J³ Gem Hunting

01/14/2024

"Dreams do come true"

Edmund Bull · Follow Your Dreams · Song · 2007

02/27/2022

06/30/2020

Found a museum quality Petrified Log... no telling how long this sucker is.... started digging this hole a month ago and have about 10 ft exposed at this point!

04/13/2020

Various Quartz, Calcite, Actinolite, and Epidote specimens.

Each specimen is a little different and all contain at least two of the aforementioned minerals.

I collect these specimens myself from the Calumet Iron Mine in Chaffe County, Colorado. Each matrix is initially covered in Calcite Cubes. I have to soak each specimen for hours in an Acidic Solution and then go through a meticulous cleaning process. However, I am very pleased with my end results. ;)

Because of the nature of the cleaning process, when i am at the mine collecting, I have no idea what my final specimens will look like... This makes collecting at this location extra fun, because it's like finding specimens within specimens! Almost like rockhounding twice..

Take the whole flat for $175 + shipping

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04/07/2020

Inside the Calumet Iron Mine and a specimen from said mine.

04/01/2020

Wow, I cant believe all we found this weekend!

01/25/2020

SOLD!

I finished and sold this guy a while ago, but I wanted to share anyway. My friend John gifted me this carving of an old man done on a piece of wood, and I decided to overlay him with stones. I mined all the stones in Colorado except the Peridote and Madagascar Micro Quartz. He has Quartz Crystals, Peridote, Turquoise, Amazonite, Quartz with Chrysacolla and Malachite, Epidote, and Madagascar Miceo Quartz Crystals.

I'm really proud of this guy and selling him sure was a blessing to my family. Have a great and safe weekend everyone!

01/23/2020

I discovered this vein, mined these stones, cut, cabbed, and polished them myself. High End Jewelry I mine myself coming soon.....

01/02/2020

I cut and polished this one myself. It's my very first Cab, and it is an awesome piece of Turquoise from Cripple Creek, Co. I'm putting it in a setting in the morning and it will be for sale soon!