Even the clouds recognize the supreme being that is The Whale.

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Firefighters were able to remove him unharmed after they covered him with cooking grease.

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Did I mention all materials are paid for by the volunteers and their community?

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A classic predicament

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Little kids can be bros too

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If I sit I fit, isn’t that the expression?

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An ammonite fossil that was replaced with pyrite. In this instance, nature literally is metal.

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Puppers on their way to get their shots (they were told they were going for chicken nuggers)

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Wack

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My buddy “drew” on a shirt with bleach

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A bat died atop a calcite stalagmite, and as the speleothem continued growing, it eventually encompassed the bat. My friend Jose took this photo in Spain

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I mean; excluding the religious argument, the comparison just isn’t there..

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Hi

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This ammonite fossil has been entirely replaced by the mineral pyrite, aka fool’s gold.

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Amethyst stalactite geode formation

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When you’re late with your gecko’s scheduled feeding

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Seriously though

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Thoughts on these stackers?

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Silver from the Aspen mining district in Colorado.

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My buddy Herb with a 63lb quartz crystal he found in Canada a couple of years ago.

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A small stalactite of copper oxides found inside of an abandoned mining adit in Northern Utah.

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Apparently this rule has proven to be confusing for some of you guys. In a nutshell it means metaphysical discussions are allowed; and bashing them is not. Derisive comments will be removed and temporary bans will start being handed out to people who continuously violate this rule.

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I bought myself a saw and cut this thunder egg today

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Photography bro

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I bought a miniature chair (5 inches tall) at a thrift store today specifically to stick a rock in it

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My friend Herb with a 63lb quartz crystal he found in Revelstoke, British Columbia.

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Pronghorn Antelope out by Utah Lake

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Why’d you do me like that?

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Beware of these manmade alum crystals being sold as high quality amethyst. Local metaphysical shop has a couple of these priced at $300 each.

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But it was made during the eclipse!

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A pendant I bought off a friend in Pennsylvania. Pyrite, topaz, tourmaline, & faceted kyanite

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Thrift store find. Anyone have any 2002 Olympics pins?

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Mountain lion jawbone I found today. I spent quite some time looking for the skull, in vain.

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Pyritized ammonite fossil in limestone matrix from Germany

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A better quality photo of the goat skull I found on Sunday.

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Agate from Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. Agate is rare in this canyon; to be honest this is the only material like it that I’ve seen.

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You spoke and we listened. Lo and behold, the new profile photo for r/Crystals. We have something very cool in the works for a new banner photo too that we’re excited to hopefully release within a week or two. Thanks all for the input and making this sub one of the best around!

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His and hers [Mclaren 720s & Mclaren ?]

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Crater agate geode from Patagonia

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Score!

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My sister has the two most patient kittens of all time.

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Charitable bro

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Who else likes petrified wood?

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When someone says they don’t like rocks and crystals

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They’re putting advertisements into fortune cookies now instead of... fortunes.

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Forbidden jelly beans

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Amethyst geode/cathedral located within my cousin’s jewelry store in Park City, UT. He’s asking 19,000 for the pair...

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Smoky quartz from California.

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Dang demoncrats. I’m sure this is mild compared to other posts but it’s disheartening to see how much folks have seemingly changed in this post Trump era society

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I found my first shed antler on Monday while looking for crystals

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Every time

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An amazing agate slice

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Wanted to show off the gift I got for my mom for Mother’s Day. Anyone else getting their mom something shiny?

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Icelandic spar, also known as optical calcite, Icelandic crystal, and Viking sunstone. Vikings would use its light-polarizing properties to locate the sun to navigate the seas even on the cloudiest of days.

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This is an ammonite fossil that was replaced with pyrite due to the presence of iron in the environment in which it died

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Insinuating Democrats are committing mass shootings

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One of my client’s crystals I thought y’all would enjoy. About 3 feet in diameter no clue of weight.

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Cleaning crystals is half the battle that lots of folks don’t realize.

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Large amethyst cathedral

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My first piece of Arkansas quartz

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Dinosaur bone that I cut, shaped, & polished.

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Badass alert

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Malachite Jeep carving.

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Whoops

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Please let me know if I post too much on this sub. I just love talking about minerals & no one ever comes to my house to view my collection. Here’s some muscovite mica surrounding a quartz point. I love digging in pegmatites. You never quite know what you’ll find.

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Please keep this in mind next time you ask what kind of gemstone is in your jewelry.

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Gotta start somewhere, right?

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Best quartz point of the day

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I found this quartz plate in Utah, lightly shaped it with my machine, & turned it into a pendant. What do you think?

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The worst thing about prison was... was the dementors! Tattoo done by a talented artist in Utah

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RIP Cosmo the Cougar

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Smoky quartz from The Black Range, Victoria, Australia. This specimen has an enhydro and was formerly in the collection of Russ Behnke, a mineral collector who was the first American to export minerals from post-Mao China

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My great great grandmother, Vilate White, on the set of her cooking show in Salt Lake City, Utah. Circa 1950

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I realized I found my steel penny roughly four years ago today

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Do it anyway

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This 5 oz JBR bar showed up in the mail today from a random pull.

