Graveyard Point Chalcedony Slab 3.25x1.75" 3/8" Thick Owyhee Oregon PP-00001
Graveyard Point Chalcedony Slab 3.25x1.75" 3/8" Thick Owyhee Oregon PP-00001
Graveyard Point Chalcedony Slab — PP-00001
A hand-collected chalcedony slab from Graveyard Point, the world-famous plume agate locality straddling the Oregon–Idaho line in the Owyhee high desert. I prospected this piece myself, hauled it home, and slabbed it on my own lapidary equipment.
About this piece
This slab features translucent white and cream chalcedony with bluish-gray zones, warm yellow and rust iron oxide staining running through the body, and reddish dendritic and fracture-fill mineralization along the right side. The natural rind is preserved on most edges, showing the botryoidal grape-like growth texture characteristic of chalcedony that formed in open vugs within the Graveyard Point host rhyolite. One face is sawn flat; the opposite face shows additional pattern and structure worth exploring.
A note on what this is and isn't: Graveyard Point is best known for its plume agate, but the same diggings produce a range of associated material. This piece is not plume agate — it's Graveyard Point chalcedony from the same host rock, and a great pickup for collectors who specifically want material from this legendary locality without paying plume prices.
Specifications
- Material: Chalcedony with iron oxide and dendritic inclusions
- Locality: Graveyard Point, Malheur County, Oregon
- Dimensions: 3.25" × 1.75" × 3/8" (≈ 83 × 44 × 9.5 mm)
- Weight: 2.805 oz (≈ 79.5 g)
- Form: Rough-cut slab, natural botryoidal edges preserved
- Finish: Sawn faces, unpolished
For cabbers
A solid 3/8" thick — plenty of material for high-domed cabs, and the translucent chalcedony zones should cab beautifully. The healed fractures and dendritic areas appear stable, but stabilizing the most heavily included sections before cutting is standard practice for this kind of material and never a bad idea.
About Plume & Prospect
Plume & Prospect is a one-person operation run by a working prospector in southwest Idaho. I'm a prospector first — chasing gold, minerals, and rough across the Owyhee high desert — and I rockhound everything beautiful I come across along the way. Every single piece in this shop is a specimen I personally gathered in the field, then brought home and worked by hand on my own lapidary equipment. I'm not a reseller. I don't import rough from overseas, I don't buy at shows and flip it, and I don't sell anything I didn't pull out of the ground myself. If it's in the shop, I prospected it, I cut it, and I can tell you exactly where it came from.