Rough Rock

Round nodule of Actinolite from the Hopeland area Mendecino County, California. This is the minerasl that forms Nephrite Jade. The slender green chromium chatoyant crystals are larger, elongated felted into this shape. It is...

This material is not collected much anymore and is scarce. Paint Rock Agate was found at the interface of the upper Mississippian limestone and the Pennsylvanian sandstone on the steep sides of the Cumberland Plateau. The...

This awesome material has been a hard find for a while now. It comes from Mexico and is not mined anymore and once was the kats meow for amethyst lace agate with it's signature pink bands.  It's very hard to find this...

This rough was collected in the hills around Apache Creek, New Mexico.  -WET pic.-(5.2 oz.)...

  Petrified wood was formed 225 million years ago during the Triassic period and is 4 times as hard as granite and very colorful, due to the effect of impurities such as iron, manganese, copper and lithium present...

When you think you have seen them all, another compleately different type agate comes to the front. This will happen in places like Brazil. These show waterline in most of them with some having windows in...

Alternating layers of clear and purple with some very fine bands that are both faint and crisp in this beautiful purple/blue Chinese Fluorite.  (5.2 oz.) end cut ... typical fluorite issues.. good...

There's a hill in Idaho that local rock hounds call Beacon because there's an aircraft beacon on the top. Also the road that takes you to the top is named Beacon. I...

This is a very cool color and pattern jasper from Michigan.(3.4 oz.)

Morocco is the home of Berber Agate and as you can see it is kin to Moroccan Agate. This end cut is loaded with beauty. -WET pic.-(2.6 oz. end cut) no...