20Lb Huge Kentucky Geode Quartz Whole Unopened Giant Natural Quartz Fluorescent

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- To see more geodes, agates, and fossils for sale like us on Facebook and visit LidaAsteria for more information.- To help expand the geographic diversity of your collection, we offer geodes, agates, fossils, and mineral specimens that we have self-collected exclusively from the State of Kentucky. We are not dealers. Each of our specimens has a story and a location attached to them, just ask. Our geodes are natural formations that have come from various locations in Kentucky. On occasion we use acid to burn out calcite or for cleaning the geodes. Iron out is also used on occasion. Mineral oil can be put on your specimens to preserve them, but that we leave up to the collector to decide. From time to time when there is a great specimen that had a bad break, but is still a really nice specimen, we will use glue to fix the break and it will be listed as such in the description. Please let us know if you are looking for something special other than what is listed or would like a larger quantity of geodes. We can put together a special package for you.- Payment is due within 48 hours of auction end.- Ships to contiguous US.- We use USPS flat rate shipping.- We will combine shipping if you are bidding on multiple items, please wait for our invoice so we can get you the best shipping rate.Small Flat rate 7.00, Medium Flat rate 14.00, Large Flat rate 18.00If you have questions, please ask. We are Rockhounders "amateur geologist" and do our best to describe our specimens with accuracy. Some of our geodes have multiple minerals in them which may or may not be listed in the description. We enjoy looking at them through a jewelers loop to see all the hidden treasures J and encourage you to do the same.!What is a geode and what to expect from a Kentucky Geode?Kentucky Geodes are spherical or oblong rocks filled or partially filled with minerals. When a geode is broken, the minerals inside are revealed. Most geodes are completely filled with minerals, most often quartz. The quartz can be massive, crystalline, or layered, which is a variety called agate. Hollow geodes have an outer shell or rind of quartz, most often the variety chalcedony. The chalcedony often has a bumpy or lumpy appearance from the outside. But the bumpy appearance is no assurance that the inside of the spherical rock will be hollow. The interior of hollow geodes are filled with mineral crystals, which grow inward from the rind into the hollow space inside the geode. Most often, geodes found in Kentucky are lined with quartz crystals. Less commonly, calcite or dolomite crystals are found on the inside, either alone or associated with bitumen, barite, baryte, kaolinite, millerite, smithsonite, galena, fluorite, quartz, limonite, sphalerite, pyrite, selenite, or celestite, ect.. Several cryptocrystalline (microscopic crystals) varieties of quartz occur in Kentucky. They are commonly recognized on the basis of their fibrous texture and granularity. The fibrous varieties include chalcedony, agate, onyx, and jasper, and granular varieties include chert and flint. Geodes from the Lida Asteria Collection are from the "Knobs region" of Kentucky to include counties, Lincoln, Casey, Boyle, Garrard, Woodford, Rockcastle, Estill and Jackson. They have been collected from Rivers, streams, road cuts, quarries, fields and hillsides. We cannot guarantee the minerals or the quality of minerals found in the unopened geodes. These Geodes were made by nature and each one has its own uniqueness and was formed just as they were meant to.Geodes are often named according to a particular feature or mineral they exhibit or mention where the particular geodes were found. Common informal names for geodes include: quartz geodes, amethyst geodes, agate geodes, enhydro geodes, Oco geodes, Keokuk geodes, coconut geodes, etc. Thunder eggs may occur as geodes or nodules. We call our geodes, Kentucky Geodes or Kentucky Geode Agates dependent on where they are found in Kentucky. If they are found in one of... read more

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