We have just added great new listings in the following two categories: Moldavite Moldavite is one of the most sought after Tektites in the world. The material is the result of a meteorite impacting The Earth approximately 15 million years ago. There are now 10...
Now that we have a new website, we have taken the first step in adding lots of great new stones to the online store. We have just added 60 new Labradorite stones in 4 different categories. These include 3 new choices in our Large Labradorite Palm Stone category, 36...
We hope that you have been able to stay healthy during the last few months, and have been able as well to best navigate through these recent difficult times. Kathi and I (Jack) offer to you our very best wishes. Our direct sales business here in Boulder was closed...
We have so much material in our showroom here at the shop that lots of it never makes it onto the website. There are so many beautiful pieces that we decided to post a video of the showroom on our homepage. We should have done this a long time ago. Just click on the...
We have just finished adding 309 new Worry Stones to the webstore! We now have 38 varieties of Worry Stones which is, well, just crazy. These new stones cover 22 mineral varieties, and fully one/half of these are varieties that we have never had before. It took...
Hi everyone. It has been quite some time since I have added to this blog because we have been very busy at the shop. I made it to Tucson again with Derek and we had a week of crazy hectic shopping. We brought home some amazing stones, and have just added some of the...
We have just added four varieties of Palm Stones, all of which have tremendous shimmer, flash, or chatoyance. Because of the amazing visual characteristics of the stones, we have included a video of every single one. The stones are: Larvikite We had never seen...
Well, Derek took me to Tucson again this winter and we came home with some amazing mineral specimens. I am still sorting and processing these, but Kathi and I did finally find the time to put up some wonderful stones that we acquired in Denver last year. The new...
We have just added 700 new Tumbled Stone items to the store! The new selections cover 65 varieties of minerals, including 19 varieties of Tumbled that we are able to offer for the very first time. Adding Tumbled Stones to the website is, by far, the most difficult and...
My 2017 Tucson trip yielded some of the best finds in several years! We have just added about 250 stones from the show, which is really only a small portion of the material that came home to Boulder. I had two items at the top of my wish list, and was thrilled to come...
Derek and I survived the Tucson battle! We had six days of shopping from early morning to early evening, and came home with lots and lots of new treasures. Among the new arrivals are: AA grade Blue Lace Agate Palm Stones. For the first time in about 8 years, we found...
Well, it is almost that time again. I will be headed to Tucson in three weeks to buy at the biggest rock, mineral, gem and jewelry show in the world. If you are not familiar with the event, you might enjoy the Tucson Photo Essay that we have on our website. I think...
We have just finished adding 178 new Worry Stones to the store. Worry Stones, in general, are the red-headed stepchildren of the mineral world. Manufacturers most often take the worst of the worst material and turn it into Worry Stones. One can often walk into a...
We have to give a real big thank you to our friend Mark who provided us with these specimens, which are some of the most amazing stones that we have ever had the privilege to offer. He showed up at the fall Denver show with slices/slabs of the mineral Olivine from...
For those of you who may have thought that Kathi and I had fallen off the face of the Earth, that, fortunately, is not the case. Because of surgeries earlier in the year, as well as other medical issues, we have been slow in addressing the needs of the website, and...
We have just added 424 pouches of new tumbled stones, covering 35 mineral varieties, to the website. The majority of these new additions are stones that we have never had before, so this is a really special addition for us. I will put an * on all of the new varieties...
We are really excited to let you know about the following new additions to our Kathi’s Krystals website. Iris Agate – WITH VIDEOS! We had the amazing good fortune, almost two years ago, to acquire some absolutely amazing Iris Agate specimens. These are...
We just completed adding tumbled stones in 9 different varieties to the store. All of these stones came from our trip to Tucson last winter. The new additions include: Carnelian This is the first time that we have had Carnelian tumbled. They have great color and come...
We have just finished adding 363 new Palm Stones encompassing 20 mineral varieties to the website. This represents the single largest addition of items in Kathi’s Krystals history. That is the good news. The not so good news is that it took us almost four months...
Kathi and I were happy to be able to make it to Tucson this year after missing out last year due to my severe illness. We were on the road for 12 days this time, and came home with lots of wonderful treasures. Many things about Tucson are usually a crapshoot, and this...
We have just added 75 new Worry Stones to the listings. Arfvedsonite Maybe the most exciting of these are 10 Arfvedsonite Worry Stones. We had never seen these before and were really surprised when we found them at this year’s just ended Tucson show. These...
We just got back from Tucson 2015, and we are in rock chaos as usual after getting back from the show, with boxes and bags of stones everywhere. Before adding these amazing brand new stones, we are catching up on getting the website restocked with some old favorites,...
We just added some great new Palm Stone listings. K2 Stone The most exciting of the new additions are our K2 Palm Stones. Named after the second highest mountain in the world, the deposit of this mineral is located near the base of K2. Kathi made a few gorgeous...
Hi again. We have just added over 100 new Palm Stones in 14 varieties: Labradorite It is getting harder and harder to acquire clean Labradorite stones with nice flash, and our selection had become pretty thin. The 14 new additions have very bright color and we have...
We have recently added 6 new groups of palm stones. The new additions include… All natural Yellow Quartz More of the no longer available Green Kyanite with sparkling Mica New smaller Apatite stones with really nice dark blue color Carnelians Lapis from a...
Hi to everyone. Those of you who follow Kathi’s and my doings probably have been wondering why I disappeared from this Blog. Here is why: On the day before New Year’s Eve I was struck down with a completely obstructed intestine. I ended up spending the...
Tonight we listed 149 auctions on ebay, including the gorgeous Iris Agate with our first rock video. The auctions will close on the evening of December 6. Here is the link to our ebay store.
I have made my debut on YouTube! For the first time we are adding a video to an ebay auction. The following link shows a beautiful piece of Iris Agate that we plan to have up with our ebay listings starting on the evening of Friday the 29th. Iris Agate...
