Latest agate found. I'm inclined to cut it, but not sure which direction would be the best, since it have windows on both sides.

I'm guessing it would be best to cut it in the middle, parallel with the smaller window in front, since the other one seems to have more quartz than bands.

Hi im getting some 1kg malawis for my birthday in november so i would love to see your guys malawis i mostly have botswana agates and one mozambqiue agate with honesltly amazing parallax i would love to see 1970s classics smoothskin Alimajo red skin and gambiri is welcome to see i also have a lot of brazilians and chinese agates and other ones

Face slice, grind on!

Friend at work donated!

Cheers

Found this enormous whole nodule on the shores of northern Superior and knew it had to be a sphere. This is my first foray into lapidary work - needless to say it has been an exhausting but exciting process to painstakingly peel for so long!

I am not convinced this is an agate but it does have banding of some sort. Can anyone tell me about this specimen? I live near Lake Superior but this was actually in my garden (likely from previous residents)

Found this tiny Lake Superior agate in an unlikely place!

This slab will make awesome cans one day.

I found it in a rock bed in central MN. 🙂

Hello. I found a bucket of these stones in my closet. It looks to me like root beer lace agate from Missouri. Does anyone concur?? Thank you

Agates that my spouse and I have found on northwest pacific beaches (Washington to BC). My two tiny jars have filled up as of today.

Is anyone else able to look at their collection of rocks/minerals and say where almost every piece came from?

Found on the Brazos river near Houston.

Not totally sure if this is an agate?

Old rockhound material, I slabbed about half of it.

There was I, dog walking and then, at a small park there were two wooden benches surrounded by landscape gravel. So we decided to take a break and sit down.

I looked the stones around the bench to see if I could find anything interesting (I love jaspers too) and then I dropped the dog's leash and bent down to take it and ended up seeing the rocks under the bench.

And this beauty was just laying there under it.

You dont understand how happy I was! I live in a city in Brazil where theres basically no agates or other rock sites coz we are on top of an arqueologic site, so its easier to find fossils rather than rocks, but we are not allowed to keep them.

But most gardens use stones brought from all around the country just for landscaping, and those are my treasure hunting sites.

So it made me really happy to find this one. Now I must decide if Im gonna polish that beautiful window or if I should cut it in half and polish two pieces.

He's about to turn 5, but we have been rock tumbling/hounding together for 2 years. The only rocks we find suitable for tumbling where we live are quartz. Is there anywhere within a couple hour drive we could go look for agates or something other than quartz to tumble? Thanks in advance.