Native Copper - 24 pc lot Hearts From potholes carved into Precambrian

From potholes carved into Precambrian basalt by torrential floods of glacial meltwater to the fossil tracks of ancient slug-like creatures that crawled across tidal flats 500 million years ago

and rose colored banded agate

If you wish to see samples of any of these stones you can visit our gallery and see displayed an example of each type of stone we cut

and yellow banded agate

Native Copper - 24 pc lot Hearts From potholes carved into PrecambrianMichigan Native Copper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula is considered the most important locality in the world for pure native copper Mining began in 1845 and continued through 1982, and over 7 million tons of refined copper were recovered from the mines. At the turn of the 20th century it led the world in copper production and "Lake Copper" was the purity standard. The chemical symbol for copper is Cu. Size range is approximately 2 3 inches in length.