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From Your President’s PenFrom Your President’s PenFrom Your President’s PenFrom Your President’s Pen BY BILL SMITH

IIII hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and are looking for-ward to a great New Year. Janet and I did spent most of Decem-

ber in the Caribbean under clear skies, temperatures of around 80 degrees, and tropical breezes. It was sure a change when we arrived back in Kansas. We did make it to the North Central Kansas Rock and

Gem Club’s second anniversary Christmas meeting. They are an ex-cited group of rockhounds.

Gene, our Treasurer, had his left kidney removed with an associated large tumor. He has no evidence of any spreading into any adjacent tissues or body parts. Gene, we wish you a quick recovery. Have received word from Sharon DePuy that she is

losing her eyesight and can no longer see to drive or even read the computer. She will be moving back to the St. Louis area where her daughter lives. Sharon, I wish you the best on the recovery of your vision and that your move will be a smooth one. This now leaves an opening for distribution of the hard copy mailing of our newslet-ter. If you have an interest just let me know. In the meantime, Bill Cain has stepped up to fill in on distribution (with the aid of our Editor :o)

I hope you had an opportunity to read the Program Committee Report by Jennifer Biddle and the AFMS Club Rockhound of the Year (ACROY) report by Bill Cain that were printed in the January bulletin. These reports are from two of our newly ap-pointed chair persons. I want to thank everyone that accepted a committee position this past year. You are what make our hobby an outstanding organization.

I hope the All Roads Lead to Colorado Springs articles by Dr. Mike Nelson and the RMFMS Convention and Show Reports by Show Chair Ron Yamiolkoski have you plan-ning on attending the Colorado Springs show in June.

Until next month, Bill

Inside this issue:

Words from the Editor 2 AFMS Program Results 2

All Roads Lead to CO Sprgs 3

Stone Tools from Bijou Basin 6

The West That Was 7

Rare Earth Elements 9

Tale of the Toucan 11

Judges & Exhibitors Seminar 12

CSM Museum Year in Rvw 13

Shows & More 14

Ofcrs & Comm Chairs 15

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TTREASURERREASURER’’SS RREPORTEPORT BY GENE MAGGARD

TTTT he main treasurer activity at the time of this writing is receiving and processing annual reports from all the member clubs. About half have reported. Right after the first of the year, I will start calling

and emailing to get the last few reports. The last 20 reports take more time to rounded up than all the rest combined. I will have all the reports in within the next month and will provide information on total RMF membership numbers in the March newsletter.

Want to know what RMF does with your dues? We collect $1.50 dues for each dues-paying member in each mem-ber club. We then pay $.75 of that $1.50 to AFMS for membership. About $.15 each goes to publishing the direc-tory, the monthly newsletter, videos for the library, and travel expenses. That is $1.35 of the $1.50. We generate some income from interest on our savings and have some other small income sources. The rest of the $1.50, the interest income, and the miscellaneous income are all used to cover other minor expenses associated with operating the Federation. Anyone interested in seeing the detailed budget breakdown is more than welcome to email me, and

I will send you a copy.

If you are really interested in seeing what the “treasurer guy” looks like, come to the convention in June in Colo-rado Springs. It will be a great venue. The host club is the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society. I plan to be there. Come up and say hello, and let’s get acquainted. It is always great to meet new people and make new friends, especially rockhound friends. They are the best!!

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TTTT he entries have arrived, and the 2011 Publications Contest is underway! I

want to thank those wonderful editors in our federation who were willing to

share their work and their club authors with the rest of us. I can tell from the number of

New Editor entries that there has been a changing of the guard in many of our clubs.

Change is not always a bad thing as it may bring a new way of doing things that may

have gotten stale or usually very under-appreciated. We have some extremely talented

editors and authors in our federation, including exceptional juniors. The newsletter is the

life blood of an organization and is the best form of advertisement available for the cost.

Support Your Editors!!

It’s not an easy job trying to find interesting items to fill the blank pages; input from

members is coveted. Want to make your editor smile? Give them a write-up about the

last field trip, a great book you’ve found, interesting areas for possible digs, a hand-

drawn cartoon, a rockhound poem, or a humorous rockhound article. Even tips and how-

to’s are great prizes. If you think your published article has contest merits, please let

your editor know so that he/she may share it during the Bulletin Contest.

I look forward to meeting you all at Breakfast with the Editors & Webmasters on Satur-

day morning, 8:00a, June 25th, Best Western Academy, Colorado Springs. Linda Jaeger,

AFMS Publications Chair, will be our guest speaker.

Keep rockin’ & ritin’,

Betty

AFMS PAFMS PROGRAMROGRAM CCOMPETITIONOMPETITION RRESULTSESULTS BY MARGE COLLINS

AFMS PROGRAM CHAIR

AAAA program about Iris Agate is the only winner in the 2010 Competition.

Based on the photographic work and notes of Peter (Pete) Rodewald (St. Croix Rockhounds, MWF), Wayne Sukow (Northern Virginia Mineral Club, EFLMS), produced

this culmination of Pete’s work to find and capture stunning iris images -- what he called “Extreme Iris”-- not only from ordinary sources but unexpected ones as well.

Pete’s work has been recognized internationally (including Walter Zenz’ book about ag-ates), and he presented a similar program at the Agate Symposium at Menasha, Wiscon-sin in 2008. He did not finalize the presentation before his untimely death in 2009. For-tunately, Wayne had been an advisor and close collaborator which allowed him to fulfill his promise to Pete to complete the project. (Note: this program is not included in the

Wide World of Agates DVDs).

To borrow “Iris Agate” or other programs, contact your Regional Program Library. De-tails are on Federation websites and your Federation Directory.

Three other programs were submitted for Competition, one was withdrawn for technical reasons and the other two did not meet judge’s objective expectations.

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Authors / producers of non-commercial slide, video or digital pres-entations are invited to participate in the 2011 Program Competition. Winners in non-

commercial classes receive a cash prize and national recognition. Entrants must be members of an AFMS affiliate Society. Commercial presentations are eligible for AFMS "Excellence In Education" recognition award. Deadline for submission is April 15, 2011.

