Rough Rock

In Central Texas two hundred and eighty six to three hundred and twenty five million years ago this piece formed as living coral. Somewhere along the way it fossilized and was replaced by calcite...

This agate is from the Pass Creek area of Idaho, west of Mackay. The insides of these are always a surprise. Some have nice drusy quartz centers, calcite centers, calcite centers mixed with banded agate or elusive amethyst...

More than a billion years ago, the North American continent began to split apart into two separate continents. This catastrophic event, spurred by molten rock moving deep within the earth, poured out massive, iron-rich lava...

AKA Larsonite and McDermitt Geen Jasper. This rough has incredible colors. It is actually wood, algae, mud and other swamp vegetation that was covered by volcanic ash between and 11 and 14 million years ago. Water carrying...

This seam agate is a beautiful translucent blue with some white wispy inclusions. It comes from South Dakota and is very solid with no fractures. (12.6 oz...

Awesome patterns in this agate chunk from the well known Burro Creek collecting site in Arizona. Typical beautiful purple color for this cool chunk with some dendrites to boot..  -WET pic. (1 lb. 6 oz.) an excellent...

This nicely banded nodules of wonderstone from Nevada is easy to work with and polishes to a good shine .  -WET pic.-(9.6 oz...

    Flint Ridge contains quarry pits where ancient people came to get flint for both tools and weapons. There are old trails coming from every direction showing the importance of this place. There was an...

When you think you have seen them all, another completely 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...

 It can have fortification lines, drusy pockets, stalactite formations, botryoidal areas and blue chalcedony. This is some gorgeous material and Eddy Cole who mines it says it's getting hard to come by...