Chalcedony with mordenite, okenite and calcite - Museum quality specimen from Aurangabad mine, Maharashtra India1yr ⋅ filthy_lucre ⋅ r/geologyporn
I just found a perfect 6 point star with a perfect circle in the middle!!1yr ⋅ Psychological_Box577 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Epic discovery of fossilised Australian Crinoid! (Jimbicrinus Bostocki)2yr ⋅ AeliosZero ⋅ r/geologyporn
This is one of the most beautiful stones that I’ve ever seen. This is a type of banded iron formation called Tiger Iron. The yellow is tiger eye. The red is Jasper. The dark banding is hematite.3yr ⋅ burndownthedisco1 ⋅ r/geologyporn
I found this 3 foot wide feature during some remote Utah desert exploring last weekend.1yr ⋅ utahjuzz ⋅ r/geologyporn
my favorite thing about my job is walking around the rock yard in the morning1yr ⋅ chinarosesss ⋅ r/geologyporn
Ripples from an ancient sea tell a story that is over a billion years old in the rocks of Deadman's Point near Missoula, MT.3yr ⋅ RaddIce ⋅ r/geologyporn
It was worth all our tiredness. It made me so excited. Nature is really magnificent! I lose myself collecting stones, but this time I remembered to photograph the environment. Uncut thunderegg agate.1yr ⋅ srlgemstone ⋅ r/geologyporn
Amber from the Dominican Republic. You can see insects trapped inside (likely from the Miocene Epoch, ~25 million years old)1yr ⋅ xxxjunegloomxxx ⋅ r/geologyporn
Quartz coated with azurite, malachite, and limonite, possibly other copper minerals from M’Cissi, Morocco. This is a Christmas present to myself and my jaw dropped when I opened the box. I’m going to call it “moldy quartz.”3yr ⋅ burndownthedisco1 ⋅ r/geologyporn
A piece I never expected, I almost threw it away. Something poked me and I put it in my bag. I was mesmerized. a piece of agate pair. Wet shooting because it's unpolished. 17th century fashion1yr ⋅ srlgemstone ⋅ r/geologyporn
Dug this guy out of storage today. Found it with my dad like 10 years ago at the Green River Formation in Wyoming.4yr ⋅ CherokeeChad ⋅ r/geologyporn
Gogottes, sandstone concretions from France that resemble abstract sculptures3yr ⋅ TartyArt115 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Took a trip to Jasper Knob. I am blown away by these jaspelite outcrops, absolutely beautiful3yr ⋅ ChongoLikRock ⋅ r/geologyporn
Lavender Jadeite is a truly rare gemstone. Because it is only found in Turkey.1yr ⋅ srlgemstone ⋅ r/geologyporn
Vein of natural gold on quartz. Taken at the museum of natural science in Texas.4yr ⋅ AntiNinja40428 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Nothing really exciting but I bought this beautiful piece of Bismuth4yr ⋅ cowboycock69 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Lake Superior north shore thawing. Going to be agate hunting season soon! [OC]4yr ⋅ older_dutch ⋅ r/geologyporn
A piece of stalactitic chrysocolla crystal covered with pieces of quartz, found in Arizona.2yr ⋅ dimitrios_vlachos_04 ⋅ r/geologyporn
40 foot Sioux/pink quartzite walls, Southeastern South Dakota[4000×3000]3yr ⋅ WoohpeMeadow ⋅ r/geologyporn
Super delicate quartz on pyrite from Peru. So stoked to have it in my collection.4yr ⋅ burndownthedisco1 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Reading about subduction metamorphism while sitting on top of the Farallon plate’s old subduction channel.3yr ⋅ anarchophysicist ⋅ r/geologyporn
350 million years in one picture. Situated 80 meters from the Irish shore is an impressive sea stack known as Dun Briste or the ‘Broken Fort’. It is an astonishing formation in the sense that it allows you to see layer upon layer of multicolored rock strata.3yr ⋅ Fluid-Daydreamer ⋅ r/geologyporn
Deep blue fluorite brain with unique crystal structure from Fujian Province, China. She makes me smile every time I look at her, which is the reason that we collect them, right?3yr ⋅ burndownthedisco1 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Vivianite on left, imperial topaz on right. Which one, I can only afford one.1yr ⋅ argosdog ⋅ r/geologyporn
Red fluorite and smoky quartz, Museum of National History, Paris. The first mineral to be classed a major cultural treasure4yr ⋅ StartingFromMonday ⋅ r/geologyporn
I grow this copper sulfate crystal at home! It is really easy chemical experiment. This one took me 6 month to create - watch the video in comments if you want to know how to make something like this :)3yr ⋅ EarthsLandscape ⋅ r/geologyporn
