Kokoweef Cave Coral: The Last Great Collection At Dig Dive Discover, we're always searching for rare, historic, and difficult-to-obtain lapidary material. Sometimes that means diving for fossils ourselves or digging new localities. Other times, the...

Alabama's crystal filled silicified wood has been called many names over the years: Diamond Wood, Diamond Rock, Bling Wood, and Brilliant Wood. Until recently, only a handful of localities were known to produce small quantities of...

A notable find for the Dig Dive Discover Dive Team came in late 2016 when fossil diver @WildKyle discovered a special spot on a remote tributary containing an unusually high abundance of Agatized Oysters. Agatized...

A Rare Florida Exposure Once Known Only Through Drilling We are no strangers to shark teeth. Rick grew up hunting fossils in Venice, Florida, often called the shark tooth capital of the world, and has...

Ways Specimens Can Be Finished: Natural Finish, Archival Seal, or Mirror Polish Collectors of agatized coral and similar mineral specimens often choose how a piece will be finished after it is recovered. The finishing method...

We have exciting news to share. Our Deep Ocean Pocket is now officially listed on Mindat.org, the largest and most respected mineral locality database in the mineral collecting community. What Is Mindat.org Mindat.org is a...

Agatized coral is beautiful and gem-like, and in many ways it belongs alongside fine minerals such as tourmaline, aquamarine, quartz, and other crystals. However, there are a few important distinctions to note, distinctions that ultimately...

The ancient corals of Tampa Bay formed roughly 25 to 30 million years ago, during the Miocene Epoch, when warm, shallow seas covered the region. Over time as the seas retreated, these reefs became buried...

The Tampa Bay area is world-renowned for its silicified marine fossils from the Tampa Bay Member of the Arcadia Formation, dating to the Miocene Epoch of the Cenozoic Era. These fossils include extinct species of...