Enjoy mutual interests and fellowship with others. Opportunity to socialize and talk “rocks” with fellow rockhounds. Share your unique finds (“Show & Tell”) and learn about regional (and beyond) geology and related topics. Opportunity to see and buy lapidary arts created by other club members. Members are able to bring and sell their creations to other club members at club meetings. Door prizes at every General Meeting.
Juniors learn about minerals, rocks, and the lapidary arts through hands on learning. Juniors also learn how to find and identify minerals and rocks by attending field trips. Juniors share their knowledge by giving short verbal presentations to the club members, which they learn confidence and public speaking.
Throughout the year the club will organize trips to visit sites where you will be able to find agate, jasper, obsidian, jade, and other rocks and minerals. All field trips are included with club membership. Our club will provide at least one field trip per month. Club will also provide at least one extended field trip per year. Field trips will include digging events at public and private locations (Prospecting), civilized rock hounding (Trips to rock shops), and educational (Museum trips, etc.).
As a member, and after proper training and workshop classes, you can use the workshop and equipment on which you were trained. Hourly fees on saws and polishing wheels may apply. Members can also purchase rough rock, and slabs at the workshop.
Receive “The Umpqua Gem” our club newsletter each month by email (included) or mail subscription (additional $13.50 Annually).
The club library has educational literature available for you to check out.
Participate in our annual Gem & Mineral show – the clubs biggest fundraising event of the year. Plenty of volunteer opportunities for our members. Hand out information on our club, be a greeter, help in the silent auction, help out in the kids "Fun Zone", help with set-up, help with take-down, etc.
Join us twice a year as we gather in July for a club picnic, and in December for a club Christmas party. There are plenty of volunteer opportunities for our members at these events.
We offer these throughout the year. They vary according to the availability of teachers, but they usually include wire wrapping, pendant and ring making, lapidary, and workshop equipment classes.
Essential to keep the club working and thriving. Help coordinate outings, maintain the club, organize fundraisers, volunteer at club booths, speak at community schools, teach a class, etc.
UGMC - Membership Prices: $ 18.00 Individual / $ 35.00 Family A mailed copy of the The Umpqua Gem add $ 13.50 Annually We invite you to become a member of the Umpqua Gem and Mineral Club (UGMC). Educational and rock-collecting field trips take place periodically and members are offered instruction in the usage of saws, grinders, and polishing machines, in the club’s lapidary workshop. UGMC offers a growing library of geology books and jewelry magazines, from which members may borrow. Lapidary arts, faceting, rock and gem collecting, equipment usage and maintenance, wire wrapping, silversmithing as well as jewelry design and fabrication are some of the subjects studied by our members. UGMC members also receive a monthly newsletter called The Umpqua Gem. Membership meetings are on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, 6:00m PM - Potluck, 7:00 PM - Meeting, at Westside Christian Church, 2712 W. Harvard, Roseburg. There are no membership meetings for the months of December & July. Our Christmas dinner replaces our December meeting and our annual Club picnic takes place in July in lieu of the membership meeting. You’re invited to attend one of our meetings as a guest. We also have a lapidary workshop for our members to use to cut rock and tools to create jewelry. Hopefully, you’ll elect to become a UGMC member!
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