Paradise, CA – The Paradise Gem and Mineral Club will host their 57th Annual Show for public enjoyment and education. All members of the public are welcome and admission is free for children and young adults who are 16 and under. The Paradise Gem and Mineral is the oldest Gem Club in Butte County and this is the longest running show in an eight county area.
This year the Show will feature an Ice Age Mammal exhibit courtesy of Applegate Lapidary. The Mammal exhibit will include an outstanding 8 foot 4 inch standing cave bear fossil, a woolly rhinoceros head with an intact two foot horn, and the leg bone and lower jaw of a mammoth, all from the Ural Mountains and Rhine River region of Europe. The fossils are 50 to 70 thousand years old and are in excellent condition. Don’t miss this rare exhibit.
The Show will have many other educational and youth activities, mineral exhibits, a raffle, silent rock auctions, fluorescent mineral display, and demonstrating lapidary specialists in silver smithing, faceting, stone carving, and other lapidary methods. The Show also hosts many of the finest rock and mineral dealers in the North State, Oregon and Nevada. The dealers provide a wide array of products and supplies; including books, specimen minerals, rare rocks, fossils, crystals, beads, finished jewelry, polished stones, jewelry making supplies and lapidary equipment, and more. Additionally for the ‘gold bugs’ there will be metal detecting equipment and gold panning. The profit from the raffle is earmarked for both local scholarships and community education in mineralogy and lapidary.
The Show will only be held for two days this year, on Saturday, April 9th from 10AM to 5PM and on Sunday, April 10th from 10AM to 4PM. The location will be the same as last year, at the Elks Lodge, 6309 Clark Road, Paradise, CA 95967. For more information visit our Club’s website at http://ParadiseGem.com , or contact Show Chair, Manuel Garcia at mmpg@earthlink.net or 530-877-7324. Or come to one of our 2nd or 4th Thursday night activity and pot luck meetings in Paradise to learn about membership, our field trips, and our lending library.
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