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Canaveral Moonstone September 2018 Vol. P No. 9

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Canaveral Moonstone

Presidents Corner

It is that time of year again when all the youngsters are returning to school. All should be extra careful when encountering school buses and school zones!! September is a key time to start preparing for your support of our annual Parade of Gems. The booths are all committed (except for one 6’ table). I want to emphasize that our members support of the show are key to its success. We always have a good support group that participate in our Friday evening Members and Dealers Dinner! There is a faithful group that commits to leader-ship responsibility of the many challenges of Advertising, Admissions, Members & Dealers Dinner, Dealers Breakfasts, Prizes & Demonstrations, Membership, Silent Auction, Children’s Minerals Discoveries and Competition Stones & Cas-es. At our next 3 meetings all members will have the opportunity to sign-up to support in each of these key areas. I have received many congratulatory comments on the excellent display of “Rocks & Minerals” that members of CMGS provided for the Melbourne BEACH Library. We will dismantle and return the loaned items early on 10 Sep-tember. If you have not already had the opportunity to see the display, drop by the library (Library closes at 2:00 on Saturday; is not open on Sundays and opens at 10:00am on Monday) The Henagar Center Managing Director has expressed concerns for the security of the Henagar Center. I have posted the following note on our Henagar Shops door: “In support of the Henagar Center building security; No CMGS member may block the outside West end door such that it will not lock when closed.”

Don

Exchange Bulletins are Welcome

(All material may be copied unless otherwise noted if credit is given)

The Dead Line for the October Moonstone is September 20, 2018

The URL for CMGS web site is: http://www.canaveral-mgs.com/

Feel free to send me articles or pictures for the newsletter at [email protected]


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The Canaveral Mineral and Gem Society (CM&GS) is a registered Florida not-profit-corporation ap-

proved by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax exempt , organization under Internal Revenue Code sec-

tion of Florida 501 (c) (7) for the following purposes:

1. For the preservation, support, and promotion of the hobby of Mineralogy and its various forms of al-

lied activities and earth sciences.

2. To dedicate ourselves to the furtherance of the hobby through the exchange of knowledge, experience,

and other helpful information among ourselves and other like organizations.

3. To further the education of members and the general public of the hobby by programming talks, dis-

cussions, motion pictures, field trips, and the staging of shows and exhibitions.

4. To maintain an active affiliation with the Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies and to par-

ticipate in Federation activities to the fullest extent possible.

Goals and Objectives

5. To promote the spirit of cooperation and fellowship among the membership.

6. To increase our knowledge of rocks and minerals and to explore the mystery and wonder of the earth.

7. To actively encourage members to attend educational classes, workshops, lectures, and demonstra-

tions.

8. To stimulate interest in the earth sciences within the community by providing scholarships to worthy

students at all educational levels.

9. To provide the necessary equipment and resources to enable members to develop their interests.

10. To enjoy our hobby and Have Fun!

Affiliations

The Canaveral Mineral and Gem Society is a member of the Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Soci-

eties (SFMS) and the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies (AFMS)

Meetings and Dues

Meetings are the First Wednesday of each month at the Henegar Center, 625 E. New Haven Ave., Mel-bourne, Florida. Meetings start at 7:00 p.m. Visitors are always welcome! Dues are $20.00. Junior Member dues are $2.00.

It’s time to pay your dues for 2018. Remember that you will be removed from the class lists if you do not renew by April 1.


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* Beading Classes are currently being held at Haydee’s house while she recovers from knee surgery.