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Chrysocolla on quartz collected last year in Utah. I never did manage to find another quite like it

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The State of Utah recently voted to change the state flag, & some folks really aren’t taking it well.

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Nice.

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When kids/teenagers leave their video games like this

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Native American arrowhead knapped from quartz. This was found in southern Utah in 2006 and is most likely from the Fremont Tribe, which would make this over 1500 years old.

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What’s this baby blue mineral? I know the more vibrant blue mineral is chrysocolla. This specimen was given to me by a friend who found it in Parker, Arizona. The baby blue material is extremely thin and shows a botryoidal habit in some areas, although a loupe is required to view the bots

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Dinosaur bone belt buckle I inherited from my great grandfather

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Wavellite from Arkansas

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Finally got some wall putty to properly display this epidote

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One reason I love Utah is because of our extensive mining history. This is an abandoned mining tunnel located along the Wasatch Front

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My neighbor drove through wet tar

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Apache tear (obsidian). Back when I worked at a grocery store, I helped an elderly woman to her car and her husband was so grateful that he gave me this as a thank you. He has passed out hundreds of stones and gems all over the US over the last 30 years or so to people he deems acceptable. An honor.

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Gold sheen obsidian from Utah

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Large broken smoky quartz. Still a beaut

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Picked up five “generic” rounds for $4 over spot at a local shop today & didn’t look at them until I got home. Boy was I surprised

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Woman spends over $20 on a lobster roll just to have a seagull steal it while taking a photo of it

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I work for this lady whose daughter (5 years old) has terminal cancer and has been fighting it since she was only two weeks old. We know how expensive treatment is (lots of cancer in my family) so we don’t charge her. She gave me some gypsum and a lovely thank you note today and I had to share

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I promised I’d only bring one rock home... Krishna’s Butterball. Tamil Nadu, India.

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Old stock vanadinite

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Hi! We noticed the side of our snake is sort of a yellowish color.. is this normal or is it indicative of an underlying issue?

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First quartz point of the year, collected yesterday in Utah. Soon all the snow will be gone & I’ll be able to find bigger and better crystals

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It do be like that

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A geode given to me by my great grandfather.

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Quartz cluster I purchased from a good friend of mine as a gift for my mom. I always pick it up and admire it when I’m at her house.

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Bless this candle. Should I buy it Reddit?

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A very large desert rose

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Ammonite.

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I call this spiderweb quartz. I’ve yet to find another piece like it

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Grape agate from Indonesia. New research suggests this is actually amethyst instead of chalcedony

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Icelandic spar, also known as optical calcite, Icelandic crystal, and Viking sunstone. Vikings would use its light-polarizing properties to locate the sun to navigate the seas even on the cloudiest of days.

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Small double terminated quartz point

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Any “not lickers” in here?

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Septarian Nodule

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“No officer of course I don’t do drugs, why do you ask?”

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Pretty proud

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Secret Santa bro

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Unidentified sulfide inclusion in quartz. Big Cottonwood Canyon, UT.

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Close up of a phantom point I found.

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Gorgeous azurite. One of my favorites.

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It do be like that

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Grape agate I also purchased from a shop

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Dammit Raichu you’re supposed to be stronger than that

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Banded calcite from Utah. Hand polished & self collected

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I wish!

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Chrysocolla with azurite from Maxfield Mine

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Forbidden fried chicken

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Well mannered pupper

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Vlad approves

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Large piece of gypsum var. satin spar.

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A large geode from the geode beds at Dugway, Utah

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I’m generous, but not that generous.

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Some of the better points from my dig today

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Can someone identify this fish for me? This was a gift from a client, and she says she collected it in Wyoming, probably near Kemmerer

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Sorry babe

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A client’s granddaughter placed a bag of Cheetos on top of the hot toaster oven. I tried everything to get it off.

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Boy is it hard to get these clusters clean.

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Quartz crystal fresh from the earth, still coated with iron oxides.

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Snowflake obsidian given to me by a close family friend. Her father spent most of his life rockhounding and she inherited his collection. I’m grateful she chose to share a part of it with me.

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Impeccable leaf fossil

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GAY FROGS!

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1875 US dime. This is my oldest coin (for now) This is also my first post here. Does anyone have recommendations for coin storage? Looking to upgrade from the cigar box I’m currently using and don’t know what the best option is

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Meme for attention. Does anyone else think it’s ironic when Mormons are appalled by the Epstein allegations/case but yet they all practically worship Joseph Smith, who preferred girls in the exact same age group. Thoughts?

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Hmmm

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100% Typhlosion!

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Honeycomb calcite

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Get rekt

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Forbidden love

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Damnit

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Local copper I picked up at Oktoberfest at Snowbird

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When making tea goes horribly wrong

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