Mineral Mondays #72 - Mineral Photography

We've been acquiring a lot of minerals over the past few months so I thought it would be a good time to share some of those with you.

The first set of images are from minerals in our shop in Japan.

A cool little scepter quartz from Scepter Hill, Arizona.
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Always some of my favorites, Vanadinite I collected in the Geronimo Mine, Arizona.
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Topaz from Topaz Mountain, Utah self collected.
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An aesthetic pink tourmaline with lepidolite on feldspar from San Diego Mine, California.
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Pentagonite from Wagholi Quarry, India.
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Cave onyx from Kokoweef, California.
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Neptunite(black) with benitoite(blue)
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Smokey quartz with a bit of amazonite from Lake Geroge, Colorado.
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Wulfenite from Red Cloud Mine, Arizona.
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Blue chalcedony thunder egg from Oregon. Do you see the eye?
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Those pictures were all taken with our Canon EOS M50. The following were all taken with my Iphone X using a macro lens.

Topaz with bixbyite from Topaz Mountain, Utah.
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Pink tourmaline in quartz from San Diego Mine, CA. The fractures are not in the tourmaline, but the quartz behind it. The tourmaline is very translucent(gemmy).
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Paul Bunyan Agate from Barstow, California
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Quartz on feldspar from the San Diego Mine, California.
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Pyromorphite from Bunker Hill Mine, Idaho.
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Tourmaline in quartz from San Diego Mine, CA
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If you like minerals or just like looking at them you can view a lot more at our shops:
USA - https://www.etsy.com/shop/Rt395Minerals
Japan - https://www.rt395mineralsjp.com

Thanks for reading!

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