Useful Links

Here are some useful and interesting places to visit on the world wide web!.

Lapidary Suppliers

A and E Metal Merchants A&E Australian Jeweller Supplies AJS House Of Jewellery HOJ

Lapidary Organisations & Directories

Australian Facetors Guild Australian Mineral Collector (contains a directory of Australian lapidary & related associations & clubs and a directory of gem & mineral shows & exhibitions) Campbelltown and Districts Lapidary Club Inc Gem & Lapidary Council of New South Wales Hunter Valley Gemology Club Mineralogical Society of NSW Northern Districts Lapidary Club Parramatta-Holroyrd Lapidary Club Need to contact another Lapidary Club? Hornsby Shire Council provides a Hornsby Community Information Directory This directory also allows you to search other towns in NSW. When you click on this link it will open the Council's Search page. Enter Lapidary and press search. To search other parts of NSW, first click where it says to change location, type in your location, then search for lapidary.

Teaching Resources

Rocks and Minerals - Resources for Learning and Teaching

Fossicking Fact Sheets These are links to the site of the NSW Dept Primary Industries - Minerals These sheets are available for non-commercial use from the Department's website. The material is copyright so for other uses Click here for how you may use the material.

Title A - K Adelong gold Araluen gold Braidwood gold Copeland gold deposits Finding gems in New South Wales The geology of Yerranderie - Sydney’s silver mining ghost-town Gold nuggets found in New South Wales Gulgong gold deposits Hargraves gold field Hill End gold deposits How to fossick in New South Wales

Title L - Z Majors Creek gold deposits Mining at Lightning Ridge Mt Dromedary gold Nerriga gold deposits Nundle gold Opal - The Outback gem Ophir gold: Historic mining centre yields gold for Sydney 2000 Olympic victory medals Safety on the opal fields Stuart Town gold

Fossicking - Interesting Sites New England Area Aussie Saphire's Fossicking Page

Craft Organisations & Directories

Society of Arts and Crafts NSW Craft Australia Craftworldonline

Local Services in the Northern Districts

Councils

Baulkham Hills Shire Council Gosford City Council Hornsby Shire Council Hunters Hill Council Ku-ring-gai Municipal Council Lane Cove Municipal Council

Parramatta City Council Ryde City Council Warringah Council Willoughby City Council Wyong Shire Council

Government (NSW )                                       Government (Commonwealth )

Government Home Page Department of Housing Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care

Government Home Page Centrelink

Health

Gosford Hospital Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service Mona Vale Hospital

Royal North Shore Hospital Ryde Hospital & Community Health Services

Help at Home, with Transport or With Housing

Coastal Community Tenancy Scheme (Toukley) Community Housing Lower North Shore Garrigal Housing Association (Hornsby) Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Community Aged/Disabled Transport Service Inc

Neighbour Aid - local services to assist the frail aged and people with disabilities and their carers Newmacq Community Housing (Dangar) Pacific Link Community Housing (Gosford) Ryde Hunters Hill Community Housing

Libraries

Eastwood Library North Ryde Library West Ryde Library Gladesville Library Lane Cove & Greenwich Library Chatswood Library Gordon Library Lindfield Library Turramurra Library St Ives Library

Carlingford Library Epping Library Pennant Hills Library Hornsby Library Baulkham Hills Library Parramatta City Library Dundas Branch Library NSW State Library National Library of Australia

Media

Northern District Times Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate Local community radio station for the Shire of Hornsby and the Municipality of Kuring-gai.

Service Clubs

Apex Apex Clubs Directory Lions Lions Clubs Directory Probus Epping and District Probus Club Inc Probus Club of Port Hacking

Rotary Rotary Beecroft Rotary Berowra Rotary Kuring-gai Rotary Thornleigh

Community Organisation Directories

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Last updated 24 July, 2008 8:09 PM