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(Note: I often have slabs of material long after I have sold out of rough, so ask about slabs if the material says Sold Out). Slabs are sold by the square inch. For example, a 4"x4" slab is 16 square inches. ALMOST ALL OF MY SLABS ARE 1/4" +/- 1/16 inch thick. Please Note:  I always have slabs available unless the Available Quantity says otherwise. For slabs, I only charge for usable material if the slab has unsuable portions (for example, thunderegg slabs have both unusable matrix and usable centers).Please do not order more than the quantity available. Please pay attention to the size of the rough. I will not break up rough rocks to accomodate small quantities.

Knappers: If you want narrow slabs (say 2" wide) I can cut them for you for a little extra (it tends to waste quite a bit of material). If you want to do it yourself pick up a 14" tile cutter, they're fairly cheap.

MANY of my non-obsidian rocks are heat treatable. I don't know a darn thing about it so I can't answer any questions. There are lots of resources on the interwebs and Puget Sound Knappers have a nice discussion about it HERE. A PDF of instructions for tons of different types of rock from that page is HERE.

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If the Rough is available and Slabs say SOLD OUT check back often, I slab more as I get the time!

I have LARGE TO GIANT SLABS available as big as 14" long CLICK HERE

Obsidian Needles

Jumbo! (>6" - 8") $30 / pound

Gargantuan!!! needles (>10" - 12"+) $0.75 per inch ASK HERE

Big Fat needles $0.50 / pound

Beatys Butte Obsidian This material is from private property on this just about unknown obsidian location. It has been identified as a source of obsidian for ancient native American tribes and was traded all over the northwest and beyond. It looks like basanite from the rind (which is always opaque) but it's more like obsidian. It's almost all a totally opaque jet black but has occasional mahogany streaks. Well shaped rough for spalling and knapping, usually whole or nearly whole rounded nodules from about a pound to over 5 pounds. This variety is great for backing doublet or triplet cabochons.

YES

Black Obsidian * (translucent to semi-opaque; with and without "bands" or faint sheen) * This is what you want for hunting points or to practice spalling or FOG knapping. If I am sold out, try the Glass Buttes silver, which is the same thing, only lighter gray as opposed to black in color. Blowout sale I need to make room for more slabs!

YES

Miscellaneous Obsidian In addition to black obsidian I am also offering buckets of various obsidian from Glass Buttes and Davis/Lassen Creek at the same price. There can be anything in this, for all I know there's Davis Creek Velvet in here. I simply don't have the time to sort through all of it. This is an insane bargain compared to what I would price each type at!

Opaque Black Obsidian Preferred by some knappers. Some is faintly banded.

YES

Davis Creek Apache Gold (Green sheen variety) All black/ clear/ mahogany colors are sold out. I do have a few pieces that have a really weird but faint green sheen to them. I want them gone :)

YES

Davis Creek Green/Gold/Purple Sheen Green and/or Gold and/or Purple "flash" - very unique! A few with deep purple too. I have some killer rough available too, most of it is the green & purple variety.

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YES

Davis Creek Gray Banded * gray colors in bands, sometimes with "chevron" patterns.

Davis Creek Needles Pit Chatoyant Purple This is fantastic sheen obsidian, I was blown away by the first slab I cut (email me for a video, I can't make it play on the website). I have been digging needles for years and never really noticed the boulders at the pit had purple sheen. So I hauled a few buckets back and they are spectacular. Someone has since taken all the boulders so unless I unearth more I won't have any more to sell.

YES

Davis Creek Pink Lady Subtle (usually) pastel rainbow colors or beautiful lavender to purple "flash" which is unique to this mine.

YES

YES

Davis Creek rainbow/gray * Pastel rainbow colors mixed in with gray bands. I can't tell if it's this type until I slab it so sorry no rough available. I only have BIG, THICK slabs left. As in, big enough for a spear :)

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YES

Davis Creek rainbow * All rainbow colors in straight or wavy bands. Some of this is wild stuff! Sale on slabs! I cut way too much! GIANT slabs available!

YES

YES

Davis Creek Velvet * Awesome velvet rainbow colors, much like Royal Velvet. The pit has been totally wiped out by illegal commercial mining so unless I stumble on some for sale I won't be getting any more.

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YES

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Glass Buttes Double Flow * Black & brown or black & clear bands and patterns. I dug lots of this from the Midnite Lace pit so there's a chance of some lace in the mix. Most is black varieties like black/clear but there ares some mahogany combos.

YES

Glass Buttes Gold Sheen * Lots of really nice rough! The classic mahogany to red and black bands with nice sheen. Much of it has more than one shade of mahogany too. There is some gold sheen in the Crazy Pit rough above. Some HUGE slabs too.

YES

Glass Buttes Gunmetal Silvery to a shiny light smoke/blue, totally opaque. I found 2 pieces of this in my stash so I have VERY FEW slabs available. The pit has been totally wiped out by illegal commercial mining (as in, there isn't any in the tailings or parts of the pit that I tried to get some more from either), so unless a miracle happens I won't be getting any more.

A FEW

Glass Buttes Leopardskin Mahogany and black patterns vaguely (hey I didn't name it lol) remiscent of a leopard's coat.

YES

Glass Buttes Mahogany Mahogany to red-brown, usually has some areas of black.

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Glass Buttes Midnite Lace Black and clear in lines & swirls. I've been frantically slabbing pieces from the pit to find more. Note: people are calling any old clear obsidian with black bands Midnite Lace. That is NOT Midnite Lace, it only comes from one pit!

YES

Glass Buttes Rainbow This is NOT the old Glass Buttes rainbow pit that you see for sale everywhere else; it is much better, from the same pit as the insanely rare Aurora Borealis. I last dug this pit in 2019 but now it has been pretty well trashed by illegal commercial mining. So there isn't much coming out unless someone starts a new pit.

Glass Buttes Pumpkin Pit Extremely variable patterns - black, smoky opaque black, pumpkin colored bands, gold sheen. Opaque, transparent, or both. Let me know which you prefer and I'll try my best to match (for slabs only). Once it's gone it's gone unless someone has a 4WD truck that they are willing to beat up to reach the pit. I am not that someone until my new-ish truck gets beat down.

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Glass Buttes Silver Sheen Silvery sheen, can take many forms. Some has light rainbow colors.

YES

Glass Buttes Spiderweb/Lizardskin * (I've seen it called both). Crazy black, clear, and mahogany with occasional gold and sliver sheen in "spiderweb" and other crazy patterns. I dug this again for the first time in 15 years and now I don't know why it took so long. The pit is so dangerous now I won't even go into it so I probably won't be getting any more unless I get the time to poke around the hill to see if there's another spot worth opening up.

YES

Glass Buttes Triple Flow * Black, brown, and clear bands and patterns. I don't know what this is until I slab it so no rough available, sorry.

Lassen Creek Electric Blue * The most amazing rainbow obsidian, vivid blue bands.

Lassen Creek Rainbow Bright, intense rainbow colors in bands, many mixed varieties. I have some but not a lot.

YES

Mexico Green & Purple Green and purple in bands or shimmering sheen (much like the Royal Velvet); some is just purple. This is some special stuff!

YES

Mexico Rainbow I think I can get some more but it will be a while yet...

Mexico Royal Velvet It's back! This variety needs no introduction, it speaks for itself! Most of what I have is solid shimmering mixed colors with a little black, but some does have the black background.

YES

Utah Snowflake * Classic white snowflakes on a black background. NONE of this is the pitted, punky junk.