Art Science Incubator is thrilled to host Robyn Cornelius who is a world famous custom jewelry designer and teacher. All the way from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Robyn Cornelius has a degree in Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design – majoring in Jewelry and Metals. She now owns her own custom design studio, Little Rock Jew-elry Studio in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She has worked as a silversmith/goldsmith for over sixteen years, and teaches classes from Canada to the United States. She also designs jewelers tools that are clever and user-friendly. She is known for her sculp-tural and colorful work featuring clever mechan-ics and unique finishes. Silver Wave Bangles Hand-forge your very own sterling silver wave bangle while learning how to use basic silversmithing tools and techniques. Basic texturing and soldering sterling will be taught, as well as a fun pati-na technique. This class is appropriate for all levels, from new beginners to advanced Friday September 14th / 9:00 am until 5:30 pm (with 1 hour lunch) Sand Cast Stone Rings Learn this low tech way to cast your very own solid rings without the use of big equipment. Learn how to cast shapes that would otherwise be hard to make in a home studio and embellish with a stone. Students need to bring a cabochon or rose cut gemstone, flat backed. (There will be a few cabo-chons for sale at the studio for this class) All skill levels welcome! Saturday September 15th / 9:00 am until 5:30 pm (with 1 hour lunch) Unusual Stone Setting Have an unusual stone that you have been itching to use but just can’t use because it’s too pretty? Learn how to professionally set an unusual flat bottom stone using prongs and a type of channel setting without the use of glue. Bring your favorite gemstone to set and fi-nally show it off! Bring a flat backed unusual shaped stone, no larger than 2.5” x1.5”. (There will also be some stones for sale at the studio for this class) Intermediate skill level. Soldering experience recommend-ed, but if you take Friday’s bangle class, you qualify :) Sunday September 16th / 9:00 am until 5:30 pm (with 1 hour lunch) SIGN UP! ARTSCIENCEINCUBATOR.com Go to Art Science Incubator website and click on “Classes |

Events Calendar“ menu 716 S. Patrick Drive, Satellite Beach, FL | 321-428-4800

September 2018 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Open Shop

9 am-12

2 3 Shop Closed

Labor Day

4 5 Monthly

meeting 7PM

6 7 8 Open Shop

9 am-12

9 10 Open Shop

6 pm—9 pm

11 12 13 14 15 Open Shop

9 am-12

16 17 Open Shop

6 pm—9 pm

18 19 20 21 22 Open Shop

9 am-12

23 24 Open Shop

6 pm—9 pm

25 26 27 28 29 Open Shop

9 am-12

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SFMS CLASSES 2018

Wildacres

9/17-9/23, 2018

• Chain Maille • Cold Connection

• Electro-Etching

• Enameling

• Intro to Inlay

• Seed Bead Weaving

Upcoming Gem and Mineral shows

Visit the website for more information http://sfmsworkshops.com/

09/21/18 - 09/23/18 Jacksonville Gem & Mineral Show Jacksonville

Morocco Temple

10/05/18 - 10/07/18 Central Florida Mineral & Gem Society Fall Gem, Mineral, & Bead Show

Orlando

FL National Guard Armory

10/19/18 - 10/22/18 JIS October Miami Beach

Miami Beach Convention Center

11/02-18 – 11/04/18 Jacksonville Christmas Bead & Jewelry Show Jacksonville

Morocco Shrine Center

11/03/18 – 11/4/18 Florida Fossil Hunters Fossil Fair Orlando

Central Florida Fairgrounds

11/10/18 – 11/11/18 Canaveral Mineral & Gem Society Show & Sale Melbourne

Melbourne Auditorium

1/11/19—11/13/19 Pinellas Geological Society, Inc 43 Annual Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show and Sale

Largo

105 Central Park Drive, Central Park Performing Arts Cen-ter

http://sfmsworkshops.com/?page_id=191









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Bench Tips by Brad Smith

See all Brad's jewelry books at Amazon.com/author/bradfordsmith

SETTING A RIVET

Riveting is usually done with a cross peen hammer, but I've found it's a lot easier for me to hit the rivet wire when using a small ball peen - and the smaller the better. Shown here is one I typically use. It’s about 3/8 inch diameter on the back of a chasing hammer, but I’ve been thinking that a 3/16 inch ball might be even

better. Look for a yard sale hammer you can modify to work.

