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     Lida Asteria

Kentucky

Rock Shop

Visit our Rock Shop... To book an appointment Click HERE or Call 844-599-8183 for our hours

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We are Lida Asteria Kentucky rockhounds. We offer geodes, agates, crystals, minerals and fossils.  We are passionate about geology and have an undeniably strong connection with nature and these wonderous crystal rocks we call geodes.   Bringing you the most unique specimens available.  All our Geodes are collected by us and are exclusively from the state of Kentucky.  We mostly hunt in the central/eastern portion of the "knobs region" of Kentucky. The Borden formation in this area is known for producing beautiful geodes & agates. 
Kentucky Agate Lida Asteria Rock Shop
Kentucky Agate Lida Asteria Rock Shop
Amethyst Crystal Geode Lida Asteria
Blue Botryoidal Geode Agate Lida Asteria Rock Shop
Kentucky Fossils Lida Asteria Rock Shop
Milky Quartz Geode Lida Asteria Rock Shop
 Kentucky Gems and Minerals
Flourite Kentucky Lida Asteria Rock Shop
Millerite Kentucky Rock Shop
Tumbled Agate Kentucky Geodes
Sphalerite crystal Lida Asteria Kentucky Rock Shop

What is a Geode?

Geodes are spherical or oblong rocks filled or partially filled with minerals. When a geode is broken, the minerals inside are revealed. Most geodes are completely filled with minerals, most often quartz. The quartz can be massive, crystalline, or layered, which is a variety called agate.  Hollow geodes have an outer shell or rind of quartz, most often the variety chalcedony. The chalcedony often has a bumpy or lumpy appearance from the outside. But the bumpy appearance is no assurance that the inside of the spherical rock will be hollow. The interior of hollow geodes are filled with mineral crystals, which grow inward from the rind into the hollow space inside the geode. Most often, geodes found in Kentucky are lined with quartz crystals. Less commonly, calcite or dolomite crystals are found on the inside, either alone or associated with bitumen, barite, galena, fluorite, quartz, limonite, sphalerite, pyrite, selenite, or celestite. Several cryptocrystalline (microscopic crystals) varieties of quartz occur in Kentucky. They are commonly recognized on the basis of their fibrous texture and granularity. The fibrous varieties include chalcedony, agate, onyx, and jasper, and granular varieties include chert and flint

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