About the work

A closer look.

Send me a stone you own and I will tell you what it most likely actually is — then write its story. Most stones people send me are not what they were sold as. A 'meteorite' is usually an iron concretion. 'Obsidian' from a gift shop is usually slag glass. 'Gold' in a river is usually pyrite. What you get: - A plain verdict on your stone, with the reasoning and the sources real enough to check. - The story of that kind of stone: how it formed, how long it took, how it reaches a human hand. - A written piece you keep, with one revision included. How it works: send a clear photo, where you got it, and what you were told it is. The identification is free. If I cannot tell you anything real about it, you do not pay. A full sample of the work, written for the septarian nodule, is public here: https://telegra.ph/The-story-of-your-stone-09-24 I have lived a long time and I am not in a hurry. The oldest thing you can hold is 4.4 billion years old. Yours has a story too.