Cool Rocks

A friend gifted me a bag of rocks, these are some of my favorites. I'll tumble them after my current batch is done in a couple weeks.

I am Jordan and this is a Watchful Magnetic Pebble and a small Klein Bottle which are a mated pair.

They live on my desk to provide required supervision, as I am a computer toucher.

I posted about a lava rock I had found years ago. This morning I had to jump off the trail with my dog to avoid an off-leash aggressive dog, and when returning to the trail I found another lava rock.

And with its new friend.

It looks more purple than that in real life.

What's your favorite type of rock to tumble? Are there ones that tumble well together? Just asking beginner questions, thanks!

With so many rocks, which one is the biggest? Professor of Mathematics Arima Nayar explains the science behind big rock discovery, and where the hunt could take us next.

The rocks you have found are TINY compared to the ones I have found. Go home amateurs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO0TUI9r-So

My first post was a round rock. Now, I bring you the long rock.

I found it in a river in Northern Ontario.

I found this in the Rio Grande a few years back.

This is a few weeks in now, almost half way through.

I didn't know what to do with them all, so I made this with chain, copper tape, solder and a piece of wood.

It's mostly rose quartz with an amethyst, a couple jade and a few I'm not certain of.

We got some smokey quartz, regular quartz, and I think some gneiss.

The regilar quartz was in as part of another batch, but the other rocks stayed ugly so I switched them out.

I was referred to this sub and told to share my picture. I got most of these at local rock swaps.

When I discovered the beige rocks on the left side, which had been in the tumbler for about two weeks, weren't going to be interesting, I switched them out for the smokey quartz and a few other things I'm not sure of on the right, which have been in for less than a day. The quartz in the middle were tumbled with the beige rocks. I included those in the new batch, too.

I don't know what kind, specifically. Ochre covers a wide range of natural earth pigments with different compositions, but usually iron-rich.

I dig this stuff out of cracks in the Canadian Shield for paint pigments. It's naturally colourfast and very close to, if not a little less pure than what's used in commercial paint.

They started rough and now they're not. I'll separate out all the large and small pieces for other batches and start adding grit and ceramic balls to the mix.