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)