HCGMS

Henderson County Gem and Mineral Society
P.O. Box 6391
hendersonville, NC 28793

General meetings:
3^rd Friday of each month except November and December;
7:30 P.M. at Salvation Army Building, Grove St., between 3^rd and 4^th Ave.,
Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Visitors are always welcome.

Affiliations:
AFMS
Southeast Federation of Minerological Societies, Inc.
Dixie Mineral Council

HCGMS Meeting and Program

The Henderson County Gem and Mineral Society is proud to announce it's 26^th annual Gem and Mineral Spectacular & Sale and the 19^th annual Micromounters Symposium.

Show Dates are: Friday, August 31, Saturday, September 1, Sunday, September 2, and Monday, September 3.
Location is: Whitmire Activity Building - Toms Park
Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville, NC 28739

The hours for Friday, August 31, Saturday, September 1, and Sunday, September 2 are 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
The hours for Monday, September 3 will be 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

This year for the first time the admission is going to be $3.00 for adults, children 12 and under are still FREE.

The Micromounters Symposium will be held on Saturday September 1, at the Salvation Army building between 3rd & 4th Ave. and Grove Street in Downtown Hendersonville, NC.
Hours for this event will be from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Micromounters are encouraged to bring their microscopes, trading materials, give aways, and enjoy the day talking about and looking at micro-minerals.
Refreshments will be available, but lunch may be a catch as catch can affair. Plenty of food vendors will be available on Main Street where the Apple Festival will be in full swing.

There will be a shuttle on Saturday when the Micromount group will be having a good time at the Salvation Army building.

Additional information at:
http://home.nctv.com/earlrock/hcgmsannual.htm

The club operates a workshop, that is open to members most Saturdays, at the rear of the Museum. Here you can learn cabbing, faceting, carving, and other skills associated with the lapidary arts. The following pictures are of some of the equipment, and a soapstone carving class with a few examples of the instructors work.

The equipment
workshop

Making a cabochan

workshop

Cabbing machines

The carving class

Carving class
Club members and the instructor gather around a work table for a Saturday session.

The instructors work, a very nice little fish.