M.A.G.M.A.,
Mountain Area Gem and Mineral Association,
Annual Fall Picnic,
October 15th, 2005____________________
As I said, the name of Sharons rockshop was the Opalhaus, here are a few pics of some of the opals I saw for sale:
Andamooka opal
Andamooka opals
Nancy had bought a big matrix rock from Canada full of large gemmy almandine garnet crystals, but she couldn't wait to get it home and began chipping away at the rock!
After a while she drew a crowd as she began to pull out many nice specimens.
Sharon gave us a tour of her mineral collection, she has many museum quality specimens.
A 2 foot x 2 foot butterfly calcite specimen in a display case in Sharons collection.
Robbie had come and brought a couple of his latest finds from the Walker Creek site to show everyone.
Since many of our members had travelled a long way to be at the picnic, they were planning to spend the night in the Asheville area, it was only fitting to take them on a fieldtrip on Sunday before their trek home, so we headed to Walker Creek the next morning to get everyone some nice kyanite, which leads me to the next report.........
