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

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.

The Dallas Gem and Mineral Show is HERE!!!

Come join us this weekend for the 62nd Annual Dallas Gem and Mineral Society, Mineral Show!

Saturday, November 23: 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday, November 24: 10 am – 5 pm

Mesquite Rodeo Exhibition Hall
1800 Rodeo Drive
Mesquite, TX 75149


Door Prizes – Grand Prize Drawing – Silent Auction – Fluorescent Display – Kid’s Mine – Wheel of Fortune – Tons of FUN for the whole family!!

Vendors – Gems and Minerals from around the world – Lapidary Equipment – Jewelry – Open your own geodes – Slabs – Rough – Jewelry Supplies – Beads

Displays – Wire Wrapping – Stone Polishing – Knapping

Holy Smokes!! It’s gonna be a KILLER weekend!!! I’m so excited!

2019 dallas gem and mineral show info
2019 dallas gem and mineral show info

Rok’n Around Town: DGMS Rock Swap & Amethyst Rock Sale!

Rock Swap – Our final Rock Swap for the year will be held on Saturday September 28th from 8am-2ish

You may arrive earlier to set up your table in the DGMS parking lot at 10205 Plano Rd. Dallas Tx. You can sell anything rock related and don’t forget to bring your table, chair and canopy, umbrella, or hat to keep the sun off.  Most of the vendors will only take cash. This is always a fun event, so join us to set up a table or come by and shop!

Amethyst - Dallas Gem and Mineral Society

Amethyst Rock Fossil Sale September 26, 27, 28 (9am – 5pm) – (Murphy, TX)

Sale date and times:

Thursday September 26– 9am – 5pm

Friday September 27- 9am – 5pm

Saturday September 28- 9am – 5pm

Admission = Free

Parking = Free

Meteorites $10 each/ limit 5

Free fossilized coral $8 value for the first 1000 visitors / limit 1

Free rock collecting bag with purchase / while supplies last

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 ++

Not on invitation to future events yet: Send email subject “invite me – your city”, include your city to rocktrading(at)aol.com

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.)

Agate Geode, Alum Cactus, Amethyst – Brazil, Amethyst Geode Cathedral, Ammonites, Azurite on Malachite, Black Tourmaline, Book ends, carnelian, Chalcopyrite, Charoite – Russia, Chevron Amethyst, Chrysocolla, Faceted emeralds, Fire Agates, Fire Opal In, Fluorite – Gold sheen Obsidian, Green Apophyllite, Green Tourmaline, Meteorite Slices, Meteorites, mixed stone pendulums, moldavite, Orange Quartz, Petrified Wood, Pink Tourmaline, pyramids, Pyrite, Rose Quartz, Sharks Tooth, Smoky Quartz Clusters, Sodalite, Spheres, Turquoise, Variscite -and much much more!


Rok’n Around Town – Body Logic Rock Emporium

Dallas Gem and Mineral Society is excited to announce a new series we are starting: Rock’n Around Town! We will be highlighting local shops and Members of DGMS who sell rocks. Included in these posts will be a short interview with the owner, what their primary interest is, how they got started collecting, and photos of some of what they have available.

Our first stop is:

Body Logic Rock Emporium
4887 Alpha Rd, Ste 210
Dallas, Texas 75244

DGMS - Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Body Logic Rock Emporium

Stewart, the owner, is more than willing to share his vast knowledge of rocks with his customers. Don’t let the name of the company throw you. His primary business is selling products for the massage industry but has expanded in the last several years to include tumbled stones, jewelry, and mineral specimens.

DGMS - Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Body Logic Rock Emporium

Stewart recently acquired an unbelievable treasure-trove of an estate from an old rockhound and geologist that collected for decades. Being interested initially in the estate’s sphere machines (the gentleman focused primarily on carving and polishing spheres), Stewart soon realized he needed to have the whole lot! The massive collection included tools, machines, spheres, specimens, and about SIXTEEN 55 gallon barrels filled with assorted rocks including Jasper, Quartz, Jade, Agate, and more. There is even a 55 gallon drum that if full entirely of petrified wood. None of the rocks are labeled, and Stewart allows you to dig thru the barrels and pick out whatever you find, no matter the mineral, for one bulk price! It’s like the biggest rock grab-bag ever! (The price per pound is such a fantastic deal and believe me, it’s VERY easy to meet the 50 lb price break…)

DGMS - Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Body Logic Rock Emporium

There is also a large collection of minerals and specimens in the lobby that are for sale. Be sure to checkout the large petrified palm root.

DGMS - Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Body Logic Rock Emporium

Also on display, are these amazing mineral sample discs. It’s fascinating to see the wide variety of rocks, some which you may have never seen in real life!

DGMS - Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Body Logic Rock Emporium

Set aside some time to visit with Stewart at Body Logic Rock Emporium!