Our club workshop has been temporarily relocated, due to the grounds of the museum being unusable due to rain.
Please contact our club president on 0490 805 728 for details.
Our club meetings are usually held on the 4th Wednesday of each month, beginning at 1pm, at the Batemans Bay Heritage Museum.
Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 26th October.
Arrive at noon for a chat and a Show & Tell. The meeting will start at 1pm.
Are you interested in looking for rocks and gems?
Are you interested in learning how to prepare a stone for polishing?
We welcome visitors and new members!
What is lapidary? Lapidary is the art of cutting and polishing stone. There are four basic lapidary arts: tumbling, cabbing, faceting, and carving.
Tumbling
Rough gem material is placed into a tumbler, a revolving barrel with abrasives. Progressively finer grits or abrasives are used until the gem is polished. This process closely resembles what happens to rocks in a stream or on the beach.
Cabbing
Cabbing or cabochon cutting is probably the most common form of lapidary arts. Cabochons or “cabs” are gems cut with a flat bottom and a curved or domed top.
Faceting
Through a mechanical process of cutting surfaces on a piece of crystal, beautiful gems are created. At present, as we don’t have access to a faceting machine, no faceting activities are being undertaken.
See below for links to club documentation and policies.
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We had previously established a workshop at The Original Gold Rush Colony at Mogo which was devastated by bushfires in January. It is very exciting to announce a new partnership with Batemans Bay Heritage Museum providing us with a place from which to operate.
Join us for a meeting where we discuss club matters and correspondence from affiliated lapidary clubs, report on excursions held, plan new trips and activities and examine “show and tell” specimens of fossils, gems, minerals and items of interest brought along by members.
We conduct fossicking trips and visits to sites of geological interest in our local area. Weekend excursions are held regionally and at times, extended interstate fossicking trips.
We welcome members to undertake courses, in cutting, polishing and cabochon making.
Please note: Our Bylaws includes a section called Emergency Contact Action Plan.
This plan states that the emergency contact details are required to be written on the back of their member’s badge.
It is recommended that serious health issues are also recorded there.
View photos of Seniors Week at the Museum 2021
View photos of March 2021 Trip
View recent additions to our Club Collection on the News page!
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