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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Break Open 10 Premium Geodes – Includes Goggles, Detailed Learning Guide and 2 Display Stands - Great STEM Science gift for Mineralogy and Geology enthusiasts of any age

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Break Open 10 Premium Geodes – Includes Goggles, Detailed Learning Guide and 2 Display Stands - Great STEM Science gift for Mineralogy and Geology enthusiasts of any age

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Style Name: 10 Geodes KitChange
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Rowann Lambert
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent well worth it!
Reviewed in Australia on 19 April 2021
Great fun! We got some really nice ones and a couple of rocks with only a small amount of crystal or non at all (not pictured). We got a giant one which I though would be a dud but it's one of the best! All only white crystals but when you read the info book that comes with it that is to be expected.I bought this as a school holiday activity as we had been looking at geodes and made some at home using egg shells Alum and laster and wanted to show what the real thing was like. Follow the instructions to make sure you get a nice cross section and not a just a bunch of pieces. Happy with my purchase and with how quickly it arrived.
Note the cardboard box is not the actual product , I've seen reviews which complained about the plain cardboard packaging, open the plain cardboard and the product is in a box as displayed.
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Rebecca
1.0 out of 5 starsSo disappointing!
Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2020
Does not look anything like packaging! Extremely difficult to open, both adults tried and it took so many blows, sometimes they never opened because there was no opening on the inside just a ball of concrete and there is no way a kid could do it. Colours are crap, one purple one in the whole batch, the rest are white.
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Rebecca
1.0 out of 5 stars So disappointing!
Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2020
Style Name: 10 Geodes KitVerified Purchase
Does not look anything like packaging! Extremely difficult to open, both adults tried and it took so many blows, sometimes they never opened because there was no opening on the inside just a ball of concrete and there is no way a kid could do it. Colours are crap, one purple one in the whole batch, the rest are white.
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Rebecca
1.0 out of 5 stars So disappointing!
Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2020
Does not look anything like packaging! Extremely difficult to open, both adults tried and it took so many blows, sometimes they never opened because there was no opening on the inside just a ball of concrete and there is no way a kid could do it. Colours are crap, one purple one in the whole batch, the rest are white.
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leo
1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless rocks. No Crystals
Reviewed in Australia on 4 June 2021
Style Name: 10 Geodes KitVerified Purchase
Below disappointments, first rocks were much smaller than anticipated, then they were almost impossible to break no way kids can break them. I ( a big body builder)
Struggled to break them. Kids lost interest after 3 minutes, and only one rock has traces of crystals( see photo) so yeah save your money and buy kids candy will make them happier. You would literally buy some worthless rocks packaged nicely here.😒😏
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leo
1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless rocks. No Crystals
Reviewed in Australia on 4 June 2021
Below disappointments, first rocks were much smaller than anticipated, then they were almost impossible to break no way kids can break them. I ( a big body builder)
Struggled to break them. Kids lost interest after 3 minutes, and only one rock has traces of crystals( see photo) so yeah save your money and buy kids candy will make them happier. You would literally buy some worthless rocks packaged nicely here.😒😏
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J J Lynn
1.0 out of 5 stars A lucky dip
Reviewed in Australia on 13 November 2021
Style Name: 10 Geodes KitVerified Purchase
Bought this as had previously brought box of 3 and the kids loved it. Sadly this time all 10 Geodes were solid and completely unbreakable. Basically 10 solid rocks, it’d take a diamond saw to get them open.

It’s a lucky dip as to what you get, but you could see from the size they’d all be solid. They were all small compared to the 3pack and all the same, not a mix as stated on the box.
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tanya newing
1.0 out of 5 stars Unsatisfactory
Reviewed in Australia on 11 December 2020
Style Name: 10 Geodes KitVerified Purchase
Most of the rocks were just rocks and not geodes there were only 3 out of 10 that were what the packing stats they are. The rocks were not decent sizes they were very small and very hard to break, its very disappointing to find it’s just a rock and not a geode after spending the time to break it open I would not recommend them
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Aviva
2.0 out of 5 stars Rocks extremely difficult to open
Reviewed in Australia on 21 August 2020
Style Name: 10 Geodes KitVerified Purchase
Should come with a warning that rocks are extremely difficult to open. We have used hammer and chisel and have only been able to open three
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Michael
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun and exciting to see what you get.
Reviewed in Australia on 2 May 2021
Style Name: 10 Geodes KitVerified Purchase
Fun and exciting to see what you get inside each one. Some are a lot smaller that I expected and a bit of a let down but some seemed to be exactly what was described.
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Laura
3.0 out of 5 stars Do not expect colours
Reviewed in Australia on 3 January 2020
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This was given as a gift. The advertising implies there are coloured geodes inside. Unfortunately all of them were white crystals just in different crystalline structures
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Ellieahearn
3.0 out of 5 stars Not many colours
Reviewed in Australia on 29 July 2020
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Good sizes. All geodes are very white, only one is slightly coloured. Learning guide is a bit useless when all stones are quartz.
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Angela Booth
3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't meet expectations
Reviewed in Australia on 27 October 2019
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Only contained 8, not 10 as advertised
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Graham
3.0 out of 5 stars No bright colours in mine, but heaps of fun opening and discovering the inside of real geodes!!
Reviewed in Australia on 15 July 2021
Style Name: 10 Geodes Kit
Visually disappointing, massive let down, very dull 2 calcite, 2 very, very small quartz (clear) and the rest where rocks with maybe 5% crystal (clear), and none have very much colour at all! It made me reconsider buying the other national geographic packs. Not very easy to open the solid rocks, I personally used a grinder and went through 2 tile cutting blades to cut open most of what you can see, maybe the carbide edged steel blades would cut through the rocks better, you will need to use a dust mask when cutting and cut outside or use ducted vacuum as this method creates rock dust. Great gift for someone who loves rocks, geodes, gems or has an interest in geology.
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Graham
3.0 out of 5 stars No bright colours in mine, but heaps of fun opening and discovering the inside of real geodes!!
Reviewed in Australia on 15 July 2021
Visually disappointing, massive let down, very dull 2 calcite, 2 very, very small quartz (clear) and the rest where rocks with maybe 5% crystal (clear), and none have very much colour at all! It made me reconsider buying the other national geographic packs. Not very easy to open the solid rocks, I personally used a grinder and went through 2 tile cutting blades to cut open most of what you can see, maybe the carbide edged steel blades would cut through the rocks better, you will need to use a dust mask when cutting and cut outside or use ducted vacuum as this method creates rock dust. Great gift for someone who loves rocks, geodes, gems or has an interest in geology.
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