The Clallam County Gem & Mineral Association hosts the group’s annual Spring Open House its shop and lapidary classroom from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, April 21, at the club’s facilities, 81 Hooker Road, Carlsborg.

The lapidary classroom provides classroom space for teaching metal smith, faceting, beading, chainmaille, gem tree-making, wire-wrapping and other lapidary classes while the shop provides equipment for cutting and polishing rocks. Knowledgeable club members will be available to show how to cut and polish stones. Class instructors will also be available to explain the various club classes.

The club is a non-profit association organized for educational activity in the science of Geology as it relates to the discovery of rock, mineral and fossils; the art of lapidary to enhance rocks’ natural beauty and to the promotion of rocks and “rock hounding” through information and special programs.

For more about the association, see sequimrocks.org.

For more information about the open house, call club president Scott Thornhill at 360-912-2987 or publicity coordinator Kathy Schreiner at 360-681-3811.