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Thought yall would appreciate this! It's my prized possession!!

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Blue Apatite tower

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Green tourmaline raw stone ,can be seen a hundred times a day, lol

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Ancient animals also heard about percentages 😃

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Waterline/fortification agate slice! Found in a gift shop for 5 bucks

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An opal with a sky of its own! Found in Queensland, Australia.

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Moldavite crescent moon shape. 💚🌙

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A interesting look at hexagonal Vanadanite Crystals from Morocco

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Quartz

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🌈🌈🌈 of garnet, tourmaline, sapphire, and spinel

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Freshly dug quartz. Not the rarest mineral but still one of the most beautiful imo

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Carving this without fractures is a marvel on its own

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Found my Neptunite crystal that I had lost as a kid.

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purple rain pocket fluorite

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Red Beryl with Bixbyite - Thomas Range, UT

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Buddha carved in Moldavite

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New emerald in my collection

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Garnets are my favorite gem material to cut, since they’re relatively straightforward and have a reasonably high refractive index and excellent luster. I’ve been working on this group for a few months, mostly in my own faceting designs. Identity and locality in comments.

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It’s not often that you see Kornerupine like this so I had to share. Rough was sourced late 2021 from Tanzania

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Here is a chunk of Blue halite from my collection.

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Olivenite, Chrysocolla and Hematite on Quartz

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Beautiful red fox Agate

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Pyrite also known as fool's gold

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Mexican Fire Agate cabochon

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Montana amethyst

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rainbow tree opal

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My small piece of Larimar. Looks like an aerial view of an island.

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🔥 Quartz “flower” stalactite with agate cores!

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Hematite stalactite from Graves Mountain, Georgia. Photo credit to Anatoly Bitny

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Kornerupine- the pleochroic mermaid rock

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Natural Unique Kunzite Crystal - Afghanistan. more pictures in the comment!!

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Colorful Calcite

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Andradite garnet with quartz, Bor Pit, Dalnegorsk, Russia

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I love how this pyrite formed

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Bodega -- Bismuth -- Grown by me, 123.6 g

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Montana Sapphires make for pretty good quarantine companions

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Some turquoise favorites from the stash. Various mines.

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Crystalized Ammonite fossil that I bought. 110 million years old and yet one of the most beautiful things in my collection.

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Just discovered Auralite 23 in my latest rock haul!

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Hauyne Very rare mineral from Eiffel, Germany, recent microscopic picture I took

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This collection of over 150 naturally coloured and luminescent diamonds at the Natural History Museum, London.

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A Handful Of Color

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The green flash on this Spencer Idaho Opal is brighter than my future

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My wonderful Fluorite from Crystal-Victory mine in Southern Illinois, USA

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Cubic fluorite from Madagascar

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4kg of magic! Fluorite one of my favourites from my collection

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Some of the most vibrant and gemmy Sulfur I've ever seen or owned! From Bolivia.

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Stunning Calcite with Chalcopyrite and Dolomite from Missouri

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Laguna Agate | Photo by Bill The Eggman

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Accidentally found this drunicorn hyalite opal (Utah).

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This is a super clean Brazilian tourmaline, but it has a tiny second tourmaline growing on the side, so I don't want to have it faceted! My friend called it the remoraline.

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Beauty in the basics. A nice lump of salt :)

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Lapis lazuli

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Aquamarine • Elbert's Aquamarine Mine (Henson Creek Aquamarine Mine), Avery Co., North Carolina [oc]

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I know it’s just quartz, but it’s pretty

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This is what happens when Mother Nature decides to play with legos (Cuprite on Matrix)

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Cinnabar, one of the most dangerous minerals in the world

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Rwandan Amethyst

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I got a malachite slice that’s shaped like a fish!

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Large pink Salt Crystals

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Unusual Fluorite. Chifeng, Inner Mongolia

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Striking natural red Spessartine Garnet from Brazil with detailed natural ''Etching'' due to inconsistent crystal growth!

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I painted this Anatase with Quartz in watercolors!

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An incredible botryoidal Ocean Jasper with rare patterns and color in my collection.

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Mint Garnet from Voi, Kenya with some very rare banding, NFS.

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36.60ct Faceted Opal

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Labradorite

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154 minerals assorted in a rainbow gradient

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Butterflied this copper and chrysocolla in agate today.

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Forbidden candy tray

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Amethyst stone.

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Here's a 4000 pound monster in a client's house

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The Virgin Rainbow opal

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Wavelite from Arkansas #Botryoidal #Matrix

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UV reactive petroleum included quartz, Pakistan

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My favorite Fluorite purchase

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Botryoidal yellow fluorites from Mahodari, Nasik, India. Breakfast is ready!

