Finely-cut diamond abrasive is utilized in the manufacture of industrial drills, grinding wheels and discs, dental instruments and lapidary apparatus. The grinding tools are subsequently implemented ...

PASADENA – Pasadena was once the home of the largest mineral and lapidary mail order supplier in the country. It was called Grieger’s. It was started as a hobby and expanded into a large business.

A.K. Miles of Salem spent summers as a little girl traveling the Pacific Northwest with her grandparents, collecting rocks and helping her great-grandfather cut and polish them in his lapidary shop.