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SHEET WAX WITH ADHESIVE

While shopping in the Los Angeles jewelry district for supplies for our class, I found a new product that may

interest some of you. Often before casting, I want to increase the thickness of a model by adding a layer of

wax on the back side. For instance, models like a leaf or a flower petal do not cast well unless you add a little

extra thickness. The problem is trying to apply a coating of wax that's smooth and even.

The new product I found is an easily moldable sheet wax with an adhesive coating. This lets me easily add

thickness to a very thin model. With a leaf, just press it onto the wax, trim excess wax around the outer edges,

and then gently bend the sandwich to the contour you would like. The wax is available in a number of differ-

ent thicknesses from about 26 ga to 14 ga.

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SHOP INFO-Help the volunteers & yourself. Ever go into the shop & we were out of some supplies or a piece of equipment didn't work? We have volunteers who take care of this, but if they don't know, they can't help. There is a form in all the rooms to let them know about these issues. Fill it out & they'll deal with it add soon as possible. Let’s work together to keep our shop as good as it can be.


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August Business Report-August 1. 2018 The meeting was called to order by President Don McLamb. The club welcomed Heather Reinert, Braddock McDonald, and Haron Hill. Nancy Stark, V.P., is asking for folks to assist in the after-break presentations. She said no matter what presen-tation is given through spoken or media device is welcome. Anything goes... Liz Ritter gave the Treasurers report and reminded folks of the mutual rock swap meet between the Central Brevard Rock and Gem Club and our Club on March 23, 2019 at Wickham Park . Kathie Burnette shared we have 148 members. Dave Wayment reminded us of the SFMS Workshops that have happened and are happening. One more at Wild Acres. The auction for the SFMS is coming up in late September. Buy your tickets!!! Shannon Byrd asked for all to contribute to the monthly Moonstone. Dave Jacobson gave the Mineral of the Month presentation and went into the Show and Tell. Debbie Jorgen-sen displayed a Abalone stone in square setting. Art Delaurentis came in from the SFMS workshop at William Holland with some beautiful inlay of Lapis, Labradorite, Turquoise, Jasper and Opal. Always a pleasure to see his work!!! Gregg Shornman came in with Amathyist, Citrine, Smoke Quartz, Peridot, Larimar. Andy with some set stone along with Amber. Parade of Gems is coming soon November 10 ,11. The dealers dinner is on Friday night, the 9th. Mike McKeon will take all donations for the silent auction and is always looking for more to share. Volunteer sig-nup sheets will be at the September meeting. Art Delaurentis spoke of the other activities at the show. Keith Stokes will be taking over the children’s table in honor of Bea Dietz. God Bless! She will be loved and missed!!! Jim and Jennette Regan donated books to the library !!Thank You! The SFMS scholarship winners for the night were Kitty McLamb with a dragon pendant, Sara Denaburg with a Desert Rose Quartz and Melissa Horn with a Crazy Lace Agate. After break, Bill Harr gave a very interesting talk on the source of everything we see! Bill is always mindful! Thanks Bill!!! Finally, I'm happy to say, there's someone to take over the Secretary position for our club. Thank you, Mary Kinberg,!!! It's been a joy, pleasure and honor to communicate through time to all!!!!!!! Peace and Love, Denise Jackson


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Mineral Of The Month – Mica By Dave Jacobson

This month we are featuring minerals from the mica group as our mineral of the month. Some of the more common minerals in the mica group are easily identified due to the perfect cleavage in on direction, which can produce thin sheets or flakes. I will describe a few of the minerals in the mica group below. The mica group are silicate minerals.

Muscovite: Potassium aluminum silicate hydroxide fluoride. Muscovite is a common rock-forming min-eral. It is in the monoclinic crystal system. It has a hardness of 2 to 2.5 with a specific gravity of 2.8to 2.9. It's color can be white, silver, yellow, green, brown and various shade of the aforementioned col-ors. It has a vitreous to pearly luster. It produces a white streak during streak testing. The dark green vari-ety of muscovite is called fuchsite. It has perfect cleavage in one direction allowing it top be separated into thin sheets. The sheets are aluminum silicate, which are weakly bonded together with

layers of potassium ions. This weak bond of the potassium ions is what allows the separation of the mus-covite sheets. These muscovite sheets were once used in place of glass in oven and stove windows. Mus-covite takes its name from Muscovy, the old name for Russia. Large sheets of mica were once obtained from pegmatites in the Ural mountains of Russia.

