Obscure Fire

12/14/2024

🎄🎁Selling Deer Creek Fire Agate-Rough, 3lb parcels at $275 each. DM us with questions, Thank-you and Happy Holidays !🎁🎄

12/04/2024

Work in progress by Sean

04/17/2024

Selling Deer Creek Fire Agate-Rough, 3lb parcels at $275 each. DM us with questions, Thank-you and Happy Holidays !🎁🎄

09/08/2023

Our favorite ❤️

Fire agate is one stone, but two minerals: chalcedony agate and iron oxide, usually goethite or limonite. At a hardness of 7, it is durable and takes a shine.

08/16/2023

Saddle Mountain lies 45 miles west of Phoenix and just southwest of Tonopah, Arizona. There is a trailhead at the north end of Saddle Mountain about 0.5 miles east of the BLM Saddle Mountain dispersed camp site.
Saddle Mountain is comprised of mid-Tertiary volcanic deposits ranging from basalt or basaltic lava flows and cinders to capping silicic volcanic tuff – ash flow and ashfall – of local derivation. Silicic lava flows are similar to the tuffs and are biotite-hornblende andesite or dacite. Saddle Mountain is dominantly made up of hornblende-pyroxene lava flows and breccias.
Michael Ort and Steve Skotnicki mapped the geology here in 1993. They remarked on the great thickness of breccia exposed at Saddle Mountain and environs. Photo by Esty Pape.

Resource: Ort, M.H., Skotnicki, S.J., 1993, Geologic map of Saddle Mountain, Maricopa County, Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR-93-06, 1 map sheet, map scale 1:24,000, 12 p.

08/05/2023

We call this - Potion Bottle. Another amazing piece of Fire Agate from Arizona!

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08/01/2023

Meet the Cocoon,

One of my personal favorites, due to its several bright colors and high iridescence that spreads to the edge of the stone. It’s amazing what earth’s forces can create.

Features flashes of gold, yellow, bright green, blue, red, orange.
Origin: Oatman, Arizona (Private Claim)
Dimensions in cm: 3.8 x 2.4 x 1.1
WEIGHT : 63 ct

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06/06/2023

Wanted to take a minute and say THANK YOU, to those who came to support us at The 3rd Phoenix Heritage Mineral Show. We got a chance to meet some vendors and enthusiasts, looking forward to the next show in Prescott! Special thank you to Les Presmyk and the Mineralogical Society of Arizona.

06/04/2023

Today we are at the Phoenix Heritage Mineral Show, hope to see you there !