5 Days until Wonders of the Earth Gem Show.
The Show runs September 24-25. Saturday 10-6, Sunday 11-5 at Don Montgomery Community Centre – 2467 Eglinton Ave. East, between Midland and Kennedy . It has convenient access from Kennedy Subway Station. Meet our Vendor – Earthy Girl Design was established 20 years ago, which encompasses a wide range of gemstones and vintage beads, hand-made jewellery and Native American jewellery in sterling silver. Specializing in turquoise. Always looking for the unusual or different, Earthy Girl’s assortment is continuously evolving. Member of the Toronto Bead Society and a Gemologist from the Canadian Gemological Association, FCGmA.
What to do and see at the Gem Show:
- Six silent auctions
- Live auction on Saturday at 3 pm
- Hourly door prizes
- Fluorescence room
- Kids Quarry
- Kids “Make and Take” stretch bracelets making station
- Kids “3 Types of Rocks” activity station
- The Learning Centre for kids of all ages
- Wire wrapping -jewellery creation station
- Soap stone Carving demonstration
- “Gem Stone Donut wrapping” – jewellery creation station
- FREE Gem Identification station
- North York Faceters Guild demonstrations
- Royal Ontario Museum Display
- Displays from Gem and Mineral Club of Scarborough members
Answer to previous Quiz: Any magnetic attraction in blue Sapphire proves the Sapphire is natural. Many natural blue Sapphires contain “surplus” iron not , while synthetic blue Sapphires of the flame fusion type never contain enough iron to cause magnetic attraction.
(The question was: You see two blue sapphires. One stone is showing some attraction to the Rare Earth Elements Magnet the other one is totally inert. Why? What does it mean? )
Quiz for today: You see a ring with a transparent blue stone. What can it be? Can you name 10 transparent blue stones?