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• Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society General Meeting

  • Start
    November 14, 2024
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  • End
    June 05, 2025
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society, 123 W. Alvarado St., Fallbrook California

  General membership meeting for Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society. Admission is free. Meetings begin with the business portion at 6:30 pm followed by a presentation or special event. Registration is not required for attendance.

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• Museum open

  • Start
    January 03, 2025
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  • End
    May 17, 2025
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  • Schedule
    40 sessions
  • Location
    Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Museum, 123 W. Alvarado St., Fallbrook CA 92028

  Gem and Mineral Museum plus Gift Shop. Open free to the public, this small but mighty "gem" of a museum showcases minerals, fossils and gemstones from San Diego County and beyond. Highlights include a fluorescent room, San Diego Pegmatite, fossil display, rough and cut specimens, and other mineral delights.

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• Work and play with minerals & more

  • Start
    February 22, 2025
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    June 07, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society, 123 W. Alvarado St., Fallbrook California 92028

  Volunteers informally gather on most Saturdays to do one, some or all of the following under guidance as needed:

  • process minerals (fold boxes, cut batting, prepare and place tags)
  • make flats (assortments of minerals)
  • process jewelry (thread pendants on to chains, place earrings on cards)
  • maintenance (cleaning of any type depending on need and choice)
  • volunteer suggestion: our volunteers come up with the best ideas! If you see something that appeals to you, talk about it.

  FGMS will provide lunch for work party. Volunteers are welcome for any or all hours and days. 

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• Work and play with minerals and more

  • Start
    February 22, 2025
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  • End
    June 07, 2025
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  • Schedule
    16 sessions
  • Location
    Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society, 123 W. Alvarado St., Fallbrook California 92028

  Volunteers informally gather on most Saturdays to do one, some or all of the following under guidance as needed:

  • process minerals (fold boxes, cut batting, prepare and place tags)
  • make flats (assortments of minerals)
  • process jewelry (thread pendants on to chains, place earrings on cards)
  • maintenance (cleaning of any type depending on need and choice)
  • volunteer suggestion: our volunteers come up with the best ideas! If you see something that appeals to you, talk about it.

  FGMS will provide lunch for work party. Volunteers are welcome for any or all hours and days.

  
  

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• Rough 'N Cut Sale

  • When
    March 16, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society, 123 W. Alvarado St., Fallbrook CA

  SALE! Minerals, gemstones, fossils, beads, lapidary equipment, bits and pieces, flats of material, buckets of rocks, books, magazines -  some of everything for low prices. It's all gotta GO!!!

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• Barstow Area Field Trip

  • Start
    March 29, 2025
  • End
    March 30, 2025
  • Location
    Barstow Area
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Location: Barstow area. This trip will cover many of the sites we visited in 2024 but with two additions and one subtraction.

  On March 29, we will rendezvous at the I-40 Hector Road exit at 9 AM. It's about 3 hours from Fallbrook. We will spend some time at the Hector Road agate site. Pisgah Crater, a fascinating site, is open again (it was locked up last year) . We will visit Lavic Siding for its beautiful jaspers. We'll drive down to Lavic Lake and see the 100,000 year old black volcanic flows in the white silt of Lavic Lake and have lunch. We will then drive over I-40 to the South Cady Mountains for even more jasper. End of Day 1.

  Participants  may camp out or stay in a Barstow motel.

  On March 30, after exiting Calico Road/Exit 194 on I-40 we will rendezvous at the intersection of Mule Canyon Road and Calico Road to visit the silver lace agate site at 8 AM. WARNING: the trip up to the site is very steep. We will then go to Mineola Road and visit a jasper and rhyolite site. We will not visit the wollastonite/marble site this trip. Our last stop, as was the case last year, will be Rainbow Basin north of Barstow.

  We will seldom be near fast food locations during the day so pack lunches and water. This is an ability to pick up large amounts of jasper and agate (the silver lace agate, not so much) so bring buckets. Subject to change without notice if get better ideas.

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