Meeting Times & Locations

MEMBER MEETING INFORMATION:

Day: 2nd Thursday of every month

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Hillcrest Art Center 

Address: 403 Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks

(off of McCloud Avenue across from the The Oaks mall up on the hill.)

BOARD MEETING INFORMATION:

Day: 3rd Thursday of every month

Time: 7:00pm

Location: currently online

March 2023

"Tucson Gem & Mineral Society's Winter Show Highlights"

presented by: Mary Pat Weber

* 68 years running, this four-day event remains the largest, oldest, and most prestigious gem and mineral show in the world. With their theme, “SILICA - Agates and Opals and Quartz, Oh My!” approximately 250 dealers sold varieties of minerals, fossils, jewelry, and lapidary. The show also featured lectures and symposiums, jaw-dropping exhibits from private collections, and displays from major universities and museums.

February 2023

"Petrified Forest of Calistoga, CA"

presented by: John Cook

*Calistoga in Napa Valley is not only home to therapeutic hot springs, mineral spas, the purest award-winning sparkling mineral water, but also to a spectacular petrified forest of Redwood trees. About four million years ago, the now extinct Mount Saint Helena volcano let loose a blast which flattened a forest of these immense trees, and its ash buried and preserved them frozen in time.

January 2023

"Meteorites" 

presented by: Nick Gessler

Transform your findings! Would you like to learn to make the rocks you have collected into something new and pretty? We have a small Lapidary Shop located at the Hillcrest Arts Center exclusively for use by current paid members of the Conejo Gem & Mineral Club.

Our Lapidary Shop has Genies for shaping and polishing rocks, a large flat rotary flat lap, a large rock saw, several small trim saws, and a polisher.

Shop Foreman keep standing days and times to open the shop. They will be happy to teach you how to properly and safely use the equipment for free.

* 3rd Sunday of the month

   9:00am-12:00pm: Juan Gonzales Del Valle

   (by appointment only; email: jgonzalesdelvalle@gmail.com)

   12:00pm - 3:00pm: Manny Valdez

* Weekdays

   by appointment only: Dick Weber 

   (call: 805-529-2524)