Biotite: Potassium iron magnesium aluminum silicate hydroxide fluoride. Biotite is also a very common rock forming mineral often found with pegmatites. It is in the monoclinic crystal system. It's color is typ-ically brown to black. It produces a white streak on streak testing, with a hardness of 2.5 and a specific gravity of 2.9 to 3.4. it has perfect cleavage in one direction allowing it to be separated into thin sheets. These sheets are quite flexible and elastic. They can be bent and will spring back to its original shape. Biotite crystals can be barrel shaped, meaning the crystal slopes downward from the center to the ends.

Lepidolite: Potassium lithium aluminum silicate hydroxide fluoride. Lepidolite is one of the less common mica's. It is in the monoclinic crystal system. It's color is typically violet to pale pink, sometimes white. It has a hardness of 2.5 and a specific gravity of 2.8 to 2.9. It is the mica mineral that is associated with lithi-um bearing pegmatites. Lepidolite takes it's name from the Greek, lipidos,"scale" which is a reference to the scaly aggregates which is a common characteristic of much lepidolite. There is a variety of lepidolite called zinnwaldite that is typically colored silvery-gray to brown.

The following reference materials were used in preparing this article: A Field Guide to Rocks And Minerals by Frederick H. Pough. Mineralogy For Amateurs by John Sinkankus. Simon & Schusters Guide to Rocks And Minerals. Amethyst Galleries Mineral Gallery on the Internet at http://mineral.galleries.com

http://mineral.galleries.com


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OUR WEBSITE & SOCIAL MEDIA: http://www.canaveral-mgs.com By Sharon Jones In case you haven't already figured this out.....YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE WEB FOR EVERYTHING!!! If you haven't checked out our site, do...there's lots of benefit there for members & you can direct people to it who are interested in our club. There's general info, info about our classes, a map to the Henagar Center, our newsletters, & info about our November show. (Its also mobile-friendly.) For club members, the best info is at the Member's Only section. This area is just for the use & only accessi-ble by/for our paid members. ONLY paid members can see anything in this area once you’ve logged in.* You'll be familiar with this login setup, it functions just like most websites you already use a login with! Some of the things you can find on the Member's Only portion 1. Members phone listing 2. Shop hours, fees & contacts 3. Tips, Tricks, Hints 4. Suggested web sites useful to all aspects of our hobby/Links to great tutorials 5. Items for Sale: You can post items you have for sale pertaining to this hobby. Please make sure to com-ment on your post when its sold though! Please Note: This area is ONLY for items for sale which pertain to the lapidary/jewelry-making hobby…nothing else please. This isn’t an area to promote your business. *Login Process: click on Members Site, in the ID enter the email address you receive club emails at. Create a passeord...anything you chose (if you've previously signed in but forgot your password, there's a link at the bottom to click & you'll be sent an email with a password reset link ...check your Spam folder if you don't see an email within one minute). If for some reason you still have a problem, click thöe Contact link & explain your issue & we'll get the notification & try to help. (Use that link to tell us of any corrections/suggestions for our site too please.)8 The Member's Only section is actually a blog & can be very useful if you post info/tips/website you've found helpful. HOW TO POST - to post a comment for all areas of the Member’s Only Site, 1. Check out the links on the right hand sidebar. These are the current categories for postings. Click the link that most closely fits the information you wish to post…if nothing fits, click “all” and post your comment there. 2. You’ll see “comment” in the upper right corner (near the picture). Click that and a screen will open asking you to fill in some information. This is where you’ll type the information you wish to post. 3. Remember, if you don’t like what you’ve said, you can always delete the post. If in doubt, click Contact (on the menu bar) & explain the issue you're having & we can fix it for you. Did you know the club had a Facebook Site? http://Facebook.com/canaveralmgs. You can share info there also.

