Gem & Mineral Show

Yup...it was just as lame exciting as it sounds.

The tight shots of the rocks were used in a "fancy" layout.

 Samuel Benavidez, 10, from Beeville, cracks open his first geode with the help of Keith Harmon owner of Stone Crystals at the Gem and Mineral Show Sunday, Oct. 16.


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 Jerry McLead helps customers at her niece’s booth, Renee’s Rocks Rings and Things, during the Gem and Mineral Show Sunday, Oct. 16.
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 Janice Herron of Kirbyville Tx, sits behind her art work of oil paintings on petrified wood at the Gem and Mineral Show Sunday, Oct. 16.


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 Type of rock: Amethyst Geode

Found: Southern Brazil
Booth: Bandera International Import Co.
Info: They are formed inside bubbles of lava

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 Type of rock: Shrinkwood
Found: Live Oak County Area
Booth: Dillon’s Agates
Info: Petrified wood that has agate in it. Takes around two and half hours to create.

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 Type of rock: Larimar

Found: Dominican Republic
Booth: Love of Land Images
Info: The man who found the stone named it after his daughter, Larissa and the Spanish word for sea, mar.

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 Type of rock: Dioptase
Found: Tsumeb, S.W. Africa
Booth: Stone Crystals
Info: cost $500

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The Rock Food Table was on display at the Gem and Mineral show Sunday, Oct. 16.


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