Friendship Rock Slab

While on a 4 wheeling trip down in the desert this summer, my niece picked this nice piece of agate out of the small stream and handed it to me. I thought it was just another piece of nuthun, but it actually looked pretty good so I kept it.

Well it turns out my neice and my daughter are very, very close and my daughter was pretty sad when she got the news that their family would be moving to Grand Junction, Colorado (about 4 hours east of SLC.) Well, when we sawed up a bunch of rocks this summer, my daughter got the idea of getting it polished and she would keep one halve and she would give the other halve to her cousin. I thought it was a great idea and had it polished with the piece of wood.

Here is the agate piece.



Here they are together:


I wanted to wait to see how the first piece turned out before I had them both done. It's not the greatest, most striking piece in the world, but I think the girls will really love them. What's neat about it is all the blues in it. My niece is one of the craziest little rockhounds I've seen. A few weeks ago she came over to our house while visiting and we went thru my whole rock supply and she was very excited by all the cool rocks. Needless to say I think Santy Clause will be making a special delivery to her this Christmas.

Gaetz