r/rockhounds

Hi! New to rockhounding, and I’ve collected a bunch of amazonite from my parents land, but I’m new to collecting and not totally sure what I should be prioritizing for collecting or taking to shows to exchange. For my own collection I just have some that I like because of the color or shape, but does anyone have experience with amazonite or seen many specimens at shows? This is just a few pieces, but I have a lot of amazonite and there’s a lot left I haven’t mined.

Agate iris with a really cool rainbow.

Just sharing some finds from a few seasons ago. These are my Gemmy ones from the Havey. 1 season of sifting from 9-3 every Friday. The 5.5 Carat stone is a triple tourmaline with the center one terminated about halfway up the others. 135.6 rough carats in 8 days of mining.

Bathe in the beauty of my one and only blue mountain jasper. She’s a hefty mama weighing in at around 1400 grams! It’s like a painting!! I’m obsessed. It has a REALLY big odd shaped chunk sticking out of the back that makes it hard to display properly, and I’m wondering if I can find someone with lapidary equipment who can cut it for me and we can see what else she’s hiding in there. Even with that piece cut, she would probably still be 1200 grams. what are all your thoughts on this? I would usually scoff at cutting the back of a piece, I detest slabs. (nothing wrong if you like them tho! they’re just not for me). But this wouldn’t feel like a slab, it’s so huge. Gimme your thoughts

Willamette River, Salem, Or

Credit to my husband, who did all the work. I'm just here to admire the results (and occasionally purloin 😎).

Stage one tumble complete

This was mined by my great great grandfather in thunder bay...I have his mining licenses. My father just recently passed this on to me. I contacted the university to see if I could find someone to authenticate for me. Thunder bay is one of only 3 places you can find prasiolite...its quite a rare piece...

Found near Montreal river between WI/MI.

Heya, just wanted to drop some pics of rocks from our little trip to the Eastern side of our great state. These are just the ones on my phone plus an extra of the Alvord desert mudflat for ya.

Hi. I’m new to rockhounding and found this decent size piece of green jasper. Is this unusual in NH? Does it have any real value? Thanks for any insight you can provide.

green/blue I don't know but my son found it and it's very unique. Brecciated quartz, banded chert, petoskeys and unakite of course. Silicified corals. Feldspar granites.