Cool Rocks

It's about the size of a walnut in the shell. I got it with a bag of random rocks and tumbled it through four stages for about a month. The fact that it didn't get very rounded off means it's quite hard. It's more green in real life with lots of neat transparent bits.

Mainly found in Chihuahua, Mexico.

I found it on a beach in lake of the woods.

I went for a kayak and found some cool canadian shield.

(I got paleolithic and Precambrian mixed up)

I just think it's neat.

Since the river is totally dry, I decided to take the dogs on their morning hike in the riverbed.

I was surprised how much pumice I kept finding. I started to leave the small pieces, looking only for larger pieces.

Bonus, some Asian clam shells, and this pretty shiny red-brown rock.

I make these shiny objects out of rocks I collect, dichroic glass, and solid glass bricks. It's a really laborious but also meditative process.

Lapidary work is fun and rewarding, but if you decide to give it a try be sure to wear a respirator, silicosis will mess you up.

Stone has a small space cut into the bottom that a small neodymium magnet is friction fit in place. Base has magnets close to the surface of the top by drilling a hole from the bottom.

Stone found in MN and shaped by me. Base is from a stockpile of old growth pine given to me by my dad.

Regular quartz, smokey quartz, and something else. This is after stage 2 or about three weeks into tumbling.

These rocks came in a bag of tumbling stones and I have tried using this app, Rock Identifier, to ID them but it have me inconsistent reports. It says it could be Chrysocolla in Quartz, or Aurichalcite, or Quartz, or Agate, or Brochantite.

They are very similar to real other, but two of them have a more bluish tint and the other two have more of a greenish tint. I'd just enough of a difference that I think they could be different, but it wouldn't surprise me if they are the same.

I'm trying to determine their hardness values for tumbling. The problem is, the rocks they have been identified as range from 3 to 7, so I don't want to just throw them in with a batch and hope they don't fall apart.

I found it in a jar of buttons. I like the lines.

I haven't found many cool rocks lately, so here's a big one to fill the space.

I found it in the driveway.

Smokey quartz and regular quartz taking a break from my tumbler.

From a grab bag of rocks I ordered for tumbling.