Category: Club Activities

Club activities

DGMS Rock Swap This Saturday!!

DGMS ROCK SWAP is scheduled for
Saturday June 27th 8:30-2ish.

Anybody and Everybody please come and set up a table to buy, sell or trade anything rock related. 

Masks are required per Dallas county.

  • We will require all Vendors to wear a mask and gloves and, preferably, have had sanitizer available.
  • We will ask that all Shoppers wear a mask and ask Vendors not to sell to anyone that is not wearing one.
  • We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to the age of the majority of our members, vendors, and shoppers, there will be no exceptions to the mask and gloves rules. Please consider the well-being of everyone when attending this event.

See ya there !!

Also going on this weekend….

Amethyst Rock Fossil Sale June 26 to July 1, 9am to 8pm (*By appointment only*) – (Dallas/ Collin County

Sale date and times:
June 26 to July 1
9am to 8pm

**By appointment only – RSVP date and time to: 214-901-3872
•       Face Mask Consideration
•       State Covid Guidelines followed
•       Temperature must be less than 100
•       Customers Only
•       No Kids – Bummer! Sorry!
•       Admission = Free
•       Parking = Free
•       No Facilities
Meteorites $5each/ limit 5
Free fossilized coral $8 value for the first 1000 visitors / limit 1
Larimar cabs $5 each / limit 5
Beautiful Amethyst Cathedrals (5” to 5’) up to 65% off
1000 rocks and fossils for only $5 each.
Specials
Forms of payment: Cash, (Credit Card ++)

Address Directions below:
1409 Oak Hill Ln
Murphy, TX 75094
(US-75, exit Park (go East ~6mi), McCreary (Left or N ~1/8mi), Hickory Top (left or W), Oak Hill Ln (Right or N to 1409 on left)


