Palos Verdes Gem & Mineral Society
Club with field trips for members
Based in Rolling Hills Estates, California.
Gem and mineral society of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, with lectures by geologists, often from UCLA and Cal State Long Beach. Meets on the second Monday of each month (no meeting in December): meet-and-greet at 6:30 PM, meeting 7 to 9 PM, in the third-floor Community Room of the Peninsula Center Library, 701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates; open to the public. Field trips and geology hikes on local rocks and minerals, and visits to fossil sites and museums such as La Brea Tar Pits and the Alf Museum of Paleontology.
Around here, the land is mostly private
Within 50 miles of Rolling Hills Estates our maps show no open public land to prospect. That is exactly why a club matters here: clubs have the landowner permissions, the leases and the know-how.
Nearest open public land on our gem and mineral map: about 53 miles away.
Nearest open public land on our fossil and meteorite map: about 75 miles away.
Other clubs and places nearby
- South Bay Lapidary & Mineral SocietyClub · 5 mi
- Long Beach Mineral & Gem SocietyClub · 14 mi
- Delvers Gem & Mineral SocietyClub · 17 mi
- Culver City Rock & Mineral ClubClub · 17 mi
- Southern California Paleontological SocietyClub · 18 mi
- Prospectors Club of Southern California (Downey)Club · 19 mi