Growing up in the south east Utah desert was like seeing the world through a soda straw. I knew the world was there. I just didn’t know...

If you ask people around Zion National Park about rockhounding, they might mention the junk wood that is found on some of the mesas....

Caveat Emptor When my weekly news magazine arrived today, an ad on the inside cover for jewelry made from Helenite caught my eye. The...

Topaz found at Topaz Mountain Dan Mabbutt - Own Work When I was a kid, one of the places that my dad dragged me to was Utah’s...

Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash I take keyboard in hand this morning to simply scratch an itch I have for thinking about interesting...

“Hi! Do you like rocks? Agate, petrified wood, jasper, stuff like that?” It’s a good conversation starter. Often the reply is, “I’ve got...

Interesting Times Indeed “May you live in interesting times!” I recently wrote an essay here – Old Fossils and Their Rocks – about my dad...

What Happens to Rock Hoarder Collections “May you live in interesting times!” This classic phrase is called “The Chinese Curse” even...

What gets pushed up must fall down. I just experienced something – again – that I thought I would share., One of my earliest memories in...

21 May 2023 - We just saw our first rattlesnake of this new year! They're about three weeks late, but everything is late this year. It...

Dino bone was easily my dad’s favorite rock. There was a time when there was a LOT of it in his back yard. When my dad retired, he...

The software I used to build this site just isn't powerful enough to do the kind of document that the beautiful Utah Pigeon Blood...

What am I doing and why am I doing it? People don't think about that enough. I think about it a lot. A typical Internet seller just wants...

One of the rocks in my dad’s collection is a popular fossil sold to tourists … and available in quantity in commercial rock shows like...

A lot of rockhounds don’t really have a concept of “deep time”. That's the time that has passed to form the fossils for sale here. There...

Rockhounds are motivated by a lot of things. One is the thrill of discovery of something unique and delightful that has been in the...

When you browse through the rocks listed here for sale, you only see a few rocks that are bigger than five or six pounds. There’s a...

Utah Grape Agate is one of the unique red rocks found in Utah. They were ... You would be extremely fortunate to find anything now. ......

Fuzzy Top has to be the unluckiest deer on the mountain. Or at least he was. Maybe his luck has changed now. We named him Fuzzy Top...

Fred Brooks died on November 17, 2022. He was 91. This essay has nothing to do with rocks, but it's important to me and this is my web...