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[Bauglir]

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[woose1]

Go outside and pick one up at random.
They all look the same anyway...

[Nilocy]

Buying rocks... now theres something you don't hear every day.

[Sensei]

You're supposed to search them out.

Anyway, you're going to have a good trouble finding rocks to buy unless you're looking for big slabs of granite/marble, or gravel for landscaping. Sometimes craft stores and the like have polished rocks.

[G-Flex]

Buying rocks... now theres something you don't hear every day.

Hey, people collect jewelry and gemstones all the time, right?


There's a site I found a long time ago that could have a better layout, and I'm not sure how good their prices/selection are, but they have specimens/gems/jewelry and such arranged by mineral:
http://mineralminers.com/
They have gemstone, jewelry, mineral specimen, etc. indexes there.
It's mostly gemstone-type rocks and that sort of thing, but hey, you can pick up some meteorite chunks while you're at it.

[Croquantes]

Microcline bookends? WANT! Microcline's my favourite rock in DF. So blue, bright and happy. :3

[Rilder]

Visit a local cave attraction? It was years ago but I remember visiting a cave for a elementary school field trip and they were selling stuff like that.

[Bauglir]

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[Kitpup]

Try going to a natural history museum.

The one here in Washington has (or had, last time I went) a spot where you could purchase a sized bag and pick out various types of rocks. All polished, none gemstones. I can't remember what types they had, but they're soooo preeeeetty.

[Creamcorn]

Alas, it's Iowa. We have the most boring geography ever, and make up for it in weather. Which is notoriously difficult to bottle and display on a desk.

The bookends are nice, though. At least, they're a bright blue feldspar with obvious strata that end in what appears to be quartz or some similar crystal. I assume they're microcline because they're bright blue, and a feldspar.

If that's true, then start your own mountain home there! I'll show up as baron after the third year of obsidian.

JK, anyway if you really need to find interesting rocks, than go look in a brook or near a lake shore. Those places tend to have some shiny pretty rocks.