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Nebraska Mineral and Gem Club

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Nebraska Mineral and Gem Club

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Welcome to the Nebraska Gem and Mineral Club
Club Meetings:
Meetings are held the third Wednesday of every month at the Pipal Park community Center in Omaha, NE
(See Schedule of Events for Calendar and Meeting Subjects)
Meetings are held at 7pm.
Doors open at 6:30pm
The purpose of the club is to stimulate scientific and educational interest in geology, archeology, and related earth sciences.
The club promotes interest in the lapidary arts and provides opportunities for collecting and studying rocks, gems, minerals and fossils, learning lapidary arts/crafts, and supporting the study of geology at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and Omaha.
The Nebraska Gem and Mineral Club at Omaha has active adult and youth groups. The youth group includes kids from 6-18.
Among the activities enjoyed by both groups are rock / fossil hunting field trips, opportunities to learn arts and crafts related to rocks and gems including hands on demonstrations and lectures/share and tell opportunities both by members rock hounds and geology or archeology experts from local colleges.
The Nebraska Mineral and Gem Club Inc. is affiliated with the Nebraska Association of Earth Sciences Clubs, Inc. It is a non-profit corporation incorporated under section 21-901RRS, Nebraska 1943 non-profit corporation and shall have perpetual existence
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Phone: 402-873-6515

State Gem: Blue Agate
State Fossil: Horn Coral

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Nebraska Mineral & Gem Club History
In 1976, the club hosted the state show, it had nine dealers, four special demonstrations and the members themselves operated such things as the lost was casting, faceting, sheet work in silver, rock polishing with other creative ideas. The club also had such things as hourly door prizes, the Rock Pile which over the last couple of years has boasted some fine obsidian and Lake Superior Agates and even Black Jade. The show also has movies and over 125 displays covering every aspect in the field of lapidary, and earth science. The club membership at present is 182 adults plus junior members. The club's monthly meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month, having a program devoted to such things as agate hunting and it's history, core drilling in Antarctica, archaeological work in Nebraska, etc. These programs were put on by the University and historical Society. We have annual field trips, potluck dinner, rock auctions, and the April banquet is our social event of the year.
The club's profits have been and are presently being funneled toward four scholarships a year for the Geology students of the University of Nebraska and to the Omaha Recreation and Crafts Center for use in purchasing equipment for classes and also for other civic projects to better educate the younger people. Three displays are to be given to the Omaha Public Schools along with several magazine subscriptions for the Omaha Library's use. The members have five area dealers with some giving individual or group classes in lapidary work, jewelry design, casting, sheet, wire and rock polishing.
After many years of meeting at the First Federal Lincoln's Homestead Center, it was necessary in 1977 to make a change and we are now meeting at the Pipal Park Community Center at Westgate School.

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The Omaha Gem and Mineral Club has a very active kids group. Currently our members number 27. We’d love to have you join us.
Every month we have a kids activity or craft lesson with make it and take it projects.
Some of our projects have included:
Sapphire Hunt
Christmas ornaments
poly casting and origami with polished stones
Name Bricks
Rock Painting on Slabs
Rock Painting on Round River Rocks
Pet Rocks
Sundial Clocks
Wire wrapped fossil shark teeth
Fossil fish cleaning
Metal Detecting
We also participate in some of the adult activities as well. Kids are always welcome in the big club meetings especially for Rock Bingo, Silent Auction and Rock Swap.
And of course there are lots and lots of kid activities at the Gem and Mineral Show in October. From a Rock Race, Silent Auction, Fossil Dig, Gem Dig, Rock Pile, Treasure rocs to the Wheel of Fortune, kids are always welcome.
Occasionally the kids club has separate rock hunts, although they are also welcome on the adult hunts. (One parent is required for each family of kids). We have dug for fossil horn coral, hunted for river gems in the Nemaha River and hunted fossils and other specimens in road cuts. Some pretty interesting things have been found too!
It may get a little dirty but everyone has a wonderful time.

Hey Rock Kids from 6-18.
Come Join us for Rock Hunts and Rock Crafts
The third Wednesday of every month.
Rock On.

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Club Meetings Schedule

January Bingo Night with Rock/Gem/Mineral Prizes. February UNL: Scholarship
March UNO Scholarship Recipient
April Banquet—Speaker to be announced
May Cabachon 101 Grinding party
June Program to be announced
July Program to be announced
August Show Preparation Meeting
September Junior Night Kids Club and Adult club joint meeting
October GEM AND MINERAL SHOW OMAHA WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER
November Election and Pot Luck Adult and Kids together
December Silent Auction Kids Club activity—Christmas Ornaments

Rear Trunk
The "Rear Trunk" is a Nebraska Mineral & Gem Club monthly newsletter and it is an educational and informative source for the avid rock-hound.
The "Rear Trunk" is free to members. If you are interested in becoming a member, please contact Richard Farlow.

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Date: 10-02-2010 to 10-03-2010

Gem and Mineral Show

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Omaha Mineral and Gem Club Show

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Demonstrations: Rock hunting, polishing, wire wrapping, bead making, fossil cleaning, faceting, beads, rock painting.
9 Dealers with rough rock, mineral specimens, fossils, beads, finished jewelry, jewelry findings, tools, equipment and supplies.
Special Activities: Fossil Hunt, Rock Race, Gem Hunt, Silent Auction, Rock Pile, Wheel of Fortune. Rock Identification Game, Treasure Rocks

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Westside Community Center 3534 South 108th St. Omaha, NE
Saturday 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Sunday 10:00 am- 5:00 pm
Admission:
Adults $4 Students and seniors $2 Children 12 & under FREE with paying adult
Don’t forget to buy your raffle tickets for the grand prize drawing!

