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Rare Tantalite from Badakhshan, Afghanistan 🇦🇫

Just wanted to share a few new pieces in my collection! I adore them 😁

The growth on this elestial quartz really caught my attention. The layered faces, etched textures, and natural formation make it one of those specimens that's hard to stop looking at. Curious what other collectors think of this piece.

Very nifty Uranium secondary. Photos in Daylight and Daylight + LWUV.

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!

Love the stepwise growth of crystals

Swat-Pakistan

Description of minerals in comments

One of my coolest minerals purchased in Tucson this year.

~15 inches x 7 inches x 4 inches

Quartz Aesthetically perched on a lustrous sphalerite matrix with some minor chalcopyrite from the Krushev dol lead-zinc mine, Madan, Smolyan province, Bulgaria

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.

9 inches x 8 x 4
~20lbs

Associated minerals on the specimen are ultra-rare Barahonaite-(Al), Barahonaite-(Fe), arsenocrandallite, yukonite, natropharmacosiderite, cornwallite and olivenite.