Details and an updated entry form are available on AFMS website (www.amfed.org) or

contact Marge Collins, Program Competition Coordinator, c/o [email protected] (QTM.net) or 3017 Niles-Buchanan Rd., Buchanan, MI 49107.


In June 2011 the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society will host the annual meeting and show of the Rocky Mountain Federation of Mineralogical Societies (RMFMS). Members and visitors trav-eling to Colorado Springs will be able to observe a wide variety of geological features and sev-

eral field trips are in the planning stages. This article, part of a series, will give participants a chance to pre-plan their itinerary of exploring the local geology.

RRRR MFMS visitors to Colorado Springs for the summer 2011 meeting may have an interest in taking a road trip up U. S. 24 to Woodland Park and continuing to Florissant, summiting Wilkerson Pass. Part 1, in the January

2011RMFMS Newsletter, described the trip from Colorado Springs to Wilkerson pass. This article presents several options for continued exploration after the traveler reaches Hartsel in South Park.

From the summit of Wilkerson Pass the traveler looks west at a very special place—South Park (Fig. 1). This to-

pographic and structural basin, along with North Park and Middle Park, owe their existence to the major mountain

building event in the area, the Laramide Orogeny (late Cretaceous to Eocene). Generally termed Intermontane Ba-

sins, North, Middle and South Parks are large synclinal basins that are compliments to the large anticlinal mountain

ranges surrounding them.

The eastern boundary of South Park (Fig. 2) is the Front

Range (and its numerous sub- divisions) and that demarcation

is generally a large thrust fault (Elkhorn Fault). In some locali-

ties along the eastern edge of the basin, the Precambrian

rocks of the mountains have been thrust about seven miles

over the basin rocks (McGookey, 2003). The west-

ern boundary of the basin is the Mosquito Range with a va-

riety of Paleozoic rocks dipping under the basin-fill rocks.

Near the south end of the Mosquito Range are two peaks

that seem quite prominent and very visible—Buffalo Peaks

(Fig. 3). The rocks composing these peaks are volcanic in na-

ture, including the Buffalo Peaks Andesite and various

ignimbrites (hot churning gases and debris flowing by

density from an eruptive center), and were deposited in a

paleovalley during the Eocene -Oligocene. Today, because of

erosion, these old valleys are now high mountains and are

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Fig. 1. Park County and South Park Colorado – 1895. U. S. 24 gener-ally follows the route of the Colorado Midland Railroad from Colorado Springs to Hartsel and then southwest to Buena Vista. Photo and map courtesy of Park County archives.

Fig. 3. Buffalo Peaks, home of the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Area located in the Pike-San Isabel National Forests. The peaks exceed 13,000 feet in elevation and seem to dominate the view of the south-ern part of South Park. Hiking trails will take visitors to the sum-mits, and a stand of very ancient Bristlecone Pines. Photo courtesy of Sangres.com.

Fig. 2. Satellite view of South Park. The graben valley of the Arkansas River is west of the Mosquito Range while the mighty Sawatch Range is west of that river. South Park contains three, large man-made impoundments--Elevenmile Canyon and Spinney Reservoirs (east side) and Antero Reservoir (west) on the South Platte River system. Photo courtesy of maps.live.com.


an example of topographic inversion. The north boundary of South Park includes several intrusive stocks of Lara-

mide (late Cretaceous to Eocene) age. The south boundary is perhaps the most interesting because of the large vol-

canic centers, including the Thirtynine Mile and Guffy volcanics (part of the Central Colorado Volcanic Field: CCVF).

Eruptions from these centers blocked the south outlet of the Basin and created a large lake and finally forced an

eastward flowing outlet that was superimposed across the

Front Range (McGookey, 2003).

At, and near Hartsel, the traveler has a choice as the

roads diverge to the southwest and Buena Vista (U. S. 24),

to the northeast and Fairplay (CO 9), and south to Guffy

and Canon City (CO 9). All have quite interesting geological

features available for viewing.

The most prominent geologic landforms at Hartsel are

hogbacks related to the dipping Dakota Formation

(Cretaceous). In the south part of Hartsel is a now aban-

doned building that once housed the bath house of the

Hartsel Hot Springs (Fig. 4). The springs have a long his-

tory of being developed by Sam Hartsel in the 1860’s and

1870’s as a healing spa and continuing well into the 20th

century. The springs are radioactive and that fact may have contributed to their demise; the current springs and

lowlands are off limits and surrounded by a fence.

Traveling northwest toward Fairplay on CO 9 for about 7 miles one comes to the former community of Garo, now

represented by a single unoccupied commercial building. Geologically, the area is interesting as complexly faulted

sandstone beds in the Maroon Formation (Permian-Pennsylvanian) along the Garo Anticline have been “impregnated

with uranium, vanadium, and copper minerals”. Mining for

radium commenced in 1919 while uranium, vanadium, and

copper were mined in 1951 and 1952 (Wilmarth, 1959).

Today, rockhounds prospect the area for blue agate and

blue chalcedony; however, Wilmarth (1959) stated that

the chert (is this the blue chalcedony?) was highly radio-

active. It would be interesting to check these specimens!

The town of Fairplay is near the junction of CO 9 and U.

S. 285. Gold was rediscovered in the Alma-Fairplay Dis-

trict around 1859 and numerous gold camps, including

both hard rock and placer mining, were established in the

area. Approximately 1,550,000 troy ounces of gold were

recovered from the district (Koschman and Bergendahl, 1968). Perhaps the most interesting geological aspect about

Fairplay, and sites for visitors to observe, are the immense piles of gravel along the local streams, especially south of

town. These debris piles are the legacy of large floating dredges that worked the area in the early part of the 20th

century (Fig. 5). The largest dredge operated until 1952 but was still floating in the mid-1970 when I had a chance

to observe the structure. It is my understanding that the

dredge was dismantled shortly thereafter and moved to South

America.

U. S. 24 continues southwest from Hartsel toward Trout

Creek Pass and the town of Buena Vista where the mighty

Sawatch Range rises out of the valley of the Arkansas River

(Fig. 2). That valley is, in itself, another story as it repre-

sents an extension of Basin and Range faulting in the Rio

Grande Rift System. The RMFMS visitors will find the

scenery on the way to Buena Vista spectacular with several

14ers rising over 7000 feet from the river valley (Fig. 6).

