These cabs from our Oregon Carnelian turned out especially well. We had to cut a lot of material to find these colors. Some are listed in our Etsy shop now https://www.etsy.com/listing/151956283/oregon-carnelian-agate-designer-cabochon?ref=shop_home_active And we’ll be listing more in the next few days.
Tag Archive: natural gemstone
Carnelian
Carnelian is the name of brownish red and orange colored chalcedony. The stone was been used in jewelry since ancient times. Our carnelian came from southwestern Oregon. It has a lot of variations in color and pattern and produces stones with “character”. The three pieces of rough pictured above came out of the ground looking…
Yerilla Chrysoprase
Yerilla chrysoprase comes from Western Australia. These are some pieces we will be listing here on our website and in our Etsy Shop at www.etsy.com/shop/sparklequest in the next few days.
Rhodonite: Stone of Altruism
Rhodonite is considered a stone of love, but an outer directed love. It helps us discover and develop our hidden talents and use them for the benefit of community. Rhodonite is a stone of learning and development, encouraging us to expand or perfect our skills so that we can help others. It is a stone…
Inca Agate
This is a new find of agate from high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. It’s being called Inca Agate. Beautiful colors and patterns. The miners say they will start this year’s mining in May, weather permitting. Our experience with mining is the weather never “permits” as early as we’d like. We wish these guys…
Green Schiller Sunstone
Green is the rarest color of sunstone. Red is the more popular color and usually goes for the highest price. In terms what is rare, though, pink schiller in a green stone is really unusual. We pride ourselves on having “different”, but this is on the edge of the envelope even for us.
Lapis
Lapis Lazuli is one of the oldest materials used in jewelry. It has been fashioned into gems stones since ancient times. Some of the jewelry from the King Tut Exhibit contains lapis. We liked the bright blue of this piece and will be cutting it soon. Any recommendations on shapes and sizes? E-mail your ideas…
Chrysocolla Carvings?
This chrysocolla probably came from Arizona years ago. Today there is some coming out of Nevada and Peru, but none of the new comes close to the quality of the old. We’re going to have carvings done out of this. We wish it were larger. It will only produce a handful of stones at best,…
Deschutes Picture Jasper
These are polished matched faces of Deschutes Picture Jasper, which is similar to Biggs Picture Jasper. Both were discovered in the early 1960s in Deschutes County near Biggs Junction, Oregon and made famous by legendary rockhounds, Shirts Quant and Hoot Elkins. Hoot is credited with finding the deposit known as Deschutes Jasper and probably mined…
More Stellated Jasper Designer Cabochons
Wow, since we first posted about our new stellated jasper cabs a few days ago they have flown out the door. We currently have one left here on the website and a cool matched pair in the Etsy Sparklequest shop. We still have the ones pictured here which we’ll be listing as soon as possible….