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  • How Do You Identify an Agate?

    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 .

  • Give a Crystal this Valentine’s Day

    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.

  • The Stem Rock Professional Rock Tumbler Review

    After a few months of use our Stem rock tumbling kit is still going strong. We prefer a rubber barrel as our tumblers are indoors and these help control the noise. We put ours on pause through the night and start it again when we wake up. The barrel does fit on our dual barrel rock tumbler. So yes and no on compatibility. The Stone Circle Sells Scottish Rocks for Home Tumbling You can check out our mix of rocks for rock tumbling

  • A Typical Day Out Rockhounding in Scotland

    about rocks and minerals, it’s exciting to find a good sample, and it’s even better when we can share our While you can always catch our videos of rock hunting in Scotland on YouTube or on TikTok, we thought We start hiking and we keep our eyes on the ground. You can find loads of tips on identification over on our TikTok channel. You can buy rocks from our fun rockhounding trips through our online crystal shop at www.thestonecircle.co.uk

  • Black Friday 2022 - Get 10% Off Your Crystal Order at TSC

    We applied a 10% discount on all the items in your order placed on The Stone Circle website or in our Black Friday 2022 At The Stone Circle Get 10% off in store or in our Etsy store Shop as normal and your

  • Rockhounding in Winter: A Bad Idea?

    One of our last trips was up in the mountains, the final trip there for the winter. We are increasing our collection of unique Scottish gifts for sale and our selection of Scottish and You can check out our shop for some of our spectacular Scottish crystal finds.

  • Carnelian Vs Citrine Vs Iron Stained Quartz

    <There are a couple of amazon links to iron out products in our iron-stained quartz section. You can learn more about that in our earlier blog. Our yellow jasper is similar but can be yellow by limonite or goethite oxides. See our article about aventurine – or green quartzite – to learn more. Also, check out our blog post on ethical crystal hunting to make sure you do your bit to protect the

  • All About Aventurine

    As we know from every Scottish rock ever: it is the presence of iron oxides in our soil and groundwater I would like to say no to this, but we have actually found two separate pieces of green aventurine in Aventurine at The Stone Circle At the moment we only have green aventurine, but we are expanding our You can shop for rough aventurine which we buy in batches to tumble on our website.

  • What is Opalite if it’s Not a Crystal?

    Opalite beads we have in stock that ended up in our house somehow. What is Opalite Made of? This material seeks to mimic the beautiful colour display found in opal – for which the technical term For example, fluorine is the mineral found in fluorite and fluorapatite. That’s about 2732oF for all our American readers. Ooftie. You might believe that opalite you have contains the fluorine found in fluorite, and that therefore it

  • All you need to know about Scottish Fossils

    Bivalve fossils are by far our most common find, although lots are mixed, you probably have one of these Somme of our locations include old quarries and reservoirs. Fossils for sale from the Stone Circle Although we do try to polish as many of our fossils as possible After all, they’ve hung around a few million years, what’s a few more spent chilling on our website? You can buy fossils for sale here in our shop, or you can go out and collect for yourself.

  • Can You Polish Stones By Hand?

    We have not switched up to diamond paper yet but that is our next level. In our experience, blue or dark grey backed sandpaper lasts longer when it is wet. (It’s not our video, thank you JohnnyQ90.) In fact, our Dremel is a 3000 that we bought second-hand from a guy in our town (Thanks Tom!) Our tile saw looks like this one and comes in around £60.

  • Hematite: The Original “Blood Stone”

    As a highly amusing side note which I just this second found out about, hematite also blocks out x-rays Geology.com  - one of our favourite resources - has detailed info on classification, too. In terms of what wearing hematite does and who should wear it, we are not known for our accurate depictions Our online crystal shop stocks hematite from the Southern Uplands of Scotland , where you better not You can also buy Scottish minerals online in our Etsy store. Tell them we sent you.

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