Radical Rocks

California Rocks gems and minerals There are so many great rocks gems and minerals and many areas to collect rocks, gems, and minerals in California that we could probably write a book on it. Instead of writing a book we will cover some of the main rocks, gems and minerals with some details to get you started, and we will have links to references and guidebooks as well as all our links below. If you want to collect in the winter there is the beaches and deserts, you want to collect in the dead of summer, California has the mountains and the beaches, you can’t lose. The history of rocks gems and minerals goes back to the Native Americans, that dug up and used many of California’s beautiful, gemstones. Then in 1849 the gold miners came looking for gold and many other finds of gems and minerals continued for over a hundred years, with a few small discovery’s the last few years interesting rocks and some agates. Please remember to check status of areas and rules before collection on...

Yooperlights The article and photos below were copied with permission from Erik Rintamaki. Copy rights fully endorsed. Radical Rocks links below. Erik Rintamaki May 17, 2018  ·  Brimley, MI My discovery of Yooperlites is now official and in publication. If you would like to order a copy they are available for $3 from  www.mineralnews.com  just click  on May 2018 The following is the initial copy of the article. Enjoy and thank you to everyone for all of the support!! A NEW FIND OF FLUORESCENT SODALITE FROM MICHIGAN’S UPPER PENINSULA Raymond Laughlin 513 Iron Street Norway, Michigan 49870 Shawn M. Carlson 245 Jule Lake Road Crystal Falls, Michigan 49920 Travis A. Olds Washington State University School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Sloan Hall Room 201 Pullman, Washington 99164 Owen P. Mills Applied Chemical and Morphological Analysis Laboratory Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton,...

Radical Rocks and their Amazing Stories! We will go over a list of 10 radical rocks and their stories. What makes a rock radical? It could be that it is one of a kind, but I guess they are all one of a kind. So, it could be that it is the largest, the rarest, highest quality, or it could be the story that the rock comes with? Radical rocks will be gemstones in this article, however radical rocks are of all sorts in my world. They may be the plain black tourmaline crystal my daughter found in the yard, or the one of a kind geodes I found at the Hauser bed. Or maybe it’s the one in the yard that my grandmother picked up in Boron, or the New Mexico Geode my Mom picked up at a trading post because she knew I loved rocks. Let’s dig into this incredible list of radical rocks. (Links and references below along with our links and free Rock & Gem group) 1.The Black Orlov The Black Orlov was found in the 1800s in India, it was cushion cut to 67.50 carat, and it is a deep dark gu...