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Just your friendly neighborhood Agate Fagate. Trans woman with a love for minerals and nail polish and lots of other things! I'll share my rock hounding stories here :) 🏳️‍⚧️🛹📸🍣🐺🌋🏞️🌈
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Haven't posted in awhile as I don't like having limited space to type in a single post but I wanted to share a project with you that I'm working on ☺️ going to try and cab these two cuts of agua Nueva moss agate into pretty hearts 🥰 💓

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

#ThinSectionThursday A Japanese Eclogite that was retrogressed to amphibolite and whose omphacite was transformed into barroisite. Lots of phengite and some garnet around as well. FOV: 3 mm Sanbagawa metamorphic belt, Shikoku, Japan. ⚒️🧪 #geology #microscope

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

A friend sent me a Montana Moss Agate to cut and it's just so stunning!!!

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I need to pay some bills. Price drop on petrified wood. Comes out to about a dollar an ounce for Amarillo wood. It is mostly Araucaria (Conifer). Use code BETTERYEAR25 to save on rocks and minerals across the shop. #willettcreekagate #rockhound #petrifiedwood www.rosebudagate.com/store/Amaril...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Big news!!!! I'm getting a 10 inch slab saw to cut all my agates and more!!! Woohoooo!!!!!

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Photo 1: the rosebuds agate I will be cutting over the next week or two. Photo 2: a mix of candy dish Malawis and rosebud agates getting ready to be tumbled. Photo 3: the area of the alibates flint I will be cutting a slice from. So pretty! Get some rosebud and alibates here @rosebudagate.com

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited to cut into some rosebud agate from @rosebudagate.com this weekend or early next week. New saw blades on the way! I'll even be doing a test cut of some alibates flint I got from him as a sample as well! Good things are happening and moving forward slowly but surely!

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Having ADHD and an abundance of beautiful rocks to polish is difficult as fuck. 😂🤣. It's like. I start this one and get it to the finishing stage but then another one catches my eye and I start that one. Now I have so many I've started on so many different stages 😂. I'm sitting here going.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Some big things coming up! Will update everyone soon hopefully!

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Another @rosebudagate.com update!! So I rinsed all the agates after their vinegar bath and finally went through the rosebuds a little more. I found this one small piece of rough that I took a diamond grit hand sanding pad to and then popped the UV light on it and omg! #rockhound #agate #rosebudagate

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Fluorescent Dogtooth Calcite Ontario, Canada Reactive to LW, MW, & SW UV🔦 #rockhound #fluorescentmineral #explore #nature #glow 🌈

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

These close ups are of a piece of rosebud agate I got from @rosebudagate.com one side is white and brighter and the other side is dark anddddd it's got this cute little botryodial pocket. I have them cleaning in vinegar atm so I will show them off properly in a couple days! Go grab some rosebud!!

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Such a great thread!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

With glaciers worldwide in retreat, you don't typically see moraine building. But at Yahtse Glacier, during my PhD project, we got a great look at the process responsible for so many critical reconstructions of glacier change and paleoclimate. Enjoy! ⚒️🧪

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

DO NOTTTTTT FEAR QUARTZ COUNTERTOPS! Shame on People.com for this kind of fear mongering headline. This is simply referencing silicosis which is a real danger but only to those who actually work with the material. Not for a home owner with a countertop lol.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Here is some cell phone images of the shale with staurolite and garnets and other mineral inclusions. I have known this was here for so long even before I was really into rocks but I just never really went looking for it. I finally have some for my collection 😃 hope to find more soon! #rockhounding

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Today's peaceful rockhounding spot. On the search for staurolite and was successful! :)

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I grabbed 12 lbs of rosebud agate rough! Great deals and it's a small business! Excited to work with this material! Check it out!

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Awesome little shot of some of the shades of polish I'm working on for next year. Im hoping to create a product people really wanna wear 😁. Some of these are even UV reactive! *Fluorescence not shown in image*

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone For Yoga? A beautiful Red Fox laying in a yoga like position. 📸 Credit: www.roeselienraimond.com/roeselien/ #FoxOfTheDay 🦊

submitted 86 days ago • 42 comments