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COLD SNOWY WEATHER = LOTS OF NEW ROCK SPECIMENS FROM THE CARVER

COLD SNOWY WEATHER = LOTS OF NEW ROCK SPECIMENS FROM THE CARVER

By /February 19, 2025 /1 comment /Cut Rocks

Let’s see what we’ve got today! Rock #5828I love this rock. Be sure to click on the image to enlarge it! Rock #5863Fragmented filament blue agate geode Rock #5844All that sagenitic stuff that makes The Carver rocks geologically interesting Rock #5868Eye agate/fortification agate—Click on the image to zoom in on it. Rock #5858I just like this rock! Rock #5859A thrill to cut and polish Rock #5814 Rock #5815Rocks 5814 and 5815 are both sides of a fist sized blue fragmented filament agate.I loved cutting and polishing this stone. Rock #5883A cross-section of a blue agate nodule with a really cool shape and color Rock #5898A perfect yellow banded agate Rock #5829Lots to unpack here: electric blue fortification agate, plume agate surrounding brown shards of lava Rock #5830Click on the image to enlarge it and zoom on the red/yellow/green blob in the upper left side of this specimen Rock # 5861Click […]

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How I Selected These Stones for This Post

How I Selected These Stones for This Post

By /January 29, 2025 /3 comments /Cut Rocks

Note: Please click on each photo below to see an enlarged version! Two of my favorite selections, Rock #5801 and Rock #5782 pictured below, are unique but different plume agates. The featured stone, Rock #5801, is just plain interesting when enlarged, as you can see: Rock #5801 Rock #5801 Enlarged Rock #5782 The next cab, Rock #5799 below, is a geologically rare rose quartz geode. Rock #5799 Another selection, Rock #5793 below, was to me reminiscent of a scene from my childhood—a fish bowl agate (named by me). Rock #5793 One of my photo selections below was to me just a beautiful agate. Rock #5758 Other specimens are representative of my favorite type of stone to cut and polish into cabs. The three rocks below are plume/jasp-agates. Rock #5796 Rock #5785 Rock #5784 The last stones I just plain like a lot, are Rock #5777, a brecciated agate, and Rock […]

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The Scepter

The Scepter

By /January 21, 2018 /3 comments /Cut Rocks

Two exciting new specimens from The Carver! One is a spectacular citrine (yellow quartz) ‘scepter’. Scepter quartz is a first and second generation of quartz crystal growth, one on top of the other, with the second generation, or top of the scepter, being larger than the first generation crystal. The name scepter is taken from the scepters of lore held by kings. Clear quartz (uncolored), amethyst (purple quartz), and smokey quartz scepters are not extremely rare. Citrine, which is a light yellow or gold-brown quartz and, according to Walter Schumann (who I think has written one of the best treatises on gemstones), on page 120 of Gemstones of the World, “natural citrine is rare. Most commercial citrine are heat treated amethyst or smokey quartz”. This scepter specimen has not been treated in any way. Therefore, its coloration as a natural citrine is rare and even more unusual having formed as […]

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New Carver plume agate bracelet!

New Carver plume agate bracelet!

By /January 4, 2018 /0 comments /Bracelets

This is the most beautiful plume agate I have ever seen and the most beautiful plume so far from The Carver.  Plume agate was made world famous by the Woodward Ranch south of Alpine, TX, which claimed to be the only source of plume agate.  Plume agate is a coveted stone by most agate collectors.