A couple of miles down the road from Hartsel on U. S. 24 is

an unmarked turn to the south leading to what famed Colorado mineralogist Richard Pearl called “one of the main

mineral localities in Colorado”—the Hartsel Barite Mine (Fig. 7). The barite source is from a limestone/clay horizon in

Fig. 4. Hartsel bath house and springs/lowlands. U. S. 24 and western-most Hartsel in the background. Photo courtesy of Eve Kuenn and the Park County Archives.

Fig. 5. Gold dredge once located south of Fairplay, CO. Photo courtesy of U. S. Geological Survey.

Fig. 6. Mt. Princeton (14,197 ft) rising from the valley of the Arkansas River near Buena Vista. Photo courtesy of Nholifield at Wikipedia.com.


the Permian-Pennsylvanian Maroon Formation. The Maroon was deposited in

the Central Colorado Basin, a somewhat restricted circulation basin between

Frontrangia and Uncompahgria, the major Colorado uplifts of the Ancestral

Rockies. However, the barite itself is a secondary mineral that was deposited

via: 1) hot water solutions of magmatic origin; or 2) meteoric waters con-

centrating the mineral leached from saline waters in the redbeds of the Ma-

roon (Howland, 1936). Barite was mined from the area as early as the

1930’s but for the last several years has only been mined by collectors of

the beautiful blue crystals. Small, “nickel-size” specimens litter the ground

while large crystals secured by “digging” are several inches in length, and at

times clustered together in large groups. Most prospecting today is on the

old mine dumps disturbed and distributed by bulldozers. Howland (1936)

believes the blue color is due to radioactive waters since the area is near

the Hartsel Hot Springs and the Garo uranium deposits. Exposure to

sunlight deepens the blue color.

The mine is privately owned; however, the owners, who also operate a

rock/mineral/coffee/ice cream shop in Hartsel (Bayou Salado) have been

very generous in allowing collecting field trips by local rock and mineral clubs (Fig. 7).

And finally, CO 9 and Park County 53 head south from Hartsel toward the small community of Guffy (CO 9) and

the Thirtynine Mile Volcanic Area, a small remnant of the much larger CCVF. Ash and other eruptive rocks from the

CCVF cover an area of approximately 8500 sq. mi. including most of the “Sawatch Range, southern Front Range, Wet

Mountains, northern Sangre de Cristo Range, and the areas between. Outflow aprons extended onto the High Plains

to the east, merged with the San Juan volcanic field to the southwest, and overlapped the Colorado Mineral Belt on

the north and west” (McIntosh and Chapin, 2004). The major volcanism came from at least 10 calderas or eruptive

centers with dates over a 10 million year span in the late Eocene into the Oligocene (38-29 Ma); however, volcanic

activity continued into the Miocene (Wallace and others, 1999). Post depositional faulting, dissection and erosion

have produced the current landscape.

The Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society has peridot claims located in the Gribbles Park Quadrangle (off Park

County 53) and the club sponsors several field trips to the area each year. Most of the olivine crystals (peridot when

gemmy) are small but some may be, and have been, faceted (Chet Wallace, personal communication, 2008). The

claims are in an area mapped as Wagon Tongue Formation (Miocene) unconformably overlain by “Tertiary Basalt

(Miocene)” (Wallace and others, 1999). The basalt is the source of the peridot and specimens are quite numerous as

they have weathered out of the host rock in “large” quantities. Although prospectors will note “fresh” peridot in the

basalt, the crystals are almost impossible to remove. It is much easier to simply examine the soil for crystals. Most

crystals are small and it seems anything over a couple of carats would be considered large—at least among the

specimens in my collections!

So, there are a variety of localities (first heading west on U. S. 24) with interesting geological features within a

day’s drive of the RMFMS meeting in Colorado Springs. I would encourage all visitors to take advantage of these

spectacular localities.

REFERENCES CITED

Howland, A. L., 1936, An Occurrence of Barite in the Red Beds of Colorado: American Mineralogist, v. 21, no. 9.

Koschman, A. H. and M. H. Bergendahl, 1968, Principal Gold-Producing Districts of the United States: U. S. Geologi-cal Survey, Professional Paper 610.

McGookey. D. P., 2003, Geologic Wonders of South Park, Colorado with Road Logs: unknown binding.

McIntosh, W. C. and C. E. Chapin, 2004, Geochronology of the Central Colorado Volcanic Field: New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 160.

Wallace, C. A., J. A. Cappa and A.D. Lawson, 1999, Geologic Map of the Gribbles Park Quadrangle, Park and Fremont Counties, Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-3 (with map).

Wilmarth, V. R., 1959, Geology of the Garo Uranium-Vanadium-Copper Deposit Park County, Colorado: U. S. Geo-logical Survey, Bulletin 1087-A.

Fig. 7. CSMS field trip participants digging through the mine tailings and hunting for barite at the Hartsel Barite Mine. The largest speci-mens are several inches in diameter (~9 inches) while nickel sized specimens litter the ground. South Park and the Mosquito Range are in the background.


Stone Tools made of Petrified Wood from Bijou

Basin, El Paso County, Colorado BY TED REEVES

COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, PEBBLE PUPS GROUP

TTTT his paper is about three archaeological artifacts found in Bijou Basin in El Paso County, Colorado and how Native Americans

used them. The artifacts are tools and include a hand held chopper, a squaw's knife, and a regular Indian's knife. The three

Bijou Basin stone artifacts were made from different kinds of petrified wood.

There were many tribes of Native Americans who lived in El Paso County at different times. They were mostly hunters. The

Apaches were the first known Native Americans to live in that particular area, from about 1540 to 1700. A few years later the Co-

manches lived near Bijou Basin from 1727 to 1800. Next the Arapahoes and the Cheyennes came. They lived there from 1820 to

1846 (Hughes, 1977).

These tools are common. It is hard to determine which group of Native Americans used these tools because there were no pro-

jectile points found with them. Projectile points are more distinct and easier to date. The

way the projectile point was carved would determine which Native American tribe

made these artifacts. Each Native American tribe has different types of projectile

points (Taylor, 2010).

