NEWS RELEASE
March 9th, 2011

Black Hawk Gem & Mineral Society
Show Chairperson:  David Malm – 319-266-6433

EVENT: 	Black Hawk Gem and Mineral Society Annual Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show:  
Featuring: Geodes: Iowa’s Rolling Stones.

DATE:	April 17, 2011
PLACE:	Waterloo Center for The Arts, 225 Commercial St., Waterloo Iowa 50701
TIME:	12:00 Noon to 5:00 p.m. Sunday
ADMISSION:  Free – Donations Accepted

BENEFITS:  Proceeds are used to increase knowledge in earth science and lapidary arts of the general club membership and of the surrounding area community. BHGMS works with the UNI Museum, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, the UNI Earth Science department, University of Iowa Geology Dept. Repository, and Basic Materials Corporation to achieve this goal. Meetings are open to the public. 

SHOW THEME FEATURES:  
	Exhibits of geodes, faceting, cabochon making, jewellery making, sphere making, fossils, minerals and flint knapping..

FEATURED PERSON & PROGRAMS:
	Richard Kline: Using Optical Techniques for Today’s Lapidary Arts
	Black Light Display: Hourly Programs

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES:
Fish Pond: Where kids fish for bags of rocks 
A Pebble Pit with special low-prices on specimens
Make and paint a plaster cast of a fossil to keep for your own

OTHER FEATURES:
Additional exhibits include gem, minerals, fossils, agates, petrified wood, and lapidary arts.

Demonstrations of rock polishing, geode cracking, flint knapping, glass bead making, silversmithing, faceting, cabbing, wire wrapping, and beading. 

The show also includes many items available from dealers, club members, a silent auction, and door prize drawings. 

Black Hawk Gem and Mineral Society is a non-profit corporation organized exclusively for the purpose of studying the sciences of mineralogy, geology, and paleontology and the arts of lapidary and gemology.