Geology Nerd

Hi! I'm Liz, your friendly neighborhood geology nerd! My favorite pasts of geology are mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry. You'll find lots of pretty mineral samples, fossils, and rocks in general here!

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Pseudolaueite, Stewartite

Locality:

Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

A well-shaped orange pseudolaueite crystal together with yellow bladed stewartite crystals.

Collection and photo: Michael Förch

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Rare Selenite Psm -  Lubin Mine, Lubin District, Lower Silesia, Poland

Very rare green gypsum var selenite cluster with unknown pseudomorph from New find in Lubin Copper mine

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Calcite - Egremont, Cumbria, England

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Azurite, Adamite

Locality:

Bou Skour Mine, Bou Skour District, Djebel Saghro (Jbel Saghro), Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco.

Nice group of azurite crystals on adamite . 

Collection and photograph Jean-Pierre Barral.

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Jacinto de Compostela Quartz

Locality: Chella, Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

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Calcite

Locality: Kjørholt, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway

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Veszelyite

Locality:

Ocna de Fier (Vaskö-Moraviţa; Vaskö-Moravicza; Eisenstein), Ocna de Fier-Dognecea District, Banat Mts, Caraş-Severin Co., Romania

Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried

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Malachite

Locality:  Banat Mountains, Caras-Severin County, Romania

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Paratacamite, Tenorite

Locality:

Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Specimen and photo by Enrico Bonacina

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Wulfenite

Locality:  Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico

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 Wulfenite

Locality:

Benahadux, Almería, Andalusia, Spain

Collection and photograph: Juan Miguel.

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Another favorite from my collection.. a chlorite phantom quartz from China. I adore included quartz!

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Aegirine-augite, Zircon

Locality:

Krufter Ofen, Kruft, Laach lake volcanic complex, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Joerg Mandler’s Photo

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aquamarine with muscovite

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Adamite & Smithsonite with Minor Calcite

Locality:  Kamariza Mines, Lavrion, Attica, Greece

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Vauquelinite

Locality:

Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast’, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia

Dark olive-green Vauquelinite

Andreas Schloth’s Photo

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Quartz var Eisenkiesel with Dolomite and Hematite

Locality:  Florence Mine, Egremont, Cumbria, England