Rocket City Jewelers (RCJ) meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 6p – 9p and the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays from 2p – 5p. We meet in the RCJ room in the new HGMS Education Center. Due to concern about COVID-19, we must practice social distancing. Therefore, depending on how many people RSVP for a given class, we may need to spread the group into the Pebble Pups/GeoSciences room, or have 2 sessions on the same Wednesday, one from 2p-5p and the other from 6p-9p. Watch your text messages for updates.
We offer a non-chainmaille class the first Wednesday of the month, and a chainmaille class on the third Wednesday of the month. Other Wednesday nights are “Finish It” nights so you can work on individual projects. This is a great time to finish unfinished projects, work on individual projects, and catch up with classes you may have missed. 5th Wednesdays are TBD.
For more information, to sign up for a class, or to let us know if you missed a class, please send email to hsvgems@gmail.com. Class signups are also available at the regular HGMS monthly meetings and the RCJ Wednesday night meetings.
Did You Know? In January, researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center identified the world’s oldest asteroid crater: a 43-mile wide impact structure in Yarrabubba, Western Australia. By analyzing radioactive elements in sample rocks, geochronologists determined that the collision occurred about 2 billion years ago. The impact sent 100+ billion tons of water vapor into the upper atmosphere possibly triggering a period of global warming. Source: The Week, February 14, 2020
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.
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