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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.

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.

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.

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.

Scottish quartz is a popular seller here at our online crystal shop. basalt hagstones, pink pectolite, and our calcite samples. We find most of our drusy in the Dumfries and Galloway region. Cairngorm Quartz crystals are our favourite. They are native to Scotland. All the more reason to bookmark our page.

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.

Here are our recommendations for advent calendars that are a little bit “different.” We found seriously cool advent calendars while we were looking for the best crystal advent calendars Here are the coolest advent calendars we found for Christmas 2025. Experience 24 days of fire, thunder, and riffs, although it looks like they are ornaments minus the music If you are shopping for a crystal advent calendar this festive season, then see our original article

It is our aim to keep that toll as low as possible. Do you ever wonder what happens to all the rocks that people collect? It’s not that we are judging your taste but more that our customers expect rough rocks and natural crystals

Here is our summary of the best equipment you can get to polish rocks, without having to get kit shipped Some of the links below use our Amazon associate account. How much does a Rock Tumbler Cost? We looked at the reviews and put our ear to the street a little to pick out the best ones. You can learn more about where to go to hunt rocks in your area in our blog. You can learn how to in our digital guide.

Next in our blog series covering the famous Scottish crystal hunting locations, we have Elie Woodhaven Elie Woodhaven beach is known as Ruby Bay and comes second on our list of favourite rockhounding sites Our advice is always to go on a weekday in the summer to avoid the crush. Our green rock sieve can sift through material down to a half inch in size. You can buy Scottish agates, Quartz, amethyst, fossils, jasper, and more through our website.

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. What’s Moldavite? 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.

Famously, sauropod footprints found on Skye show evidence of these massive beasts. Although the first footprints were found on Skye by PhD student Julian Andrews in 1982, The discovery In 2006 a Pterosaur fossil was uncovered with a further pterosaur skull found in 2017. Although our selection of Scottish fossils for sale doesn’t include dinosaur footprints, we do have a coral fossils from East Lothian, and crinoid stems and fossil soup from all over the lowlands through our