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Found in the Ground Candles takes pride in the quality and beauty of each of our handmade candles. But how do we ensure that the candle that now sits in your living room is unique and well made enough to be a Found in the Ground Candle? Our process takes several steps, starting with the individual stone.

To start, each one of our candles comes from an individually selected rock or fossil. No place is too big or too small to find a candle rock. Sometimes, we get them off the internet. Sometimes, we go out into nature (legally) and find rocks out in the world around us. Sometimes, and this is my personal favorite, the rocks jump out to us on our travels around the southwest. One time, we even stopped on a road cut high up above the town of Jerome in order to find beautiful rocks to create candles. I was lucky I don’t have a fear of heights!

Once our adventures are complete, we bring back the rocks to our workshop. Though we have the highest quality flat rock oil candles on the market, our process still takes place in a small, one person workshop. Though it isn’t much, it is all we need to create our candles.

The first step to creating a Found in the Ground flat rock oil candle is to drill a hole in the candle. Our staff carefully selects the placement of the drilling for both aesthetic and balance purposes. Next, we put the rock under our drill press. The drill press is helpful because it drills straight down, with no risk of us shaking a drill and breaking a beautiful agate. In order to ensure the rocks, especially the agates, don’t break during the process of drilling, we have a special process that we perform during drilling. What is that process, you may ask? Well, consider that a trade secret.

So now, we have a rock with a hole in it. Now, you have to make a candle out of it. To do that, we cement a reservoir to the bottom of the rock. At this point, your rock is almost a candle! All you need to do now is add a wick and light it.

The Found in the Ground process creates the most unique and vibrant candles on the internet. Though there are many imitation candles, ours are the only ones that use the Found in the Ground process to make a special part of your decor.

By far the most striking candles in our inventory are our agate candles. But what are agates? Where do they come from? How do they form? If you’ve ever found yourself asking these questions, this is the right place for you!

Agates, what are they made of? That answer is actually way more complicated than it first may seem. Agates have two basic components. The first is quartz, a silica based mineral that gives agates their unique translucence. The other main component of an agate is chalcedony, a quartz variant that gives agates their lustre and their color, as well as the banding pattern. Chalcedony occurs in blue, gray, yellow, or brown, which are all classic agate colors. Beyond this, agates have other minerals involved that create unique variants. Oxidized iron creates a variant called Moss Agate for its green color, while hematite creates a brilliant red Fire Agate. Agates are a simple recipe that creates a brilliant addition to your space.

What makes agates unique from other shiny stones? That would be the unique property of “banding”. Banding is the layers of color and symmetrical patterns that occur inside the agate. In most agates, the bands follow the symmetry of the wall of the rock. In some unique agates, however, the bands are horizontal. It is this banding, however, that distinguishes agates from other colorful minerals.

How does one go about finding an agate? They are not exactly just lying around, right? Actually, they totally are! You just have to look under, or in this case, inside some rocks. If you find an ancient lava flow or a glacial flow, you have a chance to find an agate. Agates are igneous, which means that they have to form from gas pockets within lava flows that hardened and filled with other minerals, namely quartz. There could be an agate outside of your house at this very moment! Agates are therefore quite common, but also quite hidden.

How long have agates been around for humans? For as long as humans have liked shiny objects. The name agate comes from Ancient Greece, where the philosopher Theophrastus first wrote about the luminous stones. Even before then, into prehistory, humans have been using agates in jewelry and decoration. The brilliant colors are just as eye catching now as they were to our ancestors.

So how are agates prepared? First, you have to find the agate. Next, you start cutting the agate into thin slices, like a loaf of bread. Then, the agate is polished. This polishing is what makes the vibrant agate into a luminous centerpiece. This is where the agate is when Found in the Ground orders them. From there, we put a hole in the middle with a drill press, after which we attach a reservoir. Boom. You have your agate rock oil candle ready to light.

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