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The name, Yellowstone Jewelry, is taken from the source locality for Montana agate - the Yellowstone River basin from Wyoming across Montana to the North Dakota border. Montana agate and some of the other agates and jaspers of the northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains states are prominent on this website, since we rockhunt on most of our vacations. And..... no, none of the stones on this website were collected in Yellowstone Park ! ! !

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What's New ?.....

Started to put up information on converting tenor banjos to 5-string banjos...... see "Banjos with Wings".
Put up some pendants for sale.
Sold some banjos, see "Left the Nest".
Posted some video clips on installing Yellowstone Banjo Heads.
I gave up on hi-tech electronic commerce. The existing internet "infrastructure" (i.e., shopping cart software, electronic payment management, security in transactions, etc.) isn't especially friendly to small operations like Yellowstone Jewelry whose inventory consists solely of single pieces. If you're interested in something that you see on this website, please send me an e-mail.

What's Coming ?.....

(ongoing) Reconstructed vintage banjos (and stringed instruments) for sale.

(April 2008) My web host has a function that lets me see the search strings that find this website. A lot of people find Yellowstone Jewelry searching for info on Montana agate or for rockhunting tips. I gave a PowerPoint presentation to the Nittany Mineralogical Society a couple of years ago on rockhounding Montana Agate...... will post this as soon as I can find my copy of the slide show.

(soon) Linda and I went to Nova Scotia last May. We had pretty good luck rockhunting along the south shore of the Bay of Fundy.... will post some images of scenery, directions, and some of the banded agate & geodes that we found.

Thanks again for visiting.

Mark Ralston