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overthemoonminerals · 8 days

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Pyromorphite from Cumberland, England

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sylverra · 1 year

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Carborundum log at sylverra

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denkym · 1 year

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FULL SPECTRUM FLUORITE // Mineral Specimen from Hunan, Chen Zhou, China

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oldearthminerals · 11 months

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Halloysite Included “Bone” Quartz Crystal Cluster

Pseudo cubic quartz cluster with halloysite inclusions.

Location: Balochistan, Pakistan Size: 57 x 34 x 26 mm. 50 grams.

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theoldbone · 5 months

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Perovskite, Rother Kopf, Germany, photo by Fred Kruijen

#Perovskite #Rother Kopf #Germany #Fred Kruijen #geology #mineral #specimen #photography

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srlgemstone · 17 days

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Moss & Banded Agate

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tbirdstones · 1 year

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Mining magic in the mountains!

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minerali-list · 10 months

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Malachite

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charyou-tree · 6 months

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Another rock show, another great find!

My wife and I drove to the other side of town for another rock and mineral club’s show, and I feel like I stole the stuff I came home with. First, while my wife and I were browsing a display of jewelry with cut stones, the woman running the stand commented on my opal necklace. She looked more than a little surprised when I told her I cut the stone myself, using a diamond-grit knife sharpening block of all things. I could only say "I know that's the wrong way to do that, but I wasn't going to buy a $500 cutting wheel to do one stone!" (it was a lockdown project)

Chatted for a while with another dealer about his small display of unusual faceted stones. He had this one enormous almost 40 carat faceted peridot bigger than my thumbnail. I didn't know they came that big! I don't even want to know what he'd ask for that... But he was so nice and spent so long talking to us, I felt like I should buy something. He had this cute little pink tourmaline crystal for only $14 so I grabbed that to say thanks.

But the real show was still to come.

I had my eye on a bright mint green dioptase specimen another dealer had, but it was a couple hundred bucks, and I didn't really want to spend that much on a rock. While I was mulling that over, I saw a dealer I’ve seen before at a couple other local mineral shows was back with his amazing stock of Ethiopian opals. He had a couple giant pieces of amazingly clear crystal opal the size of my fist sitting in a bowl of water. I turned them over to get a look at the play of color, but I was afraid to pick them up and maybe drop a multi-thousand dollar rock.

However, he also had trays of smaller pieces sorted by price per carat. It was like a box of bifrost shrapnel, glittering in overlapping rainbow colors under the bright lights in his booth (very important when you're selling opal!). One particular piece caught my eye, but I was afraid to ask what he wanted for it, last time I tried that with one of his pieces it was >$300 and I had to put it back :( . When he told me that this beautiful crystal opal was only $62 I had to have it.

Like, sure, it has a couple cracks in it and its a funny shape, but I'm not going to cut it so who cares? LOOK AT THOSE OVERLAPPING LAYERS OF RAINBOW IRIDESCENCE! I turn it around at the end of the video because that same side of the stone is blue, green, yellow, or even red depending how you look at it and how the light is oriented. Sometimes you can see multiple colors through each other. Its doing what I associate with good opals, and completely saturating the red/green/blue pixels of my phone camera when the play of color is lined up right.

This is the opal specimen I've been looking for. This is why I love going to rock shows, some of this stuff has to be seen in person to be appreciated. Photos are nice, videos are better, but opals need to be seen to be believed. Those colors are unreal bright.

#rocks #minerals #mineral specimen #opal #crystal opal #Ethiopian opal #tourmaline #mineral collection #iridescence

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overthemoonminerals · 2 days

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Pink Garnet on Matrix from Mexico

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sylverra · 11 months

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Clear quartz cluster at sylverra

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#clear quartz #quartz cluster #clear quartz cluster #crystal cluster #crystal clusters #geode #geodes #quartz geode #quartz geodes #rockhound #rockhounding #rock hounding #rock shops #rough crystals #rough quartz #minerals #mineral specimens

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avanii · 2 months

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The Beast of Sulphur. Another member of my geology / volcano monsters. Probably the stinkiest of them all! Inspired by the way sulphur crystals grow on the rocks at steaming vents. Some of it melts there and looks reddish, almost bloody 😲 Painted with acrylic inks.

#geology #volcano monster #sulphur #sulfur #geology monster #looked a lot at stink badgers for this here beastie because yeah that felt fitting haha #it's also inspired by fumaroles but I want to make a monster dedicated to that concept more specifically #but it's still got some of that sweet fumarole action going on with its stinky breath #or solfatara more specifically #looked a lot at my own sulphur mineral specimen for this to try and get that yellow hue just right #it's a cool kind of yellow tone that's hard to catch but I hope I managed it #avanii's art #avanii #traditional art

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foragedmoonlight · 1 year

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DummyThicc Smokey Quartz Pendant

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natureselements · 1 year

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Green Apophyllite is the rarest forming color of Apophyllite🌿 combined with Stilbite clusters- this piece is truly a magnificent addition for a home to invite happiness and comfort ✨ Rare, collector’s specimen . shop here 🌱

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theoldbone · 9 months

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Calcite flower from the Chenzhou Prefecture in the Hunan Province, China. Photo by Tom Spann

#calcite #calcite flower #chenzhou prefecture #tom spann #geology #mineral #specimen

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cristalprince · 3 months

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#nature #minerals #crystals #collection #gemstone #crystalshop #for sale #collectibles #specimen #mineralogy #minéraux

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