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Gemstone 2006
Saturday 30th September and Sunday
1st October
Maffra Memorial Hall - Johnson
Street, Maffra9.30am
to 5.00pm Saturday
10.00am to 4.30pm Sunday
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| 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
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| 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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