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The Mordialloc Lapidary Club offers a unique and affordable meeting place for individuals to learn the art of lapidary or to improve your existing lapidary skills. Members can get creative with jewellery creation, gem faceting, mineral studies / collecting, stone carving, fossicking along with related social activities.
Workshop Opening Hours
Workshop opening hours for the Mordialloc Lapidary Club are as follows:
Tuesday 7.00pm – 10.00pm
Thursday 11.00am – 3.00pm & 7.00pm – 10.00pm
Saturday 1.00pm – 5.00pm.
4th - 5th May - Diamond Valley Gem Club Annual Gem and Crystal Exhibition
Saturday May 4th 9am to 5 pm Sunday May 5th 9am to 4pm.
Diamond Valley Gem Club Annual Gem and Crystal Exhibition.
Masonic Centre 23 Ester St Greensborough Contact Leigh Carbines 0499 233 500
4th—5th May - Annual Horsham Lapidary Club Gem and Mineral Exhibition 2024.
Horsham & District Lapidary Club
Annual Gem and Mineral Show
4th — 5th May -
Annual Horsham Lapidary Club Gem and
Mineral Exhibition 2024.
22 Roberts Ave Horsham. Contact Selina horsham.lapidary@gmail.com
About the event: Annual Horsham Lapidary Club Gem and Mineral Exhibition 2024! Working demonstrations on Faceting, Silversmithing, Wire wrapping, opal cutting. Displays from members and visiting stalls with gems, specimens, slab rock and gold detecting supplies for sale. Talk to members about our club and see our clubrooms in the historical Old Horsham Police Station cells!
Are you curious about what we get up to at the Club? Do you want to know more?
Do you want to learn how to cut and polish a piece of rough stone
like this ….. 
and then turn it into something like this ....
If you are interested, then either click here for 'Membership Enquiries' or select from the main Menu to find out more about our Club and what it has to offer its Members. While you're at it, check out our Clubrooms for a peek at the Club's workshop layouts and set ups.
WHAT'S HAPPENING FOR 2024
Note: This is an Event Guide ONLY. Before making arrangements to attend, please check that the event has not been incorrectly listed, cancelled or even rescheduled at the last minute due to unforeseen circumstances.
April
13th - 14th - Warragul & District lapidary Club Show, Warragul Exhibition Hall & Clubrooms
Logan's Park, Howitt Street, Warragul. 9am - 4pm both days. ** (see Flyer on our webpage).
20 - 21 - National Gem & Crystal Expo 2024, Trade Show, Hawkesbury Indoor Stadium, South Windsor, NSW Australia. Hosted by Australian Gem & Mineral Expo’s and the Hawkesbury Valley Lapidary Club.
21 April - Mordialloc Lapidary Club Working Bee ** (see Flyer on our webpage).
May
4th - 5th - Diamond Valley Gem Club Annual Gem & Crystal Exhibition, Masonic Centre: 23 Ester St. Greensborough. Sat 9 - 5, Sun 9 - 4 Contact Leigh Carbines 0499 233 500. ** (see Flyer on our webpage).
4th - 5th - Horsham & District Lapidary Club Expo, Horsham Clubrooms. 22 Roberts Ave Horsham. Contact Selina horsham.lapidary@gmail.com ** (see Flyer on our webpage).
4th - 5th - Horsham & District Lapidary Club Expo, Horsham Clubrooms. 22 Roberts Ave Horsham. Contact Selina horsham.lapidary@gmail.com ** (see Flyer on our webpage).
17th -20th - Victorian Facetors Group Workshop, Shepparton (Kialla). Noon Friday - Noon Monday.
25th - 26th - Essendon Gem and Lapidary Club Gem Show, Holy Trinity Hall, 29 Pleasant Street, Pascoe Vale. enquiries: eglcinc@gmail.com ** (to be confirmed).
June
1st - 2nd - Bankstown Club Gem & Crystal Expo, Southern Sydney Gym & Crystal Expo,
St George PCYC, 9 Ador Ave, Rockdale, 2216.
