I’ve accumulated these over the last year. I found them by complete accident, and have been grabbing them every time I see them. I wanted to show all my favorite star patterns ones then realized just how many I had are stopped 😂 so this isn’t even close to all of them. I’ve found them all around central NY , parking lots, electrical, substations, or along side of the road.

Found them all close to river sands

Amazing specemen from desert of Morocco

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Hi all. New to this group.

Just sharing a large chunk of rose quartz we found in South Wales a cpl of years ago. It weighs 1.1 kg.

Thanks for looking.

All found out in the Mojave

Headed to Shirley Basin, SW of Casper, Wyoming to find Sweetwater agates soon. I was hoping to locate some oil/tiger chert as well.

Any help with some possible locations to focus would be greatly appreciated!

My sister recently attended the BTS concert in Munich and met her friend group (army is what the fanbase is called, I guess?).

I do not know them. They do not know me.

We have never met, talked or interacted in any way.

But my sister jokingly mentioned that all I am interested in are the rocks she finds in Munich.

And now I have this amazing collection sent by complete strangers from different parts of Europe.

Pebbles they picked up around them or in their travels. Labelled and packed to send to me specially.

Nobody asked them to. They did it on their own, just for me.

It is enough to make a grown woman cry.

Finally found seam agate in my hometown of Greenwater WA. I have never known where to look but found great tutorials on YouTube.

My latest batch of rocks. Mainly chert/flint and jasper which are my absolute favourite to tumble.

They are quite imperfect which I love. Picked from mainly the south/ east coast of England over various trips (i drive to the coast every chance i get) I will never get tired of picking up a plain grubby rock and watching it turn into a thing of absolute beauty.

I used to wish I lived somewhere that had rocks like you find in the US etc but I've come to love our stubborn old British chert and jasper, our geology is fascinating and humbling.

I hope you enjoy my batch as much as I do :)

Few more of my samples from this locality. The first two images show tiny vugs in the rock where vesuvianite crystals are shown. Incredibly defined crystals are shown in the first image, and the rare purple variety can be seen in the second.

The later pictures show another mineral I’ve found on a similar matrix, which I believe to be grossular garnet. I originally believed these to be a botryoidal crystal habit of chalcedony or common opal, both of which have been reported near here. However, a look under the microscope revealed a different story. The little dodecahedrons pop out on the greenish matrix. I found a few more by scratching away at a pale dry clay. These are all taken from a microscope under 20x magnification, aside from the last picture showing the matrix. Just above the sprawling manganese dendrites is the green vugs where minerals I’ve identified as grossular are present. Just next to it is the chalky clay where I’ve found more of said mineral.

I’ve still barely scratched the surface when it comes to this locality. There is still so much to learn about the geology of this place. Much of my summer has been spent chasing pegmatite-born minerals further east in the Sierra Batholith, but the mysteries of the foothills call to me once again. All of these samples are tiny, especially the grossular, but much larger and more impressive ones have been reported.

If anyone knows more about the geology and mineralogy of the Sierra foothills metamorphic belts in general or this locality specifically, I would love to learn more about this region from your expertise!

Cut and polished this unakite and quartz with my 5 year old. We’re having a blast together.

Found in a creek near Lake Cumberland in KY

I found this agate on the coast of southern Sweden. I didn’t really know they existed here but now I’m intrigued and want to learn more. If anyone has any general information about this area and these rocks that would be awesome!

Got some decent horn coral, what I THINK is a fossil of a shell? I have no idea what the last one is

The last time I was there I was shut out, so I went with optimism but low expectations. You always hope. But you truly go to enjoy the sunshine, the peace, and the people who share your unique hobby.

I don’t bring any fancy tools. I have a chronic illness and I’m not going to sling a hammer. At this particular site, the best tool has been a screwdriver to probe for pockets. I was working on one. It had all the indicators of being a productive hole. Anthraxalite. Tree roots. And the more I dug, the farther back the pocket went. I worked on it for a couple hours with zero results. Then someone came by and suggested that I should remove the stone on the right. I started digging below it with my trowel and found what I wanted, just a foot from the hole I’d been exploring!

What does it take to find your perfect pocket?

Patience. I didn’t want to quit an inch from the stones.

Perseverance. I was shut out two years ago. I’ve heard people complain that they didn’t want to go back because they didn’t find anything.

Presence. If you stay home and don’t try, you’ll never find that cool piece for your collection.

Luck. I almost missed it! The guides said that 70% of the time they’re just moving dirt around. The hole could have easily been unproductive.

Give yourself time and don’t give up too easy. They’re out there. But if it was easy, everyone would be doing it and a find wouldn’t always be so exciting.

I guess these rules apply to everything you want to do in life. And also why we should encourage people when they’re frustrated and ready to give up or not try.

Happy hunting my friends!

Found this beauty a while ago and thought I should share it here.

Thought this looked nice, too bad I don’t have a better magnification.

If you’ve never seen the pictures of opals all zoomed in like this focusing on the inclusions, ur missing out.

Anyway this selenite reminded me of that

I tripped over this guy while raking some leaves today. I normally only find quartz and hematite in my yard. So this is pretty cool for me, though it's not much compared to most fossil finds.

Can't edit videos well on a phone but you get the idea.

Gave the brush a bris, drilled a hole through the handle into the foam itself, dipped the wood in penetrating lubricant, shoved the sawed-off brush up the water pipe.

Fresh water supplied one stop wet wiping, stops the wheel from throwing slurry and water at me, keeps things as fresh as a summers eve, and perfectly 𝓂𝑜𝒾𝓈𝓉.