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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.

• 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

  itsrainingrocks.com ↗Eureka listing →

• 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

  rareearthgallerycc.com ↗Eureka listing →

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