The Otago Rock and Mineral Club Inc.

Next meeting Thursday 2nd May 2024 at the Hall 

Starting at 7:30pm

53 Malvern Street, Woodhaugh

Calcite from Browns Quarry Southland                                                                Agate Mt Somers                                                             Botryoidal chalcedony Mt Somers

Check out New Zealand Geology Information Page

(on sidebar)

Lots of information on rockhounding in New Zealand. The old magazine Rockhunter has been scanned and uploaded!

Find out what we get up to

- check out photos of our adventures on flickr

Click here - this will take you to our photos on flickr. This will take you to another page.

With Flickr now restricting the number of photos allowed on there site for free photos can now be found on GOOGLE photos. You can click on the link in the tool bar on the left of this page of click HERE

Radio NZ -  From prehistoric beasties to recently-extinct native birds, Aotearoa's soil is laden with fossils. But if problems surrounding fossil hunters and collectors aren't fixed, some of that history could be lost to the sands of time. 

NZ's prehistoric past at risk of crumbling away  LISTEN

Radio NZ - Geologist Bruce Hayward's latest book Mountains, Volcanoes, Coasts and Caves: Origins of Aotearoa New Zealand's Natural Wonders takes the reader around the motu. It tells of the history and geology of land forms, landscapes and coastal wonders, and contains pictures and aerial photography by Alastair Jamieson and Lloyd Homer. 

                                                         NZ's natural beauty: geologically speaking LISTEN

Barite Crystals - Shag Point, East Otago                                                                                                              Joon Agate - Southland