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10/30/2022

Hells Canyon Petrified Wood polished thick slice. Found this one in the store today while unpacking some boxes. It weighs 3 lbs and 3 ounces, it is about one inch thick. Kind of a cool one.

10/30/2022

I have been working in my store building again. Over 3 years of being closed ... EVERYTHING is so dirty. The silver jewelry is black from tarnish !! What a chore !! This is going to take me a while .. sigh .. I am finding COOL rocks ... it's almost fun to look at them again. Here is a dandy old Graveyard Point Plume Agate .. polished slice is over 16 inches long.

09/08/2022

BRECCIATED Hell's Canyon Petrified Wood. When we purchased that estate of Hell's Canyon Petrified Wood, years ago ... we had several chunks of this type with it. It looks like some of the smaller sized pieces of the wood flowed into a cast and later filled with "MUD" ?? What I call the filler flow or MUD has opalized with the other normal pieces. Makes an odd but sort of interesting look. It is fairly fragile though. Quite a lot of fractures. Still, it might be fun to try and stablize some slices for polished displays ?? I have a few chunks of this type, maybe I will try to slice some up this fall.

This morning's garden harvest. Tomato and cucumber sandwiches for supper !! Mmmmm
09/01/2022

This morning's garden harvest. Tomato and cucumber sandwiches for supper !! Mmmmm

08/08/2022

A large cabochon of Wild Horse picture jasper, measures 56 x 49 mm by 6.8 mm thick.

50 years ago this summer, my friend Cliff Metcalf and my parents and me .. moved in to start mining this new picture jasper. We set up our pickup truck campers to become our new home away from home there on the mine site. The spot was also where the local wild horses like to gather, so we also got the fun of having horses around our campsite at night time. 50 years later, I still really enjoy cutting this pretty picture jasper. Great memories !!
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Desert Rose Picture Jasper from the Owyhee area of Oregon. I think it was the late 1970s or early 1980s when we were min...
02/09/2022

Desert Rose Picture Jasper from the Owyhee area of Oregon. I think it was the late 1970s or early 1980s when we were mining this jasper. This one is pretty nice, the pink sky was the reason for the name. NFS

09/17/2021

Unusual colors in this larger sized cabochon of Idaho Willow Creek Jasper.

09/17/2021

Going to put this 5 lb. chunk of rough in the rock saw. Should be some nice cabs to cut from it.

Now that's a dendrite !! WOW !!
06/01/2021

Now that's a dendrite !! WOW !!

Ametrine from Bolivia. Really cool stuff. Should make some fun cabochons in the near future. Amethyst and Citrine all na...
05/11/2021

Ametrine from Bolivia. Really cool stuff. Should make some fun cabochons in the near future. Amethyst and Citrine all natural.

A pretty COOL SLICE of our Hell's Canyon Petrified Wood. It is a flat polished slice .. polished on the front and the b...
10/17/2020

A pretty COOL SLICE of our Hell's Canyon Petrified Wood. It is a flat polished slice .. polished on the front and the backside too .. but NOT domed like a cabochon. The sides are unshaped .. it is the natural pattern that this small slice had .. NATURAL EDGE .. I could not find any way to improve it by trying to grind the sides away to create a shape. Too cool just as it is !! Hope you like it too ??

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