HGMS Monthly Meeting

6p – 9p, South Meeting Room, HGMS Education Center (in the Sandra Moon Community Center), 7901 Bailey Cove Rd SE, Huntsville.  (Map)

Did You Know?

Madagascar has long been known for its incredible wealth of minerals.  Roughly eighty of its 389 known minerals occur in gem quality including beryl, tourmaline, sapphire, and quartz.

Source: Gemological Institute of America.

March:   Aquamarine – The blue to slightly greenish-blue variety of the mineral beryl. Crystals are sometimes big enough to cut fashioned gems of more than 100 carats.  Well-formed crystals make superb mineral specimens.   Source:  Gemological Institute of America.