Cheryl Barnholdt and Bill Wehr, Wire Wrapping
Tammy Jeanneret
Rock Painting
Meredith Merwald-Gofta
Silver Smith
Roger Pabian
Polishing Agates
Ed Schafer
Preparing Fossils—Green River Fish
Betty Selby-Sislo
Wire Wrapping
Margie Shanahan
Glass Bead Making
Ben Vrana
Fossil Preparation– Niobrara Chalk
Pictures

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Rock Swap

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Date of Sale: June—Exact Date to be announced

Time of Sale: 9am to 5 pm

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Join us for a day of Good Old Fashioned Rock Swapping. Members bring special minerals, fossils, gems etc to sell and trade.
The rock swap is open to the general public.
Members bring many different types of rocks and gems to the swap. Gems, Minerals, Rough Rock, Fossils etc — all are welcome.

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Nebraska Mineral and Gem Club | History | Kids Club | Schedule of Events | Gem and Mineral Show | Rock Swap | Related Links | Rock Hunts | Find Us | Dealers/Demonstrators

To contact us:

Phone: 402-873-6515

Nebraska Mineral and Gem Club

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Gem and Mineral Show

Rock Swap

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Nebraska Mineral & Gem Club
Educational Links
Following is a list of websites that have a focus on educational material pertaining to the fields of minerals, crystals, rocks, fossils. If you have or you know of an educational site that we don't have listed please feel free to suggest it and we will be happy to add it. Please contact the webmistress.
Fossils - dinosaurs, vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, etc.
Mineral and Gem Clubs and Societies - an alphabetized list from around the country
Agates - information on collecting sites, pictures of various agates, and an abundant amount of educational information.
More links to be added on a regular basis!

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Custom Gems Omaha Nebraska. Custom Jewelry, Rocks, Lapidary and Silversmith supplies, Mineral Specimens and Carvings

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Rock Hounds love Rock Hunts.
Over the years the Omaha Gem and Mineral Club has participated in a number of successful rock hunts over the Midwest.
Many fossil and mineral specimens have been found and the club members have had a lot of fun doing in. From Agates to fossils no rock is safe from these dedicated Rock Hounds!.
Even better: We love to show our rocks and talk about them or to see and try to figure out what someone else has found. Bring your Rocks and Fossils to a meeting and have one (or several) of our expert amateur or professional mineralogists try to identify it for you.
A group from the Omaha club recently went to Wyoming and found many fish fossils and petrified blue forest wood specimens.
Pictures from successful rock hunts

Generally the Adult Club averages 2 Rock Hunts per Year in the Midwest.
The Kids club also participates in group rock hunts

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Joining the Nebraska Mineral & Gem Club
If you would like more information about our club and its activities or to join, please contact Richard Farlow.
Visitors are always welcome. We meet every third Wednesday of the month at 7:00 pm at the following location:
Pipal Park Community Center 7770 Hascall St. Omaha, NE
Map to Pipal Park Community Center

Map courtesy of Yahoo.com and NAVTEQ

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Francina Maria Designs
JJ and L Rocks and Minerals
Lincoln Curios
Peterson’s Rocks and Gems
Pharoah’s Custom Gems,
Schoolers Minerals and Fossils
Teton Gems
West Side Agates

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Demonstrators:
Cheryl Barnholdt and Bill Wehr,
Wire Wrapping
Tammy Jeanneret
Rock Painting
Meredith Merwald-Gofta
Silver Smith
Roger Pabian
Polishing Agates
Ed Schafer
Preparing Fossils—Green River Fish
Betty Selby-Sislo
Wire Wrapping
Margie Shanahan
Glass Bead Making
Ben Vrana
Fossil Preparation– Niobrara Chalk

Nebraska Mineral and Gem Club | History | Kids Club | Schedule of Events | Gem and Mineral Show | Rock Swap | Related Links | Rock Hunts | Find Us | Dealers/Demonstrators

To contact us:

Phone: 402-873-6515

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Rear Trunk
The "Rear Trunk" is a Nebraska Mineral & Gem Club monthly newsletter and it is an educational and informative source for the avid rock-hound.
The "Rear Trunk" is free to members. If you are interested in becoming a member, please contact Richard Farlow.
Following are several articles excerpted from the "Rear Trunk".
President's Message
Jan. 2005
Feb. 2005
Coming SOON "Blood on Rocks!" by Ila K.

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NMGC is proud to announce the introduction of Lapidary classes. NMGC is proud to announce the introduction of Lapidary classes.
Instructor: Bob York
Classes start: November, 2004 Location:
Pipal Park Community Center 78th & Hascall Omaha, NE For more information and to register contact: Metropolitan Community College at 457-5231
All content © 2004-2005 Nebraska Mineral & Gem Club, Inc.
All content © 2004-2005 Nebraska Mineral & Gem Club, Inc.

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Gem show Dealers and Demonstrators bring many wonders to the show:
Gems, Minerals, Custom Jewelry, Fossils, Carvings and Paintings.