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Ballarat Marble Sphere #5325

Ballarat Marble Sphere, California, 3 inches in diameter. In this desolate are in the canyons of the Panamint range south of Death Valley lies the almost ghost town of Ballarat.  It has 1 residence.  To the south about a quarter...

Ballarat Sphere #5317

Ballarat Marble Sphere, California, 3.4 inches in diameter. In this desolate are in the canyons of the Panamint range south of Death Valley lies the almost ghost town of Ballarat.  It has 1 residence.  To the south about a...

Purple Sagenite Sphere #5300

Purple Sagenite Sphere, China, 2.9 inches in diameter. Don't ask me what it is, I do not know.  At first I thought it might be Fluorite but after trying different polishes, it just doesn't work up like any other of that material.  Now I am...

Redd Sage Sphere #5273

Red Sage Sphere, China, 2.9 inches in diameter. Another material that I picked up that is new on the market.  It may be red stromatolite.  The use is a highly silicated limestone.  Really made the saws sing when I was...

Purple Sagenite Sphere #5254

Purple Sagenite Sphere, China, 4.2 inches in diameter. Don't ask me what it is, I do not know.  At first I thought it might be Fluorite but after trying different polishes, it just doesn't work up like any other of that material.  Now I am...

Septarian Nodule Sphere #4660

Septarian Nodule Sphere, Utah, 2.8 inches in diameter. 50-70 million years ago, volcanic eruptions created the limestone mud balls that are the out surface of Sectarian nodules.  As time passed, decomposed sea shells drifted into the...

Strawberry Onyx Sphere #4271

Strawberry Onyx Sphere, 3.9 inches in diameter. Located in the Bristol mountains to the north and east on Ludlow, Ca , this area is now part of the California desert protection act.  I do not know the current collecting status...

Strawberry Onyx Sphere #4121

Strawberry Onyx Sphere, 3.9 inches in diameter. Located in the Bristol mountains to the north and east on Ludlow, Ca , this area is now part of the California desert protection act.  I do not know the current collecting status...

Dragon's Blood Sphere #4027

Dragon Blood Stone Sphere, Western Australia, 3.9 inches in diameter. Known by various names, Dragon Stone, Dragon Blood Jasper, this material is really a Fuchsitic Chert.  It originates in the Pilbara region in Western Australia in a local called...

Indonesian Petrified Palm Sphere #3924

Indonesian Petrified Palm Sphere, 3.6 inches in diameter. Indonesian Petrified Palm s a microchrystaline quartz formed by silica carried by underground water replaces cell structure after the palm trunks have been buried under hundred of yards of...

Aragonite Sphere #2787

Aragonite Sphere, China, 3.95 inches in diameter.

Blue Diamond Lapis Sphere #2722

Blue Diamond Lapis Sphere, 4.1 inches in diameter. Blue Diamond Lapis, Graves Mountain, Georgia.   Not a lot of blue, no diamonds and no Lapis in this material.  Makes you wonder how people come up with these names. Wasn't sure how this...

Pinolith Sphere #2670

Pinolith Sphere, 2.7 inches in diameter. Originating in the Turen Mountains of Austria, this material is a combination of magnesite and dolomite.  I was so impressed with the patterns, I had to have some.  It has taken a beautiful polish...

Sonora Chrysocolla Sphere #2422

Sonora Chrysocolla Sphere, 3.2 inches in diameter. The colors of this sphere do not photograph well.  It is actually much more varied that shows.

Eudialyte Sphere #1708

Eudialyte Sphere, Sweden, 3.9 inches indiameter. Beautiful polish for this Eudialyte Sphere.  Large patches of purple Eudialyte mixed with white Alkali Feldspar and Black Aegrine.  

Binthalya Sphere #1534

Binthalya Opal Sphere, Western Australia, 3.9 inches in diameter. Not sure what Australia does not have..... Here we have swirls of yellow and cream with a hint of mauve.  Beautiful patterns in gorgeous pastels.