Pretoria Gem and Mineral Club
Pretoria Gem and Mineral Club
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Project:<br />
Set a cabochon-stone in a simple<br />
setting; make a pendant with a clip-on<br />
loop. See drawings in the <strong>Club</strong>house<br />
on the Silversmithing pin-board.<br />
Cost: R25 pp. This fee includes workshop fees,<br />
tea/coffee, instruction. Does not include materials<br />
(silver / stones) for the course.<br />
Notes: Plan well ahead <strong>and</strong> cut your own stone<br />
before this course! You can also buy one, but the<br />
idea of being a PGMC member is to make full use of<br />
the opportunities <strong>and</strong> the whole workshop. Wouldn’t<br />
it be nice to have a pendant, made by yourselves,<br />
with a stone which you set yourselves <strong>and</strong> even<br />
better if you picked it up yourselves on a PGMC<br />
outing!!<br />
Registration: Book with Lex Krabbendam<br />
on 083 449 6812.<br />
10. Cabochon news – Linda Stone<br />
The competition dates <strong>and</strong> requirements for the next<br />
twelve months are as follows:-<br />
June 18th 2005 - sodalite, three st<strong>and</strong>ard form cabochons<br />
October 15th 2005 - any green stone, three free form<br />
cabochons, e.g. malachite, buddstone, jade, green moss<br />
agate, verdite, graphic granite, ocean jasper.<br />
March 18th 2006 - jasper , three st<strong>and</strong>ard form<br />
cabochons<br />
The st<strong>and</strong>ard form will be judged as prescribed by the<br />
FOSAGAMS National rules (see January Newsletter).<br />
11. More Lapidary News - Geelong 2005!!<br />
(Repeat) To all of you who entered <strong>and</strong> made us proud<br />
in 2004, here’s a message from Fay Pierides: Start<br />
preparing for Geelong 2005 (August 2005). Let’s start<br />
now already to prepare cabochons for this competition<br />
<strong>and</strong> make our <strong>Club</strong>s’ entries in 2005 THE BEST EVER!!!<br />
CLUB REPORTS:<br />
1. Helper’s Function<br />
On a balmy Friday evening, early in February, about 30<br />
helpers <strong>and</strong> partners enjoyed this year's helper's function in<br />
the <strong>Club</strong>'s garden. This time we had a finger supper with a<br />
varity of liquid refreshments; the <strong>Club</strong>'s THANK YOU to all<br />
our helpers. Unfortunately quite a number of helpers could<br />
not make it that evening.<br />
2. SWOP, SELL & SOCIAL, February 5<br />
We want to thank everybody who attended our first Swop,<br />
Sell <strong>and</strong> Social for 2005 – it was a great success <strong>and</strong> we<br />
made R1600 towards our Building Fund.<br />
We had a wonderful Silent Auction <strong>and</strong> with so much fun,<br />
we will surely do it again at one of the S,S&S sessions this<br />
year.<br />
We want to thank the dealers present for the donations<br />
they gave towards our Auction in aid of the Building fund:<br />
Rom Koppert, Henk Viljoen, Dave Finch & Isabel Nirina <strong>and</strong><br />
Roarke Lessing. We appreciate you being at our S,S & S’s<br />
<strong>and</strong> we thank you for your donations.<br />
More donations received will be up for sale at the next S&S<br />
… see <strong>Club</strong> Events on page 3.<br />
3. Workshop & Machinery, February 9<br />
Thank you to Lex Krabbendam, Erich Mayerl <strong>and</strong> Don<br />
Souter <strong>and</strong> his son for being at the first Maintenance<br />
evening for 2005.<br />
4. Silversmithing Project – Beginners’ Course –<br />
12 February – feedback Esté Steyn<br />
9 People attended this course. Tobias shared his expertise<br />
with us <strong>and</strong> teached us how to make a ring with a<br />
cabochon-stone in a simple seting. It is SUCH a wonderful<br />
feeling to make something like this yourselves <strong>and</strong> the<br />
whole silversmithing section was a buzz of excitement<br />
as all the beginners worked <strong>and</strong> learned.<br />
Thank you very much, Tobias <strong>and</strong> Lex, for organizing<br />
the courses for us <strong>and</strong> for taking the time to help us<br />
learn the skill. You definitely enrich our lives.<br />
5. FEBRUARY MINERAL MEETING - Horst<br />
Windisch<br />
Thirteen members attended this meeting where the<br />
subject under discussion was “blue minerals”. Wiebke<br />
gave an introduction of what causes the “blue” in blue<br />
minerals, after which quite a number of interesting<br />
minerals were put on display. Aquamarine, azurite,<br />
blue lace agate, blue chalcedony, brucite, celestite,<br />
dumortierite <strong>and</strong> sapphire were some of the specimens<br />
brought along.<br />
At the end of this session, Rey van Staden gave us a<br />
short report on his recent visit to the Tucson Show,<br />
which he attended.<br />
6. LAPIDARY NEWS (by Linda Stone)<br />
Cabochon Competition, February 19<br />
Natalie Calaghan is thanked for her entry. She entered<br />
two rose quartz cabochons.<br />
It was decided by the committee that in future judging<br />
will not take place in February but in March. The<br />
reason for this step being that February is too early in<br />
the year <strong>and</strong> therefore longer preparation time is being<br />
allowed.<br />
Hannie Kohlmeyer, Helmut Schoenberger <strong>and</strong> Horst<br />
Windisch are thanked for assisting with the judging.<br />
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