With close examination, you will be able to tell what the Bijou Basin artifacts were

used for. One of the few ways to tell what the tools were used for is to use

a high-powered microscope to look for the wear and what type of damage

is on the end. Chemical analysis could also tell you what the tools were

used for (Kent, 2010). Shape also

helps determine use of the tool. The

Bijou Basin tools were used mostly

to cut parts of the animals they

hunted, such as bison, but they

could have been used to cut wood.

The hand held chopper (figure 1)

could have been used for cutting

bone. The chopper could also be used to mash roots for stew. The “squaw's

knife” (figure 2) was small, but it could scrape the meat off the bone. The

Indian knife (figure 3) is like our modern meat knife.

These tools were made of petrified wood, or fossilized wood. There are

many stages in how petrified wood is formed. The tree needs to be covered by sediment. Once the wood is covered by sediment, minerals start taking over the cell structures. It helps turn the wood into petrified wood when the wood and minerals are in some type of liquid. After thousands of years, when the minerals have completely taken over the cell structures, the wood becomes petrified.

Many conditions have to be met to form petrified wood. The first condition is if the plant has all the right cells. Additional conditions are temperature, right type of minerals, how fast and how long the process takes, and how the wood is encased.

These conditions tell how well the wood will be preserved (Daniels, 1998).

Many different Native Americans used these types of tools. These tools were commonly made out of petrified wood. Native

Americans liked petrified wood because it was hard and that made it easier to cut, scrape, and chop. The Bijou Basin arti-facts represent not only a time when native people hunted and camped here, but provide a connection to how these people lived.

References Cited:

Daniels, Frank J. 1998. Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads. Grand Junction, Colorado:

Figure 1. This hand-held chopper, found at the Bijou

Basin, appears to be fashioned from petrified palm

wood. The palm grain is evident From the John Har-

rington collection. Photo by S. Veatch © 2010.

Figure 2. This artifact was used by female Indi-

ans to process bison and other game. The arti-

fact is known as a “squaw’s knife.” It is made

from petrified wood, and is from the Bijou Basin.

From the John Harrington collection. Photo by S.

Veatch © 2010.

Figure 3. A beautiful example of a knife used by the early occu-

pants of Bijou Basin in eastern El Paso County. The knife is

made from petrified wood. From the John Harrington collec-

tion. Photo by S. Veatch © 2010.


Western Colorado Publishing Company, 170 pp.

Hughes, J. Donald. 1977. American Indians in Colorado. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Co., 143 pp.

Kent, Dr. Jonathan. 2010. Personal communication by email. Professor of Anthropology, Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Taylor, Jeb. 2010. Personal communication at Stone Age Fair, Loveland, Colorado. Author of Projectile Points of the High Plains. Jeb Taylor Artifacts Inc., 455 pp.

“T“THEHE WWESTEST TTHATHAT WWASAS” C” COMESOMES TOTO LLIFEIFE THISTHIS FFEBRUARYEBRUARY By Gary Raham, Fort Collins Rockhounds,

www.biostration.com

PPPP aleontologists, like other rockhounds, love pretty rocks—especially the kind (fossils) with stories to tell about

ancient life on Earth. A group of avid amateur paleontologists in the Western Interior Paleontological Society (WIPS)—with the help of the Denver Gem & Mineral Council, the Friends of Dinosaur Ridge, and many generous sponsors—will bring the ancient west to life again February 12-13 at the Green Center at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. This symposium, like others they have held every other year since 1999, raises money to support the research and education of other fossil fanatics in the field, while creating a forum for sharing pale-ontological information and enjoying fantastic paleo art.

This year will feature many Colorado speakers intimately familiar with rocks just underfoot. James Kirkland, State Paleontologist, Utah Geological Survey, will reconstruct Upper Jurassic paleoecosystems. Vince Mathews,

State Geologist & Director, Colorado Geological Survey, will focus on Colorado’s colorful and fantastic geology. Bruce Schumacher, paleontologist with the USDA Forest Service, will revisit a few sea monsters from the Creta-ceous Greenhorn Seaway. And Ian Miller with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will fill everyone in on the latest find of a trove of Pleistocene bones, plants, insects, and other fossils near Snowmass. Eleven additional great speakers will talk about everything from shells, to bugs, to ancient mammals, to dinosaurs and their tracks, as well as ancient cave dwellers in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

More than two dozen local paleo and natural science artists and illustrators will provide a gallery of artwork to enjoy between talks and during a great “Happy Fossil Hour” reception. A poster session and exhibits will highlight

local research and fossil discoveries.

Interested rock lovers of all varieties can attend one or both days. Teachers and students get discounted regis-

tration fees, as do those who sign up before February 5. People can register and get more information about The West That Was: Exploring Colorado’s Fossil Past at http://www.westernpaleo.org.

If you are a rockhound with an eye for fossils, put her there, pardner! I’ll see you in Golden where the thero-pods and mousy mammals play.

(See WIPS flyer on next page)

Author’s Bio: Ted Reeves is a 10 year old student in 5th grade at Immanuel

Lutheran School in Colorado. Collecting fossils is one of his favorite hobbies.

He started in 2006 when he found an Ice Age mammal bone in his backyard.

Other hobbies include basketball, piano, and Lego building.


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RRRR emember that old periodic table from high school? Rare earths elements (RREs) include the entire lanthanide group plus yttrium, shown in orange. Scandium is sometimes included. These elements have similar chemical

properties and therefore tend to occur together in nature. They have one other thing in common: difficult- to- pro-nounce names!

The term “rare earth” is a misnomer, because most RREs are generally not that rare. The estimated aver-age concentration in the Earth’s crust ranges from about 150-220 parts per million, exceeding that of many metals commonly mined, like copper (55 parts per million) and zinc (70 parts per million) The prob-lem is there are few geologic processes that concen-

trate RREs, unlike most other elements. This has major economic consequences, addressed later.

RRE ores are characterized as either “light”, domi-nated by cerium, or “heavy”, dominated by yttrium. Some well-known minerals that contain cerium and other light REEs include bastnaesite, monazite, allanite, lanthanite, cerite, and fluocerite. Well-known minerals that contain yttrium and other heavy RREs include gadolinite, xenotime, samarskite, euxenite, fergusonite,

and yttrofluorite. The smaller ionic size of the yttrium group elements allows greater solubility in rock-forming minerals, and thus yttrium and the heavy RREs show less enrichment in the Earth's crust than do cerium and the light RREs. This has economic implications: large ore bodies of the cerium light RREs are more common, while those of yttrium and heavy RREs tend to be rarer, smaller, and less concentrated.

