OVERVIEW The goal of this buyer’s guide is to leave you, the consumer, less confused for reading it, not more so, by providing useful,unbiased information that will aid you in understanding ammolite. It will...
Collecting fossils can be an educational, rewarding and enjoyable hobby. As a child I was entranced by the idea that some rocks were once alive. This guide shares some of my experience collecting fossils,...
I just got took. I should have known. Fake amber is not hard to make. It can be made from heating colored plastic, using copal (not 'mature' amber) or other modern polymers. Amber that looks 'too perfect'...
I'm writing this for those that don't know, hopefully to prevent someone from getting burned! The idea of a fossil being faked is unbelievable to some people, but there are both sinister and legitimate...
Everybody loves the beauty of natural rocks and minerals. However, not everybody knows the meaning of all the terms used in the industry. I’ve prepared this guide to help those people understand more about the...
BEWARE OF FOSSILS FROM CHINA This guide is a crash course is fossil collecting from a very green novice, to other very green novices, it pertains to the authenticity of foreign fossils from China, and basic...
Greetings wood collectors. I have a new find, August 22nd. 2007. Here I will attempt to tease with a 63 pound full round, full blue blue forest specimen note ruler for scale. I had a very lucky day...
I have just completed my second full season as a commercial fish digger at Kemmerer, and south of Rock Springs, Wyoming. I operated the Currant Creek Quarry which is now closed due to illegal digging.I have...
I am writing this guide to help fossil collectors with that often asked question, "How do I know it's really a T.rex tooth?" Now, I am a collector, not a paleontologist, but do have some information that...
Sedimentary geodes Geode a term from a Greek word meaning earth shaped are irregular roughly spherical rocks. They can be oblong or shaped like invertebrate fossils. Many of the geodes found in Michigan and...