We are practicing Lapidaries as you will have seen if you have visted our main site – roughrocks.co.uk.

In our early days we bought a lot of rough rock from various sources around the world, often in semi bulk quantities as it was affordable then and shipping wasn’t so high as it is now. Also at that time, as we were just starting out we didn’t realise just how many slabs or cabochons we could get out of a lump of rough rock.  We soon realised that it would take us a month of Sunday’s and more to get through what we have in stock.

So we decided to offer our rough rocks to other like minded people, our shop is aimed mainly at the UK and European buyer, simply because all of rough rock is here in the UK, has already had the international shipping and any import duties paid on it which makes it advantageous for the UK rough rock buyer as there will be no nasty surprises as can happen when stuff arrives from abroad.

Our next decision was how to offer it for sale, in the end we decided to offer larger items as individual peices as we do realise that often people just want to but a specimen rather than half a kilo at a time, so most of it is offered as individual lumps, however, where we have tumble size peices we do offer it in packs of half a kilo.

Our rough rock is all good quality and we do use the very same stock for our Lapidary work, as we take a chunk out of the stock we remove it from the on-line shop.

The categories on the shop do show a true representation of what we have to offer but in most cases we do have more to add more in terms of individual pieces in each category, we just need to get them all photographed so you can see them properly.

We think our rough rock offeres pieces suitable for the Lapidary, Mineral Collector and the Crystal Healer.

You can see a list of our rough rock categories below: