Archive information
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)
