What is the NLC ?

Welcome to the NLC information page.

The NLC
The Nederlandse Lapidaristen Club (Dutch Lapidary Society) is founded to promote and support the collecting, cutting, crafting of minerals, gemstones, fossils and other suitable materials of this nature. This society has no commercial interests.

The NLC offers her members the possibility to work with lapidary equipment and materials in the society centers of which there are three in The Netherlands. One is located in the city of The Hague, one in Haarlem and the other one in Bilthoven in the central part of The Netherlands. The NLC also offers workshops and lessons for members who wish to learn about, or attain more skill with, facetting, or grinding and polishing minerals. For the collectors there are lessons in mineral identification and gemology. There are regular meetings in the club centers like the micro-mount evening and the identification and exchange evenings, for lectures etc. The NLC has its own youth members who have their own monthly meetings. And finally we have our own bimonthly magazine called , "Facetten".

NLC activities

• Lectures
• Micro-mount meetings
• exchange and identification evenings
• "Facetten", the NLC magazine
• NLC show
• courses
• work centers in different areas of the country
• youth section
• Excursions for rockhounds

Contact Information:

Post address
Nederlandse Lapidaristen Club
Secr. NLC, Gentsestraat 93
2587 HM Den Haag (NL)

E-mail: secretariaat@mineralennlc.nl

Webmaster: Emanuel van Berkel for questions or comments about this web site