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Rough Rock Slabs

Super collection of old and new finds from Earth

Rough Rock Slabs

  • Needle Peak Moss Agate
    Needle Peak Moss Agate
    $3.75
     From the Needle Peak area located in Texas. This agate is a cool brown, green and a bit of red mossy tobacco like blend with small white fortification areas to boot. Hand collected many years ago. -WET...
  • Medicine Bow Plume Agate*'
    Medicine Bow Plume Agate*'
    $4.75
    This rare Agate is from Wyoming and is found in veins and bubbles in rock that has been permeated by volcanic gasses. It is found on the west side of the Laramie Range in the Wyoming Medicine Bow Country. This rough is...
  • Fancy Jasper'
    Fancy Jasper'
    $2.00
    Indian Agate or Fancy Jasper is the same to me and now I hear one of the big rock shops calls it Jafar Jasper. The important fact and common thing they share is India is where this chalcedony formed. -WET pic.-(5"x2"/4 oz...
  • Needle Peak Seam Agate
    Needle Peak Seam Agate
    $3.00
     From the Needle Peak area located in Texas. This material is a pleasing blend of moss, plume and fortification with many colors to boot. Hand collected many years ago. -WET pic.- (2"x2"/2 oz./5mm thk) no...
  • Ramsey Agate
    Ramsey Agate
    $1.25
      Blue Sky Mining and Lapidary is a small company based out of Lyon county Nevada and is one of the exclusive dealers for Ramsey Agate and also produce high quality materials for lapidary use. Ramsey...
  • Joy Agate
    Joy Agate
    $3.00
     Harry Joy was a mining engineer from Detroit, Michigan and in 1872 he and his partner, Charles Howard, organized a small mining settlement  in the Drum Mountains near Mount Laird, Utah. It was now a tiny town...
  • Moroccan Seam Agate
    Moroccan Seam Agate
    $2.00
    Very nice fortification action with awesome shadowing. -WET pic-(3"x1"/1.6 oz./5mm thk)...
  • Vaquilla Plume Agate`.
    Vaquilla Plume Agate`.
    $4.25
    Back in the hey-day this area produced plumes similar to Rooster Tail and much of the stuff you see today is a bit...well, not as colorful. That is where old collections are always fun in that great first run rough emerges...
  • Rolling Hills Dolomite
    Rolling Hills Dolomite
    $5.00
    This Dolomite comes from Northern Mexico and is very cool in the hills and valleys it's named for. -WET pic.-(4"x 3"/3.8 oz./6mm thk) no...
  • Arizona Lace Amethyst
    Arizona Lace Amethyst
    $2.00
    This is some rough from Arizona that is quite beautiful. Look at all the color. There are other amethyst lace material in the western part of America but most is so grainy it is hard to cab.   -WET pic.-(3"x 2"/2...
  • Blue Lace Agate*.
    Blue Lace Agate*.
    $5.25
    In 2018 a Floridian named Dave was traveling the area where the Blue Lace mine is located in Blinkpan Namibia. He says the mine is closed. It was the major source of Blue Lace in commercial quantities. It...
  • Morado Opalite
    Morado Opalite
    $2.00
    Morado, Mexico is where this common opalite is mined and what a nice purple and pinks this rough has. -WET pic.-(2"x1.5"/1 oz./5mm thk) a few sealed...
  • Aqua Nueva Agate`
    Aqua Nueva Agate`
    $1.75
    One of the premiere agates of Mexico with it's great colors and patterns that never stop.-WET pic.-(3"x2.5"/2 oz./4mm thick)   solid...no fractures......great...
  • Big Diggins Agate`.
    Big Diggins Agate`.
    $4.00
    Big Diggins Agate comes from Homers Little Diggins Mine in Luna County near Deming, New Mexico. This is the original mine but is now owned by two fellows that live in the area. They had an idea that maybe if they dug in the...
  • Yellow Dendritic Opalite*
    Yellow Dendritic Opalite*
    $4.75
    This gorgeous material from Australia takes an excellent polish and the black dendrites on yellow is awesome. This material for the most part goes to Europe as they are paying big bucks to get as much as they can...
  • Missouri Gray Lace Agate
    Missouri Gray Lace Agate
    $3.75
     This tight banded lace agate has a very cool red band in with all the gray/white band colors. -WET pic.-(3"x 2"/2.2 oz./5mm thk) no...
  • Polyhedroid Agate`
    Polyhedroid Agate`
    $11.75
    Polyhedroid Agates are also from the great agate producing country of Brazil, but were found in only one location, Paraiba, Brazil.  These unique shaped agates are geometric patterns rather than...
  • Rhodope Mountain Jasper
    Rhodope Mountain Jasper
    $5.50
    Ancient writings tell about the Thracian king Hem and the queen Rhodope, who loved each other so much that they were referring to each other with the godly names of Zeus and Hera. The Gods were so mad at them for their rude...
  • Cottonwood Pass Moss Agate
    Cottonwood Pass Moss Agate
    $4.25
    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...
  • Bacon Opalite`.
    Bacon Opalite`.
    $3.75
    This is very beautiful Opalite rough from Utah.  This is not my favorite material to work up because of chipping and areas of stress cracking but worth it in the end.  -WET pic.-(4"x 1.5"/1.8 oz./6mm thk)...

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