One, two, and three pound lots are blindly chosen, weighed, culled of chipped or damaged crystals, separated, hand balanced with other lots if necessary, packaged, and sealed in advance. Twenty-five pound wholesale lots are weighed blindly but are not culled of damaged stones or manually balanced.

The material we work with is the highest grade of natural tumbled stone mix available to our industry, secured by South African connections that go back over fifty years. Tumbled stones are ordered by the ton and arrive in forty-four pound mine bags.

Each of these forty-four pound mine bags is its own batch. Batches can vary in stone variety, number of stones in the mix, which varieties of stones make up the base, and polish quality. While the highest grade of material available is always sourced, macroenvironmental factors such as mine effiencies can sometimes play a role in making particular batches superior or inferior to what's the usual standard. A new batch is not opened or looked at until the batch before it is completely sold through.

If you are looking to purchase a few pounds of our tumbled stone mix and are wondering if you will receive all of the stones listed in our guide, the short answer is no. In fact, a 25lb lot may not even contain a majority of the stones listed in this guide!

Before wondering what kind of stunt we're pulling here, let us first explain.

The development of this guide has taken place over the course of two years and 3000+ pounds of material. Over the years, we have noticed common and uncommon stone varieties change depending on macroeconomic factors such as mine efficiencies, the evolution of origin country restrictions, and politics. For example, due to a temporary era of civil unrest in South Africa during the pandemic, the common stone red jasper became scarcely seen in the mix, while the uncommon stone prehnite became a lot more common.

Additionally, every 50 pounds of rock will typically yield two or three "king stones"- these are stones significantly rarer and sometimes more valuable than the rest. Many stones listed in the guide are special king stones only encountered a small handful of times. In the 3,000+ pounds of material sampled for this guide so far, only one blue sapphire, iolite, hypersthene, and turquoise have been spotted! By our gemologist (yours truly) putting the guide together, anyway. As they say, you never know what you miss.

Eventually, additional stones outside of our tumbled stone mix will be added to this guide for the sake of completion. Rest assured, that day has not come yet.

Unfortunately, we cannot entertain requests for specific stone varieties when fulfilling tumbled stone mix orders. This is to maintain the fairness, integrity, and surprise element of selling unsearched lots.

We're sorry!

Occasionally, we do purchase specific collector's stones in bulk and offer them for sale individually. Our tumbled turkiyenite collection, for example, gives an idea of just how special it is to come across a piece of this material randomly in our mix. Individual stones not listed on our website can be tracked down across the web, or you can visit us in-store to pick the exact stones you want from our tumbled stone barrel (if you can find them!).

It sure isn't, but that's alright!- It'll get there someday.

Many unmentioned agate and jasper varieties can be found in our tumbled stone mix, and the guide will be upated over time as we come across the best examples.

Other popular tumbled stones do exist outside of our mix that may be added later for the sake of completion, but none of these are currently included. Such examples include softer minerals like calcite and selenite which cannot be safely tumbled with the harder quartz mix, as well as dyed stones that are colored artificially.

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