Collecting Cool Rocks! Minerals, Crystals, Fossils, Geodes, etc.

[Anime2lover]

Nice variety! I see crinoids, brachiopods, and sharks teeth! Very cool. I'm getting all of my fossils together to organize on my fossil shelf! Hopefully I'll finish tonight.

Yes. Lots of fossils four near my campground. Some found near by mom's friend's house in new York state. Know what that red rock at the bottom that I showed is??

 

[Silviaschicks]

maybe gneiss?

 

[R2elk]

Just a few from the latest tumbler batch. Most of these were picked up in the driveway.

 

[microchick]

I find some sea shell fossils in our drive way gravel. Most of it around here is locally quarried so back to the ancient 'Missouri used to be a sea' theory. We can buy what they call Rip Rap which is large pieces of rock. When we had a load hauled in to stabilize the soil on the north side of our house which is on a slope, I spent months combing through it. There were some interesting crystal formations in it along with orange fossils about as big around as a soda straw and up to an inch long. I finally decided that it has to be fossilized coral. I've got it saved in a small jar somewhere. I'll hunt it up and take a picture.

Where do you all get your stones for tumbling? Beside on your own property that is.

My husband bought my Madagascar stones on Amazon. Lot of them cracked and broke while tumbling. Since this is my first foray into tumbling I had no idea if this was pretty standard or if he just got stuck with substandard rocks.

I'd like to get my hands on some obsidian to tumble and maybe Apache Tears but want to find a good source for rough stones.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

. Know what that red rock at the bottom that I showed is??

It's hard to say, you can look into doing hardness tests and scratch tests to get a more accurate idea of what it is.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Just a few from the latest tumbler batch. Most of these were picked up in the driveway.

Dude, your driveway and your closets need to be excavated and turned into a museum for rock collectors! How do you have so much variety in one place?!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radioactive-mineral-rock-collectors-guide.amp

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I find some sea shell fossils in our drive way gravel. Most of it around here is locally quarried so back to the ancient 'Missouri used to be a sea' theory. We can buy what they call Rip Rap which is large pieces of rock. When we had a load hauled in to stabilize the soil on the north side of our house which is on a slope, I spent months combing through it. There were some interesting crystal formations in it along with orange fossils about as big around as a soda straw and up to an inch long. I finally decided that it has to be fossilized coral. I've got it saved in a small jar somewhere. I'll hunt it up and take a picture.

Where do you all get your stones for tumbling? Beside on your own property that is.

My husband bought my Madagascar stones on Amazon. Lot of them cracked and broke while tumbling. Since this is my first foray into tumbling I had no idea if this was pretty standard or if he just got stuck with substandard rocks.

I'd like to get my hands on some obsidian to tumble and maybe Apache Tears but want to find a good source for rough stones.

I get stones from all over the world. Sometimes wholesalers, sometimes trading with other rock collectors so sometimes I forget where I even got the rocks, lol.
The Rock Shed is a good online source to buy quality rough stone though. I have some agates from them tumbling right now!

 

[R2elk]

Dude, your driveway and your closets need to be excavated and turned into a museum for rock collectors! How do you have so much variety in one place?!

It wouldn't do any good to excavate it. The gravel was all hauled in from local quarries. Under the gravel, this is just a sand dune.

Wyoming is a great source for many valuable rocks. They even mine diamonds in the state.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It wouldn't do any good to excavate it. The gravel was all hauled in from local quarries. Under the gravel, this is just a sand dune.

Wyoming is a great source for many valuable rocks. They even mine diamonds in the state.

I'm sure there are diamonds under some bushes in your backyard somewhere, lol.