Special Collector Slabs
Rainforest Jasper
The slabs listed on this page are a collection of Special, rare and unique slabs we have collected over the years from 1969 to the present day...thought it was time to share some of our treasures with our loyal customers.
Item # 1-RFJ03239945
Large Rainforest Jasper Thick Display Slab from Western Australia (Polished One Side)
$195.00
Rainforest Jasper is the trade name for this very colorful type of Rhyolite that was formed during an eruption of the long extinct Mount Hay Volcano near Queensland, Australia about 120 million years ago. Rain forest jasper gets its name because the mixture of green, red, yellow, brown, and orange colors reminds people of a rainforest canopy.
It is a volcanic rock with high silica content that is formed by eruptions of granitic magmas. Granitic magmas are very dense and cool slowly allowing a lot of time for large crystalline structures called phenocrysts to form in the spherical cavities (orbs) created by gas bubbles in the flow. These cavities are often lined with opal and tridymite. The phenocrysts are typically silica based minerals such as quartz and chalcedony of different colors and are what give rainforest jasper its unique appearance. The stone is also known as rainforest rhyolite, orbicular jasper and spherulitic rhyolite.
Weighs 22 oz or 1.38 lbs (627g) and measures 11.7 x 4.6 x 0.48 inches (29.7cm x 11.7cm x 12.4mm)
Item # 2-SCS03239474
Amazing Fluorescent Fluorite in Host Rock Display Slab (Polished Two Sides)
$149.00
Beautiful Blueish Fluorite in host rock that is Fluorescent in SW,MW, and LW Ultra-violet wavelengths. We ran across this specimen many years ago and it has been part of our personal collection for a very long time...in fact it has been so long that neither of us can remember where it was from. (tough to be getting old). This specimen was procured in Quartzsite, Arizona in the 1990's. This is a truly unique specimen with botryoidal formations on the insides of the Fluorite edges.
Weighs 14.5 oz or 0.9 lb (411g) and measures 6.9 x 5.1 x 0.38 inches (17.7cm x 13cm x 9.78mm)
Item # 3-PSS03239911
Picture Sandstone Slab from Utah
$24.00
Beautiful brown and Tan swirls reminescent of the natural formations in Utah's beautiful scenery.
Weighs 8.4 oz or 0.52 lb (239g) and measures 5.9 x 4.3 x 0.25 inches (150 x 109 x 6.5mm)
Item # 4-BMJ03239415
Brecciated Mookaite Jasper Thick Display Slab from Australia (Polished One Side)
$189.00
This is a beautiful polished thick display slab of brecciated Mookaite Jasper from Mooka Creek, Gascoyne Junction, Western Australia. One side has been cut flat and polished to a glossy finish. This material is from an area in the Mookaite Jasper deposit that experienced significant tectonic disturbances which fragmented the Jasper. Following the natural fragmentation of this rock, ground water containing silica assisted in the natural cementing process of the fragmented Mookaite, resulting in this beautiful breccia.
Mookaite Jasper is a stunning, multi-colored stone with vibrant hues of reds, yellow and purples. It is often called brecciated Jasper or brecciated Mookaite. It is found in the 110 million year old Windalia Radiolarite formation.
Weighs 15 oz or 0.94 lb (426g) and measures 6.4 x 5.1 x 0.46 inches (164 x 131 x 11.6 mm)
5-SSR03230646
Sonora Sunrise Slab (Polished One Side)
$129.00
Sonora Sunrise is said to be Chrysocolla, Cuprite and Tenorite. The blue-green area normally referred to as Chrysocolla is actually a basic copper sulfate called Bronchantite. The red area is a minor ore of copper called Cuprite with added Chalcotricite which produces the orange-red color. The black area is an iron-copper oxide called Tenorite and on occasion, there is a purplish-gray area that is also a cuprite. These copper secondary minerals are impregnated in a host rock of limestone.
This color combination can be cut into beautiful displays or cabochons that suggest a blue-green landscape or seascape under a brilliant red sky. The “red sky”, along with its Sonora, Mexico origin, was combined to coin the name "Sonora Sunrise" (also known as Sonora Sunset). This beautiful stone was first found in 2006 and was available in decreasing quality levels through 2018. The original Sonora Sunrise material was found at the famous Milpillas Copper Mine, Cuitata, Municipio de Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. The mine closed in early 2021 due to low copper prices, low ore grades and the Pandemic.
Weighs 3.3 oz or 0.2 lb (94g) and measures 4.3 x 3.3 x 0.21 inches (110 x 84 x 5.5mm)
Item # 6-MMTE03232244
Marra Mamba Tigereye Slab (Not Polished)
$95.00
Marra Mamba tigereye is yet another of Australia's beautiful treasures. It is unique and there is nothing like it in the entire world. It is difficult to come by in any quality, and quite expensive when you do find it. It gets its name from the area where it formed, millions of years ago, in the vast iron rich geological Pilbara Region.
