Perfect completely undamaged barite cluster from the Linwood mine, Buffalo, Iowa. It has super interesting intricate hydrothermal surface etching. Also has really cool UV! ( not magnified pics are at the end of the slides)
Check out the intricate etchings and trigons on this quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil!
untreated amber citrine from Mansa, Luapula province, Zambia
These beryl crystals from Nigeria are so cool they are colored by vanadium and iron giving them a beautiful sea foam blue-green color. It’s like having a vanadium emerald and an aquamarine in one crystal and depending on the lighting and angle you look at it it can look more green or more blue.
Here’s some requested still pics and magnified pics of my fluorite from “rainbow pocket” Erongo mountains, Namibia. There is soo many colors going on in this thing!
Quartz Aesthetically perched on a lustrous sphalerite matrix with some minor chalcopyrite from the Krushev dol lead-zinc mine, Madan, Smolyan province, Bulgaria
Double terminated Amethyst scepter Chibuku mime, Mateke hills, Masvingo province, Zimbabwe. Check out the crazy hematite streamers in this thing!
Pyrite from the Merelani hills, Tanzania the same mines that tanzanites are collected! This is probably my all time favorite location for pyrite the crystals are super geometric with natural mirror like facets
Very nice scenic calcite with marcasite from the Linwood mine, buffalo, Iowa
Kunzite Crystal from Nuristan province , Afghanistan. With hydrothermal etchings on the termination and crystal faces. It has a very nice color as well!
Thought I’d share this pretty cool picture I took of some minerals with a light beam shining through their terminations and illuminating the base. They are absolute jewels!
(Mineral Locations left to right )
1: Nasarawa Eggon mine, Nigeria
2: Minas Gerais, Brazil
3: Nuristan province, Afghanistan
4: Durango, Mexico
Calcite and gem sphalerite on a pastel purple/yellow dissolution fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith county, Tennessee
Super funky and fuzzy mimetite on matrix from the historic moon anchor mine in Maricopa county, Arizona a former lead, silver and gold mine has produced some very rare minerals! It is also the type locality for the rare zeolite mineral Maricopaite.
This is probably one of my favorite fluorites I’ve owned even though it’s small its beauty makes up for it. so many colors in this piece! “Rainbow pocket”, Erongo mountains, Namibia
Lustrous purple chalcedony from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Most people know these as “grape agate” although they are technically not an agate more accurately categorized as chalcedony or microcrystalline quartz. Anyway they sure are beautiful!
Beautiful completely undamaged quartz with epidote from Hakkâri Province, eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Definitely one of the best if not the best location for quartz and epidote association
Repost with better pics of one of my favorite specimens spessartine garnet on smoky quartz from Tongbei, Yunxiao county, Fujian province, China
Beautiful blue-green vanadium beryl crystal with great clarity and luster from Nasarawa Eggon mine, Nigeria. I honestly think I like these vanadium beryls more than aquamarine.
Azurite, malachite and quartz. Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. One of my favorite locations for azurite! I love the tabular prismatic crystal habit. Let me know what you think of my specimen :)
One of my favorite locations for garnet I love the Deep brown-amber color. Snohomish county, Washington state, USA