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Field
Trips
The Paradise Gem and Mineral
Club belongs to a Co-Op of rock clubs which organize regular
rockhounding field trips throughout California, Nevada and Oregon.
There are also monthly day trips in our area hosted by our club to the
numerous rockhounding sites in Northern California.
If you are eager to get your hands dirty and find some beautiful
material, be sure to participate in these great field trips.
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Activity Night
The second
Thursday of each month is Activity Night
where members and visitors can get hands-on experience
in lapidary, beading, wire wrapping, and much more. Put those buckets
of collected rocks to use! Bring your slabs and beads or just your
questions and imagination and learn to make something wonderful. Visitors
Welcome!
The
Paradise Gem & Mineral Club has a growing dynamic library of
videotapes, and books and periodicals devoted to geology, mineralogy
and lapidary. The traveling library is set up at most
meetings for members to look at and check out library materials to
read. The actual collection is larger and requests for a book not
brought to a meeting should be directed to Vernita Wright 534-8364 or
use our online Library
list and order form.
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Geology In the News:
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Live View of
Mount St. Helens, WA
As
Mount St. Helens gears up for another eruption, the
world watches tomorrows geology in the making.
For your viewing enjoyment, here is a live shot of Mt. St. Helens from
the US Forest Service. (updates every
5 minutes,
dawn to dusk)
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Minerals from Another World
 Recent highlights
from Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity as they continue to explore,
experiment and send back images from Mars.
Mars Rover website from NASA is
here.
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