Price Just Increased! (23 May 2025)
 
I don't do any advertising. I don't even try to use SEO (search engine optomization) to make KinesavaROCKS easier to find. So if you found this, you're exceptionally thorough or just lucky. The "Mission Statement" of KinesavaROCKS is, "I'm not really in business. I'm just having fun with my dad's rocks."
 
The "prestige" auction sites have impressive looking provenance stories and they work hard to advertise. I just have the stories my dad told me. In this case, I was with my dad as a kid on one trip. But since I had a career in software development, I've only reconnected with my dad's rocks since I retired and inherited them. The provenance in the "prestige" sites will cost you a lot of money.
 
I can't find anything even close to the size and quality of this specimen for sale, even at the "prestige" auction sites. I've become convinced that the price that this is listed at is just way to low. I'll probably increase the price again. That's the joy of "not really being in business". I can do whatever I want to do.
 
Compare these THREE corals embedded in the native limestone they were found in with anything else anywhere you can find for sale.
 
Utah Red Horn Coral is one of the most sought after rocks found in Utah.  My dad played a role in opening up the site in the foothills of the Uinta Mountains of Utah way more than half a century ago. You can read all about that in a blog essay here:
 
https://www.kinesavarocks.com/post/utah-red-horn-coral
 
The best information I can find on the web is that the dig site has been closed for quite a few years. In the ocean, coral is found in limited "beds" and the hundreds of millions of years it has taken to create these fossils has probably made the Utah site "one of a kind" that has thoroughly been exhausted now.
 
Utah red horn coral is one of those rocks that has experienced a price explosion in recent years. Someone at the mega-site Etsy thinks that a single coral is worth just less than $1,000.00. If this specimen was sold through a "prestige" auction site, I think it would cost something quite a bit north of $1000.
 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1099772629/red-horn-coral-fossil-museum-quality
 
The link below shows a single piece of coral embedded in the native limestone sold at auction for $368.00.
 
https://www.mineralauctions.com/items/red-horn-coral-classic-material-87357
 
In the past, I have listed corals as a regular item, but I found that they were going so fast that I could see that my stock would be exhausted if I didn't do something.
 
I really only have a few premium pieces of coral left. I'm very conscious of the fact that somebody will own all of these rocks in the not too distant future anyway. So I'm listing a few of my premium pieces at prices closer to the market value.