Thank you for allowing me to join the group. My name is Stacy, and I’m looking forward to learning from all of you and building my own community someday. I can’t even begin to start with what I don’t know, I have a very basic understanding of gems, minerals, and fossils and classification, but above and beyond that I do not know most of the gems and minerals by sight and I am just learning to try to cut and polish rocks for the very first time this week! I live in one of the best spots for minerals and quartz in Missouri, and I want to know what beautiful things I can find at home, and work with the agates, quartz, and other minerals that are right here on my land.