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📣 Help Shape the New Look of r/mineralcollectors! 🪨✨
As part of our fresh start under new management, we’re giving the subreddit a brand-new look—and we’d love to feature YOUR specimens!
We’re looking for stunning, high-quality photos of your favorite minerals to use for our:
📸 Subreddit banner
🪨 Profile picture (icon)
Whether it’s a jaw-dropping fluorite, a perfectly formed quartz cluster, a vibrant azurite, an incredible native copper specimen, or any other mineral you’re proud of, we want to see it!
How to enter:
🔹 Reply to this post with your best photo(s).
🔹 Please only submit photos that you took and that you own the rights to.
🔹 By submitting, you’re giving r/mineralcollectors permission to use your image for the subreddit’s banner or icon (with credit if you’d like it).
We’ll choose the images that best represent the beauty and diversity of the mineral world.
Let’s make r/mineralcollectors as incredible as the collections its members share. We can’t wait to see your favorite specimens! 💎🌍

Little art project, haven’t painted in over 10 years 🫣

u/blueamberbliss thank you for your photo submissions! Two of your pieces were voted highest for our sub! You guys were all fun! Thanks everyone!

Dusting today and my 6 year old humbly asked if I’d share some of his favorite finds 🥹💜 the first piece is gold ore he was given as a gift, everything else he’s found himself with mom 🫶🏼

Prairie rattler, fondly named Rattlesnake Jake 🥰

Prairie rattler 🥰 fondly named Rattlesnake Jake

Fried chicken anyone? 🙃

We had 3 photos at a tie! We need two photos! One more vote for the second best for our new banner/page photo 🫶🏼 photos in comments for reference

Godzilla! Pagoda calcite 🫶🏼

Moonstone 🌙 ✨

Dream piece, tessin habit smoky quartz, Mercedes etched tourmaline and hyalite opal sprinkles-Erongo Mountains, Namibia

Stunning icy mountains of quartz with secondary sugary phantoms Guizhou Province

Dreamy, moody oil painting Alashan 🥹✨

Let’s vote 🙌🏼

Double terminated chlorite included quartz, Pakistan specimen

Hey guys 👋🏼 let’s make this sub ROCK! 🤘

Phenomenal piece of optical calcite with secondary mineral dusting ✨

Sorry yall but I needed a farewell post for my fave piece! New Lander variscite/chalcosiderite goes to her new home today 🥹🫶🏼

Uncommon Gitter quartz AKA lattice quartz, Erongo Mountains, Namibia

u/CJ8907! Making a girls calcite dreams come true one rock at a time! 🙌🏼🫶🏼💜

Interesting amethyst I picked up, cool inclusions and a water bubble 💜