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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.

[Updated 6th June 2023] You can find Stone Circle Scottish crystals in our online store or through our You can shop in our Etsy store or through our website to buy Scottish minerals, rocks, and crystals. You can shop on our Etsy page or you can buy through our website. We also self-collect our Scottish rocks and minerals, so you have a piece of Scotland which is ethically

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.

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

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

The hobby tumbler which they sell is a particular favourite of ours and we do use it as part of our array Our jasper here in Scotland must have a higher silica rating or something because it has more of the You can read our National Geographic Hobby Rock Tumbler Review here  and now you can even shop for rock tumblers in the UK  in our online rock hunting shop. Check out our rock tumbling mix made up of Scottish stones at www.thestonecircle.co.uk .

[Updated 28th February, 2025] Here at The Stone Circle , we spend much of our time in the great outdoors dug out of the ground by Scottish rock hunters and collectors, polished on sandpaper, and ends up in our 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. We are active on both Instagram and Tik Tok and are asked daily where we find our mineral specimens

Scottish agate came from the Fife area, we cut and polished it to a fine shine and it is now listed in our So here is our additional blog post regarding five (more) crystals that you can find in Scotland. You should probably read our article about Ruby Bay before you go there. looking. 5 – Gold If you follow The Stone Circle, then you may or may not already know that we have our Subscribe at the bottom of the page or read more about where to rock hunt in Scotland in our blog category

If you left it under the tap for a week it would eventually wear away. Our Selenite lamp for review What does the selenite lamp look like? LED makes our quartz druzy sparkle. Visit Love Selenite  and check out the lamps or buy selenite in our selenite section . Use our contacts page to get in touch and tell us more!

And why wouldn’t you want to support our museum system? Our ancestors would be astonished. 3 – Smash your own Geode Kit We sell these once in a blue moon when we can get our hands on them. The Science Kidz Mega Fossil Dig Kit   is the best fossil dig kit for kids on our list. we would mention our own.

You can learn more about Scottish Agates  in our previous blog, should you wish further reading. get tumblers in the UK  in our previous blog. This type of agate is (in our collecting experience) the most similar to flint and chert. Although our source says that these mostly come from Oregon, we have seen more thunder eggs from Australia Browse our agate section   or visit our Etsy page for more .

Although slightly rare, these carnelian crystals line our waterways with Scottish agate goodness. founding members. In fact, we still find old arrowheads to this day… Which leads us to our next idea… Ancient Arrowheads our heads as we entered battle. The Ontario Rockhound  would be our first port of call if we wanted to buy authentic arrowheads.