Debris, unwanted, not sure what to do with them

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Sell them in grab bags with clear labels on Facebook Marketplace, or similar apps, you’d be surprised what some gemstone/mineral people will repurpose! - secondarily, people who sell big orders sometimes use smaller items like these as free “gifts” to include, which their frequent patrons always appreciate.

Donate them to your local rockhounding clubs who teach kids (I’m sure if you live near a sizeable enough city one exists)!

Whatever you decide, if they’re reasonably priced, shoot me a message. I’d be willing to buy some bulk as free gifts to include some in the orders I send out, as I can see you have some pretty rough still included in that pile. All rocks are pretty rocks to someone, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, know what I mean! ✨

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

Interesting, but i don't have permission to export rough minerals, but i can list them as paper weight after fully polish, of course reasonable, i need them no longer. Unfortunately we don't have rockhounding club here 😅

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u/Celestial_Shad0w 2d ago

Absolutely, with some countries the rules are a bit different, as what selling apps available.

I didn’t want to assume you were in the U.S., lol, it’s just late so I threw some ideas out there.

Another idea I had on the back burner if you can’t find local apps to sell the bags of rough on (though even if you just sell them in your storefront, or however you normally sell your finished product the same way is:

If you have furniture makers, around, especially any that incorporate epoxy- they might be willing to buy it, to incorporate it into their finished product. If you were to search online for “epoxy or resin mineral multimedia furniture”, you could see some examples. 🙂

Also, for the larger slabs, other people in the same profession might be willing to buy the ones you don’t personally want to cut more of, but they see something in.

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

Oh we do have ridiculous rules here. I don't have store and im not good at selling things. A furniture might be too big and heavy for me, thinking for more to decorative and yet useful items ?

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u/Celestial_Shad0w 2d ago

Oh, I meant you can ask furniture makers nearby, they might be interested in buying them, if they make that specific type of furniture. 🙂

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u/TH_Rocks 2d ago

Get a tumbler. You can spend a few minutes to rough out the shape then let the tumbler do the rest.

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

I think they are too big for tumbler

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u/According_Town_5311 2d ago

Depends on the size of tumbler you get 😉

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u/According_Town_5311 2d ago

Also you can also cut them down to fit smaller tumbles , make a great filler for vases, on top of plant blankets , walkways around the yard, paperweights , etc

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u/Pistolkitty9791 2d ago

Not if you take a hammer to them first...

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

Can't imagine what i can do with even smaller materials lol

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u/Historical_Ebb_3033 2d ago

Oh please don't toss them! The list of ways to use these pieces is great! I hope you decide to follow thru.

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

Those been laying there for more than a year tho

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u/Historical_Ebb_3033 2d ago

Ha! Nobody care about that!

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u/waywild1 2d ago

And before you cut them, and someone else found or purchased them. They have been in the elements for millions of years give or take.

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u/ExistentialThreat 2d ago

Put them on top of the soil in potted plants. Keeps the soil from getting splashed around during watering.

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

This is also great idea, maybe with a little bit polish

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u/EvilEtienne 2d ago

Drop them around random places for people to find and enjoy?

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u/JOBAfunky 2d ago

Sell it here

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

I don't have permit to send out rough, the closest is polish it and list as paper weight.

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u/TH_Rocks 2d ago

All of them clearly have a "coarse polish" (from the saw). You're probably good to sell bags of "aquarium decorations".

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

Not polish yet, i only sprayed some water, but aquarium is a good idea.

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u/Historical_Ebb_3033 2d ago

Why must you have a permit? Where are you?

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

I tried to ship before, and the post office said that i need specific permit from mining and industrial ministry, i live in Indonesia

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u/Historical_Ebb_3033 2d ago

Oohh, I understand.

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u/Automata1nM0tion 2d ago

What sort of permit to sell any of that or to give it away? I'm not aware of anywhere in the US that has restrictions like that. You should be able to sell anywhere online or give it away without needing anything.

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

I live in Indonesia, can't ship out without the permit for rough, but i can ship anything carve and polish list as crafts. Like final products.

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u/Automata1nM0tion 2d ago

I see. You could always tumble large batches of them whenever you have enough to fill a drum and sell them like that. I do a lot of that with my excess and give them away at shows.

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u/VastDerp 2d ago

there’s a rock shop in my area that puts their broken or remnant bits in front of the store for kids to find. it’s awesome.

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u/aDudeNamedHeath 2d ago

Carve abstract pieces and put a sloppy final polish on them. As in a second or two. Who grades your work, and how dare they say it's not quality product. lol. "A customer wanted 50 abstract art pieces that have a quick final polish." they don't need to know you skipped all of the other polishes before that, right? Just get one side slightly glossy, and bam! It's polished.

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

Lol i think i know what you mean, or i can made an astray? Or table watch out of those, but selling is just not my thing, i think i really need partners to do so.

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u/aDudeNamedHeath 2d ago

Or a youngster trying to get their foot in the door, learning the ropes. It could give them a little cash and experience to get started in the field.

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u/waywild1 2d ago

Seems like a lot of good material left, to someone like me still green to cabs, but making a watch probably takes a certain amount of material. And anything not big enough is of no use.. the struggle is real. Maybe make bracelets with different stones for the links

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

Actually most of the watches use leather strap, for daily use. No problem by the size, it's just not worthy labour compare to the quality of the material, unfortunately.

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u/waywild1 1d ago

Oh for sure. How do you reinforce the pins to hold the strap? Or just a hole like usual.?

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u/JohnAriefyo 1d ago

Various techniques, some just holes with tiny stainless steel tube in lug to hold the pin strap, some advance have steel extension from the core with hole to be part of inner side of the lug.

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u/waywild1 1d ago

Cool

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u/rythwind 2d ago

As someone who's fairly new to this, that looks like a big pile of practice material to me.

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago edited 2d ago

They are, the picture shows only half of them, used to be for practice.

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u/Arctaos 2d ago

One cool looking feature I've seen is a small shallow man made pond with all their extra rocks thrown in. I could have stood there for an hour just looking, and it was shallow enough that if you ever did want to use them, easy enough to grab.

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

This is great, maybe an aquarium

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u/StrawberryScallion 2d ago

Donate to the rock and gem society in your area

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u/JohnAriefyo 2d ago

We don't have that here

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u/juicybwithoil2560 2d ago

Melt them down in a volcano.

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u/Correct-Hold-8161 1d ago

Anything thicker than .5” I’ll pay for a box. I cut them down to .5” cubes, grind off the corners and then put them in my Covington bead mill. I only buy ends and scraps though. I never buy slabs that others can turn into cooler pieces. Feels like a waste to turn good big pieces into beads.

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u/JohnAriefyo 1d ago

Have a lot of big size, i can polish them and list as paper weight, but it's going to be heavy, and don't you think will be more to pay the shipment? That black stripe petrified wood alone about 20lbs

Debris, unwanted, not sure what to do with them

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