RRE Applications

While a few uses for RREs are mundane, most are exotic. Modern research into the diverse nuclear, metallurgical,

electrical, magnetic, optical, and catalytic properties of RREs has been opening up new cutting edge applications.

The lapidary world has used cerium oxide as a polishing agent for many decades. Perhaps the most notable use of

rare earth oxides for polishing is on the Hubble Space Telescope mirror. YAG, synthetic yttrium aluminum garnet, was once common in jewelry, replaced for the most part today by cubic zirconia.

The earliest color TV sets had poor quality red, until europium as a phosphor dopant was introduced. RREs mixed with tungsten improve high temperature properties for welding. Various RREs are used in high refractive index lenses, catalysts for oil refineries and self-cleaning ovens, positron emission tomography (PET scan), and wind tur-bines. Virtually everything in the kitchen—including microwave and coffeemaker—uses RREs. RREs are critical to iPhones, MP3 players, high temperature superconductors, lasers, hybrid car components (especially batteries and motors), and optical-fiber communication systems. Many defense-related products use RREs, including night vision goggles, rangefinders, and smart bomb guidance systems. A motor made with neodymium-iron-boron magnets is

far more powerful than one made with iron magnets. One of the more interesting inventions is magnetic refrigera-tion and heating. Air conditioners which use RRE magnets consume 1/10th the electricity of standard systems, with the added benefit of fewer moving parts to break down.

Geology and Geographic Distribution of Rare Earths

Even after 4.5 billion years of earth history processes, natural geologic separation of RREs has been extremely poor relative to almost all other elements we consume. Even though RREs disseminated in the earth’s crust are not uncommon, economic rare earth deposits of sufficient grade are indeed rare. The following illustration, from the USGS, shows the historic production of RREs over a 50 year period.

From 1950-65, monazite, derived from veins and placers in South Africa, India, Madagascar, and Brazil, was the primary rare earth ore. The chief RRE in monazite is cerium. Monazite is radioactive because of the presence of thorium.

In 1949, the most important RRE discovery located in the USA was made by accident, when two prospectors in


the radioactive water, derived from bastnaesite. The mine was closed in the 1990s in response to both environmental restrictions and lower global prices for REEs, although processing of previ-

ously mined ore continued at the site. There are bold new plans for this deposit, discussed below.

The green area on the chart above addresses the production of RREs from Inner Mongolia, China, beginning around 1985 and surging after-wards. China, a low cost producer, literally shut down RRE mines elsewhere by exporting cheap product. Today, China produces about 95-97% of all REEs consumed, from a poorly understood

geologic ore type known as lateritic iron-absorption clays. In tropical environments, rocks are deeply weathered to form iron-aluminum rich soil profiles as much as many tens of meters thick. These soils commonly con-

centrate heavy minerals, leached from previously exposed rock, as residual deposits. In China, RREs are concen-

trated sufficiently in laterites to produce economic deposits of significant size and grade. These deposits contain both light and heavy RREs.

Granitic pegmatites, very coarse grained rocks solidifying late in the history of an intrusion, also contain anoma-

lous RREs, both light and heavy. Often these bodies are zoned, having a quartz core, with RREs concentrated out-ward. While many diverse RRE minerals occur in pegmatites, usually reserves are small and therefore have been of primary interest to collectors.

Ongoing exploration and development efforts include work in Canada, Vietnam, Greenland, Australia, and Alaska.

Geopolitics and the Future

Today global demand for RREs is straining supply. The current Chinese near-monopoly, at a time when our high tech society is requiring more rare earths, is a big strategic concern, having national and global consequences. Fur-thermore, China has been gradually reducing export quotas, with the plan to continue this trend. China is thought to sell RREs to internal manufacturers for much less than export prices, in order to stimulate internal growth. They have also cracked down on smuggling of RREs. In December, 2010, they introduced new export taxes, essentially telling the rest of the world to “go find your own RREs”. Japan’s supply from China is especially threatened be-

cause of souring relations, and is scrambling to find rare earths elsewhere.

The Mountain Pass carbonatite deposit in California, discussed earlier, is the largest known occurrence or eco-

nomic light RREs in the western hemisphere, possibly the world. The areal photo below is from Long et al, 2010. This property, owned by Molycorp, is in the forefront with several recent developments which will impact global sup-ply. In December, 2010, all necessary permits were secured to ramp up production from 3,000 metric tons/year rare earth oxides to 20,000 metric tons/year by 2012. Joint ventures with Sumitomo Corp and Hitachi Metals will supply capital and expertise to meet the company’s “mine to magnets” stated goal. A new production facility will be built on site to manufacture neodymium-iron-boron alloys and magnets.

Another recent development is extraction of RREs from electronic waste. New advances in recycling technology have made extraction more feasible. Mining and refining of RRE ores have significant environmental consequences if not properly managed, due to the common association of radioactive thorium and uranium. Continued possible price

escalation, coupled with growing environmental initiatives worldwide, will make recycling of RREs an important part of future supply. Nevertheless, it appears that global demand will significantly outstrip total RRE supply in a few years without major new discoveries.

References

Keith Long, Bradley Van Gosen, Nora Foley, and Daniel Cordier, 2010, The Geology of Rare Earth Elements, repub-lished from: The Principal Rare Earth Elements Deposits of the United States: USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5220, http://geology. com/usgs/ree-geology/

Dec 21, 2010, Molycorp and Hitachi Metals Announce Agreement to Pursue Formation of Joint Ventures to Manufac-ture Rare Earth Alloys and Magnets in US: Business Wire http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Molycorp-and-Hitachi-

Metals-bw-414235840.html?x=0&.v=1

Dec 17, 2010, Expert Addresses Rare Earth Element Supply Hysteria: Seeking Alpha http://seekingalpha.com/article/242518-expert-addresses-rare-earth-element-supply-hysteria?source=yahoo

Dec 15, 2010, US at Risk or Rare Earth Supply Disruptions: Rueters News http://www.reuters.com/article/


idUSN151010 6820101215?

