rocks stones or gems ?

picked up some more off of my friend

 

I see some tiger eyes and that looks like turquoise in the bottom left.

 

The polished ones look like the kind of tumbled rocks you can buy at souvenir stores. You know where they have the bins and you fill a bag.

I see tiger eye, rose quartz, amethyst, and jasper.

 

yeah i think you are right cc these came with them also

 

probably an amiture rock tumbler, they sell them at the fair when it comes through every year ,some one must be buying them and heading for the rivers lol i will just give them to my daughter to play with and make jewelry . for the price i paid it is well worth it

 

Various tumbled stones......i have a pile just like it. Leftovers from when my kids ran their tumblers. Good looking stones

 

everything i get from this friend comes from England as he brought it with him and his family

 

My kids made some nice looking jewelry from stones like those. If you have a stone or tile saw,you are only limited by your imagination.

 

And some agates, I think. Whether from England or elsewhere, such collections are typical of what one might produce in a rock tumbler, after collecting beach stones; or one might buy them by the handful in a shop or county fair.
This particular collection is not typical of beaches in my area (where I might find agates, jasper, maybe rose quartz, but no amethyst or tiger eye). I'm guessing the shop or fair as origin; tiger's eye comes mainly from South Africa or East Asia.

 

Hi,
I remember while I was in India, a friend took me swimming in a gorge which was a huge tiger's eye. It was incredible, there were jumbled huge rocks of tiger's eye but no small pebbles. People took the small pieces away. The only thing that would have topped it was if it was malachite.
greg

 

Hi Skeezix,
Tiger's eye has iron in it, it's what gives it the color.
greg