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    Burnie's Rock Shop

    3.9 (48 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
    Updated 2 months ago

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    Fawn J.

    Burnie's Rock Shop is a small rock shop that is like a natural history or geology museum where you can actually buy affordable artifacts or rock specimens! Once you walk in you will instantly be entranced by all the fascinating crystals, rocks, and beautiful unique custom jewelry! I love every time I visit the shop there is always something new, rare, and fascinating to look at! One time I visited, they had a very cool fossilized bear claw from Siberia, Russia (22,000-39,500 years old), trilobite fossils, Burmese Amber with Bug Inclusions (99 million years old), and a fossil turtle shell! They have some of the most rare gems and meteorites on Earth which is really cool such as meteorites from Mars, meteorites from Campo del Cielo, Argentina, and Sikhote Alin iron meteorites from Russia. They even carry one of the most powerful high vibrational authentic moldavite crystals which are super rare! I like that Burnie's Rock Shop is well organized especially by the type of crystal or rock category which is easy to find. Super rare rock specimens are encased in locked glass cabinets towards the front to the store and unique rock specimens of all different types are in the window display. They also have a whole section for making your own unique crystal jewelery pieces as well as also having beautifully crafted unique jewelry pieces that are already made for sale. Their prices are very affordable and decent. You can buy small individual crystal pieces for very cheap. Even the more rare specimens are decently priced for their authenticity. Burnie's Rock Shop also provides many services such as jewelry repair, lapidary, and custom design services. They do cleaning/polishing, ring sizing and re-shanking, chain repair, bead stringing and re-stringing. Their Professional Lapidary services include custom cabochon cutting, polishing, stone/shell drilling, inlay repair, stone sawing, etc. I have always had great customer service here and staff always asked me if I need help. The times I have been in there, there were only a couple of staff working busy helping alot of customers, so you may have to be patient or direct with them that you need h Burnie's Rock Shop is a great rock shop to explore!

    Jeannette G.

    My favorite crystal shop in Madison! I always love visiting when I come to visit town. Great selection and nice staff.

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    Stina T.

    My grandpa was a rock and gem collector. Some of my favorite childhood memories involve digging through buckets of rocks in grandpa's garage, looking for treasure to take back home with me. We only got one rock each time we visited, but sometimes he'd bring a few agates or quartz specimens when he visited us. I was missing my dear old grandpa today, so I decided to check out Burnie's Rock Shop. I'm so glad I did! Gorgeous gems and rocks of all kinds, beautiful jewelry, and all the tools you'd need to make your own creation. In fact, the owner explained to me that they recently opened up Burnie's Design Annex next door where you can meet with a jewelry designer! I didn't realize really until today how much I still love looking at rocks, picking up a geode and examining its crystal insides, in awe that its beauty is hidden by a rough, rock exterior. I felt like my grandpa was with me today, looking over my shoulder, informing my admiration. I purchased a pretty cluster of amethyst for $6. I'm not sure why. But I'm pretty sure grandpa would have approved.

    3 repaired rings  (pearl replaced, turquoise stone reset, amber and turquoise ring "re-rounded")
    Kristina M.

    Funny enough, I've never bought anything at Burnie's... however, this month I brought in three silver rings for repair (missing stones, bent our of shape, etc.). They were even able to repair two of the rings at the time of my visit!! Repair price is reasonable and staff seems very experienced and knowledgeable.

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