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Indonesia has it's share of gem grade rock like petrified Palm Root that has been replaced with agate and polishes like glass. It's one thing to find the agatized root with it's wood look that produces some cool looking cabs...

These are collected as water worn rocks in the state of Mato Grasso, Brazil. They can be white, cream, pink, red, gray-blue, brown, black, yellow, and tan. None are alike with changing colors and patterns like no other!...

  Ten years ago a collecting area in Bear Canyon was found at the southern end of the Pryor Mountains in Montana. You better be prepared for some tough terrain and know that you will find the collecting area...

The heyday for this and many other depleted and seldom seen agate came in the 60"s and 70"s and you rarely get a chance to get your hands on this stuff. Chihuahua, Mexico is a place of holiness to any rock hound and has...

From Brazil, this rare crystal of Cacoxenite in Amethyst exhibits brilliant Golden Cacoxenite Crystals in deep purple amethyst. If you decipher the word Cacoxenite it means "Bad Guest". Back in time,  the smelters of...

Another of the never ending Mexican agates that is not seen much anymore as it was mined out many years ago. Pops up now and then in old collections. Real nice stuff from the good 'ol days of the 60's and 70's when rocks...

From what I hear, there hasn't been much more than 100 lbs. collected from the location in the last ten years or so. I acquired this rough from a fellow who got it years ago from the...

This material is from Tanzania and very gemmy as you can see. The green apple color is caused from nickle inclusion.  -WET pic.-(2"x 2'/1.4 oz./5mm thk) no...

This rough is from Wyoming and was collected by Eddy Cole in the mountain pass. You can see in the pictures how the agate that he has brought to market has some different looking agate completely as he got further into the...

Also know as Wingate Pass this material is from the China Lake Military Reserve in California. This material was last dug in the 1960s and collecting is no longer allowed on the site making it quite...