Gems and Cabs
Minerals – literally 1000(s) of exquisite minerals from around the world
Fossils – Beautiful specimens from around the world
Lapidary rough and slabs – lbs from around the world (see below)
Gems, Minerals, Fossils, and Lapidary rough (Too many to list, but here are a few.)
Amethyst Cathedrals, Actinolite, Adamite, Agate Geode, Alum Cactus, Amethyst – Brazil, Amethyst Geode , Cathedral, Ammonites, Anglesite On Galena, Apatite, Aquamarine, Aragonite, Arrow Heads, Arsenopyrite, Aventurine, Aztec Lapis, Azurite, Azurite Ball, Azurite On Malachite, Baby Tabasco Geodes, Bacon Calcite, Banded Calcite, Barite, Barite With Limonite, Biotite Mica, Bismuth, Black Tourmaline, Blue Fluorite, Blue Lace Agate – Brazil, Blue Tourmaline, Book Ends, Botryoidal Goethite, Botryoidal Hematite, Brazilian Amethyst/ Quartz/ Calcite, Brazilian Minerals, Brochantite (Green), Bumble Bee Jasper – Indonesia, Calcite, Calico Pyrite, Carnelian, Chalcedony , Chalcopyrite, Charoite – Russia, Chevron Amethyst, Chrysocolla, Cinnabar On Dolomite, Clam Shell Fossil, Cobaltoan Calcite, Copper, Dog Tooth Calcite, Dolomite, Double Terminated Aura Quartz, Druzy Quartz, Erythrite, Faceted Emeralds, Fire Agates, Fire Opal In, Flint – Poland, Fluorite, Fluorite – China, Fluorite Points, Fluorite Sphere, Fossilized Coral, Fossils, Fuchsite, Fulgurites, Galena, Garnet, Gemmy Green Epidote, Geodes, Glass Eggs, Gold Sheen Obsidian, Green Apophyllite, Green Tourmaline, Green Zebra Serpentine, Healerite, Hemimorphite, Howlite, Hydro Agates, Hydro Double Terminated Quartz, Indian Minerals, Jasper, K2 (Azurite Granite) – Pakistan, Kyanite – Brazil, Labradorite, Lapis , Lazuli – Afghanistan, Large Facetes, Larimar Cabs, Larimar Cabs And Silver Jewelry, Lava, Lepidolite, Lunar Moon Sphere, Malachite – Congo, Malachite Azurite Specimens, Malachite Crystalline, Matrix Eggs, Megalodon Shark Tooth, Meteorite Slices, Meteorites, Mexican Geodes, Missouri Druzzy Quartz, Mixed Stone Pendulums, Moldavite, Moon Stone – Sri Lanka, Moroccan Onyx, Native Copper, Natural Turquoise Rough Rock, Obsidian, Onyx, Opal Boulder And Louisiana, Optical Calcite, Orange – Blue – Three Color Calcite, Orange Quartz, Orange Selenite, Orpiment, Orthoceras Fossil, Palm Wood, Petrified Wood, Pink Tourmaline, Plumbogummite, Prehnite , Pyramids, Pyrite, Pyrite “Sun”, Pyrite With Quartz, Quartz, Quartz Sphere, Quartz/ Amethyst, Rhyolite Utah/ Nevada, Rose Quartz, Roselite (Magnesian) With Dolomite, Ruby In Zoisite – India, Rutilated Quartz, Sapphire, Satin Spar, Selenite, Selenite Shapes, Septarian Nodule Geode Eggs, Sharks Tooth, Sharks Tooth In Matrix, Shungite, Silicon Carbide, Silver Cabs, Slabs, Small Watermelon Tourmaline Slices, Smelt Quartz, Sillaminite, Smithsonite Specimens, Smokey Quartz, Smoky Quartz Clusters, Sodalite, Spheres, Spinel Diopside In Quartz, Stibnite, Stilbite, Stone Pyramids, Strawberry Quartz, Tektites, Thick/Thin Agate Slabs, Thulite, Tiger’s Eye – Africa, Titanium Coated Black Kyanite, Topaz, Tourmaline, Towers, Trancas Hollow Geodes, Trilobite, Turquoise, Udolite, Vanadinite, Variscite – Utah, Veracruz Amethyst, Watermelon Tourmaline, Wulfenite, Zebra Agate, and much much more!
Please forward to anyone interested.
See you there!
Thanks,
David
Rough – Buy the whole crate get a discount
Lipedolite rough, Petrified wood, Rhyolite, Wavelite
Agate Morocco, Agate Montana, Picture Sandstone, Blue calcite, Bronzite, Calcite, Calcite Dendritic, Orange, Red banded, Calcite UT, Chrysocolla Nevada, Crinoid fossil stone Pink Texas, Dinosaur Poop – Coprolite, Fluorite UT, Fossil Agate Coral, Kona Dolomite, Aventurine, miscellaneous, Montana agate, Obsidian Gold Sheen, Obsidian mahogany, Obsidian rainbow, Onyx, Orange Quartz, Quartz Strawberry, Rhodonite, Sodalite, Tortilla Agate WY, Yellow Calcite UT, Jasper, Geodes, chalcedony
Rose Quartz

Slabs and preform cabs – buy the whole box get a discount
Lots of miscellaneous!, Agate, Petrified wood, palm, lepidolite, rose quartz, pictures sandstone, healerite, kona dolomite, obsidian, Dinosaur Poop – Coprolite

DGMS Shop SignUp Link!

We’re using SignUp.com (the leading online SignUp and reminder tool) to organize our upcoming Rock Shop Times. You MUST be a current member of DGMS and have completed your Qualifying Class to sign up for available shop times.

Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:


1) Click this link to see our SignUp on SignUp.com: https://signup.com/go/XCRfVxD 
2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.
3) Sign up! It’s Easy – you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.com.

Note: SignUp.com does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually.

Breaking DGMS News!

GREAT NEWS EVERYBODY…. 

As of now, DGMS has tentative plans to reopen the Shop on a limited basis to current, qualified DGMS Members.

Pending any new Dallas County recommendations, we plan to open the Shop on Monday evening, June 1 with the following rules:

  • Signup in advance is highly recommended
  • Everyone will be required to wear a mask and gloves
  • We will have a maximum of 3 people at the Shop, plus Shop Supervisor
  • We are recommending 2-hour timeslots (M, TH 5-7pm & 7-9pm, SAT 8-10am & 10-12) and possibly assigned seating
  • Shop Supervisors will need to clean (wipe down) the shop at the end of each shift
  • People who have signed up will get precedence over those who just show up, so please use the form or call Lynn for a timeslot.
  • Everyone using the Shop must sign an Accident Waiver and Release of Liability Form. This will also be available at the Shop.