The Marra Mamba is an iron-rich sedimentary formation in the Archaean-Paleoproterozoic Hamersley Group. It is located about 50 kilometers north-west of Tom Price, near Mount Brockman, adjacent to Caves Creek Valley on Hammersley Station, Pilbara Region, Western Australia
This very special Marra Mamba pocket was quickly depleted, mined out long ago. Maybe someday another pocket of this amazing tigereye will be discovered. Once you've seen genuine Marra Mamba tigereye, there's really nothing else to compare. It is one of our personal favorites! Shown wet and dry to see what polished slab would look like.
Weighs 6.36 oz or 0.39 lb (180g) and measures 5 x 3.1 x 0.26 inches (127 x 80 x 6.7mm)
Item # 7-MMTE03232246
Marra Mamba Tigereye Slab (Not Polished)
$149.00
Marra Mamba tigereye is yet another of Australia's beautiful treasures. It is unique and there is nothing like it in the entire world. It is difficult to come by in any quality, and quite expensive when you do find it. It gets its name from the area where it formed, millions of years ago, in the vast iron rich geological Pilbara Region.
The Marra Mamba is an iron-rich sedimentary formation in the Archaean-Paleoproterozoic Hamersley Group. It is located about 50 kilometers north-west of Tom Price, near Mount Brockman, adjacent to Caves Creek Valley on Hammersley Station, Pilbara Region, Western Australia
This very special Marra Mamba pocket was quickly depleted, mined out long ago. Maybe someday another pocket of this amazing tigereye will be discovered. Once you've seen genuine Marra Mamba tigereye, there's really nothing else to compare. It is one of our personal favorites! Shown wet and dry to see what polished slab would look like.
Weighs 10.1 oz or 0.64 lb (289g) and measures 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.25 inches (139 x 122 x 6.2mm)
Item # 8-NJSWA0323LR50
Noreena Jasper Display Slab from Australia (Polished One Side)
$48.00
Noreena Jasper occurs in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, not far from the iron ore mining town of Newman, some 1,100km (700 miles) north of the capital, Perth. The deposit is located on Roy Hill Station close to the boundary with Noreena Downs Station.
The rock tends to break into angular pieces which contain the most wonderful "geometric", abstract designs. Until the rock is cut, you do not know what will be revealed.
Noreena Jasper is from the same geological formation as Munjina Stone. They both occur in the Jeerinah Formation which is part of the Fortescue Group in the Hamersley Basin. Age is late Archaean & was deposited between 2765 & 2687 million years ago. It is a silicified pelite (mudstone)
This is polished on one side
Weighs 21.4oz or 1.34 lbs (609g) and measures 6.9 x 4.6 x 0.88 inches (17.7 x 11.7 x 2.23cm)
Item # 9-FQSWA0323LR50
Fuchsite Quartz Thick Display Slab from Australia (Polished One Side)
$40.00
Fuchsite Quartz
This is a polished on one face slab from the Mount Regal mine, Karratha, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia, Australia. The mine is located 12 kilometres south-west of Karratha.
This is marketed locally as 'Karratha jade', although it has no relationship to true jade or jadeite. Fuchsite is a green Mica found in Quartz. It can often be included with trace minerals of Copper or Chromium.
The Mount Regal Mine is a chrome chalcedony mine, hosted on a ridge of folded, moderately dipping Archean beds of green, brittle, chrome rich chert near ultramafic rocks. The green chert beds are massive, extremely fine grained quartz-sericite-kaolinite, with fuchsite, which colors the rock green, and vein quartz and quartz-chalcedony stringers.
Weighs 25 oz or 1.56 lbs (709g) and measures 5.9 x 5.3 x 0.84 inches (15 x 13.5 x 2.1 cm)
Item # 10-FQSWA0323LR50
Fuchsite Quartz Thick Display Slab from Australia (Polished One Side)
$30.00
Fuchsite Quartz
This is a polished on one face slab from the Mount Regal mine, Karratha, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia, Australia. The mine is located 12 kilometres south-west of Karratha.
This is marketed locally as 'Karratha jade', although it has no relationship to true jade or jadeite. Fuchsite is a green Mica found in Quartz. It can often be included with trace minerals of Copper or Chromium.
The Mount Regal Mine is a chrome chalcedony mine, hosted on a ridge of folded, moderately dipping Archean beds of green, brittle, chrome rich chert near ultramafic rocks. The green chert beds are massive, extremely fine grained quartz-sericite-kaolinite, with fuchsite, which colors the rock green, and vein quartz and quartz-chalcedony stringers.
