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The Samuel and Ruth Kirkby Petrified Wood Collection - (Post)
The Kirkby's were well-known and well-respected in the rock and fossil world. If you have been following my blogs-you know that my foray into Petrified Wood began when we purchased an amazing collect ...
The Colors of Petrified Wood - (Post)The colors in Petrified Wood come from minerals present during formation. Petrified Wood may retain the details of the original wood, but often the bright colors are not common in the actual wo ...
Lapidary Clubs - (Post)Due to covid and the influx of live shows on social media, more and more people are getting into rocks and minerals. That’s great for those of us who make a living mining and selling rocks and ...
California Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Rockhounds collected California's rock and minerals before the gold rush. California's geological forces have created one of the widest varieties of rocks and minerals found in any state. In fact ...
Poppy Jasper - (Page)Poppy Jasper is an orbicular jasper. Poppy Jasper's pattern has small orbs or sphere shapes and it was so named because the orbs resemble the poppy flower. This semiprecious stone material is usu ...
State Gemstones, Rocks, Fossils and Minerals - (Page)What is my state's official state rock, mineral, or fossil? Alabama designated Hematite as the state mineral in 1967, Hematite as the state rock in 1969, and Star Blue Quartz as the state ge ...
Chapenite - (Page)Chapenite is a nodular fine grained brecciated jasper from Ft. Irwin, in the Mojave Desert, California, south of Barstow. Brecciated Jasper means the jasper has broken or fragmented patterns ...
Orbicular or Polka Dot Agate - (Page)Orbicular Agate or Polka Dot Agate is so named for its spheres or polka dot pattern. The dots are sharp or fuzzy concentric orbs and they can range in size from very tiny up to quite large. Orbic ...
Rhodonite - (Page)Rhodonite is pink semiprecious stone, that is a metamorphic manganese metasilicate with a hardness of 5.5 to 6.5. The black dendritic inclusions are manganese oxide. It may also have white inclus ...
Snowflake Obsidian - (Page)Snowflake Obsidian is a black obsidian with whitish-gray spots of radiating needle-shaped cristobalite crystals. A lot of Snowflake Obsidian is from Millard County, Utah. Approximately 2 ...
Sagenite Agate - (Page)Sagenite Agate, or Sagenitic Agate, is any agate having acicular or needle-like mineral or crystal growths. These "sagenites" usually intersect in a grid or grill-like pattern, but the hair l ...
Tigerseye or Tigereye - (Page)Tiger eye or Tiger's Eye is a member of the macro-crystalline quartz family. It is usually with rich chatoyant yellow and brown stripes. Occasionally Tiger's Eye can be found blue or red, but ...