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desertfiredesigns Australian Gemcutter / Lapidarist. Committed to designing quality gemstones + collectible pieces wit Thank you for your understanding.

If you'd like to visit our workshop, please call ahead to make an appointment first. Mask wearing is currently required in public indoor settings in the Perth region. We kindly ask you to put your mask on when you're visiting our workshop.

Hello Sydney!We at Desert Fire Designs are very excited to be attending this year’s International Jewellery Fair at Darl...
21/08/2026

Hello Sydney!

We at Desert Fire Designs are very excited to be attending this year’s International Jewellery Fair at Darling Harbour in Sydney this weekend

Desert Fire Designs an owner-operated gem cutting business is committed to excellence in creating one-off and limited edition runs of world-class, gem pieces in particular gold vein quartz from the famed Beta Hunt mine at Kambalda and from other desert localities across Western Australia

Beautiful sea-green chrysoprase, rich blue chrysocolla and the brilliantly chatoyant Marra Mamba tiger eye are other Western Australian gem materials we work

Come by our Booth H40 and see the richly coloured and exquisitely patterned gem material of our desert lands for yourself

Desert Fire Designs

Where Earth Art and Creativity thrive

Thankyou Kalgoorlie!What a exceptional reception you put on for us... , and desertfiredesigns so recently. Thankyou ...
20/08/2026

Thankyou Kalgoorlie!

What a exceptional reception you put on for us... , and desertfiredesigns so recently. Thankyou so much

I am still catching up with the after waves (hence this rather late posting).

So, here are some reflections from that stellar week that was, earlier this month.

Some beautiful and stunning gifts now call their home Kalgoorlie, what a privilege to be a part of that heritage

My thanks to the team and everyone who pitched in before during and after to help make it happen. We are already looking forward to doing this again next year.

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The response to our retail event in Hannan St, Kalgoorlie has been superb, thankyou so much to the many locals, visitors...
05/08/2026

The response to our retail event in Hannan St, Kalgoorlie has been superb, thankyou so much to the many locals, visitors and delegates who have come, chatted, shared their collecting/detecting stories with us and invested in furthering the legacy of locally recovered work to finished gem/jewellery products from Western Australia, if it were not for you we couldn't continue in this endeavor...Thankyou.

This selection of images feature native copper from the DeGrussa copper mine, a product of recent work at Desert Fire Designs at Willetton.
Local specimen material like this has found new homes right across our four days of trading, so come on in and see other treasures like this...and so much more at

📍 155 Hannan Street (next to Dome Cafe)
🗓 until Saturday 8th August
🕘 9am–6pm Thurs - Sat

Desert Fire Designs
where Earth, Art and Spirit celebrate creativity

For KalgoorlieWhen offered gold 'speccies' I'm always interested.Especially when offered material with such potential as...
01/08/2026

For Kalgoorlie

When offered gold 'speccies' I'm always interested.
Especially when offered material with such potential as this one.

A very special privilege to work on such a special work of nature.
Placed here for your enjoyment.

On display at our current retail experience in Kalgoorlie.

Image three onwards recounts stages in my preparation of the 4 oz 'speccie'.
The last two are of the the original gold in quartz as purchased earlier this year, thank you so much B.... for the opportunity, I will be always grateful.

Discover amazing gold specimens, cabs, Argyle Diamonds, Australian Gemstones, Fine Jewellery and Corporate Gifting with and at the Kalgoorlie Diggers & Dealers Pop Up:

📍 155 Hannan Street (next to Dome Cafe)
🗓 Sunday 2nd – Saturday 8th August
🕘 10am - 4pm Sun | 9am–6pm Mon - Sat

For KalgoorlieIn preparing something special to bring to Kalgoorlie this year my brother Ian and I selected several roug...
30/07/2026

For Kalgoorlie

In preparing something special to bring to Kalgoorlie this year my brother Ian and I selected several rough pieces of chrysocolla ore (from the DeGrussa copper mine, closed now ) that had been sitting around at the rear of the workshop.
We locked them under the drill press and proceeded to drill and in the process discovered something different... special.

A highly finished stick of core...together with the natural rough block. As a geo nerd I find the combination sublime...but hey!

Until it has been sanded I never really know how these minerals will present. The colours are striking and the patterning always different, so typical of nature.

No wonder I enjoy working with it so much.

The last image, my brother Ian wrestling with the drill-mill and chrysocolla ore to recover colourful core.
Every aspect of working copper-based material is messy work, always requiring the use of various pieces of PPE. In this instance the water flow across the drill area was more than sufficient dust suppression. We never do dry mechanical work.

This drilled core and rough will be one of our featured items at Kalgoorlie.
I'm really looking forward to being there. Come along to see many more original works from

Desert Fire Designs
Where Earth, Art and discovery come together

Discover amazingly coloured Western Australian sourced gems specimens, cabs, Argyle Diamonds, Australian Gemstones, Fine Jewellery and Corporate Gifting with and at the Kalgoorlie Diggers & Dealers Pop Up:

📍 155 Hannan Street (next to Dome Cafe)
🗓 Sunday 2nd – Saturday 8th August
🕘 10am - 4pm Sun | 9am–6pm Mon - Sat

Things at the workshop have never been busier or more productive as we head into the last few days before we set up shop...
29/07/2026

Things at the workshop have never been busier or more productive as we head into the last few days before we set up shop again in Hannan St. Kalgoorlie.
This is a very special occasion and one I look forward too every year.

I have been focused on some very special gold specimens recently. In particular this beauty.
It was saved, quite literally at the last minute from the ball mill on a mine site...quite by fortunate accident, then brought to my workshop for some light refurbishing. See the other images...when it was delivered.

After a couple of days this 15 oz Cinderella was fit for a special place in the high lights.
The finely crystalline leafy gold totally mesmerizing. What a privilege to be tasked with working on such a miracle of nature.

I won't be able to bring this specimen to our store in Kalgoorlie however I will have other remarkable gold veined quartz goodies and more to wonder over. Watch this space over the next few days for some of them.

Discover the exquisite collection of gold veined quartz specimens, cabs, Argyle Diamonds, Australian Gemstones, Fine Jewellery and Corporate Gifting with and at the Kalgoorlie Diggers & Dealers Pop Up:

📍 155 Hannan Street (next to Dome Cafe)
🗓 Sunday 2nd – Saturday 8th August
🕘 10am - 4pm Sun | 9am–6pm Mon - Sat

Desert Fire Designs
Where nature, art and passion combine







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Unit 15, 14 Whyalla Street (**By Appointment Only**)
Perth, WA
6155

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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