We are a not-for-profit organization (club) dedicated to education, personal enjoyment of the outdoors through lapidary, jewelry making, fossil hunting, archeology and paleontology. Our members range from 4 to over 80 years of age. Most of our members live in and around Clallam County, Washington. We welcome members of all ages, skill levels, and interests. We publish our monthly Ore-bits newsletter, available on this website and mail it to our club members who don't have Internet access. Our business meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the third Tuesday each month. Members and guests are encouraged to attend and participate. A program follows each meeting with guest speakers or presentations. In late September or early October, we hold our annual Gem & Mineral Show. featuring high-quality exhibitors, demonstrations, dealers, family activities, food and prizes. Our sister club in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, has its annual show in early spring of each year. Many of our club members travel there as a group to enjoy the day. Through cooperative arrangement with the Boys & Girls Club of the North Olympic Peninsula (Carroll C. Kendall Unit), we offer introductory classes in lapidary at our shop on Hooker Road. Six qualified children age 12 and older are selected at a time to attend six three-hour sessions in cutting and polishing rocks and semi-precious minerals. These classes are conducted once each quarter on Saturday mornings from 9:00am until noon. Through our "KidsFirst ®" program we offer volunteer instructors and programs to local schools in the educational areas of geology, gemology, lapidary and paleontology.

Our Lapidary Shop on  Hooker Road, in Carlsborg, has all the rock saws, tumblers, grinding and polishing equipment necessary for members to transform their "idea in the rough" to a finished product

We offer regular weekly sessions (with instruction, as required) in lapidary, wire wrapping, and silversmiting. At various intervals throughout the year, by popular demand, we also offer instruction in casting, flint-knapping, enamel glass bead-making, faceting, gold & silver chain-making, gem trees, rock artistry (painting and rock sculpture), and beading. Visitors and prospective new members are invited to attend two classes before formally joining the club.