#mineralogy

Hello, anime fans. Today I'm here to talk to you about a "gem" from last summer's season that I decided to watch solely for its audiovisual appeal. It's a very different anime from what I've

Hello friends! This time I want to share with you pictures of one of the main mineral collections in the world. This collection is located in the renowned A. Y. Fersman Museum of Mineralogy. Y. Fersman

If you read my Friday's Rock post you'll know that I was looking for magnetite crystals up near Cedar City, Utah this weekend. Walking around the massive tailings piles, literal mountains themselves, I

My Emerald Collection

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I've never seen a grey emerald or maybe it's should be called grey beryl since emeralds are always green due to chromium or vanadium present. Source:

I love the hexagonal shapes of aquamarine crystals, I picked up these pieces in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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This is Chysocola on Hornblend. Hope you're a blue and green fan. Okay, so I've been slacking a little. Even though January is the slowest month of the year, I have found plenty to keep myself occupied.

Thank you for dropping by Monday CrystalArt corner, This is my first post about crystal after months of thinking on how to start a post, what topic will attract audience, what is my interest, what am I

Iron is the most vital metal in human use.It constitutes 5.05%of the crust material and hold third position in abundance after silicon and aluminium . It this blog I will give you brief description about

I was recently asked on this site: "What's the difference between a geode and a thunder egg?" In all honesty, there is not much difference at all. They are both formed from volcanoes and they

I'm not an expert of precious stones or crystals, and last Sunday was the first time i've heard of shungite. I met one of my friends at a meetup in the Pilis mountains who is a merchandizer of stones and

For you red crystal lovers, this is a beauty. I would not really consider this specimen a micro-crystal, as the druzy crystals show up very nicely to the naked eye. However, some magnification is necessary

I discovered another crystal that turned out to be quite interesting. It's a very small quartz crystal cluster that had fallen out of a Moroccan geode a while back, when I broke it open. As you can see,

Today I had the privilege of doing a minerals and fossils presentation for the third grade classes at Nancy Lopez Elementary School here in Roswell NM. This was the third presentation I've done for this

Hi All, Here's a new specimen from New York State that I just acquired for my collection, which I thought I would share with everyone. This specimen features iridescent Marcasite rods, golden scalenohedral

As I mentioned, I am posting some more cool micro-crystals I photographed from our new stereo scope. This is a conicalcite on limonite specimen. The clear calcite crystals are rather large but the intriguing