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Geode Cathedrals
Quartz Clusters
Agate - Geodes, Book Ends, Slabs
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Utah Septarians

The following is representative of items currently in our showroom.  Specific items shown are subject to prior sale.  These items are natural specimens so each is unique.  Weight and size shown is approximate.
Citrine, 15 lbs, 17"	Amethyst, 14 lbs, 12"	Amethyst, 21 lbs, 17"
$385.00	$164.00	$256.00
Amethyst,32 lbs,15"	Amethyst,14 lbs, 12"	Amethyst, 16 lbs, 8"
$380.00	$51.00	$199.00
Amethyst, 19 lbs,12"	Amethyst, 21 lbs,15"	Amethyst, 16 lbs, 15"
$120.00	$203.00	$300.00
Amethyst, 11 lbs, 9"	Iron Pyrite	Petrified wood slabs
$59.00	$20.00 to $150.00	$24.00 to $125.00
Pyrite Sun	Pyrite Sun
$72.00	$72.00
Agate Drusey	Agate Drusey	Agate Slice
$24.95 to $69.95		$6.95 to $8.95
Agate Bookends	Petrified Wood	Rose Quartz
$27.00 to $50.00	$61.50 to $90.00	$29.00 to $41.00
Selenite	Spheres	Eggs
$30.00 to $69.00	$3.95 to $75.00	$1.75 to $30.00
Septarians Septarian specimans are available in a variety of shapes and size such as these shown below.
Septarian Egg	Septarians	Septarians
$250.00	$15.00 to $100.00

Utah Septarians

Septarians were formed approximately 100 million years ago when the Gulf of Mexico reached what is now southern Utah. Decomposing sea (shell) life, killed by volcanic eruptions, has a chemical or molecular attraction for the sediment around them, forming mud balls. Tide and wave action rolled the balls around increasing the size of many of them. As the ocean receded the balls were left to dry and crack. Because of their bentonite content they also shrank at the same time trapping the cracks inside. They were then covered by sediment. The ocean returned depositing more shell life above them. As this decomposed calcite from the shells was carried down into the cracks in the mud balls, calcite crystals formed. A thin wall of calcite was transformed into aragonite dividing the bentonite heavy clay (shale) exteriors from the calcite centers. Because of this dividing wall (septum in Latin) the geodes are called Septarians.