Dec 13, 2010, Molycorp Secures Last of Per-mits Needed for Construction Start of $531 Million Rare Earth Supply Chain Project:

Molycorp press release http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Molycorp-Secures-Last-of-bw-942436897.html?x=0&.v=1

Dec 13, 2010, Company Poised to Cash in on Global Demand for Metals, http://www.cnbc.com/id/40645630?source=yahoo%7Cheadline%7Cquote%

7Ctext%7C&par=yahoo

Dec 10, 23010, Molycorp and Sumitomo Agree to USD$130 Million Equity and Debt Investment in Molycorp in Exchange for Rare Earth Supply Agreement: Molycorp press release http://finance.yahoo.com/

news/Molycorp-and-Sumitomo-Agree-bw-3807073262.html?x=0&.v=1

Rare Earth Elements-Critical Resources for High Technology, 2002: USGS fact sheet 087-02

The Mountain Pass Mine, date unknown http://geology.csupomona.edu/drjessey/

fieldtrips/mtp/mtnpass.htm

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SSSS everal of you have asked if we brought back any significant items from our trip to the Caribbean. The answer is

yes. I have always thought one of the most beautiful birds in the world was the Tropical Toucan. On our stop in the city of Willemstad, which is the capital of Curacao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea off the Venezuelan coast, we spent part of the day visiting the downtown shops. In one of the shops I noticed a beautiful Toucan and after some negotiation I became the owner of the bird.

We had to go through an island security check point prior to boarding the ship. The fellow asked me what was in

the box, and I told him a Tropical Toucan. He said fine, and we boarded the ship. I figured we now had it made. Wrong. Our next check point was customs when we departed the ship. You have to fill out a customs declaration form and hand it to the customs person when departing the ship. The lady looked at the form and said “I see you have purchased a Toucan.” I said, “Yes, and it is here in this box. Do you want to see him?” She immediately called over another fellow and told him I had a Toucan in a box. He said, “Please follow me,” and we were directed to this special room. He then said, “What is a Toucan.” I told him it was a beautiful tropical bird that I had purchased while

visiting the Island of Curacao and would he like to see it. He looked at me for what seemed like forever and said there is the exit door. I now knew we had it made. Wrong. We still had to go through security at the airport. The fellow asked what was in the box. I told him it was a very beautiful Tropical Toucan, and I would prefer the bird get a pat down rather than a full body scan. I guess that was not the right thing to say as he said, “Are you telling me how to do my job.” Of course I would never do that and after holding up the line for some time and conferring with sev-eral officials, he finally gave the bird a full body scan and passed us on through.

If you have the opportunity to stop at our museum you will be able to see a beautifully colored Tropical Swarovski Crystal Toucan. (Maybe Pres. Bill will bring it to the Show so we all may see it ☺)


CCOLORADOOLORADO SSCHOOLCHOOL OFOF MMINESINES GGEOLOGYEOLOGY MMUSEUMUSEUM YYEAREAR ININ RREVIEWEVIEW

FORFOR 20102010 BY BRUCE GELLER

OOOO ur Geology Museum continues to evolve into a real gem. My third year at the helm of the Museum has seen

further challenges and has produced great pride. We co-sponsored the Creede Mineral Symposium, which was a

three day event held last September in southwest Colorado at the Creede Underground Museum and attended by 71

participants. I held weekly meetings with our Collections managers and volunteers. Many new volunteers and Student

Aids were recruited and oriented. We now have our own facebook fan page with over 360 friends.

Attendance, donations box, and Gift Shop revenues increased, despite the national recession. We held a Book Sale

and two Garage Sales, which were very successful. Several security measures were emplaced. Significant cash and

specimen donations continued, with many impressive loans. In short, our Museum is becoming nationally recognized

for its quality displays and staff.

We applied for and received a grant from the Golden Civic Foundation, hosted numerous receptions, identified

many specimens, and obtained a moon rock from former Governor Vanderhoof and current Governor Ritter. Check it

out in our new basement display!

We created a non-profit “Friends of the CSM Geology Museum” (FCSMGM) which boasts over 64 members from around the world. The FCSMGM members have recently ratified their own by-laws, held an annual meeting, and spent two days in the field, visiting two copper mines in southwestern New Mexico. If you are interested in joining a

fun group of dedicated Museum enthusiasts, with the knowledge that you are helping support our collections, then pick up one of the FCSMGM membership applications. FCSMGM members receive invitations to special lectures, workshops, tours, trips, and social events; receive 20% discounts in our Gift Shop, and an e-mail newsletter.

At our annual open house in September, we debuted 10 exhibits, largely the work of our Collections Managers, Ed

Raines and Tom Hughes, as well as those who loaned us their personal treasures. Our Creede mining district display

won first prize at the Denver Gem and Mineral Show, out of 19 museums.

As for coming attractions, we hope to have our third Geology Museum Book Sale February 21-25th, and we will

gladly accept your book and journal donations. Presently we have hundreds of fine books, journals, maps, folios, and

other items that we will include in the sale. Most items are individually priced. Prices will drop 50% every day of the

sale on most items, other than some very rare pieces. This is held in the room across the hall from our Museum en-

trance, everyday of that week, from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M.

I invite your club to request a private tour of our Museum. Simply submit three dates/times (daytimes, evenings,

or even weekends) and I will check my availability. Then you can notify your members of the date/time we’ve agreed

upon, and together we can enjoy a visit of our facility.

In closing, I view every day working in our Museum as another typical/atypical day. Our improvements are as-

tounding, but I must acknowledge the help and support that I’ve received from our Advisory Council, Student Aids,

volunteers, FCSMGM members, donors, specimen loaners, guests, faculty, administrators, and other supporters. Our

Museum is open seven days a week, admission is free, but fees for parking are required in our lots and on campus

streets Monday through Fridays. Further information is available on our website, or phone me at 303-273-3823.

Come see YOUR amazing collection! (Stop by and visit the Museum’s display at the RMFMS Show in June.)

