Rok’n Around Town: DGMS Rock Swap & Amethyst Rock Sale!

Rock Swap – Our final Rock Swap for the year will be held on Saturday September 28th from 8am-2ish

You may arrive earlier to set up your table in the DGMS parking lot at 10205 Plano Rd. Dallas Tx. You can sell anything rock related and don’t forget to bring your table, chair and canopy, umbrella, or hat to keep the sun off.  Most of the vendors will only take cash. This is always a fun event, so join us to set up a table or come by and shop!

Amethyst - Dallas Gem and Mineral Society

Amethyst Rock Fossil Sale September 26, 27, 28 (9am – 5pm) – (Murphy, TX)

Sale date and times:

Thursday September 26– 9am – 5pm

Friday September 27- 9am – 5pm

Saturday September 28- 9am – 5pm

Admission = Free

Parking = Free

Meteorites $10 each/ limit 5

Free fossilized coral $8 value for the first 1000 visitors / limit 1

Free rock collecting bag with purchase / while supplies last

Larimar cabs $5 each / limit 5

Beautiful Amethyst Cathedrals (5” to 5’) up to 65% off 

1000 rocks and fossils for only $5 each.

Specials

Forms of payment: Cash, Credit Card ++

Not on invitation to future events yet: Send email subject “invite me – your city”, include your city to rocktrading(at)aol.com

Address Directions below:

1409 Oak Hill Ln, Murphy, TX 75094

(US-75, exit Park (go East ~6mi), McCreary (Left or N ~1/8mi), Hickory Top (left or W), Oak Hill Ln (Right or N to 1409 on left)

Gems and Cabs

Minerals – literally 1000(s) of exquisite minerals from around the world

Fossils – Beautiful specimens from around the world

Lapidary rough and slabs – lbs from around the world (see below)

Gems, Minerals, Fossils, and Lapidary rough (Too many to list, but here are a few.)

Agate Geode, Alum Cactus, Amethyst – Brazil, Amethyst Geode Cathedral, Ammonites, Azurite on Malachite, Black Tourmaline, Book ends, carnelian, Chalcopyrite, Charoite – Russia, Chevron Amethyst, Chrysocolla, Faceted emeralds, Fire Agates, Fire Opal In, Fluorite – Gold sheen Obsidian, Green Apophyllite, Green Tourmaline, Meteorite Slices, Meteorites, mixed stone pendulums, moldavite, Orange Quartz, Petrified Wood, Pink Tourmaline, pyramids, Pyrite, Rose Quartz, Sharks Tooth, Smoky Quartz Clusters, Sodalite, Spheres, Turquoise, Variscite -and much much more!


Fancy New Links at the DGMS Website!

It’s been taking a while (life stuff, work stuff, etc), but we are slowly updating the DGMS website!

This week we focused on updating the “LINKS” pages! We went through and found that ⅓ of the links were a bust! They were in much need of some love’n!

So be sure to check out our newly redesigned Links pages!

Topics include:
Reference Links
Local Club Links
Local Links
Lapidary Links
Rockhounding Links
Local Shop Links
Online Shop Links

If you have any interesting links from around the web that you think we’ve forgotten, LET US KNOW!! Email us!

DGMS Monthly Meet – September 17!

Come join us Tuesday September 17, 2019 at 7 pm for our monthly meeting! 

Dallas Gem And Mineral Society - Monthly Meeting

Special Presentation:

We will be having a Silent Auction instead of a presentation.  Bring your cash or credit card so you don’t miss out on any of the treasures that will be on the auction table!  


Our annual elections for the DGMS Board are fast approaching.
If you have an interest in a Board position or you would like to nominate someone for a position, this is the time to do so as the club will be taking nominations this month and Oct, with the final votes happening in November.

If you would like to try your hand at the cabochon making contest,
bring $5 to the meeting to purchase your  piece of LLanite. More details will be given out at the meeting.

Dont forget to sign up for a volunteer spot for our Annual Show that is held in Nov. The list is on the cork board in the shop.


DGMS Meeting August 20

Come join us tomorrow, Tuesday August 20, 2019 at 7 pm for our monthly meeting! 

Dallas Gem And Mineral Society - Monthly Meeting

Special Presentation:

The speaker for the month of August is Keith Brownlee. He will be speaking on gem quality minerals; identification and properties etc.,  

And as always bring something to share for our potluck and we will be having a silent auction to help raise money for our big shop update!

DGMS - August Monthly Meeting

This is a new piece of Flourite I picked up recently! I’m pretty sure this would qualify as “Gem Quality”!!! It’s beautiful!

What’s “Crystal Habit”??

Who doesn’t love the variety of shapes and beauty of rocks and crystals? Well, obviously you do, if you are here visiting our website!!

I’m always researching and learning about how rocks form, what makes minerals distinct from one another, and interesting tips to identifying pesky rocks I’ve collected but just can’t figure our what they are!

We are all about educating here at DGMS, so we thought we’d share some interesting facts about one aspect of rock identification – CRYSTAL HABIT!!

In mineralogy, crystal habit is the characteristic external shape of an individual crystal or crystal group. A single crystal’s habit is a description of its general shape and its crystallographic forms, plus how well developed each form is.

Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit
Dallas Gem and Mineral Society - Crystal Habit

All photos are from my personal collection and all descriptions are from
www.Geology.com