Mineralization of black calcite inside a concretion that fell from a red cretacic mudstone outcrop.3yr ⋅ sompayon ⋅ r/geologyporn
[NOOB HERE] A few weeks ago I started mining spinels in my hometown of Mahenge - Tanzania and got these amazing spinels. The biggest I got was 3.6 grams.1yr ⋅ lcosmas ⋅ r/geologyporn
Two of my favorite things in the world, the light from the setting sun and the bluest, pyrite banded lapis, together. Unedited photo.3yr ⋅ burndownthedisco1 ⋅ r/geologyporn
I have a weakness for these light, cream soda colored smoky quartz crystals from Northern Pakistan. This one is both a beauty and a beast, at the same time.2yr ⋅ burndownthedisco1 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Selenite (Gypsum) Rosette, Devon Island, Canada. Pocket knife for scale. (OC)1yr ⋅ troyunrau ⋅ r/geologyporn
Veracruz amethyst is some of my very favorite material. Very excited to get a whole flat of it this morning.3yr ⋅ burndownthedisco1 ⋅ r/geologyporn
I found this at low tide on the beach and was wondering what it was.4yr ⋅ Washpedantic ⋅ r/geologyporn
Been picking rocks on the farm my whole life and I’ve never seen one like this2yr ⋅ frigman23 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Northern Ankara Agate, a translucent variety of microcrystalline quartz4yr ⋅ DrFetusRN ⋅ r/geologyporn
Driving through Moab this green really stands out from the reds and yellows! Does anybody know what makes it like this?3yr ⋅ barking_at_cars ⋅ r/geologyporn
TIL Tiger Eye is essentially agatized Asbestos. Here is a raw slab and its polished counterpart from my collection. Hope you enjoy!4yr ⋅ Gneissly-Done ⋅ r/geologyporn
Just one of this in a cubic yard, Alaskan gold nugget, close to it's source4yr ⋅ TheIronHat ⋅ r/geologyporn
High altitude Himalayan smoky quartz from Shigar Valley, Pakistan. This material is so interesting to me. It’s as clear as glass with faint color and very interesting growth patterns, very typical of the Himalayan material. As always, this is original content from my personal collection.3yr ⋅ burndownthedisco1 ⋅ r/geologyporn
I love making cabochons. Just cut this stunner from a slab of permineralized dinosaur bone! [OC]4yr ⋅ earthandhammer ⋅ r/geologyporn
One of my rock collections. I got tired of having my rocks stashed. I get so excited when I find one I like, so I started finding more (personally) appealing ways to display them in the open.3yr ⋅ kscrispy ⋅ r/geologyporn
First day of on campus classes for the semester! Feels so good to look through real scopes!3yr ⋅ suckmysucculent ⋅ r/geologyporn
Muscovite and quartz, magnified 3600 times. The field of view here is about 40 microns, about half the width of your average human hair.5yr ⋅ danny17402 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Interesting quartz casts with fluorite that has leeched out onto the matrix. Love this piece. Love the little delicate quartz casts and the color contrasts with the pyrite.4yr ⋅ burndownthedisco1 ⋅ r/geologyporn
Purple and yellow tones always harmonize beautifully. There is a possibility that the purple color is amethyst but I'm not sure. Agate6mo ⋅ srlgemstone ⋅ r/geologyporn
A star ruby I found in North Carolina. Debating whether or not to get it cut to bring out the asterism because it's so small. It's my favorite gem though, what's yours?3yr ⋅ Ravenclaw_14 ⋅ r/geologyporn
I’m not sure what the universe is trying to tell me, but found this staring at me when I broke open this rock. Located in the Pilbara Region, Western Australia3yr ⋅ J-R-Hudson ⋅ r/geologyporn
Unique and beautiful aggregate of minerals in a crystal pocket. Quartz, Fluorite, Bertrandite, Barite, Hematite, and iridescent Goethite! Greenlee County, AZ. (OC)2yr ⋅ iiTiGii ⋅ r/geologyporn
Quartz cast after Fluorite with another generation of Green Fluorite with Hematite. Private Claim, Arizona [OC]1yr ⋅ iiTiGii ⋅ r/geologyporn
My dad found a Yooperlite last week when he went camping/rock hunting in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula4yr ⋅ Secaries ⋅ r/geologyporn
One of the most unique and prized Fluorite specimens I've ever found with Hematite atop of black (Goethite) included cubes all surrounding a Chalcedony/Quartz matrix! Mother nature broke the mold on this one. Talk about color contrast3yr ⋅ iiTiGii ⋅ r/geologyporn
what is this rock? found in SW Western Australia. it splinters into smaller pieces easily. vibrant colours!2yr ⋅ davestrikesback ⋅ r/geologyporn