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It’s time for the CSM Museum’s 3rd Used Book Sale, 1310 Maple Street, Golden, CO, February 21-

25, 2011, 9a—4p daily. Hundreds of books, journals, professional and hobbyist magazines,

U.S.G.S. folios, maps, brochures, etc. Prices individually marked. Most prices will be reduced 50%

daily. Information: 303-273-3815.


To have your RMFMS member club sponsored event listed here, email bettycain3@ comcast.net. Include the following information:

You may include other info about your show if you wish but will only be printed as space permits.

All RMFMS clubs are also encouraged to register their event listings on the RMFMS web site at: www.rmfms.org. Email your submissions to the Webmaster.

February 10February 10February 10February 10----13, 2011 Tucson, AZ13, 2011 Tucson, AZ13, 2011 Tucson, AZ13, 2011 Tucson, AZ 2011 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show™, February 10-13, 2011 "Minerals of California", Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Sunday; 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. contact [email protected] or see www.tgms.org.

FebruaryFebruaryFebruaryFebruary 25252525----27, 2011 Denver, CO27, 2011 Denver, CO27, 2011 Denver, CO27, 2011 Denver, CO Denver Gem and Mineral Club is presenting a free Jewelry, Mineral and Fossil Show; Fri & Sat 10am -6pm, Sunday 11am - 5pm, 15200 W 6th Ave, Golden, CO 80401. Activities: educational displays, museum displays, demonstrations, mineral identifi-cation, geode cutting, 18 dealers, grab bags, door prize drawings, free parking. Contact information: Janie Bennett, 303-986-9056, Web site: http://denvergem.org

February 12February 12February 12February 12----13, 2011 Golden, CO13, 2011 Golden, CO13, 2011 Golden, CO13, 2011 Golden, CO Western Interior Paeontological Society (WIPS) Founders Symposium 2011, "The West That Was, Exploring Colorado's Fossil Past"; at the Green Center, CSM campus, Golden; Preregister now at www.westernpaleo.org.

February 25February 25February 25February 25----27, 2011 Denver, CO27, 2011 Denver, CO27, 2011 Denver, CO27, 2011 Denver, CO Denver Gem and Mineral Guild, Jewelry Gem & Mineral Show; Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 15200 W. 6th Ave. (Frontage Road), Golden, CO; 10-6 Fri., 10-6 Sat., 11-5 Sun.; Free Parking and Free Admission. See http://denvergem.org/Shows.html for more info.

March 18March 18March 18March 18----20, 2011 Albuquerque, NM20, 2011 Albuquerque, NM20, 2011 Albuquerque, NM20, 2011 Albuquerque, NM Treasures of the Earth, Creative Arts Center Bldg, NM State Fair Grounds, Fri & Sat 10a-6p, Sun 10a-5p. Kids 12 & under Free, contact Paul Hlava, chairman, 505-255-5478 or [email protected]

March 25March 25March 25March 25----27, 2011 Fort Collins, CO27, 2011 Fort Collins, CO27, 2011 Fort Collins, CO27, 2011 Fort Collins, CO Fort Collins Rockhounds Club Gem and Mineral Show at The Ranch in the Thomas M. McKee 4-H building, Larimer County Fairgrounds, 5280 Arena Circle, Loveland [new location for just this year; normally in downtown Fort Collins]. For more info see http://www.fortcollinsrockhounds.org/gemAndMineralShow.shtml.

April 2April 2April 2April 2----3, 2011 Siloam Springs, AR3, 2011 Siloam Springs, AR3, 2011 Siloam Springs, AR3, 2011 Siloam Springs, AR Northwest Arkansas Gem & Mineral Society Spring Gem & Mineral Show, 110 N. Mt. Olive St; contact Charlotte Leininger, 479-721-3882, [email protected], www.nwarockhounds.org

May 6May 6May 6May 6----8, 2011 McPherson, KS8, 2011 McPherson, KS8, 2011 McPherson, KS8, 2011 McPherson, KS 19th Annual McPherson Gem & Mineral Club Rock Sale & Swap; located at 4-H Fairgrounds, 710 W. Woodside, McPherson, KS; free admission. Free camping (no hookups) – RV dump (Thurs thru Mon only) Limited Indoor Facilities Available (Call for cost) Free Tailgating Allowed in Parking Lot Contact Jim Nutter 620-241-2433 or Marvin Lundquist 620-241-7003.

June 24June 24June 24June 24----26, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO26, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO26, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO26, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO 2011 RMFMS Convention & Show hosted by the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society; Gene Maggard, RMFMS Show Chair, 316-742-3746, [email protected], and Ron Yamiolkoski, CSMS Show Chair, 719-488-5526, [email protected]

July 7July 7July 7July 7----11, 2011 Syracuse, NY11, 2011 Syracuse, NY11, 2011 Syracuse, NY11, 2011 Syracuse, NY 2011 AFMS Show & Convention, joint show with Eastern Federation of Mineral and Lapidary Societies (EFMLS).

September 3September 3September 3September 3----4, 2011 Silver City, NM4, 2011 Silver City, NM4, 2011 Silver City, NM4, 2011 Silver City, NM The Grant County Rolling Stones Gem and Mineral Club 28th Annual Gem and Mineral Show, 10a-5p, Grant County Business and Conference Center, Hwy 180 East, Silver City, New Mexico, Marcia Andres, 575-534-0006, rollingstonesgmsshow@ gmail.com, http//rollingstonesgms.blogspot.com/

September 5, 2011 Parker, KSSeptember 5, 2011 Parker, KSSeptember 5, 2011 Parker, KSSeptember 5, 2011 Parker, KS North Central Kansas Gem & Mineral 2nd Annual Show, 2nd & Nadeau St, Palmer, KS; 9a-4:30p. Vendors wanted. Contact Marty Weber, 785-763-4316, [email protected].

