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South Orange County Gem and Mineral Society

Club with field trips for members

Based in San Clemente, California.

socgems.com ↗facebook.com ↗

Gem and mineral society of south Orange County, founded in 1962. Meets on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 PM at the Dorothy Visser Senior Center, 117 Avenida Victoria, San Clemente (enter from the back lot off Avenida Rosa); free and open to the public. Single-day and multi-day rockhounding trips announced on the club's Facebook page, lapidary classes in cutting, polishing and engraving stones, and talks on gems, minerals and fossils.

socgems.com ↗

Prospect on your own near San Clemente

12 gem and mineral spots on open public land with no claim on record, within 50 miles.

Nearest open public land on our fossil and meteorite map: about 79 miles away.

There are more on the map, some of them with a possible mining claim.

Open the gem and mineral map around San Clemente →See the nearest open land on the fossil and meteorite map →

Prospecting and collecting rules in the US →

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