Petrified wood: where to buy
Petrified wood is wood that has turned to stone: trees buried long ago whose wood was slowly replaced by silica, often keeping the grain, the rings and even the bark. Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park is the famous example, and nothing may be taken from it.
You can collect it yourself on BLM land in reasonable amounts for personal use: up to 25 pounds a day plus one piece, and no more than 250 pounds a year, and you may not sell what you collect there. Shops sell wood dug on private land and their own claims, from small polished pieces and slabs to whole log rounds, which is the legal way to own big or showy pieces.
Ask where the wood was dug, and for a slab or a log round, whether the piece is solid or has cracks that may open when it is cut or polished.
7 shops across the US that sell petrified wood. Each one links to its own website, so you can compare them one by one.
Jim Gray's Petrified Wood Co.
Dealer · Storefront · Holbrook, Arizona
Digs, cuts and polishes its own petrified wood near Holbrook
Large rock shop in Holbrook, close to Petrified Forest National Park, specializing in Arizona rainbow petrified wood: rough by the pound, rounds, tabletops and bookends, plus petrified wood from around the world, fossils, meteorites, minerals, rough and carvings. A free museum, and windows onto the workshop where the wood is cut and polished.
Also sells: Mineral specimens · Rough & slabs · Fossils · Meteorites
Mammoth Mine Rock Shop
Dealer · Storefront · Apache Junction, Arizona
Rock shop of Lost Dutchman author Ron Feldman, on the Apache Trail
Rock shop on the Apache Trail below the Superstition Mountains, selling local Arizona rocks, minerals and gemstones, fossils, dinosaur bone and petrified wood, along with gifts and coffee.
Also sells: Mineral specimens · Fossils
Raining Rocks
Dealer · Storefront · Tucson, Arizona · Ships nationwide
Meteorite shop of geologist Suzanne Morrison; ships worldwide
Rock shop run by geologist Suzanne Morrison and Ilana Brin at the historic Kino Rocks & Minerals site on the south side of Tucson, a rock shop since 1958. Meteorites and impactites, minerals, fossils, petrified wood, lapidary rough and slabs, faceted stones, cabochons and books; the shop also buys collections and lapidary equipment.
Also sells: Mineral specimens · Rough & slabs · Fossils · Meteorites
Rare Earth Gallery
Dealer · Storefront · Cave Creek, Arizona · Ships nationwide
10,000 sq ft Cave Creek gallery; natural stone fountains installed
Rock and fossil gallery in Cave Creek, north of Phoenix: raw crystals and clusters, geodes, fossils such as ammonites, orthoceras, shark teeth and fish, meteorites, Arizona and Indonesian petrified wood and large decor pieces.
Also sells: Mineral specimens · Fossils · Meteorites
T-Rocks in Quartzsite
Dealer · Storefront · Quartzsite, Arizona
Big Quartzsite rock yard: rough, slabs, geodes and knapping stone
Large outdoor rock yard on Main Street in Quartzsite. Stock includes mineral specimens such as calcite and fluorescent and rare-earth minerals, geodes you can crack yourself, rough for lapidary, carving and knapping, agate and jasper slabs, petrified wood, fossils, meteorites and tektites, tumbled stones, beads and books, plus landscaping stone.
Also sells: Mineral specimens · Rough & slabs · Fossils · Meteorites
The Rock Yard (Tucson)
Dealer · Storefront · Tucson, Arizona
Over 100 tons of rough; open in gem show season and for open house
Tucson warehouse of Barlow's Gems, the cabochon business of Bruce and Debbie Barlow, open during the Tucson gem shows and on a few open-house weekends a year. More than 100 tons of rough in barrels, slabs, petrified wood, thundereggs, agates and jaspers, designer cabochons, minerals and carvings.
Also sells: Mineral specimens · Rough & slabs
Tucson Mineral & Gem World
Dealer · Storefront · Tucson, Arizona
Tucson rock shop open since 1968, with over 100,000 items
Rock and fossil shop on the west side of Tucson, run by the Ratkevich family since 1968: minerals from Arizona and around the world, fossils, dinosaur bones and teeth, meteorites, petrified wood and geodes.
Also sells: Mineral specimens · Fossils · Meteorites
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