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President Bill Smith PO. Box 311 Hardtner KS 67057 620.296.4652 [email protected]

Vice President DeLane Cox 8152 Spanker Ridge Dr. Bentonville AR 72712 479.254.0894 [email protected]

Secretary Debbie Leschner HC60 Box 512 Quemado NM 87829 575.773.4119 [email protected]

Treasurer Gene Maggard Address on page 2

Historian Cinda Kunkler 210 NE35th St Topeka, KS 66617 785.286-1790 [email protected]

Richard Jaeger 3515 E 88th St Tulsa OK 74137-2602 918.481.0249 [email protected]

Judy Beck 3021 E Country Club Rd Salina KS 67401 785.823.7069 [email protected]

Stan Nowak 2805 Sage Dr Enid, OK 73701 580.234.3126 [email protected]

Arizona Bill Morrow PO Box 1716 Claypool, AZ 85532 928.812.0561 [email protected]

Colorado Walton Wells 1447 S. 6th Cañon City, CO 81212 719.269.1988 [email protected]

Kansas Janet Smith PO Box 311 Hardtner, KS 67057 620.296.4652 [email protected]

New Mexico/Texas Yonis Lone Eagle PO Box 1975 Bloomfield, NM 87413 505.860.2455

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North Dakota Ray Oliger 516 N 20th St Bismarck, ND 58501 701.223.4986 [email protected]

Oklahoma/Arkansas Virgil Richards 26815 51st St Broken Arrow, OK 74014 918.640.9592 [email protected]

S Dakota/Nebraska Dale Joebgen 14974 Black Country Trail Rapid City, SD 57703 605.393.2011

Utah Tom Burchard 875 E. 4500 S. S. Ogden, UT 84403 801.479.4286 [email protected]

Wyoming Jim McGarvey PO Box 116 Kinnear, WY 82516

307.856.6188 [email protected]

Convention Advisory Robert L Carlson 1585 Los Pueblos Los Alamos, NM 87544 505.662.5534 [email protected]

Editor/Publications Betty Cain Address on page 2

Finance Dan Lingelbach, Chair

1116 S. Gray Stillwater, OK 74074 405.372-8635 [email protected]

Bill Smith See President [email protected]

Lapidary Technical Mike Snively 8495 W. Starr Circle Littleton, CO 80128 720.981.0752 [email protected]

Mineralogical Tech Jim Hurlbut 2240 S Adams Denver, CO 80210 303.757.0283 [email protected]

Nominations Judy Beck, Chair

Address on page 2

Richard Jaeger See Past Presidents

Walton Wells See CO Director

Stan Nowak See Past Pres

Program Library Jennifer Biddle

1620 Kingsway St Sapulpa, OK 74016 918.361.1957 [email protected]

Program Library Mailer-Marie Wester 1045 CR 204 Durango, CO 81301 970.247.9648 [email protected]

Safety Vacant

Webmaster Jim McGarvey See WY Director

Assistant Webmaster Kevin Harden 3800 E Jewell Ave #202

Denver, CO 80210 [email protected]

Boundaries Robert L Carson See Convention Advisory

Credentials Janet Smith See KS State Director

Directory Kay Waterman

2912 W 4th Pl S Claremore, OK 74017 918.521.4386 [email protected]

Distribution Sharon DePuy Address on page 2

AFMS Club Rockhound of the Year Award (ACROY) Bill Cain [email protected] Address on page 2 (Editor)

Ed. All American Club Vacant

Fluorescent Technical Vacant

Fossil Technical Roger Burkhalter 16560 E. Maguire Rd Noble, OK 73068 405.899.4260 [email protected]

Insurance/Trophies Arlene Burkhalter 1267 Kingbird Lane Choctaw, OK 73020 405.732.0808 [email protected]

International Relations Jim Hurlbut See Mineralogical Tech

Junior Program Diane C Weir 2300 S Union Ave Roswell, NM 88203 575.622.5679 [email protected]

Labels Judy Beck Address on page 2

Long-Range Planning

Judy Beck, Chair Address on page 2

Richard Jaeger See Past Pres

Robert L Carlson See Convention Advisory

Name Badges Richard Jaeger See Past Presidents

Parliamentarian Gene Maggard See Treasurer

Permanent Address Robert Carlson See Long-Range Planning

Program Contest Jennifer Biddle See Program Library

Public Relations Vacant

Ribbons Kaye Thompson 1830 Mesita Ct. Colo. Springs, CO 80906 719.636.2978

RMFMS Convention & Show Gene Maggard, Chair

Address on page 2

Scholarship Sandy Cannedy 15071 County Rd 1170 Binger, Okla. 73009-5006 405.656.9019 [email protected]

Stamps Susan Athens 227 E. Poplar Ave Enid, OK 73701 580.234-5768 [email protected]

Supplies Richard Goodnough Address on page 2

Webmaster Contest Phyllis George 22407 Park Point Dr

Katy, TX 77459-5852 [email protected]

Arizona Bill Jaeger 3441 E Astro St Hereford, AZ 85615 520.803.6590 [email protected]

Harry Kilb 3411 Tomahawk Dr Lake Havasu City, AZ 86406 928.855.1630 [email protected]

Colorado Tim Austin 2918 Plymouth Rd Grand Junction, CO 81503 970.263.7404 [email protected]

Mike Nelson 645 Popes Valley Dr Colo. Springs, CO 80919 719.522.1608

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Kansas Curley Clough 1932 N Mt Carmel Wichita, KS 67203 316.943.1785 [email protected]

Nebraska Leroy Meininger 50029 Sunflower Road Mitchell, NE 69357 308.623.2661 [email protected]

N Mexico/Texas Howell T. Whiting 2300 S. Union Roswell, NX 88203 575.622.5679 [email protected]

N Dakota Rodney Hickle 1631 28th Ave SW Central, ND 58530 701.794.3342

Oklahoma/Arkansas Bill Lyon 112 N. Hillcrest St Ada, OK 74820 580.332.8666 [email protected]

Doris Perkins 405 SE Ave G I Dabel, OK 74745 580.286.3133 [email protected]

S Dakota Dale Joebgen See SD State Director

Jan Baumeister 19702 E Hwy 18 Sp 56 Welton, AZ 85356 928.785-3238 [email protected]

Utah Jim Alexander 360 5th St Ogden, UT 84404 801.399.0785 [email protected]

Wyoming Jim McGarvey

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Robert Carlson, Chair

See Long Range Plng

B. Jay Bowman 191 Bowman Rd Ponca City, OK 74601 580.761.5966 [email protected]

Roger Burkhalter See Fossil Technical

Jack Thompson See Ribbons

Lee Whitebay 4669 N Prentice Rd Ponca City, OK 74604 580.765.2074 [email protected]

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