obligation to click them.> Here at The Stone Circle, we spend much of our time in the great outdoors, been picked up off the ground by Scottish rock hunters and collectors, polished on sandpaper or in our rock tumblers, and ends up in our online crystal shop. We keep our collecting to a minimum and spread throughout different locations. You will find limited, one time products on our pages, added as we clean them up.

It’s Katriona again with a January 2024 update on what’s happening in our rocky world. Our wheelie bin took off down the street and we have a flattened fence – but we are still doing our rocky The intention was only ever to sell a few of the coolest rocks we found. featuring our fantastic rocks. We also aim to grow our blog with details of all the crystals we collect.

We did our annual research to discover the best crystal advent calendars for Christmas 2025. Favourite Choice: National Geographic 2025 Gemstone Advent Calendar It is likely no surprise at all to our However, this coming December, Amazon’s top choice of crystal advent doesn’t match our own. Shop for our Favourite Witchy Advent Calendar with Crystals in it. Our favourite witchy advent calendar!

As has become Christmas tradition here at The Stone Circle, we have hand-picked our favourite advent Our Favourite Advent Calendars for Crystals, Christmas 2024 Christmas advent calendars containing crystals Here are our top picks either because they are interesting or particularly cool. We trust the gemstones to be of reasonable quality and DEFINITELY authentic (we have some of our own) With a high 4.5+ star rating (as have all our crystal advent calendar top picks for 2024), this brand

As a result, customers are always asking us where we buy our grits from, and which are the best ones. So here is a little of our experience packaged up into one neat little article that tells you what you Here at The Stone Circle, we typically use our rock tumbler grits in the following order: ·       60 We tend to buy our grits off eBay or Amazon. Check out our article on which rock tumbler to buy in the UK  or shop for our lapidary mix of rough rocks

The Evans plastic barrels we have for sale on our website are 1.5lbs. For our American readers – this is the one you want. You can read about the full hobby kit in our review.   Our selection of rocks to tumble includes: Our Scottish Mineral Rock Tumbling Mix  has a mixture of jaspers Buy 100g of Rough Scottish agate  in our online crystal shop.

As much as we love our crystals, Moldavite cannot truly be referred to as one, but we will get to that In the meantime, let’s top up our moldavite knowledge and work from there. Moldavite is found in only one area of the world, and this is the first clue for those seeking to identify The best place to buy it is in one of the towns where it is found, since they have better access to real You can buy genuine Scottish mineral samples from our store.

This harkens back to our favourite saying here at The Stone Circle: “At the end of the day, it’s all You can also buy rough jasper from our online crystal shop by the 500g or keep an eye out on our page

When one intrepid Stone Circle customer asked us if our iron-oxide-rich yellow quartz was the same as A great example of these iron oxides in action is our Scottish yellow jasper . This orange quartz crystal came from the gravel path down beside our local river. Keep an eye on our YouTube  and tiktok pages. Perhaps in the future we will change our ways.

You can get further advice on how to make rocks shiny at home in our previous blog on polishing crystals We outline our official method for hand polishing some of the Scottish rocks and Scottish minerals that we find in our guide on how to hand polish. Pick up your copy in our online self-collected crystal shop or through our Etsy store. You can learn how to identify quartz and how to identify calcite on our UK rock blog.

The Stone Circle’s USA audience don’t have to miss out on our recommendations of what to look for in Our first tumbler was their hobby rock tumbler and honestly, we didn’t know how good we had it until There is one more thing that makes National Geographic our favorite brand and that is their customer There is an unboxing video of the 1.36kg rock refill mix on our TikTok channel, here . You can read all about the Stone Circle’s rock tumbling mix on our website  or visit us on Etsy to place

We buy our grits from UKGE who wholesale a huge whack of the grits for rock tumbling you can buy in We use our rock tumblers constantly, so we do wear out the motors. Our top tip here is to be careful not to overfill the barrel. We ran ours to literal death, twice. We started tumbling in the 2020/21 season of rockhounding, so we have a few years under our belts now