Here's What's New from Keith at
Brushy Basin, Brushy Basin is now offering Jasper dinosaur bone and petrified wood Sterling silver jewelry.
Dinosaur bone has long been used for ornamentation. When polished it shows many colors as well as beautiful
cell structure. Dinosaur bone and
petrified wood, as rare gemstones are describe as "
jasperized" and are now being used in most of our Custom Made Jewelry. We also find and use the
agatized variety of dinosaur bone, petrified wood and coprolite which are more common. These wonderful agatized
gemstones are used in our less expensive Fossil Jewelry.
In order to better bring out the best in color, texture and balance of our fine jasper gemfossils, the stones are cut and polished to round or oval
cabochons, or any other softly domed shape, depending on the raw material. Only the best dinosaur
bone jasper and petrified wood jasper gemstones which combines the best possible characteristics and are the most beautiful, which will come together in rare and
attractive combinations, are used in the construction of our finest Custom Made Jewelry. -October, 2005 is the 46th year that our Moab Points and Pebbles Club has put
on its 'Rock and Gem' show- and all members (including myself) had to donate some of their time and energy to setting up the displays and the arena. We had
many dealers, plus many demonstrations and displays. It was a great show. Lots of people and we made a lot of sales, so the club made some money. Here are some of the pictures I took during the show.  Some of the displays and vendors at our 46th annual rock and gem show.
Presented by the Moab Points and Pebbles Rock Club.
 More displays and vendors. This arena is huge so we have plenty of room for the many various deploys. 
This is our club table where we sell rough and polished rock and fossils to raise money for the coming year. I'm standing with Judy and Richard.
 Here's the line of display cases that our club members use to display their
treasured rocks and jewelry.
 This is our club's 'spin wheel' for the kids, and old alike! Spin the wheel and always win a prize.
When people first come in, they sign our registration book and buy tickets for our hourly drawings for prizes.
 This is the grand prize that we were giving away at the end of the show. A
beautiful Indian vase and portrait.
 One of our club members made this rock art. These are authentic Indian petriglyphs painted on flat river rocks.
This is one of our demonstrators, a wire wrapper, a very unique craft. Many different things can be found at our rock shows.
 Another one of our demonstrators, a facetor. We also had a flint knapper,
but he wasn't set up when we took the pictures.
 One of our talented local dealers. He's demonstrating the art of polishing rocks and making jewelry.
This is a 3-foot amethyst tower for sale by a dealer. It was sold just after we took this picture.
 These are coconut geodes. Buy one and the dealer uses a hydraulic press to
crack it open to show the inside. They're full of beautiful crystals!
 We had plenty of room for various attractions. One of the vendors had a lot of shark's teeth for sale.
There are plenty of displays and attractions for people to see. Colorful, polished rock spheres are always popular at our show.
 This is a display of handmade, rock fountains by one of our many dealers.
One of tour more unusual items.
 Some dealers have a variety of stone, such as petrified wood, fossilized
dinosaur bone, desert roses, agates, slabs, eggs, spheres, and much more.
Just a note to our valued customers- and more recent events at Brushy Basin Fossil Gifts. Being a member of our local rock club, Moab Points and Pebbles
Club, we're deeply involved in all club events and activities. You can access our club at www.geocities.com/moabrockclub , or PO Box 1459; Moab, Utah 84532 -Field trips are a big part of what we do, and on Aug-10 of 05 we were looking for new sites to explore. Old areas still produce good material after big rains, so we go back often to see if anything new has been uncovered. It's always safer to go
with other people as the desert can be a dangerous place at times. Of course it's more fun to share with others. This trip we're looking for moss
agate for our annual 'Moab Points and Pebbles Rock Club
' show. Today we're checking out the
Burro Seeps area of the Klondike Bluffs.  Here we are arriving at Burro Seeps and getting our tools ready to do some serious rock hunting.
 A couple of us heading up the hill. It's always better hunting up high, or so we think!
 I see someone is beginning to lag behind, but it's hard climbing these hills
when the temperature is in the 90s.
Here we are working our way up this long winding draw, always bent-over to get a closer look at the ground.
 You can just barely see one of us at the top of the ridge-line. It gives you an
idea about how big this place is!
Here I am coming back down from the ridge-line after a couple of hours of baking in the hot sun!
 All of us finally back at base, it's time to check out all the fossil and gemstone material we found.
 Here I am using a 'loupe' to get a close look at the color and pattern of one
of the gemfossil stones we found.
