unusual sedimentary structure
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Assorted lapidary rough plus a set of chattering chompers
Fun at the Junior Workshops!!!
Photo by Mary Gurney
Nice tree!
Photo by Mary Gurney
Juniors had a great time making trees
Photo by Lori Carter
So much concentration!
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Beautiful beads donated by rock show dealers
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Lots of rock bases donated by GMS members
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This junior created his own tree design!
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This junior had some great ideas too!
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Proud junior with her tree
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Close-up of the pretty tree above
Demos
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Jay Gorday demonstrated faceting
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Charles Carter demonstrated cabbing
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Martha Brown showed us how she carves talc
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Bob and Olga Jarrett did a sand workshop where people learned about sand
and made their own sand cards that they viewed through a microscope
Display Cases
Photo by Lori Carter
Jay Gorday displayed some of his thumbnail specimens
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Faceting Steps by Jay Gorday
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Jay also displayed some of the stones he faceted
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Charles Carter did a field trip case to show samples collected on recent GMS field trips
Photo by Lori Carter
Lori Carter invited people to play a game:
which specimens are rocks and which specimens are not rocks?
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Kim Cochran wowed us with some fascinating plant fossils
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Martha Brown made us drool over her gorgeous Graves Mountain specimens
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Tom Batcha took us on an underwater tour of fossilized coral specimens
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Sarah Christensen showed us some Georgia specimens from Tellus Science Museum
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Ivy Edwards gave us a glimpse of the goodies in grab bags
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So many door prizes!
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Junior door prizes for the junior and the junior's school!
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A lucky GMS member who volunteered at the show will receive this spectacular amethyst!
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