Monday, September 15, 2008

Santa Lucia Rockhounds Meeting For September 2008

Tonight I actually managed to attend this month's Santa Lucia Rockhounds monthly meeting.

It was nice reconnecting with the other members there after having missed more meetings with year than I'd like.

I felt it doubly important to attend given that I will be in that club's show this coming weekend.

The show was focused a lot on the planning for the show as one would expect but we did get around to discussing what we members had done interesting over this soon-to-be-past Summer.

We also touched on the upcoming field trip (members only) that will occur early next month in a biconoid bed on a private ranch for which we have special permission to visit.

This will be a probationary visit as the last time this was set up some former members showed up a day early and trespassed and got the entire visit canceled the club never invited back until that rancher died of old age and his son now owns it.

Member Dave Murray confirmed that one specimen I found at the Klau Mine is probably metacinnabar which is cool and I was able to donate a couple of calcite specimens from the adjacent Buena Vista Mine to the club for purposes of the raffle.

We learned from member John McCabe that there used to be a Paso Robles Mineral Society that was mentioned in a little profile in an old mineralogical magazine from 1956 which club died in the 1970's.

All in all it was a great little club meeting and I hope others who read this who live in the North County of San Luis Obispo or Southern Monterey County join us.

We meet the third Monday of each month in Paso Robles at 7 P.M. at Centennial Park in the community room.

Kimmer

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