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      • XRF Demo
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Summer is Coming (So Work on your Collection)

Featured Articles, Field Trips, Lapidary & Silversmithing, MineralsBy Sigrid StewartAugust 19, 2022

Summer is Coming (So Work on your Collection)by Sigrid Stewart Originally Published in the June 2022 Backbender’s Gazette Yes, summer is coming and what’s a Texas rockhound to do? In…

Rock Story – A Poem

Featured Articles, Geology, MineralsBy Sigrid StewartAugust 19, 2022

Rock Story – a Poemby Sigrid Stewart Originally published in the December 2021 Back Bender’s Gazette AFMS Editor’s Contest 2022, First Place Adult Poetry SCFMS Editor’s Contest 2022, First Place…

School Collections

Featured Articles, Minerals, PaleontologyBy Sigrid StewartAugust 17, 2022

School Collectionsby Steve Blyskal This article originally appeared in the February 2021 Backbender’s Gazette SCFMS Editor’s Contest 2022, First Place Original Adult Article Advanced When you enter the HGMS clubhouse…

A Tucson Show Exhibit

Featured Articles, MineralsBy Sigrid StewartAugust 16, 2022

A Tucson Show Exhibit by Steven Blyskal This article originally appeared in the July 2020 issue of the Backbender’s Gazette In 2019 I decided I wanted to put in an…

Using a Water Gun to Clean Minerals

Featured Articles, MineralsBy Sigrid StewartAugust 5, 2022

USING A WATER GUN by Steve Blyskal This article originally appeared in the March 2021 Backbender’s Gazette   What I like to use for cleaning mineral specimens is the high-pressure…

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