Rough Rock Slabs

This vivid red jasper from Idaho comes from an old location that was once mined for Cinnabar (mercury) but the red color is from an iron oxide, rather than cinnabar. The fellow I acquired this from said he once mined this...

Very nice color and layers that pop in anything you cut. Look close, the crystal on top are amethyst. This is a sweet seam agate from a place where they have as much great rough as anywhere else on the continent but there is...

There are three flame agate types in Nova Scotia that all come from different locations. They are Cherry Flame, Red Flame and the most coveted Golden Flame Agate. In the Minas Channel at the Cape Split Peninsula there was a...

This nice plume agate comes from Lander County, Nevada. Nice cabs can be cut from this rough.  -WET pic.- (3"x 3"/1.4 oz./4mm thk)  no...

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 stuff is so full of mica flakes that it sparkles like none I've ever seen. It is from Ohio. Way to go to Ohio, you've produced a sweet one. Unreal pretty stuff. DRY pic. -(4.5"x 2"/3 oz./ 5mm thk) excellent...

This is a relatively new material to the lapidary field from Mali, Africa although it is named after it's 1700's discoverer, Colonel Hendrik von Prehn. It's pleasant green color makes beautiful cabs. This is very flashy and...

Named after the ancient legendary Greek musical hero who frolicked in the area where the deposit is located. This amazing stone from Bulgaria has beautiful yellow/green string moss with some clear agate. Incredibly...

Here is a nice slab of Jasper from Enterprise, Utah. The fun thing about this material is that it varies so greatly in it's color and combinations. Most of the colors are earthy reds, browns, purples, yellows, and oranges...

On California's shore stretching between Shelter Cove to the south and the Mattole River to the north, the Lost Coast is a wild land of forests and lapping waves that give and take an endless barrage of rocky material upon...