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Rise from your grave, thread. We bought a house recently, and while tearing down some bushes found a large pink sparkly rock. It's gotta be a hundred pounds, and appears to be rose quartz. So I get curious and Google, and I'm seeing 30 lb pieces priced at like 500 dollars. Do I have a thousand plus dollar chunk of rock? Even if I do, is there an actual market for giant pink rocks, or would this just sit on ebay for years before some rich crazy person decided they needed a healing boulder or something?
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Mar 21, 2022 01:18
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I don’t know how realistic rock prices are but my girlfriend thinks her tumbled rocks are worth a fortune because every time she googles them there’s similar stuff with crazy asking prices. My guess is they just never sell but idk
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Mar 21, 2022 01:24
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Snowy posted:I don’t know how realistic rock prices are but my girlfriend thinks her tumbled rocks are worth a fortune because every time she googles them there’s similar stuff with crazy asking prices. My guess is they just never sell but idk So I think I just need to sell it to idiots?
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Mar 21, 2022 01:29
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Slugworth posted:Rise from your grave, thread. post a pic
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Mar 21, 2022 01:29
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 It's a lot pinker in person. Nothing there for scale, but it's about 18 inches across the widest point. I'm not exactly a strong man, but I know I can lift at least a hundred pounds, and this thing was legit kind of a pain to flip over. I ended up rolling it onto a towel and dragging it across the yard.
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Mar 21, 2022 01:55
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It's worth a little but not a whole lot. Are you perchance in Georgia or environs? High quality rose quartz can be fairly clear (never perfectly clear because its color comes from fine mineral inclusions which by necessity also provide some haze) and fairly deep in color. It can also have a 6 ray mobile star which is fun. I've paid almost a dollar a gram for top notch stuff with an almost red color but I'm afraid yours is towards the other end of the spectrum, not high enough grade for lapidary work. Scarodactyl fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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Mar 21, 2022 03:41
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it's a nice big chunk but you're not gonna make $500. Maybe a hundred bucks if you clean it up real good and work out a good patter about how it cures bunions or whatever
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Mar 21, 2022 04:47
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Scarodactyl posted:It's worth a little but not a whole lot. Are you perchance in Georgia or environs? Thanks for the input everyone - I figured this wouldn't be my retirement plan or anything, but it temporarily seemed like a little surprise treasure. The gf really likes it, so I suppose it still is. (I'm not personally sold on big pink rocks in my yard, but so it goes).
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Mar 21, 2022 04:51
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I'd bet it was brought up from the Hogg mine in Georgia where similar material is super abundant. Milky quartz is all over the place here but rose quartz is really not a common find in NC outside of salted sluice bucket mines.
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Mar 21, 2022 04:56
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My plan for all the enormous (foundation scrap) sandstone blocks coming up in my yard is to stand them up in the front yard, do that with it
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Mar 21, 2022 15:24
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hell yeah henges for all
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