Lithorium
a rock shop.
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This week · one rock, one story

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Every rock in here has its own page. Some of them get carried away.

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About
Lithorium, San Jose, California.

Lithorium is a one-person rock shop in San Jose, California, selling since 2025. I photograph the specimens and write their listings. Orders include a bonus rock and a handwritten story.

Stories
Field notes, deep time & useful oddities
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essay · 6 min
Why we keep the broken ones

A cracked point tells you more about how it grew than a flawless one ever will.

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field note · 3 min
A cone of green that floats

Fuchsite caught inside clear quartz, lit from behind, looks like moss suspended in glass.

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half-myth · 8 min
In the beginning, there was green

The story we keep coming back to, and the rock that keeps telling it.

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Lithorium
a rock shop.
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Look around for the hidden cabinet: a petition to give rocks their own emoji, and standing applications for the planets (Pluto counts) and one nebula.
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Checkout is open. Payment runs on this site through Stripe, one piece at a time, and orders ship from San Jose, California.