The next meeting is June 24th, 6p: Ancient Sharks.
Join us and learn a lot about sharks that you may not have learned in school. And you’ll get a chance to excavate for some shark teeth to take home!
All Pebble Pups meetings are on the 4th Thursday of the month in the Rocket City Jewelers (RCJ) room in the new Huntsville Gem and Mineral Education Center, 7901 Bailey Cove Road SE, Huntsville. Please enter the South parking lot from Bailey Cove Road SE, and enter the center through the glass double doors. Bring your friends! For more information, contact Bill Friday, 256-527-8227, bill.friday@earthlink.net.
Did You Know? In January, a staff member at Gosman’s Fish Market in Montauk, Long Island, was shucking clams when he discovered a rare pearl. Finding an intact pearl in food preparation is uncommon because most clams are shucked mechanically and any pearls are lost or destroyed. This pearl weighed 27.78 carats and measured a whopping 18.9 x 11.32mm – that’s slightly larger than a dime! GIA confirmed that the extraordinarily large pearl formed naturally. Source: 
June: Pearl - Produced in the bodies of marine and freshwater mollusks either naturally or cultured by people with great care. Lustrous, smooth, subtly-colored pearls are jewelry staples, especially as strands. Alexandrite: The color-change variety of the mineral chrysoberyl. Bluish green in daylight, purplish red under incandescent light; hard and durable. Top quality examples are rare and valuable.
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