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Post by Pat on Feb 3, 2018 22:34:52 GMT -5
Do you belong to a federation club? (American Federation of Mineralogical Societies).
Does your club receive rock and rock related donations?
What do you do with them?
Do club members get first pick?
Is your club a 5013C non-profit?
Thanks!
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Post by pauls on Feb 4, 2018 1:14:41 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I qualify, being a member of an Aussie club.
We are a member of our state and national societies.
Our club gets lots of rocks donated, usually a phone call saying, Dads/grand dads died and he's got a shed full of rocks come and get them or they all go to the dump.
Trailer loads of stuff, rocks, machinery, all sorts.
Minerals and mineral collections are carefully sorted, named individually boxed if worthwhile and sold at our clubs annual show, members can buy any of the specimens at very low prices at any time.
Lumps of rocks go onto a big pile at the back of the clubhouse, anyone is welcome to scratch around in there and keep what they want, free. I personally have found Sapphires, Zircons, Emeralds and Gold in the heap as well as lots of rocks that are now extinct in the wild.
Polished tumbled stones go into a container for the kids prospecting trailer at the show. Cabs faceted stones etc are usually snapped up by the jewellery making people.
Machinery is sold to anyone wanting it, again for very low prices
Yes we are not for profit.
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 4, 2018 9:44:00 GMT -5
I used to be in the Ventura Gem and Mineral Society in Commiefornia and worked the silent auction booth at the show every year. We received lots of rock related donations for the sale and some of the rocks went to the raffle showcase and most to the silent auction which did real well every year. Now at the clubhouse, there was a pile of donated rocks that members could buy real cheap. Seem to remember some folks taking advantage of that situation to high grade out some nice material at super cheap prices. Think there was a slab bin for members to buy from too. I don't now a lot about that as I always had such a surplus that I brought in a lot of stuff for the auction. I'd actually pick up extra in the field for that purpose. That is a great way to really stock up an auction booth. Club members had to bid on the auction same as everyone else. Gotta say that sometimes the fellers working the booth really drove up the prices if they saw something they really wanted. Donated small tumbles, and tiny fossils like shark teeth etc went into the sand sifting box for the kiddies and we made a large number of grab bags up every year too. Those contained a lot of tumbles, small slabs and all kinds of other stuff, all donated. I never did the financial stuff but assume they were a non profit....Mel
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 4, 2018 9:53:04 GMT -5
Hi Pat,
Our club is part of the Rocky Mountain Federation.
On occasion our club will receive donations of rock and equipment from the estate of someone who has passed. These donations are used for our raffles that we have at the end of our regular monthly meetings, put into the silent auction we have every Spring and donated to the Junior Rockhounds group in our club for their education. Some of it probably also ends up at our shop for new members to use when they are learned to cut cabs and use the equipment. Any equipment is either sold outright to the membership in or put in the silent auction.
Members don't get first pick. Usually the board will high grade the better stuff for the raffles and silent auctions and the rest gets used as above. Any finished tumbles go to the Jr. Rockhounds for their spinning wheel at the big show as part of their fund raising effort.
Our club is a 5013C.
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Post by kevin24018 on Feb 5, 2018 8:53:27 GMT -5
Do you belong to a federation club? (American Federation of Mineralogical Societies). Does your club receive rock and rock related donations? What do you do with them? Do club members get first pick? Is your club a 5013C non-profit? Thanks! yes, usually a silent auction we also send a box of locally collected stuff to a club in Arizona, they send us a box back and that is also used for an auction. |
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Post by rockhoundingwithkids on Apr 17, 2020 13:26:19 GMT -5
We used to go to this every year when we lived there. We always got some great items at the silent auction! Even before we had kids we would do the spin-the-wheel and get some cool things. (I of course saved all the fake rings so my daughter can appreciate them when shes a little older.) I used to be in the Ventura Gem and Mineral Society in Commiefornia and worked the silent auction booth at the show every year. We received lots of rock related donations for the sale and some of the rocks went to the raffle showcase and most to the silent auction which did real well every year. Now at the clubhouse, there was a pile of donated rocks that members could buy real cheap. Seem to remember some folks taking advantage of that situation to high grade out some nice material at super cheap prices. Think there was a slab bin for members to buy from too. I don't now a lot about that as I always had such a surplus that I brought in a lot of stuff for the auction. I'd actually pick up extra in the field for that purpose. That is a great way to really stock up an auction booth. Club members had to bid on the auction same as everyone else. Gotta say that sometimes the fellers working the booth really drove up the prices if they saw something they really wanted. Donated small tumbles, and tiny fossils like shark teeth etc went into the sand sifting box for the kiddies and we made a large number of grab bags up every year too. Those contained a lot of tumbles, small slabs and all kinds of other stuff, all donated. I never did the financial stuff but assume they were a non profit....Mel |
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Post by stardiamond on Apr 17, 2020 16:05:16 GMT -5
My local rock club is about a 1 1/2 hour drive one way so my drive time would be more than I spend working on rocks.
At one point, my wife collected mineral samples. Buying them on auction on ebay. We donated the collection to the club.
They have an annual show and it is much closer to where I live. It is not a good source for me to get material. I went to the state show and a larger show in Reno and picked up some stuff but that was years ago.
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