Welcome to the new website of the San Luis Obispo Gem & Mineral Club. It has taken awhile to get this up and running and it is still a work in progress but now we are finally rolling with it.

We are an eclectic mix of fun-loving and intellectually-curious people who share a passion for rocks, minerals, gems, fossils, jewelry, rockhounding and/or lapidary art.

Our club is open to anybody and everybody with gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and creed being of no relevance whatsoever.

There are no social cliques in our club and none such are tolerated here. There is no drama as we are a tightknit group which supports each other and all others in our hobby and throughout the Central Coast community.

We are not only members of the Central Coast community bound together by our common interests but we strive to serve our community through a variety of means.

Our montly club meetings are open to the public and we welcome everybody to attend.

We promote education through an Earth Sciences scholarship we annually fund at Cuesta Community College.

We also hold a gem, mineral, and jewelry show twice a year in Cayucos in order to better serve our community by providing it a means to view and purchase the mineralogical wonders of the Earth and ask questions of knowledgeable people.

It is our intent to feature a youth program in the future as our club membership increases.

We would also like to someday have our own club shop in which to do lapidary arts.

More near-term than that we will most certainly soon be featuring another page on this website entitled "Newsletter" featuring guess what?

This club is a member of the California Federation of Minerological Societies (CFMS) and by extension affiliated with the American Federation of Minerological Societies (AFMS).

---Last updated March 8, 2010