This is some of the moss agate we discovered. Moss agate is a very rare and beautiful gem-quality stone.
 Here's a close-up picture of a piece of the moss agate. This is agate with
beautiful red petrified moss in it.
Time to take in a little lunch and get some relaxation before loading up for the trip back home.
 Lunch and relaxation hour over, it's now time to pack up and head for home. It's been a good and productive trip.
Did You Know-
Dinosaur bone has long been used for ornamentation. When polished it shows many colors as well as
cell structure. Fossilized dinosaur bone, as a gem is describe as
"jasperized" or
"agatized" and are popular
gemstones used in jewelry. Of all the fossilized dinosaur bone, only about 2% is the very rare jasperized!
Limb casts, probably of conifer wood, found in the
Brushy Basin
Yellow Cat area of Grand County, Utah, are among the world's most beautiful examples of agate
fortification wood. 'RedWood', as it is called by local collectors, is very rare and the only know source in the world occurs here in the Brushy Basin Member of the
Morrison Formation. Of all Brushy Basin petrified wood found, only about 0.5% is the very rare '
Yellow Cat RedWood'.
    
If you would like one of these fine petrified wood fossils cut into a cabochon and set into a piece of pure Sterling silver jewelry, made especially for you, or perhaps
constructed from a design created by you, we will be happy to work with you in this endeavor- see our
Custom Made Jewelry page.
-Here's some pictures of our field trip to 'Yellow Cat Flats' with the Moab local rock club, Moab Points & Pebbles- 
This is the famous Yellow Cat area- which produces some of our beautiful gemstones, coprolites and petrified wood.
 Some of our club members discussing and comparing rocks. It was a perfect
day to be out. We came here to collect Yellow Cat coprolite for our fall show.
 Here I am working my way up a hill over in the Brushy Basin formation.
The best pieces, it seems, are always the farthest away.
 Here is another club member skirting around one of the big Yellow Cat
bluffs. You can see just how big these hills are.
Making his way to the top, a club member is trying to find the source of the Yellow Cat coprolite.
Here, we're making our way down the side of this treacherous hill with our load of Yellow Cat coprolite.
 Altogether, we filled several pails with colorful Yellow Cat coprolite. Now
it's lunch break and time to compare fossils.
About Metaphysical Properties of our stones-
the potential for the human being to create physiological or physical change because they 'believe', is a complete
mystery to conventional science. Although there is no scientific evidence to prove the accepted metaphysical properties of gemstones and fossils, subtle energies in
these stones may indeed be able to gently nudge your 'vibration' to be in harmony with that which you want in your life. Now, you can check out the energies of
specific stones you're interested in by clicking its name to see its Physical and Metaphysical properties.
-2006 Moab Rocks and Pebbles annual field trip and picnic held up in the Two Mile Canyon area of the LaSal Mountains. The club collected some very nice rock
specimens and had a good time. Below, are a few of the pictures taken that July day. 
Before we arrived at the picnic site We ran into a group of ranch horses at the Two Mile Canyon turnoff.
 Here in the wonderful Sally's Hollow area, mountain wild flowers are abundant and beautiful.
This pretty butterfly landed on a surprised member's shoulder just long enough for me to get a picture.
 Here a few of us are hiking back up the jeep trail to the location of the petrified wood and limb casts.
Right here in the middle of the road a club member finds, what at first looks like, a great specimen.
 Searching the dense foliage, it's hard to see anything because of the weeds and brush.
Back at the picnic area we all gather around excitedly to check out each other's finds.
 Our new club president is showing a club member a nice piece of petrified wood he found.
It's time for everyone to start taking pictures. That's Jerry, our new club president with the camera.
 Later in the day, everyone has gathered around the picnic table to start
eating the many delicacies provided by the members.
 It's very peaceful and pleasant out here eating lunch among the quaking aspen trees.
 I finally found a nice spot for a group photo, with the Lasal Mountains
looming in the background.
 We're just about done with lunch, so it's time to clean up and do some more rock hunting.
We, here at 'Brushy Basin', thank you for stopping by- to see our fine assortment of rare fossils, gemfossils and exotic gemstones, which consists of,
petrified wood, coprolite (fossil dino dung),
dinosaur bone, and fossil gemstone cabochons
, some of which are set to fine
sterling silver jewelry. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Keep checking back to this page for further updates. See you soon! DID YOU KNOW!- Amber may turn out not to be the only potential source of
dinosaur DNA. Scientists at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, has reported finding
DNA in cells of fossilized bones recovered from an underground coal mine! |
