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Monthly JALAF Challenge

List of monthly challenges
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The JALAF Challenge list for 2018:
January - Organic; Pearl, Shell, Amber, Wood, Bone, Antler, Ivory
February - Hearts & Rocks; Heart shaped rocks or Hearts within rocks.
Pet-Rocks Gold Feather Awards; Must have anthropomorphic characteristics (Mouth or Eyes), Humanoid, Animal, Insect, Alien...
March - Man Made treasures; Goldstone, Victoria stone, Bismuth, Opalite, Rainbow Calsilica, Slatonite, Fordite, CZ & other Lab created gems. Gold Feather awards in all glass catagories (specimans; found sea glass, old bottles...)
April - Blues and Greens
May - Thundereggs and Geodes
June - Rocks with pictures
July - Metals and Metallic
August - Ice Cream Social, no JALAF challenge
September - Formerly Organic; Gem Bone, Petrified Wood, Petrified Coral and Algee, Fossils...
October - Agates and Jaspers
November - Crystals
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The LGMS meets at 3007 33rd Street, Lubbock Texas
on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm.

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508 East US-62, Wolfforth, TX 79382, on the second Monday of each month at 6 pm.

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