Mineral Notes: Silver
While cheaper than gold on the commodoties market, silver is less likely to be less common in mineral collectors' showcase.

Daddy Day Care.
Dinosaur fathers guard the eggs.

China's New Rich Spark Jade Rush
Demand from Shanghai's middle classes prompts workers to leave their trades to dig for the precious stone.

Fifty Years & Still Going Strong
Happy 50th Anniversary to the Fraser Valley Rock & Gem Club.

Canada's Stonehenge
An aceamedic maverick is challenging convential wisdom on Canada's prehistory

The History of Lapidary - Part 1
Where did gemcutting get its start?

A Field Guide to Mineral Collectors
Here is a guide to field collectors to spot who knows what they are doing & who don't.

Petrified Wood
Petrified wood is one of the "world of the world".

Drusy Quartz:
Always one-of-a-kind.

Colourful
Rhyolite & Jasper, Second in a series of De Morgan's adventures in Quartzite.

Around the Clubs

Oldest Known Gold Artifacts In The Americas Discovered.
Gold has long been more than a fashion statement, and wearing jewelry and other adornments made of it often connotes prestige.

"Daisy" Lois Stevenson - 45+ years of Rockhounding
By Gloria Duncan
It all started with a 50 pound piece of Ocean Agate!! That's what got Lois hooked on rockhounding.

The History of Lapidary – part two
The Modern Age of Diamond Arrives

A Trip to Coon Hollow With Miss Bright Blue Eyes
by De Morgan, Feature Writer
Trip # 3 from Quartzsite, Arizona

What is a Mineral?
If you play "Twenty Questions," the first question is "Animal, vegetable or mineral?" If the answer is "mineral," it could mean anything that isn't alive or formerly alive.

The Hauser Beds of California
by De Morgan
Quartzsite Field Trip #4
Although this trip does not technically qualify as the Quartzsite area, I’m counting it into the 5 trips, because we left from Quartzsite.

Fraser Canyon War, 1858: B.C. Born of Bloodshed
By Craig Saunders
The naked, decapitated body floating down the Fraser River one day in 1858 was just the beginning.

Cosmetic Minerals of Ancient Egypt
Minerals have been used for adornment for millennia. The Egyptians made an extensive use of many familiar minerals.

SAFETY: It’s Just Dust – Isn’t It?
Andrew Alden
Whenever we grind or polish anything, we make fine dust, fine particles called particulates.

MADRAS 2009
by Terry Bacon
For many years I've heard talk of a Rock & Gem Show / Sale Field trips at a place called Madras Oregon ; finally I have the time off and I actually got to go.

Revamped ROM Minerals - a Must See
by John Bowman, Eastern Correspondent
We recently had the chance to visit the new gallery while in Toronto, and came away very impressed.

Phantom crystals
By Peter R. Girardot, PhD Chair, Safety Committee, SCFMS
Faint inner crystals are sometimes visible within larger ones.

A Tour of the Similco Mine
by De Morgan
We donned our hard hats, and travelled in a convoy to three locations around the cavernous multi-layered pit of the Similco Mine in Princeton, B.C.

Around the Clubs
Rendezvous 2010
Summer Camp 2010
Club Shows
Equipment for Sale