Panorama Gem and Mineral Club

The Panorama Gem and Mineral Club meets in Arden, Washington.    This area is commonly thought of as the most complicated geology in North America.  There are over 2500 old mines within 100 miles.   This makes a tremendous playground for rockhounds.  Here is what you will find on this website:

CLUB: This Page provides resources for rockhounds.  The club itself  is the biggest resource.  You can learn more about membership, meetings, the club rock workshop and much more in the Club section of the site.

NEWSLETTERS: This Page contains back issues of the Panorama Prospector, the club newsletter.  Each issue contains original stories written by members of field trips, lapidary work, museums and much more as well as the minutes of the club meetings.  The links to each issue are indexed by topic.  The newsletters are loaded with color pictures that will give you an idea of who we are and where we go to find rocks.

MAPS: Our club is very oriented to field trips exploring the mineral wealth around us.  These interactive Google Maps give you a chance to zoom into sites we have visited, look at aerial photography and link to articles about each site.

EVENTS: Besides the monthly meetings on the third Tuesday of the month, we have many field trips in the dryer months, a potluck picnic and a Christmas Party.  Clubs around us also have events listed here.

MEMBERS: Although we don’t have a chance to highlight all of our members, and introduction to a few of them will give you an idea of the character(s) of the club, some fun folks who help each other with our common hobby.

LINKS: We are certainly not the only rock club in the world, and we benefit from our membership in larger regional and national groups.  Some club members have Internet enterprises that we want to feature and members have found a lot more websites that we want to share.

* Unless otherwise credited, all pictures in this website and in the newsletters are taken by Joseph Barreca.

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