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Drawn Cordierite

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I was dusting one of the many bowls of rocks we have on display and decided a photo shoot was needed.

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The Black Flame Candle. Cut and Polished Lake Superior Agate.

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Rainbow lattice feldspar

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Botryoidal Chalcedony, with a resemblance I cant quite place. . . .

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Moss agate cabochon that I cut yesterday

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Ancient water and carbon trapped inside a polished quartz crystal

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Ocean Jasper, original find. Marovato, Madagascar

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Finally after many years,got most of them displayed.

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Topaz, Ouro Preto Brazil

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Soooooo I had this large boulder that didn't even have anything special on it. Quite honestly I thought it was a lost cause.. Was about to get rid of it, but broke it open first and this was what's inside! Thousands of beautiful windowed Fluorite cubes! I'm stunned.

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Agatized Gastropod

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This azurite malachite I recently bought

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Hiddenite • Hiddenite, North Carolina [oc]

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Sunstone at 40x magnification.

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Pyrite with sphalerite

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Got my fiancee a moonstone pendant to match her ring!

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This malachite slab I bought at my local thrift store for €5 (it’s 10x10cm)

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Strange Druzy Quartz Stalactite Specimen from Uruguay

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The collection is growing!

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Rutile needles inside sapphire

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I know it's not the most impressive specimen. I love my beautiful little Moldavite. it's my favorite piece and I'd like to share

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Sharp broccoli

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Raw Jadeite from Alaska

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Aquamarine dreaming at Tucson

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Sharp metatorbernite crystals on quartz from Calo, Vimianzo, A Coruna, Galicia, Spain

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I love a good fat slab

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Super hot pink drusy cobalt-bearing calcite.

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Beautiful piece of aquamarine I found mining in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan (in matrix)

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Fluorite from the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee. Ex. Martin Zinn collection

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Calcites and Sunbeams

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Forbidden grapefruit

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Extremely complex stepped Chinese Fluorite from my collection

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This might be my favorite piece now. Agate Druzy. It’s beautiful. It’s small and fits in the palm of my hand. I love it so much.

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A small part of the collection :)

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Some cool looking Malachite

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Hackmanite before, during, and after UV exposure

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I FINALLY DID IT, FRIENDS! 🥹❤️🤓 first time since my teenage years I’ve been debt free, and secure enough in life to make a 30-year dream come true. Thanks to the guy who has the display case for $250! 🙏🏻 Now to organize! 🤩

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Giant's Causway, Basalt columns

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🔥 Macro of Cuprite from France

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Portuguese Round Tanzanite | 161 Facets

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recently bought this labradorite, i think it’s so pretty

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Seymchan pallasite meteorite

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Baryte

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Sunset fire opal

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Tourmaline

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Ocean Jasper at 40x magnification. Looks like a space scene.

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Fire Agate from Mexico

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Technically not a mineral: my little amber chunk.

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Xmas Labradorite!

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Ussingite with Hackmanite from Russia. It looks magical under UV light!

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My Favorite Cummingtonite

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61.35ct Luscious Green Peridot Crystal from Pakistan

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Amethyst Cluster with some Goethite Inclusions

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A red beryl from specimen from my collection.

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Kunzite beautii 😍

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Some people are gold diggers, I'm Opal digger. Made this handmade black opal band. This red color flashes when light comes from behind your viewing angle.

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A stack of color from Nova Scotia Canada agate/quartz/jasper/bloodstone, self found collection :)

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Labradorite is the favorite mineral in my collection, but I really enjoy them all.

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UV reactive fluorite from the Diana Marie Mine in the UK. Only turns purple like this in sunlight!

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The newest additions to my Tourmaline collection! I promise they are even prettier in person. 😍These are all from the Paprok Mine, in Nuristan, Afghanistan.

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Colombian Emerald

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Collection of beryls! See if you can identify the left one

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Sugilite Gel- A beautiful rare cyclosilicate mineral that only comes out of the deep manganese mines in South Africa. It was declared a rare mineral in the 90's.

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My best spinel crystals - these crystals are natural octahedrons, and all but the blues are from Mogok, Mandalay region, Myanmar. The blue crystals on the other hand are gahnite spinels from Kaduna state, Nigeria. The largest crystal shown is 1.1cm.

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My personal mineral collection, complete with remote-control lighting .. amazing what some $70 IKEA cases can do!

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Rutilated quartz, approx 1 x 1 [OC]

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Ocean Jasper leftovers from cutting cabs.

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A new hand touches the beacon! Septarian Nodule.

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