Rough Rock

 Ocean Jasper is a multicolored stone from Madagascar, typically with spherical patterning. Although commonly described as an orbicular jasper, the most recent research suggests it is the mineral called chalcedony...

Some of the wonderstone in Nevada is rhyolite from lava flows, and some is sandstone and useless for lapidary. The wonderstone near Grimes Point in Churchill County which is used in lapidary is a rhyolite and that's what...

 Back when our troops were stationed in Panama, a soldiers wife spent her days collecting rocks in the area. I wonder if she was a hound before her stay at the Panama Canal or after. She mailed a big portion of her...

 This is from the Randsburg area of the El Paso Mountains, California and is one of my favorites of the many types that come out of the area. Cuts unique dark gems. -WET pic. -(15 oz.) end cut no...

Also known as Green Amethyst this yellow-green to green variety of  quartz that is cut into faceted stones for use in jewelry or collectors. It is produced by the three processes described:Heat-Treated> Most...

Graveyard Point is in the Owyhee mountains right on the Idaho Oregon border. It has been a favorite plume seam agate to the rock world from the start and when you can get a chunk of angelwing from the seam, it makes it all...

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...

From a secret location in Nevada comes Royal Flamingo Jasper that is very much like another secret area find of the past, Howerdite Rattlesnake Jasper. The patterns of this new rough are somewhat smaller with no patterns of...

This Caramel Agate aka Walnut Nuggets and Incan Gold was collected very close to where it formed and that's somewhere near the Missouri/Mississippi boarder close to where Crowley's Ridge Agate is found because of the way it...

This is new from Chihuahua, Mexico and is named after the famous blanket. It's an awesome porcelain like jasper that has unreal colors, swirls, blotches and patterns that make you do a double- take when you see it. Hard...