Orange Belt Mineral Society established in 1933 to promote interest and education in geology, lapidary, and silversmithing skills. Members use the workshop in San Bernardino, California to make jewelry and home furnishing items out of rock and metal. Anyone may join who is interested in hunting for rocks, cutting and shaping rocks, and making jewelry or other items from rocks. Workshop: 205 W. Benedict #8, San Bernardino, Ca Monday and Wednesday. 5-9 and Saturday 10 - 3.

Meet other jewelry designers in your area to share ideas and techniques. Learn to make pure silver jewelry using Art Clay. This material has the working properties of modeling clay but becomes (.999) fine silver when fired. It can be sculpted, molded, and carved easily. You can also create unique surface designs and textures, or paint with it as slip. Learn to make fast and fashionable necklaces, earrings, and bracelets using easy beading techniques and learn how to wire-wrap gemstones using squ …

Dear Volunteer Diggers, Calico Early Man Site is the only archeology site in the Western Hemisphere ever deemed important enough to be worked by Dr. Louis S.B. Leakey. Project Director from 1964 until his death in 1972, Dr. Leakey knew that the thousands of artifacts found in this barren desert environment were eerily similar in appearance and manufacture to those he found in Africa. This striking similarity intrigued and mystified him. The implications for the presence of some of the earliest …