Panorama Gem

Rock Hounding in Northeast Washington

November Meeting Activities 2023

November 7th, 2023
  • Election of Executive Board Members positions open for President & Trustee vacancies’ to be voted
  • Annual November Live Auction to be held with ALL proceeds going to support High School Graduation Scholarship Program. Everyone is invited to attend and bid on items up for sale.
  • Membership Dues of $20.00 for coming year 2024 are due and payable to Treasurer.

Donations Appreciated Towards Scholarship Program

August 19th, 2023

Help us continue High School Scholarship Program to 3 High School Graduates!

Collecting donated rocks to be used towards high school scholarships program.

Loading the truck to be used to support high school scholarships.

Taking a break in the collection.

Taking a break from the hard job of loading rocks

Separating and sorting out to keep similar rocks or material together.

August Yearly Event is Ready to Rock!

August 1st, 2023

Barbecue, Picnic, Purchase Rocks and Tailgate Rock Swap Event

The month of August is designated as our annual barbecue picnic. At the last meeting we had a good number of members in attendance, but this year we are changing our meeting location to better accommodate the event. If you missed that meeting you need to be updated on the details that follows:

This month meeting is August 15th and will start at the usual time of 6:00 pm. The location will be at Kevin and Leigh Youngblood residence and you can find directions by clicking here

Because we will be gathering outside everyone attending should bring a leisure chair or something of their desire to sit on. The Club will be providing the main items consisting of pulled pork & Polish Dogs. Bring your own drinks, but no alcoholic beverages. We will have bottle water available also. We ask members to bring a desert, salad, or side dish.

This is a great time to chat with various members and look over the donated rock’s collection to determine what you need to buy to add to your own collection. There are some amazing materials that are no longer available to collect anymore.

Afterwards, we will have a tail-gate ROCK trading & show time. Bring anything you want to share or trade.

We look forward to this event and the time to fellowship with other Club members.

If you have any questions, please use the below “LEAVE A COMMENT” to let me know so I can address them.

Recent Postings

February 7th, 2023
  • November Meeting Activities 2023
  • Donations Appreciated Towards Scholarship Program
    Help us continue High School Scholarship Program to 3 High School Graduates! Loading the truck to be used to support high school scholarships. Taking a break from the hard job of loading rocks
  • August Yearly Event is Ready to Rock!
    Barbecue, Picnic, Purchase Rocks and Tailgate Rock Swap Event The month of August is designated as our annual barbecue picnic. At the last meeting we had a good number of members in attendance, but this year we are changing our meeting location to better accommodate the event. If you missed that meeting you need to be updated… Read more: August Yearly Event is Ready to Rock!
  • Panorama Gem & Mineral Club Announces High School Scholarship Winners
    3 Local High Schools Each graduates will receive a check in the amount of $1,000.00 towards tuition for College Colville High School Kettle Falls High School Jenkins High School
  • Recent Postings
  • Panorama Gem & Mineral Club announces upcoming annual Rock Show
  • 2023 Post Blogs
    We are pleased to announce our clubs upcoming 2023 annual Rock and Mineral Show at Colville Fair Grounds, 317 West Astor, Colville, WA, on March 10th 9:00 am to 6:00 pm & 11th from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.Admission is always free and a great day to spend with the family! Come early and stay… Read more: 2023 Post Blogs
  • Marcus Ciderfest 2022
    October 1st from 9 AM to 5 PM, Saturday Panorama Gem & Mineral Club are planning on being at the Marcus Ciderfest in a big way. Club has many rocks & mineral to sell and games to play once again this year. Plus members will have booths along with us and a opportunity to pick… Read more: Marcus Ciderfest 2022
  • MARCUS CIDERFEST
    IT WAS A WONDERFUL FUN DAY VISITING WITH PEOPLE THAT PASSED BY THE BOOTH. ALL FUNDS RECEIVED FROM THIS EVENT GO TO SUPPORT OUR SCHOLARSHIP FUND GREAT TIME AND LOTS OF FUN AT THE CLUBS BOOTH WITH ALL THE HELP FROM MEMBERS. We had a Raffle to giveaway “one trailer (similar to the one in… Read more: MARCUS CIDERFEST
  • Panorama Gem & Mineral Club
    Rockhounding in the Northeast Washington Field Trip to Jim Creek We hiked up to Site #1 to see if we could find any Galena in White Marble Rocks with Jim Peters Sheila at the bottom of Site #1 looking for the best spot to find Galena in the white crystalline marble. Trail to Site #2… Read more: Panorama Gem & Mineral Club
  • DNR Story Maps
    The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has a new “story map” series online that shows places to rockhound in Washington. https://www.dnr.wa.gov/rockhounding It also spells out the rules you should take into consideration for State, Federal and private land. Click on the Mineral and Fossil map option. The little spots on the map show collecting… Read more: DNR Story Maps
  • Field Trips and Newsletters
    The newsletters for May and June are now online.  Check the 2018 newsletter page for links.  Use the search function to find topics in previous newsletters. There is a field trip scheduled to the LeFarge Quarry for Trilobites on Saturday July 28th.  Meet at the Tiger Store at the intersection of Hwy 20 and Hwy… Read more: Field Trips and Newsletters
  • Act Now to Save Fossil Collecting
    New over-restrictive regulations are threatening the rights of anyone to collect fossils and limiting research which has been mainly driven by discovories by amatures over the past 100 years.  Please comment here: https://www.savefossilcollecting.org/ https://www.savefossilcollecting.org/
  • Field Trip to Horseshoe Mountain
  • Aventurine on Happy Hill
Aventurine slab

