Show Weddings 24 Crossword 25 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday April 28 1996 - i ' '' -- 'V s " ra wW-- tj I 4 vv v-- ' U” Y ' £ ’V 4 Vgife£'‘ £v 'JV 7 V - f 'laSa - ' - r ft- t ' Area rockhounds will flock to Logan next week to show their stuff ts Text by Lance Frazier Photos by Mitch Mascara e J y a 1 ' £& Richaid Gnamann displays The Lady recently m Ogden At 44472 carats It's the largest quartz gem m the world tables decorate the livclocks and stone-toppe- d and tour a through their separate working mom rooms reveals a spectrum of angles and colors saw it brought to life on intricate machines In fact Glismann wasn't even interested in “We had some relatives we knew had rocks in block of smoky quartz the bulky 275-poutheir heads and now we’re much worse than they crystal on the auction block in Pocatello were" Lillian says Rock collecting has become Idaho But his colleagues were part of the Jorgensen's lifestyle they travel to convinced they could make something of it gem shows from British Columbia to Denver chunk and Lillian is president of and paid $300 for the the Intermountain Faccters Three years later GlisGuild mann and his facclcr friends "Cache of Gems" will be May Both see beautiful were putting the final polish4 and 5 Show times will be where a novice the on touches potential largest ing 10 am to 8 pm Saturday would see only stone For finished smoky quartz crystal and 10 am to 5 pm Sunin the world a glittering example the “fool's gold" 44472-caror iron pyritc that looks so day at the Logan Recreation gem named Center 195 S 100 West “The Lady" (christened by promising and has caused Chris Dufner president of the Glismann 's wife Bonnie after many a heart to leap unnec Cache Geological and she observed the men hoveressarily is less valuable to them than a homely blob of Archeological Society ing over the stone “like it was a woman") expects displays from colleccycadc a petrified fern that tors around die region The can be cut and smoothed into The ugly duckling-tumed-swa- n event is free and will feature is now on display at the lovely artwork There is something Natural History Museum in door prizes games and about probing Forth's basic demonstrations Dealers will Ogden donated by the Interelements that soothes the mountain Faccters Guild be selling jewelry stones and Shaved down to the size of a items spirit and brings people closlapidary er to nature according to bread loaf and featuring 85 Lillian And most people facets (flat surfaces of varilose any inhibitions and get caught up in the spirous shapes and angles) the finished product weighs just ov er 19 pounds and it of the search: “The reason rockhounds arc is valued at $2500(X) always out of spit is because they spit on all the nicks they find to see what they'll look like" “If it belonged to Jackie Onavsis it'd be worth twice that" Glismann says referring to the recent when they’re cut and polished she says Even “The Lady" which was imported from auction where a bidder forked out S259 million diamond engagement ring Brazil during World War II to be cut into radio for Onassis’ As it is he will have to be satisfied with its title frequency control crystals was very much a gem in the rough It took a special faceting machine as largest natural faceted gemstone in the world several grades of dust grit to grind and polish “The Lady" is twice as large as anything in the work w ecks to and the cquivclant of 49 Smithsonian Institution and it will be in Logan produce the rectangular gem that brings the next weekend as the featured exhibit of the gleam to Glismann 's eye "Cache of Gems" show in Logan Gem collecting may mu be for every one even The Cache gem show will exhibit work by most enraptured of diamond-worshiper- s the JorLillian local artists including pieces by wear the larger pieces As one visitor to couldn't facctcr to the female Park of only Hyde gensen the Ogden museum remarked with a grimace to work on “The Lady" her sec excited and to she's daughter upon sighting “The Lady:” “How’d proud Jorgensen says the smoky quartz come to town allhough it's you like to have that on your finger?1 For beginners aspiring to a world-recor- d gem hardly the only rock she's worked on lately Jorbut Jorgensen says once a be husband “rockhounds' are Paul and her may presumptuous gensen from way back and after she started faceting in person learns the basics of rock shaping only the imagination restricts creativity 1984 “We just went nuts" she says “I went to town to find a button the other day Their home is filled w ith the results of Paul's and it was S4" Lillian says “I said 'Let's go g and silversmithing and Lillian's home and make one'" gem cutting Rings belt buckles exotic w all OGDEN — “The Lady” wasn’t very ladylike when Richard Glismann first Ai' ’ A nd rock-collecti- T ri ’l Av at "7 V O o 40-car- at At ngtit Paul and Lilian Jorgensen pose in their Hyde Park home in front of a display case (Med with gems and stones they've cut and shaped a dose-u- p of the tor the ready display Jorgensen's Xache of Gems’ show Above 40-ho- ur rock-grindin- Monday Homefront: May Day In Mendon Features: 752-212- 1 |