This Week's Featured Stone

Australian Brecciated Mookaite

IJ350-1153599826

48mm x 22mm x 7mm

40 carat
Designer Shape

Mohs Hardness 7

Treatments None

One Only -Drilled

$ 9.55 USD

New Cabs and Work in Progress

 There is a lot of grinding going on:

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A Great Time of Year to Stock Up

Stock up for the holidays, it's the perfect time to start at least thinking about it. I offer a a time pay solution for tight budgets. Set up your payments to fit you, I'm flexible.

With everyone's busy schedule, take the time now to look around and see what will work for you. Then you'll have the time you need to create those gorgeous works of art for your home shows, craft shows, gifts or what ever you do to market your creations.

Oh, and thanks for stopping by!

Limited Stock Beads Just Listed

 New Gallery: Limited Stock Beads

Chatoyant Pietersite

Available on Gallery Two at Overstocked with Rocks

Sid Pieters discovered Pietersite in Namibia in 1962. He registered the find in Britain and published his discovery in 1964, and the stone was named in his honor. Though many believed that Pietersite could be found only in Namibia, in 1993 a similar stone was discovered in China's Hunan province.

Pietersite is "brecciated," an Italian word that means a combination of minerals and rock held together by a fine-grained sediment; in Pietersite that "sediment" is quartz.

Any white spots seen in Pietersite is Quartz, you could say that quartz is the host. Blue is the favorite of all the colors seen in Pietersite and comes from Namibia, Africa. Browns, golds and reds are also found and as I understand come from China.

 

New Stones - Fabulous Agates

Made in the USA, Unique one of a kind Handcut and Polished. Over the coming days I'll be posting new agates and jaspers. When I get that done I found a bunch of great beads and then when that's done I'm going to be posting "Bead Party Grab Bags"; odds and ends, strings of beads, cabochons and focals with lots of pictures for you to make a good decision about your pruchase.

Thank you for all the support, the shop is doing very well.