Parma Lapidary Club Rock-A-Rama! is on Saturday, May 19th

Parma Lapidary Club
Parma Lapidary Club
Parma Lapidary Club

Join the Parma Lapidary Club for the 50th annual Rock-A-Rama! It will be held on Saturday, May 19th 9am-6pm and Sunday, May 20th 10am-5pm at the Soccer Sportsplex, 31515 Lorain Ave, N. Olmsted 44070. The show will feature a number of vendors selling crystals, fossils, lapidary supplies, as well as hand-made jewelry. There will also be live demos, a Chinese auction, a kid’s corner with educational games, and door prizes. The profits from the show help to maintain the level of service to the community. Admission: $6 for adults, children under 12 & scouts in uniform are free.

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The 50th ANNUAL
ROCKaRAMA
JEWELRY, GEM, CRYSTAL, FOSSIL
& MINERAL SHOW

Fun for the whole family!!!

***GREAT LOCATION***
Click here for directions and a map
Soccer Sportsplex
31515 Lorain Rd.
North Olmsted, Ohio
FREE Parking
Air-conditioned and Heated

Saturday May 19th and Sunday 20th, 2018

Saturday 9 am – 6 pm

Sunday 10 am – 5 pm

Gems ● Minerals ● Beads ● Fossils ● Live Demos
● Crack a Geode ● Kids Korner ● Gem Mine
● Silent/Chinese Auctions ● Door Prizes ● Exhibits
● and Much More

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FREE VERBAL JEWELRY APPRAISALS
Sunday 1PM – 3PM, Limit 2 items per person

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DEMONSTRATIONS
Gem Stone Faceting ● Cabochon Cutting & Polishing
Wire Wrap Jewelry ● Silversmithing ● and more

Visit our Kids Korner

FREE PARKING

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Admission: $6.00 Adult

Children under 12 and scouts in uniform FREE when accompanied by an paying adult.

Culver City Rock and Mineral Club will present its 57th Annual Fiesta of Gems Show on Saturday, June 23, 2018

Culver City Rock and Mineral Club

Culver City Rock and Mineral Club
Culver City Rock and Mineral Club

The Culver City Rock and Mineral Club will present its 57th Annual Fiesta of Gems Show on Saturday, June 23, 2018, from 10 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 24, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA 90230. This year the featured gemstone is Jade. Admission and parking are free. For more information contact Janice Metz at culvercityrocks35@gmail.com

The Fiesta of Gems is a free educational event for the community which provides fossils, gems and mineral exhibits, demonstrations, and children’s programs. We also offer jewelry making classes, gem, mineral dealers, tools, and books sales. This event helps several community programs in Culver City and helps to educate and inspire elementary students in Earth Science activities. It also enables the Club to provide donations to the El Rincon School, to the Culver City Boy Scouts, Troop 113, and the Culver City Senior Center.

Fiesta of Gems Show offers over 35 gem and mineral dealers from California, New Mexico, and Arizona who will sell minerals, gems, slabs, cabochons, beads, and jewelry findings. The Culver City Rock and Mineral Club members will exhibit gem and mineral works of art, jewelry pieces, and private collections of gems and minerals. There will be classes throughout the weekend introducing various techniques of jewelry making.

For more information on the 57th Fiesta of Gems Show or the Culver City Rock and Mineral Club, contact Janice Metz at culvercityrocks35@gmail.com or refer to our website http://www.culvercityrocks.org/.

ABOUT THE CULVER CITY ROCK AND MINERAL CLUB

The purpose of the CULVER CITY ROCK & MINERAL CLUB is to bring together persons interested in the earth sciences, to engage in research and study in this realm, and to assist members in the collection and preservation of rocks and minerals and in the study of lapidary and related arts.

Gem and Mineral Clubs can Recruit More Members!

