sparkle science

plants + gems + rocks + minerals + nutrition

[dozydawn]

tourmaline treatments

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[transparentfossil]

Fossilized Clams with Opal Replacement

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“Drop stones are not fossils, they are large quartzite boulders which sometimes contain thin seams of opal, usually referred to as painted lady, the opal is so thin it appears painted on. They are thought to have floated down from Antartica when it was still joined to Australia. They are only found at White Cliffs and Andamooka. The specimen above possibly contains some fossil remains which are now opal.”

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2.3" Iridescent Ammolite (Fossil Ammonite Shell) - Greens & Blues

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1.95" Boulder Opal Specimen - Queensland, Australia

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3.65" Fossil Crab (Potamon) Preserved in Travertine - Turkey

[oldearthminerals]

Korite Ammolite Specimens from the Bearpaw Formation, Alberta, Canada

[transparentfossil]

7.8" Polished Turkish Stick Agate Slab - Turkey

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[sparkle-science]

Larimar

[transparentfossil]

5" Flowery Polished Malachite Slab - DR Congo

[seafossilqueen]

Lonely Planet Kids My First Lift-the-Flap Dinosaur Atlas

Written by Kate Baker and illustrated by Teresa Bellon

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[sparkle-science]

Halloysite, Columbia

Quartz with halloysite inclusions (Mango quartz) from Cabiche, Quípama, Boyacá, Colombia © David Ethan Ziga

[killyridols]

snail in jadeite swamp by amber cowan, 2020, glass & mixed media, 18.8 × 18.8 × 18.8 centimeters

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[geologyin-blog]

Kammererite (chromian clinochlore), is one of the rarest clinochlore minerals as a sub-variety of large family of the chlorite minerals from Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey. Photo: Nmn Mineral Finds

[pearl-nautilus]

Agatized fossilized coral.