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Ah, I must have misread. Sorry about that!

Sounds like your little buddha is serpentine. =) Serpentine by itself should be safe, unless it is dyed. You can find out if it's dyed by putting it in warmish water and ignoring it overnight, then scrubbing at it with an old toothbrush or a paper towel - if it, or the water, changes color, it's dye...

Lol, doraemon, if I were in the UK I'd take you up on it. Yes, quartz is safe. =) It's still good to wash it first just to make sure there's nothing on the surface, but it's nonreactive and pretty; it's the same stuff as sand (SiO2). Jasper is just microcrystalline quartz with impurities that make t...

how would we know if the rocks were actually river rocks vs tumbled and polished for mass market? Great question! XD I suspect that it is much easier to go pick up some river rocks than it is to actually tumble and polish rocks that big for sale - but that's just going off of what I know about poli...

Hi! J-P pointed me toward this thread. I'm a rock nerd. =D You've got some great-looking rocks here - I especially like those green-grey ones with the white streaks. It's great that none of them reacted to vinegar; that eliminates a lot of problems right away. This thread from the Krib has some info...