24th - 25th - Windsor Gem & Crystal Expo, Windsor Function Centre, Dight Street, Windsor NSW. The Windsor Gem & Mineral Expo has been proudly organized by Australian Gem & Mineral Expos in conjunction with the Hawkesbury Valley Lapidary Club since 2005. On sale are gems, minerals, fossils, jewellry, beads, metaphysical products, meteorites, crystals, gem rough, lapidary needs.
July
19th - 21st (to be confirmed) - Yowah Opal Festival, incorporating Yowah Jewellery Competition. For site bookings, accommodation, jewellery competition and further information, contact: Ben Stoverink 0427 554 161
20th - 21st - Townsville Gem & Mineral Show is an annual event held over 2 days in mid to late July. Vendors have a variety of all things related to gems, minerals and jewellery making where you can find your favourite polished stones and crystals, beads, precious and semi-precious gemstones, even jewellery making and lapidary tools. For the serious Rockhound you can even purchase your own machinery. Location: Townsville Sports Precinct. click here for further information.
August
16th - 19th (to be confirmed) - Victorian Facetors Group Workshop, Horsham. Noon Friday – Noon Monday
17th - 18th (to be confirmed) - Ballarat & District Lapidary Club Show, Victoria Bowling Club, 231 Victoria Street, Ballarat. Enter via Gent Street.
24th – 25th - Frankston & Peninsula Lapidary Club Inc, Gem Show, Peninsula Community Theatre. Cnr Nepean H'way and Wilson Road, Mornington, VIC. Sat 9am – 5pm, Sun 9am – 4pm. Contact Maria 0427 196103 or Jo 0420 364980.
24th - 25th - Windsor Gem & Crystal Expo, Windsor Function Centre, Dight Street, Windsor NSW. The Windsor Gem & Mineral Expo has been proudly organized by Australian Gem & Mineral Expos in conjunction with the Hawkesbury Valley Lapidary Club since 2005. On sale are gems, minerals, fossils, jewellry, beads, metaphysical products, meteorites, crystals, gem rough, lapidary needs.
September
2nd -3rd - Mildura Club 29th Annual Gem and Jewellery Show, Sunraysia Masonic Centre, 15th Street, Irymple. Sat: 9am – 6pm, Sun: 9:30am – 4:30pm. Contact Joe Watson: 0428 540933 or josephwatson@icloud.com
16th -17th - Waverley Gem Club Show, Brandon Park Community Centre, Ferntree Gully Road, Glen Waverley. 10am to 5pm each day.
23rd - 24th - NSW Gemkhana, Hawkesbury Showgrounds.
Contact: Gemkhana@gemlapidarycouncilnsw.org.au
October
12th - 13th - Mordialloc Lapidary Club GEMFAIR (dates and venue to be confirmed).
19th - 20th - Nunawading & DIstrict Lapidary Club, Whitehorse Community Hub, 96 Springvale Road, Nunawading (Entrance via Esdale Street) Sat: 10 - 5. Sun 10 - 4
November
2nd - 3rd -Geelong Lapidary Club Show (to be confirmed). Geelong West Town Hall, 153 Pakington St, Geelong West. For further information click here.
December
2025
GEMBOREE 2025 Victoria. Hosted by VGCA. Dates to be confirmed. (Dates to be confirmed). GEMBOREE® 2025 – Victoria, Hosted by VGCA
Parkdale Station
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MORDI-AGATE NEWS MAGAZINE ITEMS AND ARTICLES - Our in-house Magazine is a great way to keep all of our Members informed about what is happening around the Clubhouse and elsewhere. If you have any handy silversmith or lapidary tips, or if you have gone off and done a bit of fossicking lately, let us know all about it and include a photo if possible. We are keen to hear all and everything to do with the hobby that we love. Please leave all information in the Editor’s
Mail-Drop. We do encourage your input.
If there is anything else that you would like to see in your Magazine,
please let the Editor know. Likewise, if you have any ideas or suggestions for improvements in or around
the Clubhouse, you can always have a chat with a Committee Member or put a note in the appropriate mail-drop
box at the Clubrooms.
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