2023 Post Blogs

January 30th, 2023

We are pleased to announce our clubs upcoming 2023 annual Rock and Mineral Show at Colville Fair Grounds, 317 West Astor, Colville, WA, on March 10th 9:00 am to 6:00 pm & 11th from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Admission is always free and a great day to spend with the family! Come early and stay late. We will have a food venue to take care of those hungry person wanting refreshments during your stay.
Plenty of Rock and Gem vendors to fill your eyes of Local Treasures.

Below you will find and interesting article regarding our Show last year 2022.

Earths Treasures

Marcus Ciderfest 2022

September 23rd, 2022

October 1st from 9 AM to 5 PM, Saturday

Panorama Gem & Mineral Club are planning on being at the Marcus Ciderfest in a big way. Club has many rocks & mineral to sell and games to play once again this year. Plus members will have booths along with us and a opportunity to pick up some treasurers.

For the details about the Marcus Ciderfest click on this link: https://www.marcusciderfest.com/about.html

Last year we raffled off over a cord of wood to two different winners each. Come by to see what we have this year or just to say howdy!

Visit our page from last year’s event here: Marcus Ciderfest 2021

MARCUS CIDERFEST

MARCUS CIDERFEST

October 8th, 2021

IT WAS A WONDERFUL FUN DAY VISITING WITH PEOPLE THAT PASSED BY THE BOOTH.

ALL FUNDS RECEIVED FROM THIS EVENT GO TO SUPPORT OUR SCHOLARSHIP FUND

GREAT TIME AND LOTS OF FUN AT THE CLUBS BOOTH WITH ALL THE HELP FROM MEMBERS.

We had a Raffle to giveaway “one trailer (similar to the one in the photo) load of Firewood to the WINNER” for $1.00

Gene Fisher one of our members Donated from trees on his property.

We had various pieces of rock items for sale that had been donated to the club from members collections.

We had lots of help from members coming during the day and volunteering to give everyone a break, but also to pickup on some special rocks deals that caught their eye.

Our Wheel of Rock was a big hit with not only the kids for $0.25 a spin, but also the adult kids.

Every Spin was guaranteed to be a winner!

It was such a big hit that we ended up running out of polished rocks before the day was over!

Panorama Gem & Mineral Club

October 7th, 2021

Rockhounding in the Northeast Washington

Field Trip to Jim Creek

Site #1

We hiked up to Site #1 to see if we could find any Galena in White Marble Rocks with Jim Peters

Sheila at the bottom of Site #1 looking for the best spot to find Galena in the white crystalline marble.

Trail to Site #2 for Galena Samples was very difficult to reach from all debris blocking the path