A.K. Miles of Salem spent summers as a little girl traveling the Pacific Northwest with her grandparents, collecting rocks and helping her great-grandfather cut and polish them in his lapidary shop.

Discovering hidden treasures lying around the Okanagan Valley is what the Vernon Lapidary and Mineral Club does best. Some of the 200 members go out searching for rocks that can be polished and ...

The Calgary Rock and Lapidary Club started way back in 1959 as people took advantage of Alberta's proximity to the Rocky Mountains and some of the world's richest fossil-hunting grounds. It was still ...