SRL Gemstone

We're in love with the art of nature. We especially admire the color and patterns of agate. If you would like to add these aesthetic agates or gemstones to your collection, please contact us.  www.ebay.com/usr/srl_trading

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Like a mountain - Opal

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Opalized Petrified Wood Log

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This opal is just like a Rorschach test! It's a perfect example of nature’s artwork where everyone sees something of their own: some see a pill, some see a sunny-side-up egg, and others see a distinct baby footprint, or even a tiny embryo inside a golden cocoon, as if nature itself is protecting the beginning of life. What do you see? For instance, I see a baby footprint. It’s amazing how everyone’s imagination reveals something completely different.

Dendritic Yellow Opal

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An agate with stunning details, featuring a cloudy, orbicular structure on the inside and an agate formation at its center.

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Assorted close-up photos of fish eyes

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It's almost like seeing the hidden interior of a 3D tube agate. In this specimen, where agate never formed around the structures, the tubes appear to have survived as iron-altered aragonite pseudomorphs.

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This layered structure was built by some of the earliest life forms that inhabited Earth's oceans billions of years ago. Through their photosynthetic activity, they gradually oxygenated the atmosphere, laying the foundation for the evolution of complex multicellular life. These ancient formations remain among the most remarkable surviving records of that distant chapter in Earth's history. Agatized stromatolite

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All the beauties together

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Fluorescent agate

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The Headphone Nebula Jones-Emberson 1 ©

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A bright meteor burned up in the atmosphere while capturing Andromeda Galaxy

📸 Photography by Gong Yurui and Liao Guihe

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Stibnite with Quartz

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A fascinating formation featuring 3D tube structures that have frozen while twisting inside the silica. Tube & Fortification Agate

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Morning Candy!

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This painting of a cave bear, at the Chauvet Cave in France, was drawn with 14 lines around 32,000 years ago. The artist used a technique known as 'stump-drawing' - the use of fingers or a piece of hide to paint the muzzle and to emphasize the outlines of the head and forequarters 

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Twin formations in the same opal nodule. So cute.

Dendritic Opal / Agate

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Bow before Z. rex! 🦐 Better known as the emperor shrimp (Zenopontonia rex), this tiny crustacean can be found throughout tropical waters in the Indo-Pacific. Notice its colorful “throne?” This species is a hitchhiker that can most often be found riding on the backs of marine organisms like sea cucumbers and nudibranchs! Thanks to this living arrangement, the shrimp is able to move from location to location with ease and can more effectively avoid predators. What’s in it for the nudibranchs and sea cucumbers? Scientists think the emperor shrimp might “clean” its hosts by removing harmful parasites, but this has yet to be determined.

Photo: Julian Hsu, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist