Display Bases for Your Specimens
Display Bases for Your Specimensby Sigrid Stewart and Steve Blyskal We are discussing bases for individual specimens which will help to organize and display your collection. Not every rock, mineral,…
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Display Bases for Your Specimensby Sigrid Stewart and Steve Blyskal We are discussing bases for individual specimens which will help to organize and display your collection. Not every rock, mineral,…
DetailsDinosaur National Monument Road Tripby Sigrid Stewart Most photos by Steve Blyskal Building photos from www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm My husband Steve Blyskal and I go to Colorado often but once in a…
DetailsSummer 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…
DetailsRock 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…
DetailsSchool 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…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsUSING 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…
DetailsHeliocoprion, Buzz Saw Shark, In Texasby Neal Immega This article originally appeared in the January 2021 Backbender’s Gazette Occasionally, I do really well by doing good. An email came from…
DetailsCycad Anadomy and Fossil Occurrences in Texas The following article was published by Scott Singleton in Fossil News, vol 12 #9, 2006 Images are the author’s from his personal collection…
DetailsFluorite From Mexicoby Steve Blyskal, HGMS Mineral Section Chair This article originally appeared in the January 2021 Backbender’s Gazette Mexico is the third largest worldwide producer of fluorite for the…
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