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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 ...
The History of Mining in Arizona - (Post)Mining in Arizona has always been very important. Over 900 different minerals have been discovered in Arizona. Hundreds of towns in Arizona owe their very existence to mining operations. Arizona&rsqu ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lapis Lazuli - (Page)Lapis Lazuli (often just referred to as Lapis) is an opaque, bright blue stone consisting mainly of Diopside and Lazurite. Lapis often has gold flecks (Pyrite) or whiteish veins (Calcite).
North Carolina Rock and Minerals - (Page)North Carolina is a great for rockhounding, because of its many Pay for Dig sites. The eastern half, covering about 45% of North Carolina, is the low-lying coastal plain extending to the fall line, ...