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Field Trips
Photos of Club Events
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Bus Trip to Geode Fest 2014
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Rockhound General
Collecting Sites (historic information, not current)
About Montana Agate
Agates Along the Shore of Lake Superior
Agate Jasper And Wood In the Land of Enchantment
Agates Of The Eastern Slope
Agate Varities Of The Pacific Northwest
Alden Pyrite Nodules
Chalcedony in South Dakota
Field Trip Tips
Flint In Ohio
Flower Agate
In The Red Sand Dunes
Idaho Opal, Jasperand Fossil Wood
Iowa's Famous Geode Park
Lake Superior Agates Are In A Class By Themselves
Mineral Collecting In The Toledo Ohio Area
New Mexico Presents A Colorful Variety of Agate
Rockhounding In Indiana
Some Of The Beautiful Varieties of Agate In Texas
South Dakota's Great Homestake Gold Mine
South Dakota's Hidden Jewel
South Dakota Land of Field Trips
The Flourescent Minerals Of Franklin, New Jersey
Utah's Septarian Nodules
Fossils
A Lower Devonian Trilobite Fauna From the Glenerie Limestone of Becraft Hills, New York
Cambrian Trilobita
Cretaceous Fossils of New Jersey
Fossiling Around The Michigan Mitt
Fossils Of The Pennsylvanian Period
Midwest Fossils - Part II
Midwest Fossils - Part IV Colonial Corals
Midwest Fossils - Part VI Brachiopods
Midwest Fossils - Part VIII Worm Fossils, Conodonts
The Oldest Known Fossils - Part I
The Physical Characteristics Of Crinoids
Trilobites of the Grafton Area - Part I
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Lapidary Arts
Anyone Can Carve
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Carving Soapstone
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Cuttng Petrified Wood
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How To Finish Your Intarsia
If I Can Carve, You Can Too
Memorial Library University Of Dotre Dame Stone Mosiac
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The Gem Granites - Part 1
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he Gem Granites - Part 2
The Hardness of Gems - Part 4
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A Many Faceted Jewel
Beauty In Fluorite
Fluorite Holds A Place All Its Own
Geodes: The 'Hole' Story, Part 1
Geodes: The 'Hole' Story, Part 2
How Did Agates Form?
Minerals From New Mexico's Mines
Montana Agate A Most Fascinating Gemstone
Nephrite, Jadeite -- Jade - Part 2
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What Do We Really Know About The Formation Of Agate and Chalcedony
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How To Identify Fossil Wood
How To Identify Fossil Wood Part 1
How To Identify Fossil Wood Part 3, Identification With A Hand Lens
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The Petrified Forests Of North Dakota
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