SEQUIM — Visitors can learn how to bring the hidden beauty out of rocks at the Clallam County Gem & Mineral Association’s spring open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The open house will be at the club’s shop at 81 Hooker Road, Unit 5.
“Our club is one of the few gem and mineral clubs to have its very own workshop, where our members have the use of many types of equipment to practice and perfect their lapidary skills,” the club says on its website at www.sequimrocks.com.
“It also allows us to teach those skills to many newcomers to the hobby,” the club says.
Do you have an interesting rock but don’t know what it is? Club members will be on hand to help identify it.
Visitors also can watch ongoing demonstrations of rock cutting and polishing, metal smithing, wire-wrapping polished stones, casting, creating chainmail jewelry, other lapidary activities and faceting stones.
Cut and polish
They can learn how to cut rocks and polish stones for use in jewelry or for display.
Coffee and cookies will be available.
The club is a nonprofit association organized for educational activity in the science of geology as it relates to the discovery of rock, mineral and fossils.
Each fall, it sponsors a gem and mineral show in Sequim.
Club members meet at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month except December. Visitors are welcome at the meetings in the second-floor meeting room at 500 Hendrickson Road.
For more information, visit www.sequimrocks.com or phone President Scott Thornhill at 360-912-1520.