Spears Rock Shop Options

[ScottKS]

I have no idea how fast it grows..........i think it takes alot of time to grow...........yes it is soft before it hardens it feels like them fuzzy stickers lmao.......and yes the top is black and the layers are different grays but like i said them layers are hard hairlike grains........thing about it is grandma don't know that much about it

[Gat-Wa.]

Wow Scott that duck is way cool and that growing rock never seen the like!!! to cool man
Gat.

[wyodust]

Those are great Scott! Even looks like a fish by the Mallard duck.

i was going to comment on the fish too....great piece of agate

[ScottKS]

Here is a crystal that was at the rock shop.....it's over at grandparents now....i'm thinking Calcite crystals but could be dirty quartz.... ........this rock is very big and heavy.

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[Denise]

You can pull out a penny or a pocket knife Scott, and do a quick test on it.

Calcite is a 3 in hardness and Quartz is a 7, so Calcite will scratch easily.
Hope this helps some.

[ScottKS]

Someone i know has some rocks from Spears Rock Shop when they had the sale and wants me to ID them here is pics and what i told her they are...some i'm not sure about...i have some of these rocks from the ton of slabs i got awhile back...sometime i will start scanning them and start posting them...there is alot of them and i'm still cleaning them up.

The first and last pic seem to be from the same host rock maybe agate of some kind with quartz stinger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agate (at first i thought it was maybe agateized pet. wood like from AZ http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/Petr...ied_Wood_Slabs/ but even that stuff is Agateized) (expect the quartz one at the bottom left corner in the last pic). The center two pics is most definally shells and Abalone (i call Abaloney Shell) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abalone and a arrow head in the middle there P.S. after seeing this site of all kinds of Jasper slabs i'm now thinking that the ones in the 1st and last pic is also Jasper....i see jasper everywhere in this post....lol http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=J...276&bih=634


Pic 1
I just cleaned some of this from my collection...i'm thinking this is Picture Jasper http://www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=2082 but i could be wrong....it does look like a pic tho huh
Pic 2
You should know this one...geode (Agate)...a dyed blue one with only a small nug (pocket of crystals)
Pic 3
Bottom is quartz crystals of course...Top rock...not sure...get back with ya on that one. P.S. after seeing them spots and looking at the jasper slabs from above....this could be jasper too....seems like they might of had alot of different kinds of jasper?? idk lol
Pic 4
I have some of this too...have to do some more research on this one...sometime i want to start scanning all the slabs i have and post them on colorado prospector so they can help me ID them...so some of these may not be until that happens. P.S. Jasper??
Pic 5
Well when i first saw this one i thougt Amethyst but that's what i always think when i see purple but Florite can be purple but as i was looking in my book i saw some purple Halite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halite so i think it could be that....but then again it could very well be Amethyst...lol



Pic 1
Quartz Crystals Cluster of course
Pic 2
Granite with quartz pockets?? P.S. you know i kinda think this is what Pic 4 (from above) looks like as whole host rock and it almost looks like Jasper to me??...idk
Pic 3
This almost looks like a cluster from the great salt plains http://www.flickr.com/photos/23656923@N00/3577336188 (i have been there and step dad found a cluster like that one but i haven't yet...lol) but it could also be Glauberite http://www.google.com/images?q=Glauberite&...259&bih=634
Pic 4
Colonial corals Fossils http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse/fossils/fossils.htm also known as Petoskey Stone http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&biw...amp;oq=Petoskey but this one is in the raw form..no traveling (connected to the bottom of sea...so may not be as much of a fossil..lol



Pic 1
Calcite http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&biw...mp;aql=&oq=
Pic 2
Ummm this looks like a tooth from like a cow skull...i use to have one in the yard here....lmao hehehe



Thanks for the help

[Ronald]

I completely understand how you feel about selling out for to little. I had a small jewelry store in Fl for 15 years and was not able to sell it at a decent price. I just ran a going out of business sale and closed it down.