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GemORama permanently cancelled :( - Daymoth - 2022-06-04
I am soooooo sad.
I learned about gemorama back in winter of 2018 and I was SO EXCITED. Had that 2019 October weekend booked months in advance.
Then the earthquake happened.
Then covid happened.
Then covid still was here.
And then I guess now its just too hard to organize.
I missed the last one by few months
RE: GemORama permanently cancelled :( - Brice - 2022-06-04
I've never heard of gemorama but sorry to hear that. Here's a consolation prize. The neatest rock I've ever found in DV:
![[Image: ZIT5RVFl.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/ZIT5RVFl.jpg)
Found it in the amargosa river bed in far south DV as I was hiking back to my car on Harry Wade road. I've found a few walnut sized pieces of the same stuff in a different drainage but not as spectacularly patterened as this chunk.
Rather than leave it where nobody will ever see it again, I put it in the summit log box on top of corkscrew peak. I wonder if it's still there.?
RE: GemORama permanently cancelled :( - DAW89446 - 2022-06-05
Sad. It was an annual event that lasted over 70 years.
The Searles Lake Gem & Mineral Society’s web page is vague whether the collecting activities or just the show has been cancelled.
RE: GemORama permanently cancelled :( - Older Fossil - 2022-06-06
Ahhh, the Searles Lake Gen-O-Rama! I was introduced to this unique event back in the '80s on a field trip with a geology professor friend of mine. I had some nice Hanksite crystals, some nice pink Halite clusters plus a couple of other unusual minerals from Searles Lake. It is too bad that this event may have ended!
Art
RE: GemORama permanently cancelled :( - Daymoth - 2022-06-06
(2022-06-05, 09:15 AM)DAW89446 Wrote: Sad. It was an annual event that lasted over 70 years.
The Searles Lake Gem & Mineral Society’s web page is vague whether the collecting activities or just the show has been cancelled.
I thought you could only collect during the show field trips?
RE: GemORama permanently cancelled :( - David_Bricker - 2022-06-11
I had a chance to go to one several years ago. My son had some some work installing a new camera system in the Gem Show buildings, and I flew in to surprise him. We didn't have the proper clothing (old, total garbage clothes) to do digging, but walked aroundthe diggings and or course the show. Sorry to see things close down, but it is an immense amount of work to put on that show.
David Bricker / SYR