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Bench Tips
Getting a High Dome on a Cab
Major Specimen Localities, Part IV: Copper From Cornwall To Upper Michigan
This is a superb example of very well crystallized native copper from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Bench Tips
Working Cabs from the Back, Part II
What To Cut- Covellite
Covellite is one of those materials that has no real use, except to a rock collector or lapidary!
A Rockhound's 80-Year Mineral Odyssey
A Visit to the Not-So-Dark Continent
Caribbean Larimar
Larimar is a very beautiful and distinctive-looking stone found in the Caribbean. The stone itself is actually a pectolite (calcium-sodium silicate); however, its blue, blue-green and white hues, as well as the fact that it stems from one location, make it a one-of-a-kind stone.
West Coast Jade
Metamorphic Deposits from Canada to California.
North Carolina's Minerals
Visit a Museum & Rock Shops in Spruce Pine.
Birthstones
Stick with the Standards Or Choose Your Own
On The Rocks
Federation Education
Herkimer Diamonds In Spades
Collectors Rake in Water-Clear New York Quartz Crystals
Malachite, Part II- Banded Beauty From Russia And The Cargo
One of the earliest-known sources of malachite was mined by the Egyptians in the Sinai Desert thousands of years ago. Since that time, this lovely, green hydrous copper carbonate has been mined in quantity all over the world.
Arsenic Family Minerals
Part II: Erythrite, Realgar, Orpiment and Scorodite Add Rich Color to a Collection
What To Cut
Kirinite Acrylic
The World's Finest Azurites
Part I: Electric Blues from the Milpillas Mine
Bench Tips
Working with Synthetic Quartz
Rock Science
Malachite: The First Ore
What To Cut
Aurora Opal
Is it Calcite or Dolomite?
These Carbonates have Chemistry.
Fluid Bed Sluices
How Well Do They Work?
Flat Lapping Basics
Lapidary Mike Hahn Shares His Tips and Tricks.
The Stone That Strikes Fire
Pyrite Is a Common Sulfi de Mineral And a Collector Favorite.
The Games Miners Play
Contests Display Drilling, Mucking & Spike-Driving Skills.
Collecting Minerals In Estonia
Calcite Crystals from the Kukersite Oil Shale.
An American Carver In China
Seattle Native Nathaniel Cook Receives a Special Invitation.
Silver-Rich Cobalt, Canada
An Accidental Discovery Opened Up Mining in the Canadian Shield.
UCLA Meteorite Gallery Is Out Of This World
Within their collections, many a rockhound has at least one sample of a space rock, better known as a meteorite. Meteorites are truly rare. One meteorite researcher has been contacted by 2,100 people who claimed to have discovered one. Of the 2,100, only seven had found a true meteorite. The rest of the specimens mailed in were hematite or magnetite (iron ores), heavy minerals such as galena, slag from smelting, or just common rocks.
Colorado's Great Sand Dunes
Visit North America’s Tallest Dunefield
On The Rocks
Uncommon Minerals
Bench Tips- A Fanciful Project
Sometimes, when I am sorting through my slabs and trim saw cutoffs, I come across a particular piece that I know I want to make something with, but at that time I can’t picture exactly what.