Old Pueblo Lapidary Club Events

Upcoming Events

• Monthly meeting: April 12, 2025, 9am at the club house.
  Douglas Graeme & Richard Graeme IV: Bisbee Minerals
  (Social hour at 8am)
• Monthly meeting: May 10, 2025.
  Jim Turner: The Mine with the Iron Door

Past Events

• Monthly meeting: March 8, 2025
  Claire Scragg: Being a Gem Detective
• Tailgate sale: March 15th, 2024, 8am - 12pm.
  Lapidary-related and metalsmithing items for sale.
  
• Monthly meeting: February 1, 2025.
  Renee Newman: The Diversity of American Gems, Western States
  
• OPLC booth at Tucson Gem Show: February, 2025.
  
• Tucson Gem Show: Mid-January to Mid-February, 2025.
  
• Monthly meeting: January 11, 2025.
  Speaker: TBD
  
• Monthly meeting: December 14, 2024.
  No speaker: Holiday Party
• Monthly meeting: November 9, 2024.
  Tikka Opals: Opals
  
• Silent auction: November 2nd, 2024.
  

  This is a once-a-year chance to select all your mineral and lapidary needs from a myriad of mineral specimens, turquoise, faceting rough, cutting material, slabs, polished stones, beads, equipment (rock saws, cab grinders, kiln, faceting machines, etc).

• Monthly meeting: October 12, 2024.
  Shelly Sergent: "Somewhere in the Rainbow" Collection
• Tailgate sale: September 21st, 2024.
  Lapidary-related and metalsmithing items for sale.
• Monthly meeting: September 14, 2024.
  Ihor Kunasz: Pegmatites - Lithium Legacy
• Monthly meeting: August 10, 2024
  Karyn Holyk: Gemstone paintings
• Monthly meeting: July 13, 2024
  2024, Mark Marikos: Diamonds
  
• Monthly meeting: June 8, 2024
  Twink Monrad & planetary scientist Dr. Larry Lebofsky: The Gold Basin Meteorite Adventure and Twink - Meteorite Collection
• Monthly meeting: May 11, 2024
  Jim Turner, historian: The History of Mining in Arizona
• Monthly meeting: April 13, 2024
  Dr. Art Friedman: Unusual Gemstones - Minerals with Unusual Chemistry and/or Physical Properties, which make Faceting Difficult
• Field trip: March 30, 2024: Spectrum Mine - Fluorite and quartz
• Monthly meeting: March 9, 2024.
  Anna Domitrovic: Genesis of a Limestone Cave & Associated Mineralogy
• Tailgate sale: March 16th, 2024.
  Lapidary-related and metalsmithing items for sale.
  
• Monthly meeting: February 10, 2024.
  Martin P. Steinbach: Star Gems - A Fascinating World
• OPLC booth at The TGMS Show: February 8th to 11th, 2024
• Faceters HOB NOB 2024: February 3, 2024.
  
• The United States Faceters Guild Tucson Symposium: February 1 - 3, 2024.
  
• Monthly meeting: January 13th, 2023
  Speaker: Christine and Scott Logan: Turquoise & the Art it Inspires
  
• Monthly meeting: December 9th, 2023, 11am at the club house.
  Christmas luncheon!
  
• Field trip: November 18, 2023: Rowley Mine - Wulfenite, chrysocolla, malachite
• Monthly meeting: November 11th, 2023
  Speaker: Dr. Larry Fellows: Our Ice Age
  
• Silent auction: November 4th, 2023, 9am - 2pm at the club house.
  

  This is a once-a-year chance to select all your mineral and lapidary needs from a myriad of mineral specimens, turquoise, faceting rough, cutting material, slabs, polished stones, beads, equipment (rock saws, cab grinders, kiln, faceting machines, vacuum caster, etc).

  There will also be a "Kids only" table.

• Field trip: October 28, 2023: Round Mountain - Fire agate, chalcedony, geodes
• Monthly meeting: October 14th, 2023
  Speaker: Brenda Rachel: The Crown Jewels of Hawai'i and the jewelry of the Kingdom
  
• Tailgate sale: September 16th, 2023
• Monthly meeting: September 9th, 2023
  Speaker: Claire Schragg
  
• Monthly meeting: August 12th, 2023
  Speaker: Dr. Chris Osterman: His recent Mining trips to Portugal, Romania and Saudi Arabia
  
• Monthly meeting: July 8th, 2023 at the club house.
  Speaker: Dr. Susan Leib (curator of Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum)
  
• Monthly meeting: June 10th, 2023, 9am at the club house.
  Speaker: Sindi Schloss: The Symbolism of Stones and Jewelry
  
• Monthly meeting: May 13th, 2023, 9am at the club house.
  Speaker: Dr. Art Friedman: Minerals & Gems with Unusual Physical & Chemical Properties - Part 2
  
• Monthly meeting: April 8th, 2023.
  Speaker: Mark Candee - Arizona Gemstones
• Field trip: March 26, 2023: Round Mountain - Chalcedony
• Monthly meeting: March 11th, 2023.
  Speaker: Chris Osterman - His recent Mining trip to Portugal, Romania, and Bulgaria
  
• Tailgate Sale: March 11th, 2023, AFTER the general meeting.
  
• Field trip: February 18th, Ash Peak Geodes
• Monthly meeting: February 11th, 2023.
  No Speaker
• The TGMS Show is February 9th to 12th, 2023 at the Tucson Convention Center. We promoted OPLC at our booth during hours the TCC was open.
• The Faceters' Guild met February 1 - 4: Faceting class, Faceters' HobNob Dinner and sale, and more.
• January 20, 2023: Corral Nuevo Geodes - we had around 34 members on the trip.
• Monthly meeting: January 14th, 2023.
  Speaker: Helen Serras-Herman - The Mitchell & Merrick Silver Mine and 9 Canyons on Navajo Land
• Christmas party, December 10, 2022.
• Monthly meeting, November 12th, 2022.
  Speaker: Dr. Jan Rasmussen - Mineralogy of Arizona.
  
• OPLC Silent Auction: November 5th, 2022, 9am at the club house.