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The Rockhound Shop
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Victoria British Columbia's rock, mineral, fossil, jewellery supply, lapidary, prospecting, metal detecting and gift store!

ABOUT THE ROCKHOUND SHOP

The ROCKHOUND SHOP has been the Vaulkhard family business since 1967! We are in VICTORIA, B.C., on Canada's beautiful Vancouver Island. (Postal code V8X 2S6.)

Our store building here at 777 Cloverdale Avenue was built new in 1975 specifically for our use. Even the outside of our building is interesting, with colourful panels of rocks from around the world, and "museum windows" displaying mineral treasures.

We are Vancouver Island's only complete rock and lapidary supplies store. Our products include a wide range of supplies, equipment & books for the jewelry-maker, stone-polisher, soft-stone carver, rock and fossil specimen collector, and prospector. And we have ready-to-wear jewelry, gift items, and "Crystal Awareness" items.

We are a retail store for hobbyists and gift buyers, as well as many of the Island's jewelry stores that come to us for supplies and/or repair work [Gerry, our manager and lapidary, is an expert at producing cabochon-style stones in standard or unusual shapes].

PRODUCTS

Tumbled Stones

Hematite

Crystals & Minerals

Amethyst and Geodes

Smoky Quartz

Agate slices

Blue Celestite

Lapis Lazuli

Labradorite

(make great coasters!)

Malachite and Chrysocolla

Local stones

Victoria's Dallasite

Vancouver Island Flowerstone (porphyry)

BC Jade & Rhodonite

Fossils

Ammonites

Shark teeth, sand dollars

and bi-valves

(nautilus)

Fossil Fish

Ammolite

Petrified Wood

Orthoceras

(related to today's squid)

Faceted stones & cabachons

Turquoise

Rock Tumblers

Lortone 3A kit

Lortone 33B

Lortone QT tumblers

Lapidary Equipment

Rock Polishing Arbors

Expandable Sanding Drums and Polishing Mounts

Sanding Bands and Pads

Diamond Trim Saws

Prospecting equipment

Gold pans and Sluice boxes

Rock hammers and picks

Classifiers

Silver sheet and silver wires

Silversmithing, Jewellery Tools and Supplies

Jewellery Tools

Soldering equipment

(Silver wires come in round, half-round, square forms. We also carry some fine silver wire, bezel wire and gold-filled wire)

Polishing

Jewellery findings

About us...

The Rockhound Shop is a true Victoria family business. It was started in 1967 by Tom and Georgie Vaulkhard and is now managed by their son and grandson, Gerry and Matt Vaulkhard

The Vaulkhard family

Kimberley & Matt

(Shirley & Matt)

(Gerry)

(Georgie, ~1970)

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(Tom)

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(picture ~1997)

Our long time employee:  Carrie

Carrie.jpg
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