r/MineralGore

Should I get it?

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Well this was one part WTF?, and one part I might be tempted to buy this lol 😆

onyx cheese board makes me nervous

Mom’s favorite piece of mineral gore fell apart today as we picked it up. The glue had turned into chalk. I scrubbed it off. Do any of you have an adhesive you’d recommend? I was thinking E6000, but unsure if it would damage or react with anything.

On my local Facebook Marketplace

What is this? Pie on a string?

God help us all

$133 for some fiber glass, man. Swipe for more gore. Antique shop near Denver, CO.

Reposting as they replayed the commercial so I got pictures

I am currently in Korea and just watched a commercial on the bus for CrysBean. It looks like they roast the coffee beans with bits of tumbled quartz. No idea why they would do that. You think quartz splinters in your coffee would be a bad thing.

explore the gemstone wonderland

edit: i have changed the flair so as to honor the overwhelmingly positive response to these silly little guys :)

I've gotten some nice and reasonably priced (albeit mid quality) specimens, tumbles and tower from here, but many items feature resin, dyes, mislabelled stuff, synthetic materials, and ye olde pseudocience, of course.

Disclaimer! In my blog and mineral TikTok, I like to indicate most of the artificial treatments - heating, dyeing, etc - and the artificial/synthetic materials I can spot at stands and fairs, as these are not commonly labelled in the stands, when they definitely should...But as I always say, *liking and choosing to get an aura-coated quartz piece or heat-treated amethyst is just as valid as getting natural pieces*, this is not casting any judgment on that! But vendors should always be transparent about what they are selling, and they are so *not* most of the time.