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2006 Gem Show
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Gemstone 2006
Saturday 30th September and Sunday 1st October
Maffra Memorial Hall - Johnson Street, Maffra

9.30am to 5.00pm Saturday
10.00am to 4.30pm Sunday


What we did
  • Displays of gems (in the raw and cut into jewellery), polished semi-precious stones and spectacular minerals from Australia and the rest of the world, presented by six clubs from throughout Gippsland
  • Display by the Prospectors and Miners Association: gold, gold and more gold
  • Display of fluorescent minerals: see rocks that glow in the dark
  • Display by the Fossil Collectors Association of Australasia: examples of fossils many millions of years old; you might even find bits of dinosaur
  • Samples from the world famous Pino Deriu collection of rare minerals
  • Presentation by the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Who took part?
  • Bairnsdale Lapidary Club
  • McMillan Rockhounds (Maffra)
  • Morwell Lapidary Club
  • South Gippsland Lapidary Club
  • Warragul Lapidary Club
  • Bob Lehman (Lapidary & Jewellery Supplies)
  • Des Liston (Lapidary & Jewellery Supplies)
  • John Rando (Lapidary & Jewellery Supplies)
  • Fossil Collectors' Association of Australasia (Christopher Ah Yee)
  • Flying Doctor Service (Ray Collins)
  • Inner Wheel Club of Maffra (catering)
  • J & P Neville (Lapidary & Jewellery Supplies)
  • Pino Deriu display (courtesy Maffra Visitor Information Centre)
  • Prospectors & Miners Association of Victoria (Gippsland branch)

 



  

        

 

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