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What is lapidary? (pronounced lap-i-dar-y) Lapidary is described as the work involved in engraving, cutting, or polishing rocks and lapidary artist is used to describe a person who cuts, polis ...

Recently we bought a very large collection of Petrified Wood mostly self-collected in the Southwest United States from the 1950’s to the 1980’s. Though we have sold a lot of Petrified Woo ...

Where do I find somebody to tell me what my rock or mineral is worth? The most common question I receive is some variation on “Where do I find somebody who can tell me what my rock or mineral is?” ...

Massachusetts, though small, has great rocks and minerals found there. Massachusetts is divided into two geological provinces by the Connecticut River. East of the river, the land falls, with a few ...

Wisconsin is one of the best states in the U.S. for finding a variety of rocks, crystals and minerals. Wisconsin is a rolling plain laid down on sedimentary rocks and broken in places by uplifted ig ...

  Michigan has 1,853 records of mining mines according to the U.S.G.S. Lower Michigan is quite level and not much elevated above the Great Lakes, and is underlain by sedimentary deposits of li ...

Arkansas is a prime state for rockhounding because of its abundance of quartz crystals. In fact, quartz was named the Arkansas state mineral in 1967. Southern and eastern Arkansas is sandy river de ...

Maine is an excellent state for rock and mineral collecting! The northern part of Maine is hilly and often swampy, the southern part is rolling uplands broken by hills, isolated mountains and valley ...

Nevada is a great place for collecting rocks and minerals.  Nevada is the seventh largest state in the union. Yet it's population density is very low. So much of the state is still open and u ...

  Arizona is rich in rock and minerals. But even better-it is the home to the world's largest Gem and Mineral Show! Every year for 2-3 weeks, around the first of February, rock and mineral dea ...

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 ...

Quartz is the most common single mineral on earth. It is found on every continent, and just about every country. Quartz has a hardness of 7, and it polished and wears well. Macrocrystalline quart ...