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  • San Rafael Swell Sagenite Agate
    San Rafael Swell Sagenite Agate
    $2.75
    Evidence of native Indian cultures, including the Fremont, Paiute, and Ute is common throughout the San Rafael Swell in the form of pictograph and petroglyph panels. Examples are the Millsite Rock...
  • Chiastolite
    Chiastolite
    $5.75
    There's a river in the Province of Bio-Bio, Biobio Chile called Bio-Bio River. Actually, the Province was named after river. I know that sounds wrong but I swear I read it that way. This water worn rough comes out of that...
  • India Moss Agate
    India Moss Agate
    $6.00
     One of the first agates to start the rock frenzy came from the Bud-Kotra area of Morvi in the area around Khambat, Gujarat Province, India. Three obvious deferent exterior colors make the blackskin, whiteskin and...
  • Nsanje Blue Chalcedony
    Nsanje Blue Chalcedony
    $4.25
    The Nsanje District of Malawi is where this stunning blue chalcedony formed in the crevices of the host rock. A sweet drusy show piece if you can't bring yourself to cut this beauty. Amazing show piece! -DRY...
  • Great Lakes Morph`
    Great Lakes Morph`
    $5.00
    Metamorphic Feldspar happens when feldspar ends up very deep underground over eons to the point where the sheer weight of the earth melts the feldspar and it stays a white hot molten glob for hundreds of thousands of years...
  • Oregon  Agate
    Oregon Agate
    $13.25
    This is a favorite cabbing rough from Oregon that turns out a super classy shine and classic brown agate. This is a nice piece with a good mix of brown & clear agate. (3 lbs. 2 oz.) no...
  • Lemon Chrysoprase
    Lemon Chrysoprase
    $64.50
    I laugh at the way some new found rough gets it's name. I guess the founder of this stone declared it to be a chrysoprase of the very lightest color known. It's also called Citron Chrysoprase. But anyway, a bad call on...
  • Mississippi Peanut Brickle Stone'`
    Mississippi Peanut Brickle Stone'`
    $5.00
     This is one sweet conglomerate stone from Mississippi. Helene collects this rough and says this darker matrix type is hard to find in good solid pieces like this. Peanut Brickle Stone is what she calls it. And wow do...
  • Idaho Jasper
    Idaho Jasper
    $2.50
    Idaho is another place where rocks are glorious and coveted by many of it's population along with many other of natures gifts. Count me in and I will end up all bent over from all the walk mining adventures I have been part...
  • Salina Turtleback Agate`
    Salina Turtleback Agate`
    $6.50
     This might be the rarest agate that Utah has ever produced! The "digs" were started in the 1930's by a gentleman from Salina, Utah. In the 1960's before giving the mine up, he gave it one last shot...he hired a...
  • K2 Mountain Jasper
    K2 Mountain Jasper
    $15.75
    Also known as K2 Granite, K2 Jasper and Raindrop Azurite.  Although K2 Jasper is the most commonly used name for marketing this material, it is definitely not jasper. If you examine the rock with a magnifying...
  • Needles Blue Agate
    Needles Blue Agate
    $32.00
    Needles Blue Agate is rare stone that is single source from the Blue Danube Mine near Lake Havasu. The Needles Gem and Mineral Club of Needles, CA have the claim on this location and members and their guests are allowed...
  • Trent agate
    Trent agate
    $9.00
    This famous rock story is just one of thousands that are similar in what was a time of invasion of people with rocks in their heads. The first rock tumbler was just invented (made from an old tire) and the art of prospecting...
  • Russian Green Skin Agate
    Russian Green Skin Agate
    $5.00
    This came out of the mountains in Russia back in the 80's when someone was using a helicopter to fly the rough out. That's the only feasible way to do it as the terrain and weather make it impossible by foot or vehicle...
  • Texas Moss Agate'
    Texas Moss Agate'
    $5.00
      Somewhere in Texas says the wife of the fellow who collected this nice agate. He traveled the entire state area and more to find his select collection. He never cut any of his rocks according to her but...
  • Pink Andean Dendritic Opal'`
    Pink Andean Dendritic Opal'`
    $6.75
    This new material is from the Acari Mine, in the Anquipa Region of Peru. Amazingly beautiful rough that polishes superbly. -WET pic.-(3.4 oz.)  no...
  • Yttrium Fluorite`
    Yttrium Fluorite`
    $6.50
    Also know as Lavender Fluorite, this rough has a rare element (Yttrium) that has replaced about 20% of calcium that's in common fluorite and that has earned it's name to boot. Another gem from Mexico. Best of all, it cuts...
  • Sangria Lace Agate*,
    Sangria Lace Agate*,
    $27.25
    An awesome new stone out of you guessed it, Mexico. Neat little drusy pockets to take advantage of in this bizzare agate. Great color in the never ending shapes too. -WET pic.-(2 lbs. 3 oz.) a few crystal pockets...
  • Dragon Blood Stone
    Dragon Blood Stone
    $64.50
    Australia's Dragon Blood Stone is an exotic form of the mineral characterized by a pale green to blue green color shot through with varying amounts of ruby red veining and splotches. -WET pic. -(4 lb. 14 oz.) a few...
  • Washington  Agate
    Washington Agate
    $5.00
    This is an awesome blue/gray color agate with a gorgeous pocket in the center. Nice moss lined interior. Found close to the Oregon border sometime in 2016.  -WET pic.- (7.2 oz.)  no fractures.. good...

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