American Geode

How Gem and Mineral Clubs can Recruit More Members
American Geode team members have the good fortune of being members in good standing with many different gem and mineral clubs from New York to Pennsylvania, Vermont to Texas. We have also been vendors at many shows hosted by gem and mineral clubs, and supporters and buyers to even more different shows organized by gem and mineral clubs throughout the US and Canada.
In addition to gems, minerals, geodes, fossils and rockhounding, American Geode has decades of experience in SALES. With this essay, we would like to share tips, tricks and advice for gem and mineral clubs to recruit brand new members!
1. Less is More! We have been to many gem and mineral club tables at various shows, and while giving gifts to prospective members is a nice gesture, usually it’s too much too early. The result can backfire on you! The person has just arrived to the show, they don’t want right from the start to be carrying papers and flyers and bulletins and free sample minerals. That does not create a desire or need for that person to join your club!
Instead, try these steps:
a. Upon introduction, ask the prospective member what his or her interests are? Is it education and lectures? Is it field trips? Is the interest purely social? Find out WHY the prospect may want to join your club so that you can offer them a SOLUTION! Take notes. Are they interested in rockhounding field trip, fellowship or education? Tell the prospect to “Enjoy the show, and be sure to stop by before you leave to learn more about the club.”
2. Don’t “hot box” your prospective members when you meet them! The term “hot box” means expending undue pressure on a person to join your group or affiliation. To the person being “hot boxed,” they will call it a “turn off.” Again, “Less is More.” Educate the prospect about the club, ask questions, that shows mindful and sincere interest in them and will appeal to them, and then “hook” them on the return visit. While the prospective member is touring the show and dealers, plan and prepare a relevant gift, relevant information and means to sign up when they exit the show. For instance, if the prospect says they are interested in rockhounding, have your field trip leader or officer, or someone who has been a frequent field trip rockhound, talk to the prospect about the last trip. Have a schedule planned for the upcoming trips to share! If the person is interested in lapidary and jewelry, be ready to discuss access to equipment if that is a benefit of your club, or discuss the other members who are lapidary experts and how often your meetings are about lapidary. The trick is to make the conversation relevant. While your club has many, many great things to offer, satiating and fulfilling someone’s rockhound or mineral need is going to sign up more users than sharing the other great, but irrelevant strengths your club has to offer.

3. How do you “hook” your new members? Prepare, prepare, prepare! When you meet them the first time, write down their name, note if they are with someone or their family. Be prepared to offer a family membership at the lower price point. Be prepared to sign up people THAT DAY! Have the forms ready, have plenty of pens, have pocket cash to make change if someone pays their dues with cash, and have someone be ready to take credit cards via Paypal device you can attach to your phone. Does your club offer on-line sign-up and membership? Then have a laptop ready for someone to sign up right there! Whether it’s retail sales, high-end luxury good sales, memberships to any organization, when people walk away, and you don’t get the sale, the chances of them returning to complete the sale later are as low as 5%. That would be a terrible shame when you have someone who is a “hot prospect” because they are at your club show!
With these “sales tricks” we know you will succeed!

Mt. Hood Rock Club Rock & Gem Show April 27, 28, and 29, 2018

Gem Show


Gem Show
Gem Show
Mt. Hood Rock Club Rock & Gem Show
April 27, 28, and 29, 2018
Fri & Sat 10-5, Sun 10-4

At W.D. Jackson Armory
6255 NE Cornfoot Rd., Portland OR 97218
(take Alderwood Rd. from NE Columbia Blvd [south of PDX Airport])

FREE Admission, One free rock to each child.

Mt. Hood Rock Club, a nonprofit 501c3, is not affiliated with any school program or district.

24+ Dealers of Minerals, Rocks, Fossils, Jewelry, Beads, & More
Activities:
– Kids are w/ games & more.
– Door, raffle, & game prizes.
– Silent Auction bargains.
– View many Exhibits.
– Demonstrations of lapidary, wire wrap and more.
– Oral Auction on Sunday (old and rare material).

Be sure to check out American Geode’s collection of gems, minerals, rough stones, stone artwork, and other mineral ones-of-a-kind for auction in our ebay marketplace: https://www.ebay.com/usr/americangeode

Red Hill Fossil Discovery Part II


Later on Saturday, October of 2017, the American Geode team made it to the famous outcrop called Red Hill that is near Renovo, Pennsylvania and close to North Bend, Pennsylvania. Red Hill is the site of a very famous tetrapod discovery, one of the earliest tetrapods discovered in North America. The outcrop is very steep, and very dangerous. American Geode classifies Red Hill as an “advanced” or “expert” fossil site. Red Hill is managed by a volunteer group nearby who host and house a fossil and geology museum that American Geode was very lucky to view during a private tour later that day. You can see where boulders have fallen out of the cliff, shards of rock crumbled on the road nearby, and while we were there, occasionally a pea sized pebble to a golf ball sized rock would drop from the cliff.

The fossils that one can find are Devonian plants, and if you are very lucky, one can find an insect, and if lightning strikes twice, once could find a tetrapod again. The American Geode team found many examples of Devonian Plants, but the rock is crumbly. When we brought the Devonian Plant fossils in matrix back to American Geode headquarters to clean up, we sprayed them with water sealant to help seal and protect the matrix.

We did not find any insects, but one of the rockhound paleontologists there described finding a scorpion one time!

If you have some time in the area, rockhounding or not, the museum nearby is a very educational and interesting experience. The museum information is here: https://www.facebook.com/RED-HILL-FIELD-STATION-AND-FOSSIL-DISPLAY-121627314538811/
*Call ahead to the museum! This is a volunteer staffed museum, so do not expect normal hours, and do not rely on information on their site. Call ahead!*

Here are photos of the Red Hill fossil trip and our Red Hill fossil discoveries! To see and purchase Red Hill fossils from the American Geode collection, go to our eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/usr/americangeode
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