Club Membership Has Its Privileges!

Members of the Palomar Gem and Mineral Club
can participate in the following club activities:

Enroll in our Classes

Use our Lapidary Workshop
Go on our organized Field Trips

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Did You Know...?

The Palomar Gem and Mineral Club has a Community Education chairperson, who generously donates his time to visit our local schools to teach kids about rocks and minerals. His name is Gene Ciancanelli, and he is one of our club's longtime members and instructors.

Gene visits at least one or more schools just about every week. He shows our school children how interesting and fun rocks can be. During these classroom visits, he hands out mineral, fossil and rock specimens to the children. This adds up to a LOT of specimens!!

Please consider donating some colorful and interesting mineral specimens or fossils from your own collection. If you're like me, you have quite a bit of material lying around the house, garage, yard and vehicle, and can probably spare a few pieces to encourage our local children to learn about geology and other earth sciences.

Here is a note from Gene regarding donations:

As the Palomar Club's Community Education person, I make presentations at public schools and supply them with rocks, minerals, and fossils to teach students about our hobby. Any club member with "colorful" rocks and minerals or fossils to spare can donate them to the Palomar Club for distribution to the schools.

I go to one or more schools almost every week and it is hard for one person to assemble all the materials our club contributes to the schools. Kids like colorful rocks and minerals and all fossils.

Just drop off your donations at the club's shop and label them "donation for school program".

Gene

Click here to go to the Lapidary Workshop page for our address, directions, and hours of operation.

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Our Club Purpose

The Palomar Gem and Mineral Club is open to all adults and young people, and is organized to promote the study of rocks, minerals, gems, fossils, and related subjects. To develop greater knowledge and understanding though regular meetings with educational programs, field trips for the collection of specimens and classes for teaching lapidary arts.

The Palomar Gem and Mineral Club shares its knowledge of the earth sciences by sponsoring gem and mineral shows featuring exhibits, displays, and demonstrations.

The Palomar Gem and Mineral Club was founded March 20, 1954.

PGMC Classes

We are proud to offer our club members exciting classes in many aspects of lapidary, silversmithing and other arts. Click here to access a current class schedule. Below is an example of the type of items you can create in one of the many classes available to Palomar Gem and Mineral Club members:

Faceting
Silversmithing
Mineral Identification
Chain-Making
and More!