Membership Department

New Members in the last few months:
Robert Smee
Gary Spraggins
R. and T. Parsons
Stuart Corliss

First to renew for 2000
Sherwin Berger/Nature Arts
Dave Douglass
Sam Elbin
John Hallinan
Harvey Jong
William Kent
Robert Mann
Christine Siler
Marc Watson (Life Member)
Ben Benham (Life Member)

This is very embarrassing, because you don't see my name under paid membership for the year 2000
The time has come once again for the Flagg Sale Jan 15th and 16th, and if my membership isn't paid I don't get to participate in the Friday night sale, January 14th, for Members only!  I had better get my checkbook out.  At least I don't have to worry about spending a stamp, the perk of being corresponding secretary.

There will be so much confusion on the 14th as to what money goes  towards minerals, membership or space rental, that we are asking you to send the memberships and space rentals to the PO box (see back page or page two ) ahead of time so we can all focus on getting the good bargains.  I will have your new membership card waiting for you and thus we save postage and envelopes also.  You may want to reserve your Symposium seat by paying ahead.  Certainly, we will be thrilled to accept your money at any time.
  There's a renewal blank for your convenience on Page Two of this Newsletter. It always helps to be sure we have your correct address, etc.  Give me a call if you have questions.
Lavone

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think Barry took the warning to heart.  He remarked that he had not yet seen a Rattler in Arizona, to which I replied that several had certainly seen him, and they can't see very well.

When we came out of that swell little hole, Barry took to sifting in a place on the dumps where he had been finding hoppered Vanad

inites, Dioptase, and several other minerals that had not been previously noticed at this locality.  I took a hike up the hill above the mine, found a few interesting Garnet specimens with tiny bladed balls of Hematite on them.  I made my way along a road up there, and followed it till it petered out.   I had to carefully pick my way down a loose talus  slope and through a small grove of jumping cactus to get back down to Barry's car for lunch.

I found Barry right where I had left him on the Dumps, picking delightedly through  some material while seated on a comfortable rock.  He showed me the Dioptase, which looked like that

material from the Magma mine, as well as the bright red orange hoppered single Vanadinites he had been finding, looking surprisingly like those from the Pure Potential Mine in La Paz County.  I am not too sure that continued exploration would have located any of this material in situ, but if it did we would sure have a story for the Flagg Show, eh?
We gathered up the treasures and hiked back down to the car, where we shared our lunch and soda with a couple of Wasps that were looking to end their solitary ways.  Barry remarked that he had been on poor terms with such creatures since stepping in a nest of them in the Great White North as a child.  I personally know that they will only bother the people who are most dismayed with their presence, so I felt pretty safe. 
Barry told me that he had gone into the other adit, hoping to find some Descloizite, when he had heard an unusual sound, something like rock shifting.  As he faced the lighted opening  of the adit, a small bat had flown in toward him, and he hastily exited, leaving his finds behind.  I can tell you for sure that I was not in the mine at that time, but I can't tell you whether Barry enjoyed any of that Rockarama Chili.  So now we have a new Mystery...Have the Spiders taught the Bats to Bark?

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