The Scottish Mineral & Lapidary Club has been running since 1958 and centres around our own extensive workshop, dedicated to the crafts of Lapidary, Gemstone Faceting and Silversmithing.

With a vibrant and active membership of some 100 people, attending 7 different sessions a week, we are an excellent resource for anyone with an interest in rocks & minerals and the various crafts related to them.

Our Club has revived and fostered one of the traditional crafts of Scotland as well as providing a workshop and meeting place, such as was once an integral part of life in the Edinburgh closes.

As the name suggests the Club is not solely a mineral or lapidary club but an amalgamation of a majority of sciences and crafts associated with rocks.

During the 19th Century, Edinburgh was a thriving centre of the lapidary and jewellery trades, turning out high quality ‘pebble jewellery’ from a ready supply of ‘Scotch pebbles’ or agates, jaspers and Cairngorm stones.

As the oldest surviving Lapidary Club in the UK, our aim is to carry on the Scottish lapidary tradition.

The Scottish Mineral & Lapidary Club is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC0051658.

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Although we are a Charitable Organisation and not a business per se, we do, at times, have a surplus of equipment, rocks & minerals and a variety of other items that we will list here and make available to the public.