Radical Rocks

Rock & Lapidary Unusual Ideas, How to Guide If you’re a rockhound or lapidary person, you likely have made a cabochon or polished a rock with some sort of material or with a rock tumbler. But have you ever wondered what else can you make or create with those rocks, well I have? With that in mind we have created a list of ideas, some you may have heard of, some that are not so well know, some that I came up with and some that were from our Facebook Radical Rocks Group members. We would love to hear your ideas and thoughts links below. Let’s rock and roll into the ideas! Antler and Bone decorations: credit to Adam King Arrow Heads & Spheres ; usually this is done by Knapping or a chipping technique. If this appeals to you do some research on Knapping. Bible Story display ; This could be any gemstones rocks or minerals from the bible. The rocks could be placed in a display such as is used for miniature, such as a printed draw mounted on a wall, or just glued to a backin...

Alaska State Rocks and Minerals How to Guide Alaska the largest State in the US and the coldest state, yet despite the harsh cold mining of minerals and gems continues to this day. We will investigate the state mineral and state rock, as well as a few others that are noteworthy. At the bottom of the page you will find links to nonaffiliated sites that showcase or sell gems and minerals from Alaska, as well as some affiliate links for guidebooks on rockhounding in Alaska. This is not an exclusive list of Alaska’s rocks and minerals merely a look at some of the most notable. Gold Alaska State Mineral It is probably not a surprise that gold would be picked as the state mineral, as gold is still actively mined today, and popular TV shows are dedicated to several gold miners in Alaska. Gold was a motivating force in the settling of the Alaska frontier, starting in the mid-1800s. Gold was designated as the state mineral in 1968. Gold has been located through out much of the ...

Alabama State Rock, Mineral, & Gemstone . Alabama enjoys a diverse and widespread variety of minerals, with more than 190 mineral species occurring in the state. From the earliest of civilization minerals here were of great value when flint, mica, clay, and other rocks and minerals were used by Native Americans to survive. The state's rich stores of iron-bearing hematite provided the raw materials for  Birmingham 's rise as an industrial center in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the latter half of the twentieth century  Alabama  was in the top 20 among the states that produced in value amount, of minerals produced in the United States. Th estate Mineral is Hematite, the state stone is Marble, and the state gemstone is Star Blue Quartz. (A link near the bottom of the page for a Alabama Rockhounding guide) Geology   Much of the state is covered with sedimentary rocks, with exposures of igneous and metamorphic rocks being located to th...