Monto Lapidary Club in Monto, Queensland | Community organisation

Monto Lapidary Club

Locality: Monto, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4166 3696

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24.01.2022 Have a look at the lovely prizes that can be won! These have been donated to the Central Queensland Gem and Mineral Clubs. The Raffle will be drawn on 29 November 2020 at the End of Year Get-together at Bell Park, Emu Park. Tickets are available at the Monto Lapidary's workshop on Wednesday or Saturday afternoon. This will look wonderful if I can actually get the file inserted!

20.01.2022 https://www.mining.com/lucara-strikes-big-again-with-998-c/

20.01.2022 It looks like I’m always putting lovely agates on Facebook. However, you can get some duds as well. I cut these this afternoon. So in the end I had to get back to something I cut a while back. I think it’s going to be a beauty but it’s only halfway finished. Sorry for the extra shadows on that one. It’s also lighter in reality.

20.01.2022 Yesterday while at Neil’s place there were some queries about the contents of a volcanic bomb. Here is one that was broken open. People break them up in order to get the peridot crystals out. The crystals are usually very small.

16.01.2022 Nothing Lapidary this time. I’m just showing off a lovely bunch of native flowers for our wedding anniversary. No, the heater is not on.

13.01.2022 Did you know Inverell used to produce about 80 per cent of the world's sapphires? We've unearthed this 1973 ABC documentary following the booming local sapph...ire industry in northern NSW. Today, most of the world's sapphires come from Madagascar, and the local industry has dwindled to just a few family mines. : Don Sheil | ABC New England North West

10.01.2022 Against all common sense (according to the BOM site) the club members went fossicking today. Luckily it stopped raining as soon as we arrived on our destination. We all found some nice bits and pieces. Mainly petrified wood in volcanic ash and some opalised rock in different colours. Then we had some morning tea and it started pouring again. We went back to town again and had our lunch at Neil’s place. Still had a good day though. I included a mushroom/toadstool picture as it looked so cute.

09.01.2022 I don’t normally post my own things on the Monto Lapidary Club’s Facebook site, but I recently finished this ring that I cast a few months earlier. The local club doesn’t have the equipment to do this but it is always possible to make a visit to a neighbouring club and learn new things. The ring is Sterling silver and the stone is a black diamond. An eye catching stone but luckily not quite so expensive as the clear ones! I didn’t have the knowledge or the equipment to do this so thanks to Di Holzapfel from the Gladstone club for helping me with this!

09.01.2022 This might be an interesting idea as well.

05.01.2022 Neil and Joyce Patzwald visited Monique Newton in Middlemount on their way north. All three are members of the Monto Lapidary Club.

04.01.2022 https://worlddiamondnews.org/the-iconic-argyle-mine-has-cl/

04.01.2022 The two Dutch Aussies made a lovely fruity damper and took it to the workshop this afternoon. The two Australian born Aussies thought it was the best damper ever and asked for seconds! I even brought in the Golden Syrup. We always set half an hour aside for a cuppa and a talk. The talk is always about rocks of course. I’ll do a separate entry under my own name showing a lovely agate I did this afternoon.