r/Rockhounding

Some bigger slabs with great pattern and color i found while digging thru some stock piles 😂

picked up this piece yesterday from a collection. I’ve been slowly purchasing. It was labeled as a Brazilian Zircon but after doing a bit of research, I believe it is a Brazilian twined spinel can anyone positively ID? it is a rather large crystal about the size of a dime. any info would be more than appreciated. it is near perfect, except for one tiny little chip on one of the facits

I still am looking into figuring out historically if its possible ro find out who this may have been idk if thats been done or how hard it is but these afe 3 out of five. the new one looks line a lab with obvious pressure flaking on top. The top right guy is a local stone heavily used for quicker practice or just work due 2 its hardness . Long island ny.

Hi! I just got back from a trip to the Oregon Coast (Lincoln City area) and gathered a lot of little stones. Found agates and quartzite. But I’m not sure about this white one. It reminds me of selenite, but I’m not sure that’s what it is? It has a similar fibrous shine to it when it hits sunlight. Very pretty. Does anyone know what it is? Often smooth, sometimes shaped like a tooth almost! Sometimes rougher.

I have so much chert on and around our property that in my wildest dreams I couldn’t give all of it away. I sent out 17 boxes last time I did this. So here we go again. Cross posted.

It’s free. 🆓. Just cover shipping.

*If you can send me a sample back of something finished, great. If not, pics are cool. If you ghost me like my ex husband did when we got divorced and he hooked up with one of the NSync band members in Orlando, that’s okay too. (You guys, he kept my Lapis collection and I’m not over it)

🕵🏼‍♀️🫣🤔 Why? It’s become a gesture of good vibes, good will, good karma. And it drives me insane to see literal tons of these gorgeous rocks just sitting in the dirt like 😐 when they could be used and chillin like 🤩

NOBODY locally in TN appreciates chert. Nobody. People scoff at me like I’m a pair of dirty white Newbalance dad sneakers. 👟

Everyone wants geodes or agates or crystals. And like I have those, but I love my chert. Maybe it’s a toxic relationship but idc.

—-> if you want over 30lbs let me know and we can figure out freight shipping or whatever is the cheapest option

—-> USPS did just up their rates. I can’t control that they sort of suck. UPS is more expensive. I use USPS Flat Rate Boxes that go via USPS or UPS Groundsaver (it’s the love child UPS had with USPS)

🥹Current Shipping Cost:✨

LG flat rate box (approx 30lbs): $30.40

MD flat rate box (approx 15-18lbs): $21.60

SM flat rate box (approx 2.25lbs): $13.20

💕All I ask is that you’re patient with me boxing this stuff up and shipping it out. I literally broke my saw blade trying to cut even chunks last time so it’s rough HammerTime chunks or just straight up THICC BOY au natural. (I dream of a 10” lap saw at night)

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Found these in Virginia while on a day trip. The third one is more of a pinkish orange, but the phone camera couldn’t really capture that.

picked up this piece yesterday from a collection. I’ve been slowly purchasing. It was labeled as a Brazilian Zircon but after doing a bit of research, I believe it is a Brazilian twined spinel can anyone positively ID? it is a rather large crystal about the size of a dime. any info would be more than appreciated. it is near perfect, except for one tiny little chip on one of the facits

Found some scrap pieces / tailings from a nice Amazonite pocket. My first day out looking… can’t imagine what the keeper pieces looked like from this pocket!!!

I was just digging at an open rockwall and found some pretty interesting crystals (I‘m a complete beginner and this is the best I‘ve found in the spot after digging for a few hours) and I‘m guessing they are chabasite crystals with some sort of iron mineral in it which would make sense for the location

Found outside of golbe az

It’s fun to see how often Google misidentifies so many rocks, but banana bread with corn? 😂😂😂