July 28   Roxbury, Ct - Garnets - CDMC
July 28  Dock Watch Hollow, near Bound Brook, NJ - stream collecting Carnelian - Raritan
July 28  CT Yankee Power Plant, Haddam Neck, Ct - Garnets, Beryls, Schorl - dumps - Meriden
July 29   Black Mt., Rumford, Me - MMGS
August 7-22 EFMLS Annual Trip to Bancroft Area - St Lawrence Co Area- $160 for both trips together - St Law
August 17-20 Gouverneur Talc, Powers Farm abd  State Forestry Lands sites, St Lawrence Co, NY- St Law
August 19  Swift River gold panning, Byron, Me - Kennebec
August 19  Georgetown Quarry, Me - handicapped accessible - MMGS
August 19  ASI and Maucherino Quarries, New Milford, Ct - Pyrite, Actinolite, Scapolite - Danbury
August 25  Ossippee Mountains, Center Ossippee, NH - ?- Cap NH
August 25  Schoharie, NY- Devonian Fossils - CDMC
August 25 CCC Quarry, Haddam, Ct - Gem Heliodor - Meriden
Sept. 1-2 Diamond Acres, Fonda, NY- St Law
Sept. 9   Shaft 10, Quabbin Reservoir, Harwick, Mass - Zeolites - CVMC
Sept. 15  Diamond Hill, Cumberland, RI - Quartz, Agate, Quartz after Barite- RI
Sept. 15  Kibblehouse Quarry, Perkiomenville, Pa - Zeolites - Bucks
Sept 16   Loudville, Easthampton, Mass - lead species - CVMC
Sept. 16  3rd Ham&Weeks dig off and cookout, Me - MMGS
Sept. 23  Pingree Ledge, Albany, Me - Kennebec
Sept 29  St Clair, Pa - Fern Fossils - Bucks
Sept. 30  Greens Farm, Roxbury, Ct - Garnet - Danbury
October 2 Codorus Stone Quarry, Emigsville, Pa- Limestone species - Bucks
October 21  Nubble/Harvard Quarries, Greenwood, Me - Kennebec
November 18  Stand Pipe Hill, Topsham, Me - Kennebec

Did you know that only a diamond can cut a diamond? They are that hard!  What makes them this hard is the way the teeny-tiny invisible parts (called atoms) inside the diamond stick together. 

Diamonds are carbon crystals. Each carbon atom is held tightly by four bonds to other carbon atoms nearby. This makes it really strong - and nearly impossible to break!