Hello and welcome to Veiled Riches.

We are Jim and Sandy and live on the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland. Our love of lapidary commenced in 2008 while working in Forsayth and discovering Agate Creek. After a camping trip and returning home with buckets of rocks we joined the local lapidary club only to be told that most of our hard work was ‘leaverite’ or ‘chuckite’. Not to be dismayed we actually had found some very nice examples of agate with all its beauty revealed after cutting. After this we were hooked and officially became rockhounds. We quickly became involved in the club learning cabbing, faceting and basic silversmithing.