The shop spaces were spruced up over the summer. Renew your membership, enroll and come check out the renovations and equipement upgrades. We look forward to welcoming new and returning students.
Signal Hill , CA
WE ARE PLANNING FOR GEM DIEGO 2025! The venue once again will be Liberty Station Conference Center in the Point Loma neighborhood.
San Diego, CA 92111
It's time to celebrate SDMG's illustrious history at our 86th Annual Banquet.
Tehachapi, CA 93561
Vendors will be showing and selling beautiful showcase minerals, fossils, polished rocks, beads and handcrafted jewelry.
The fall workshop session begins on September 8, 2025, with the first Juniors’ class set for Saturday, September 13th. We look forward to welcoming new and returning students to workspaces that were cleaned and painted over the summer, as well as new equipment here and there.
Based on popular demand, “Beginning Metals Fabrication” and “Casting” workshops will be offered again this Fall. If you’re an SDMG member, and have already mastered the lapidary art of making Cabochons, with at least 10–20 cabs under your belt, then you’re eligible to participate! However, you must be an active member to enroll in workshops.
If you are interested in a class found on the workshop schedule posted online, please lease click the link on the instructor’s name to send me and email expressing your interest, or email me directly at school@sdmg.org. ThE schedule is updated frequently, so be sure to refresh your browser to obtain a fresh copy from the server whenever you visit the website.
If you don’t see the instructor you’re looking for on the schedule, email me, and I’ll assist you.
– Yvonne Juarez, workshop coordinator
San Diego County Fair Opens: Wed, June 11, 2025 – Exhibitor Appreciation, Sat, June 14, 6 to 9pm, Del Mar Fairgrounds
General Meeting June 23, 2025 – 7 pm SDMG bldg – Creating a Stone Painting: Leonardo Scarpelli, master stone artisan, with speaker LuAnn Benton
June 28–29, 2025 – Culver City, CA – 2025 Fiesta of Gems, by the Culver City Rock & Mineral Club
SPRING WORKSHOPS In Session thru Jun 30, 2025
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Open to Members only.
July 1st: Renew your membership for year 2025–2026 »
Adult class: $6.00 – (3 hrs or less) | $8.00 (more than 3 hrs)
Juniors’ class: $1.00 | (members only)
Membership includes The Pegmatite, the official bulletin of the San Diego Mineral & Gem Society. Ten issues are published annually from September through June. Stay up-to-date on upcoming events and shows, especially in and around Southern California, and keep current on SDMG news, meetings schedule, school news and class schedule. Only dues-paying members are eligible to take SDMG classes, with class fees paid separately to the Instructor.
The mission of the San Diego Mineral and Gem Society is to disseminate knowledge of mineralogy and earth sciences; to encourage the study of these subjects; to conduct classes in mineralogy and lapidary arts; to conduct field trips for the collection and study of specimens; to encourage interest in mineralogy and lapidary arts among young people; and to procure and maintain a collection related to the earth sciences and lapidary arts.
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