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Images from our display

at the

Melbourne Beach Public

Library


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2018 CMGS Single Faceted Stone Competition — Easy Square Emerald designed by Ernie Hawes,

published in Lapidary Journal, May 2002 For competition please cut an 8mm stone of any material.

Angles for R.I. = 1.54 P/W = 0.532

41 facets + 8 facets on girdle = 49 C/W = 0.141

4-fold, mirror-image symmetry H/W = (P+C)/W+0.02 = 0.693

96 index P/H = 0.768 C/H = 0.203

L/W = 1.00 Vol/W3 = 0.299

T/W = 0.597 Brightness: COS = 79.6%

T/L = 0.597 ISO = 85.3%

Pavilion

Angle Index

g1 90.00 96-24-48-72 Cut to desired size

1 42.00 06-18-30-42-54-66-78-90 Cut to

Centerpoint

2 42.00 12-36-60-84 Cut to Centerpoint

same height as step 1

3 62.00 96-24-48-72 Meet 1 and 2 at

girdle

g2 90.00 12-36-60-84 Meet at juncture

1/2/3/g1.

Crown

Angle Index

a 41.60 96-24-48-72 Set girdle thickness

b 35.80 12-36-60-84 Cut to level girdle

line.

c 32.00 02-22-26-46-50-70-74-94 Meet a

and b at girdle.

d 26.80 01-23-25-47-49-71-73-95 Meet

at juncture c/a.

T 00.00 Table Meet at juncture b/d.


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018 CM&GS Single piece competition

Jewelry and Metalcraft—A pendant with 2 stones, faceted or cabochon, stones in any shape. One stone

should have the largest dimension 10mm or less and the other stone should have the smallest dimension

10mm or larger. Can contain any material for the stone and be of any metal. May not use a commercial or

purchased wax for casting. Must be original work.

Cabochon— Beginners, a calibrated 23 x 18 mm drop from any agate or jasper.

Intermediate or Advanced, a 16 x 16 mm square, with sharp corners.

Both shapes are on the gold color template.

Seed Beading—A bracelet utilizing a combination of any 2 stitches and any 2 sizes of seed beads. Please fol-

low all AFMS rules for labeling the materials and design used.

Club contacts

President: Don McLamb, 570 Seabreeze Dr., Indialantic, FL 32903, (321) 723-2592

Vice President: Nancy Stark, 1610 Sutschek St NE, Palm Bay, FL 32907, (321) 749-7675

Secretary: Denise Jackson, 320 Arcadia Ave., Melbourne, FL, 32901, (321) 373-5133

Treasurer: Liz Ritter, PO Box 500827, Malabar, FL 32950, (321) 544-2036

Bulletin Editor: Shannon Byrd, 2225 Ladner Rd NE, Palm Bay, FL 32907, (321) 541-7230

Education Chairman: Dave Wayment PO Box 780791, Sebastian, FL 32978, (772) 532-6432

Corresponding Secretary: Kitty McLamb, 570 Seabreeze Dr., Indialantic, FL 32903, (321) 723-2592

Board of Directors 2yr: Mark Heathman, (321) 253-2856

Board of Directors (Past President) 3yr: Dave Jacobson, (321) 676-4306

Board of Directors 1yr: Freda Hull , (321) 725-0847

Board of Directors 1yr: Roy Deere, (321) 725-9179

tel:(321)%20749-7675


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Bulletin Editor

Shannon Byrd

2225 Ladner Rd NE

Palm Bay, FL 32907

Email: [email protected]

The Canaveral Mineral and Gem Society meets the First Wednesday of each month at the Henegar Center,

Melbourne, Florida. The time of the Meeting is 7:00PM . Visitors are always welcome.

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