• A pile of miscellaneous rocks with different colors and patterns
  • A smooth red-brown rock with white veins through it on a mineral shelf with a tag labeled "Leaverite, Mexico"
  • Preview of the leaverite options A through T spread out on a cardboard background. They are all roughly the same size.
  • Option A, irregular-shaped rock with a mottled blue-gray and maroonish colors
  • Option B, a flat gray rock with crinkly patterns and a line up the middle, looking like a brain. There is a graphic of a brain on the picture
  • Option C, a flat layered rock, light tan color on top and bottom with black layers in the middle like a hamburger. There is a vein running vertically through the center of the piece
  • Option D, a rectangular rock with light taupe color and white veining.
  • Option E, a trapezoidal rock with layering in it, gray with darker grey spots all over it.
  • Option F, a flat rectangular light gray rock criss-crossed with lines eroded from it
  • Option G, a brown-gray rock crossed with lines and covered in discolored indentations that appear to have a softer material eroding out of them.
  • Option H, a flat triangular rock with rounded corners. It is light gray with a drip of white roofing paint on one edge
  • Option I, an irregularly shaped deep red rock that looks like a jasper, criss-crossed with white quartz veins
  • Option J, a gray rock covered in small cheese-holes that are slightly discolored
  • Option K, a sandy-textured gray rock filled with white veining of a harder material. The gray rock has eroded away leaving ridges of the white
  • Option L, a rectangular dark grey rock with thick rust-colored veins through it
  • Option M, a light gray rock filled with crinoid fossils
  • Option N, a rectangular gray rock criss-crossed with white veins of a softer material, holes have eroded out of it in places
  • Option O, a rectangular rock that is half light gray and half dark gray, divided by a distinct line. One one side there is a fine white line in a spiral.
  • Option P, a five-layered rock alternating a light pink-gray tinted rock with two layers of softer greenish material, which was eroded more quickly making the surface corrugated
  • Option Q, an irregularly-shaped piece of deep maroon-red rock. It's a jasper-like material, with gray and lighter red spots through it
  • Option R, flat oval rock with a granular texture and light brownish gray color. The surface is covered with a three-dimensional circular pattern. May be a fossil!
  • Option S, and irregularly-shaped rock that is white with greenish-gray swirl patterns, and darker gray spots
  • Option T, oval rock with mottled pinkish color, with yellow splotches and white stripes
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Leaverite

Leaverite

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Locale: Mexico

Approx size: varies by piece, but I guarantee you will receive a rock!

 

Can I interest you in… a rock?

Leaverite is a colloquial term for stones that are “just a rock,” though they may appear to be of greater interest or value to the layman (see the full guide to leaverites). The name comes from the fact it is not a worthwhile specimen to collect, so geologists and rockhounds will tell you to “leave ‘er right there.” Folks often learn the term when they try to have a specimen identified and valued, only to be informed it’s leaverite.

Each leaverite comes with an identification tag, the perfect gag gift for collectors or enjoyers of rocks. They have stripes! Spots! Sparkles! Pretty colors! But no they’re nothing fancy.* These are Mexican beach cobble stones, primo specimens self-collected from my yard. As a nature appreciator I do think they are pretty great rocks in their own right, and use the interesting ones as decor in my pots and terrariums.

* We might have a few fossils and a little peridotite. Go on, ask a geologist what it is. I dare you.

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