Weighs 20.6oz or 1.29 lbs (585g) and measures 5.9 x 4.2 x 0.82 inches (15 x 10.8 x 2.1 cm)
Item # 11-FQS0323LR50
Fuchsite Quartz Thick Display Slab from Australia (Polished One Side)
$30.00
Fuchsite Quartz
This is a polished on one face slab from the Mount Regal mine, Karratha, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia, Australia. The mine is located 12 kilometres south-west of Karratha.
This is marketed locally as 'Karratha jade', although it has no relationship to true jade or jadeite. Fuchsite is a green Mica found in Quartz. It can often be included with trace minerals of Copper or Chromium.
The Mount Regal Mine is a chrome chalcedony mine, hosted on a ridge of folded, moderately dipping Archean beds of green, brittle, chrome rich chert near ultramafic rocks. The green chert beds are massive, extremely fine grained quartz-sericite-kaolinite, with fuchsite, which colors the rock green, and vein quartz and quartz-chalcedony stringers.
Weighs 18.9 oz or 1.18 lbs (537g) and measures 6 x 4 x 0.8 inches (15.2 x 10.3 x 2 cm)
Item # 12-APQ0323LR50
Rare Angle Plated Quartz Thick Display Slab from Travellers Rest, SC
$229.00
This is a very unusual and rare specimen of a variety of quartz not seen since the 1980s. These are the most exotic and best pieces we ever found of Angle Plated Quartz specimens. These are certainly some of the most fascinating and unusual quartz varieties from any world-wide locality.
Angle Plated Quartz is a very uncommon form of quartz that only occurs in the upstate region of South Carolina (Greenville, Pickens and Oconee Counties) and southern North Carolina. Our specimens came from a 33 year old collection from Travelers Rest, Greenville County, South Carolina. Travelers Rest, the northernmost city in Greenville County, is located 10 miles north of Greenville and about 20 miles south of the North Carolina border.
No one is sure how it forms but one idea is that silica is precipitated into cracks in the red clay. Eventually these cracks are filled with micro-crystalline quartz and the “plates” are often encrusted with drusy quartz. It is brittle and porous which is unlike any other form of quartz. Whatever the mode of formation is, these are certainly a striking and rare quartz variety. This fabulously naturally sculptured piece has been sawed into its present exotic slab-like form. We have not seen these for sale in a long time.
Weighs 37.4 oz or 2.34 lbs (1.063kg) and measures 9 x 6.4 x 1.15 inches (22.8 x 16.4 x 2.9 cm)
Item # 13-APQ0323LR50
Rare Angle Plated Quartz Thick Display Slab from Travellers Rest, SC
$65.00
This is a very unusual and rare specimen of a variety of quartz not seen since the 1980s. These are the most exotic and best pieces we ever found of Angle Plated Quartz specimens. These are certainly some of the most fascinating and unusual quartz varieties from any world-wide locality.
Angle Plated Quartz is a very uncommon form of quartz that only occurs in the upstate region of South Carolina (Greenville, Pickens and Oconee Counties) and southern North Carolina. Our specimens came from a 33 year old collection from Travelers Rest, Greenville County, South Carolina. Travelers Rest, the northernmost city in Greenville County, is located 10 miles north of Greenville and about 20 miles south of the North Carolina border.
No one is sure how it forms but one idea is that silica is precipitated into cracks in the red clay. Eventually these cracks are filled with micro-crystalline quartz and the “plates” are often encrusted with drusy quartz. It is brittle and porous which is unlike any other form of quartz. Whatever the mode of formation is, these are certainly a striking and rare quartz variety. This fabulously naturally sculptured piece has been sawed into its present exotic slab-like form. We have not seen these for sale in a long time.
.This specimen weighs 7.48 oz or 0.47 lb (212g) and measures 5.3 x 2.6 x 1.17 inches (13.5 x 6.7 x 3 cm)
Item # 15-APQ0323LR50
Rare Angle Plated Quartz Thick Display Slab from Travellers Rest, SC
$199.00
This is a very unusual and rare specimen of a variety of quartz not seen since the 1980s. These are the most exotic and best pieces we ever found of Angle Plated Quartz specimens. These are certainly some of the most fascinating and unusual quartz varieties from any world-wide locality.
Angle Plated Quartz is a very uncommon form of quartz that only occurs in the upstate region of South Carolina (Greenville, Pickens and Oconee Counties) and southern North Carolina. Our specimens came from a 33 year old collection from Travelers Rest, Greenville County, South Carolina. Travelers Rest, the northernmost city in Greenville County, is located 10 miles north of Greenville and about 20 miles south of the North Carolina border.
