PASADENA – Pasadena was once the home of the largest mineral and lapidary mail order supplier in the country. It was called Grieger’s. It was started as a hobby and expanded into a large business.

A great line-up of traders, all from Queensland, will treat the public to many choices in gems, jewellery, novelties, lapidary equipment and tools. You can even choose a stone and a setting and have a ...

The Cairns Mineral and Lapidary Club have amassed quite a collection of gems, rare stones and jewellery-making machinery since forming in 1961. All of it will be on show at the club’s annual Gem ...

Regina and Jill Collins have been enjoying mother-daughter outings to the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art for about 10 years. Regina, who was interested in polished rocks, first took her daughter, now ...

When he met future wife Cindy in Mount Isa, she believed "a rock was a rock”. But slowly her passion for lapidary grew too and they would go on to inspire many others from the Lockyer Valley to ...

STAKEHOLDERS in the gemstone industry in Tanzania want the value-added tax (VAT) on the sub-sector scrapped. The move, they reason, would - among other things - enable them acquire lapidary equipment ...