If you’re an Opal or Emerald lover and find yourself purchasing these gorgeous gemstones on their own, as well as set in jewelry pieces, perhaps you’ve met Gabriel Mosesson, a gem cutter and jewelry artist who offers his beautiful treasures for sale at many bead/gem/jewelry shows in Southern California. He was most recently at our annual Tournament of Gems, which ran just two weekends ago (8/20-21).
Gabriel travels to Ethiopia to hand-select the highest quality rough opals and emeralds directly from the mines, then he brings them back to his Los Angeles studio to cut or hand-carve the gemstones, designing them into one-of-a-kind settings. He just recently returned from one of those trips and will tell us about it and the beautiful emeralds and opals found in Ethiopia for our September meeting presentation.
This program meeting takes place on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of The Santa Anita Church, 226 W. Colorado Blvd., Arcadia, CA 91007.
Join us and prepare to be dazzled! Admission is free; open to the public. Enjoy refreshments while checking out the display table; bring a rock specimen you’d like identified. See you there!
March’s field trip will be a return to the Sidewinder Mountains. High clearance or short wheelbase vehicles are recommended for this trip. 2wd is okay. Those with passenger vehicles might need to be shuttled when we get close to the collecting sites. We’ll be searching for both tri-color marble (pictured above) and blue marble. Tri-color marble is a beautiful green, black, and white material and is perfect for yard rock and spheres. It’s also a good beginner material for making cabochons. We’ll also explore tailings piles in the Ord Mountains for chrysocolla and malachite. 