No one is sure how it forms but one idea is that silica is precipitated into cracks in the red clay. Eventually these cracks are filled with micro-crystalline quartz and the “plates” are often encrusted with drusy quartz. It is brittle and porous which is unlike any other form of quartz. Whatever the mode of formation is, these are certainly a striking and rare quartz variety. This fabulously naturally sculptured piece has been sawed into its present exotic slab-like form. We have not seen these for sale in a long time.
This specimen weighs 30.9 oz or 1.9 lbs (877g) and measures 7.2 x 5.2 x 1 inches (18.3 x 13.3 x 2.5 cm)
Item # 16-APQ0323LR50
Rare Angle Plated Quartz Thick Display Slab from Travellers Rest, SC
$179.00
This is a very unusual and rare specimen of a variety of quartz not seen since the 1980s. These are the most exotic and best pieces we ever found of Angle Plated Quartz specimens. These are certainly some of the most fascinating and unusual quartz varieties from any world-wide locality.
Angle Plated Quartz is a very uncommon form of quartz that only occurs in the upstate region of South Carolina (Greenville, Pickens and Oconee Counties) and southern North Carolina. Our specimens came from a 33 year old collection from Travelers Rest, Greenville County, South Carolina. Travelers Rest, the northernmost city in Greenville County, is located 10 miles north of Greenville and about 20 miles south of the North Carolina border.
No one is sure how it forms but one idea is that silica is precipitated into cracks in the red clay. Eventually these cracks are filled with micro-crystalline quartz and the “plates” are often encrusted with drusy quartz. It is brittle and porous which is unlike any other form of quartz. Whatever the mode of formation is, these are certainly a striking and rare quartz variety. This fabulously naturally sculptured piece has been sawed into its present exotic slab-like form. We have not seen these for sale in a long time.
This specimen weighs 27.4 oz or 1.7lbs (778g) and measures 7.1 x 5 x 0.97 inches (18.1 x 12.7 x 2.4 cm)
Item # 17-CLAS03239911
Crazylace Agate Display Slab (Polished One Side)
$22.00
Crazylace Agate is a very rare variety of agate found at the Marillana Station North of Newman in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Brown, tan, cream, black, grey, clear, orange and yellow colors make this unique display slab very interesting to view. This slab is polished on one side, making it an excellent display piece.
This specimen weighs 5.5 oz or 0.34 lb (157g) and measures 4.5 x 4.2 x 0.23 inches (114 x 108 x 6mm)
Item # 18-CLAS03238911
Crazylace Agate Display Slab (Polished One Side)
$23.00
Crazylace Agate is a very rare variety of agate found at the Marillana Station North of Newman in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Brown, tan, cream, black, grey, clear, orange and yellow colors make this unique display slab very interesting to view. This slab is polished on one side, making it an excellent display piece.
This specimen weighs 5.7 oz or 0.35 lb (162g) and measures 5 x 4.1 x 0.23 inches (126 x 104 x 6mm)
Item # 19-CLAS0323LR50
Crazylace Agate Thick Display Slab (Polished One Side)
$89.00
Crazylace Agate is a very rare variety of agate found at the Marillana Station North of Newman in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Brown, tan, cream, black, grey, clear, orange and yellow colors make this unique display slab very interesting to view. This slab is polished on one side, making it an excellent display piece.
This specimen weighs 42.8 oz or 2.67 lbs (1.214kg) and measures 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.65 to 1.17 inches (19.7 x 13.1 x 1.67 to 3 cm)
Item # 20-CLAS0323LR50
Crazylace Agate End Cut Display Slab (Polished One Side)
$45.00
Crazylace Agate is a very rare variety of agate found at the Marillana Station North of Newman in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Brown, tan, cream, black, grey, clear, orange and yellow colors make this unique display slab very interesting to view. This slab is polished on one side, making it an excellent display piece.
This specimen weighs 20.4 oz or 1.27 lbs (579g) and measures 5.2 x 4 x 1.22 inches (13.3 x 10.3 x 3.1 cm)
Item # 21-CLAS0323LR50
Crazylace Agate Display Slab (Polished One Side)
$42.00
Crazylace Agate is a very rare variety of agate found at the Marillana Station North of Newman in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Brown, tan, cream, black, grey, clear, orange and yellow colors make this unique display slab very interesting to view. This slab is polished on one side, making it an excellent display piece.
This specimen weighs 18 oz 1.12 lbs (512g) and measures 4.4 x 3.8 x 0.92 inches (11.4 x 7.8 x 2.3 cm)