Lake George Gem & Mineral Club 2018 Field Trips

Field Trips are the best reason to join our club!

A wide variety of Field Trips are set in place & we need your talents to help coordination. VOLUNTEER Today! Remember: From April through September, we (typically) meet at 9:00 am for only about 20 minutes to allow more time for our field trips! All Earth Science Scholars & Pebble Pups are Welcome on The Trips !

Please contact (or) any Officer to discuss Volunteering to Lead or Co-Lead a Trip.

May 13: Patience/Piety claims (smoky quartz/fluorite) (easy)

May 24: Baculite Mesa (Cretaceous fossils) (easy)

June 3: Sedalia Copper mine (almandine garnet/other minerals) (steep hike in)

June 7: Arroya gulch (gemmy almandine garnet) (easy)

June 10: Badger Flats (magnetite/fluorite/barite/malachite) (easy)

June 17: Blue Moon (smoky quartz/amazonite) (Karen Vogl claim)

June 18: Calumet mine (epidote/quartz xls./magnetite/corundum) (steep slopes; large area)

June 24: Topaz Mountain mine (topaz)(easy; $50 fee) (Dorris claim)

July 19: Smoky Hawk claim (amazonite/smoky quartz) (Dorris claim)

July 26: Badger Flats (magnetite/fluorite/barite/malachite)(easy)

July 29: Harvey blue barite mine (barite) (easy)

August 2: Mushroom gulch (jasper)

August 9: Spruce Grove (topaz) (moderate hike at 9000 ft.)

August 12: Specimen/Sentinel rock (fluorite/amazonite/quartz) (extreme hike)

August 26: Eureka mine (fluorescent zircon/riebeckite/astrophyllite) (moderate walk)

Sept. 8-10: Great Salt Plains (gypsum crystals) (3-day trip to Oklahoma)

ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST FOLLOW The LGGMc Field Trip Rules -AND- MUST ADHERE to The AFMS Code of Ethics, Without Exception!

FIELD TRIP SIGN-UP at lggmclub.org/