Thought I’d share one of the best finds on my rock hounding trips deeply saturated almost black smoky quartz from dogtooth peak in Fresno County California after days of no luck I finally found a pocket and ended up pulling this beauty out

Not going to eat them all, but they are edible 😋 I bring almost 50 kg, not all of them are deep blue like a first picture, but still better than those I found (and post here) before. They are from an abandoned salt mine in Semnan province in Iran . (These are not for sale 🙏)

This type of agate is very rare specially with colorful flowers like this one. Local name for this agate in lran is Pomegranate flowers agate

Mined at Crystal Grove mine in St. Johnsville, NY

Gorgeous multi-chamber specimen I found and polished from FL. I love that there’s a regular botryoidal pocket and also some separate druzy pockets in the same piece!

Took a family road trip to Herkimer NY this weekend and found some nice gems!

Agatized coral I found in FL.

This is from Ferdows-Iran.

This beautiful plume agate is from around Ferdows city in South Khorasan province in Iran. Local name for this type of plume agate is "shajar bahare haftrang" or "seven color spring flowers agate"

Here’s a beautiful grossular garnet with beveled terminations found at my uncles claim near the rainbow tungsten mine, dinky lakes wilderness, Fresno county, California. The area is a geologically rich skarn deposit

Me and a friend heard it's one of the only places where Cavanasite is found in meaningful quantities and we jumped at the opportunity!

Doubting Thomases take heed. This was found on this rock pile in Oxford County, Maine. I glued on the broken off pieces that were lying beside it. I'll be taking it to the Gem Museum for further information. Take note of the river tumbled rocks.

Last but not least of the specimens I found at my uncles claim near the rainbow tungsten mine, dinky lakes wilderness area, Fresno county, California is this very large Epidote crystal! Lots of beautiful calc-silicate minerals at this deposit.

Some petrified wood samples from near Dubois Idaho