Beautiful Minerals

This Blog is about beautiful minerals, gemstones and crystals. I collect minerals and believe in their healing powers.

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Bismut

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Large Amethyst (Cactus Quartz) from Boekenhouthoek, South Africa •

Photo: Dust77 ~ CEK​/  Scott Maller

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Purple Fluorite with Zoning & Sphalerite on Drusy Quartz on Limestone Matrix

Locality: Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA, North America

Size: 11.0 × 7.0 × 5.0 cm

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🛸| dusted77

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WOW, Magnificent specimen of Tiffany Stone (variety of Fluorite)

Photo: SilverHillLapidary

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Dioptase on Calcite - Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia

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Chalcocite and Bornite heavily covered in iridescent Blister Copper (a variety of Chalcopyrite)  - Daye Iron Mine, Tieshan, Huangshi Prefectature, Hubei Province, China

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High-quality gypsum specimen from classic locality Lubin Copper mine, Poland.

Photo: GeoPeak Minerals

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Natural Citrine - Lwena, Katanga Copper Crescent, D.R. Congo

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Large Natural Bolivian amethyst crystal!

Photo: Mineral Mike

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Crazy Vanadinite Crystals Specimen From Morocco

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The Helix aquamarine Originally brought out of Brazil in the 1930’s, and long in the collection of a famous gem cutting family from Idar Oberstein in Germany, it was left uncleaned for nearly 80 years before being recently prepared and sold. The stone hasn’t been heated either, to produce the slightly bland blue almost ubiquitous in commercial aqua today, but left in its original state, with the beautiful green-blue hue that originated the name aquamarine. The inclusions within that give it its name are phantom crystal surfaces, where growth stopped, and then resumed in the slowly crystallising pegmatitic mush in which it was born. The crystal weighs over 7kg, measures 24.5x12.6x9.3 cm and is currently on loan to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. It is considered one of the planet’s great gems. Loz

Image credit: Joe Budd/Rob Lavinsky/iRocks.com

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Galena with Center Crystal Displaying Spinel Law Twinning on Quartz with Siderite 

Locality: Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia, Asia

Size: 6.6 × 4.4 × 4.2 cm

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Mullti-color tourmaline crystal

Photo: / Safi Khan

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Chalcedony with Siderite

Locality: Huttenberg, Carinthia, Austria

Size: 5.7 × 3.4 × 2.6 cm

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Sky Blue Fluorite crystals from Hunan Province in China

Photo: GeorgioStones