Register Staff
4-22-2010

Hundreds of formlery hidden treasures – countless gems and geodes of all shapes and sizes, fossils from various periods of pre-history, minerals formed over many millennia – will be on abundant display next weekend when the Lone Pine Gem and Mineral Society once again opens its world to outsiders and fellow “rock founds.”
The Seventh Annual Gem and Mineral Show gets under way Friday, April 30 at 6 p.m. (it closes at 9) in the Douglas Robinson Building at the Tri-County Fairgrounds in Bishop.
The show resumes Saturday, May 1 from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m and Sunday, May 2 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., and coincides the first two days with the annual Tri-County Fair Home Show.
No admission is charged for the Gem and Mineral Show, being held more as an outreach effort than a commercial endeavor, according to organizers.
Show attendees will find plenty to not only introduce them to the hobby and art of rock-hounding, but also to spark and sustain their interest in local geology.