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Meeting Time/Location

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

2026 Calendar - Click the links to see what's happening every month

  • Rocket City Jewelers – 1st Qtr '26
  • Pebble Pups Meeting – Jan 22
  • Monthly Member Meeting – Jan 27
  • Metalsmithing – Feb 2
  • 1st Monday Rock Swap – Feb 2
  • 1st Saturday Flint Knapping – Feb 7

Did You Know?

Brazilian amethyst is typically found inside vugs, irregularly-shaped, hollow, crystal-lined cavities within volcanic or sedimentary rocks. Some Brazilian vugs are so big you can stand in them! Source:  wikipedia.org.

January:  Garnet-The garnet group of minerals offers gems of every hue, including deep red almandine, fiery red pyrope, orange-yellow spessartine, and rare intense-green varieties of andradite, grossular, and uvarovite. Source:  Gemological Institute of America.

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Logos (left to right): American Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies, Dixie Mineral Council

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