A personal note from the president and chairman

The Longmont Rockhounding Club was organized and made legal on August 14th, 2026

It was made as a non profit organization. While we are not a charity, we will eventually wish to become tax exempt in the near future.

Currently we have planned meetings on the first Monday of each month with our first meeting being held on Roctober 5th, 2026 at 6:00m pm, Perkins Restaurant at 2051 North Main street. We will be in the back room.

(please refer to this description as our meeting places will change)


It is our intentions to grow and take on more and more projects as we can.

Our future plans include organized field trips, classes and lectures by local community leaders in the associated industries and fields, hold demonstrations, and eventually get to the point where we can hold annual gem and mineral shows ourselves.

But this will cost money, and we may ask our club members to donate to whatever cause we have. The only other way to do this is with membership dues, for which we don't want to charge, at least not anytime soon.
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A personal note from the president and chairman

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My name is Ken Rowe.
I formed this group at the behest of a few others primarily to fill the vacuum of likeminded organizations in the region. Our choices were to travel south to Lakewood, or North to Ft Collins in order to actively participate in a club.

I have taken the time to create the legal entity with the secretary of state, document and ID number 20268019546. (Not free)

I have taken the time to create both a Facebook presence (Free) as well as an internet presence in the form of a PHPBB forums and discussion area. (Not free)

I have designed and published the forums so that members can interact, club news can be shared, and events can be scheduled. It is my intention to have a guest speaker every quarterly meeting who will speak on a wide array of topics with geology as a base.

I have been in touch with other clubs so they know we are here, and am actively trying to grow our membership base.

With these thoughts in mind, I hope you will have a fun time here, participate to the fullest of your abilities as well as help others along the way. Remember, we all start from somewhere, we all came from somewhere but we are united in our love of the study of these rocks that we collect, no matter the reason that we do it.

I myself always had a passing fancy of geology, my point of reference being physics and astronomy. And I have always collected rocks, some I've had since I was in my 20's and always thought of them as just being cool to look at. Never really studying on how they formed or how they got to where I found them.

So, welcome aboard, thanks for your shared interests and hope to see you in the club and on field trips and everything else.

Ken Rowe
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