**Please only sign up for one slot per day, no more than two slots per week. This gives everybody a chance to come in at least twice a week, especially on some of our more popular days. Of course, if no one signs up for the 2nd session and you wish to stay, that will be allowed.

If you got the email from the DGMS Secretary, you were provided a link to the Sign-Up Form, if you are hearing about this for the first time, please email: dgms.sec@gmail.com to request the link or more information. 

MORE GREAT NEWS EVERYBODY….

We are planning to have the Rock Swap on Saturday, Jun 27 (note date change).

  • We will require all Vendors to wear a mask and gloves and, preferably, have had sanitizer available.
  • We will ask that all Shoppers wear a mask and ask Vendors not to sell to anyone that is not wearing one.
  • We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to the age of the majority of our members, vendors, and shoppers, there will be no exceptions to the mask and gloves rules. Please consider the well-being of everyone when attending this event.

Of course, if any of this changes, we will send out another notice. But you can always check out our Web page or Facebook for more up to date information!

DGMS Announcement

The Dallas Gem and Mineral Society takes the health and safety of our members very seriously. Due to the ever evolving COVID19 situation, DGMS has issued the following statement:

1) We will follow the Dallas County recommendations for public gatherings.
2) Effective immediately, the Shop is CLOSED. It is tentatively planned to reopen on Saturday, March 28. 
3) The Monthly Meeting on Tuesday, March 17, is CANCELLED.
4) The Rock Swap, originally scheduled for March 28, is tentatively POSTPONED until
April 18.   

Another notice will be sent out if any of this changes.    
Stay tuned for more information as things progress or settles down…

Thanks, DGMS Board of Directors

Rok’n Around the Christmas Tree!

WOW! Can you even believe the year is coming to an end?

It seems like only yesterday that our 62nd Annual DGMS Show was happening… but it happened… and it was FANTASTIC!!!! So many people, vendors, gems and minerals!! We have a special announcement from one of our Show Chairs:

On behalf of the Dallas Gem and Mineral Society, I would like to thank everyone that helped make our show great. This includes our many vendors that donated to our silent auction, the Hotel for helping with the space and the great food, our Club members for donating many of the rocks for the show and silent auction. I would like to send out a very Large Thank-You to our Volunteers – they are the very backbone of our show. They have spent many days and hours setting up, organizing, identifying specimens, loading and unloading the truck, and way too many things to list at this time. Looking forward to seeing all of you next year!

Sincerely, Lynn Couvillion 

I’m looking to get some great pics from the show, but in the meantime here are a couple of the beautiful Fluorescent Display from this year! Unbelievable that nature produces such hidden beauties! Look so nondescript by day… but AMAZING under UV!!!

Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Fluorescent Display, White Light
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Fluorescent Display, UV Light

And can’t forget to let you know….

Our final 2019 club meeting (aka Party) is coming up soon! It will be held on Tuesday, December 17. Please bring a rock-related (gem, mineral, fossil, jewelry, lapidary, etc) wrapped gift valued at no more than $20. If you bring a gift, you will get a gift. There will be no ‘stealing’ of gifts, but feel free to exchange with each other after all gifts are opened. 

We will also be having a pot luck dinner. The meat will be brisket made by Lynn Couvililon and a Turkey or Ham that will be paid for by the Club.  We will need one volunteer to cook the turkey or ham. Please use the following link to sign up for the Pot Luck. Please review the list before adding your favorite recipe so we don’t end up with six green bean casseroles and no desserts.

Use the link below to access the pot luck signup: 

  >>  http://www.luckypotluck.com/potluck/DGMSxmas2019

Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Seraphinite

Maybe think about topping your tree this year with Seraphinite!! If you don’t know it, it is a beautiful stone….

Seraphinite apparently acquired its name due to its resemblance to feathers due to its chatoyancy. Seraphinite is named after the biblical seraphs or seraphim angels.[1] With some specimens the resemblance is quite strong, with shorter down-like feathery growths leading into longer “flight feathers”; the resemblance even spurs fanciful marketing phrases like “silver plume seraphinite.” Seraphinite is generally dark green to gray in color, has chatoyancy, and has hardness between 2 and 4 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.