Comment with your favorite stone, and I'll show you a piece of rough.

Let's see how much a variety of rough I have...

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Opal, garnet, jade, tiger's eye, malachite
- Left to right:
  
  opal - both mexican fire and the cabachon type
  
  garnet - pyrope
  
  tiger's eye
  
  I don't have jade or any malachite.
  
  Very interesting how these look so different raw vs polished!
Larimar
- Don't have any of that and had no clue it existed! Now it's on my list of things to get my hands on!
  
  Thanks!
  
  It’s beautiful. It looks like the surface of a pool.
Peridot and moonstone.
- Here is the peridot. I cut the last of my moonstone for a commission and haven't gotten more yet.
  
  I love that you can still see light through it even when it's rough.
hematite quartz!
- Ahh, you got me... don't have any of that at the moment.
Let's see some zircon!
- Here ya go a blue zircon.. next to a stone I'm getting ready to cut.
  
  Really nice! Is it naturally blue zircon you've got there or was it heat-treated?
I sent it this comment days ago, looks like it boinced. FLUORITE! I have a piece of faceted fluorite I love
- I had to go look for it, but I received this when I was a child and have kept it for the memories.
  
  Thank you! That's a beauty.

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