The Otago Rock and Mineral Club Inc.

Rangiatea Station Agates

Next Meeting, Christmas Party, December 4th

At the Hall, 53 Malvern Street, Woodhaugh

How to Join - Please follow this link to complete the application form.

The ORMC Constitution and our Code of Ethics

You can find out more information by clicking here or go to the Club Information Page

Up coming New Zealand Club Shows

New Zealand National Shows

2025 - Taranaki

2026 - Tauranga

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

At Akatore - Photo M Dwyer

Olivine in Basalt - Hyde

Orbicular Granite - Antarctica

Agate - Gawler Downs

Amethyst nodule - Mt Barossa

Looking for petrified wood, Pope Raod, Southland photo M Dwyer