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.

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.

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 .

It is always wonderful to play host to professional writers here. Don't forget to check out our gift shop while you are here. A loupe is always a good idea, and everyone loves our sticker collection featuring crystals and Highland

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!