{"id":144,"date":"2009-11-11T04:19:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T04:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/local-lapidary-artisans-gemstones\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T04:19:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T04:19:01","slug":"local-lapidary-artisans-gemstones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/local-lapidary-artisans-gemstones\/","title":{"rendered":"Local lapidary artisans gemstones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, along with being a Realtor I am also co owner of Silverhawk&#8217;s Creations. While we do everything from webdesign to jewelry, on of our biggest claim to fame are our gemstones. Yep, my very talented Sam and I (and even my 16 year old son Chris and Sam&#8217;s equally talented cousin Robby) cut gemstones for a living. My clients often ask me to update them when I put up new gemstones so I figured my blog is the perfect way to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rocks are fascinating and often named for the area in which they are found. I can go through just about any place in the U.S and recognize little towns because at some time someone found a really neat jasper or agate there. The earth provides us with little works of art formed by millions of years of harsh conditions (that I am so glad that I missed). There is nothing like waking up and doing a job that you love every day and it is our distinct pleasure to be able to grind these into cabochons for jewelers, gold and silversmiths, beaders and collectors to use and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested in my passion, please come see our gemstones and learn a little about them.<\/p>\n<p>This week we have posted the following stones at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsilverhawk.com\/gems1.html\">http:\/\/www.samsilverhawk.com\/gems1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tahoma jasper from the slopes of Mt. Rainier in Washington state<\/p>\n<p>ocean jasper from Madagascar<\/p>\n<p>Exotica porcelain jasper from Mexico<\/p>\n<p>Mexican crazy lace agate from Mexico<\/p>\n<p>Owyhee jasper, a long recognized classic from Oregon<\/p>\n<p>Priday moss agate, from the long-famous Richardson Ranch agate beds in Oregon<\/p>\n<p>Rainforest jasper from Australia Biggs jasper from Oregon<\/p>\n<p>Blue lace agate, from Africa<\/p>\n<p>Pilbara jasper, a recent Australian find<\/p>\n<p>Tube agate (This one looks like Ochoco to me, but we can&#8217;t be sure)<\/p>\n<p>Turquoise from Kingman, Arizona<\/p>\n<p>Bruneau jasper from Bruneau Canyon, Idaho<\/p>\n<p>Botswana agate from Africa<\/p>\n<p>Pigeon blood agate, also known as cornelian, from Utah<\/p>\n<p>Royal Sahara jasper, harvested in the North African Sahara desert<\/p>\n<p>Rhodochrosite from Argentina, cut from a slice of stalactite base<\/p>\n<p>Willow Creek jasper, from Idaho<\/p>\n<p>For a little ancient sea life we have fossilized horn coral, from Utah Laboratory grown white opal<\/p>\n<p>Agua Neuva agate from Mexico<\/p>\n<p>Purple jade, from Turkey<\/p>\n<p>Luna agate, from Mexico<\/p>\n<p>Apache jasper a rhyolite, also known as Mimbres Valley jasper from New Mexico<\/p>\n<p>Seraphinite from Russia&#8217;s Lake Baikal area in eastern Siberia<\/p>\n<p>Tabu tabu, also sometimes called &#8216;smoke and embers&#8217; jasper, or forest fire jasper, from Africa<\/p>\n<p>Chrysoprase from a newly discovered find near Yerilla, Australia<\/p>\n<p>Sweetwater dendritic agate, from Wyoming. One of the few known agates that fluoresce in UV light<\/p>\n<p>and we have a mystery plume with manganese-based plumes agate out of Texas. If you happen to recognize this one, let me know.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, along with being a Realtor I am also co owner of Silverhawk&#8217;s Creations. While we do everything from webdesign to jewelry, on of our biggest claim to fame are our gemstones. Yep, my very talented Sam and I (and even my 16 year old son Chris and Sam&#8217;s equally talented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}