Here are some photos from a mineral shop for this #marketfriday
Last weekend we took a trip to Galena and got rained out from our nature hikes. So we ended up poking around the shops in the small historic town. This town is like a sister city to Bisbee Arizona that I visited a month or so ago.
One of the shops was full of minerals. Here's a big chunk of fool's gold.
Quite a few fossils were for sale there as well. These are horseshoe crabs or trilobites.
This is another fossil of a nautilus shell. It actually had interesting iridescent highlights.
Here are some Cephalopod fossils. These are sort of like a hybrid of squid and snails that used to be all over the place in the oceans zillions of years ago. Now their shells are encased in stone forever.
This was a large pink crystal rock of some sort. I can't remember the name of this mineral but it might have been artificially colored as most of the pink quartz I've seen wasn't nearly this bold in color.
There was also quite a bit of jewelry for sale. These earrings seem to be made out of the pink crystal above.
Here is some interesting aura quartz on various pendants. These are just basic quartz crystals that are bonded artificially with metal like gold, platinum or cobalt. It ends up creating really interesting iridescent colors.
This is labradorite and it is naturally iridescent. It is fairly inexpensive and polishes really well. I've seen it used on all sorts of jewelry but I tend to like it in its polished rock form better.
This is large piece of quartz crystal, the most common diamond around.
These are some raw and sculpted pieces of fluorite. There are quite a few varieties of color in fluorite.
This is lapis, a nice bold and blue color. This has been used in jewelry in some of the oldest civilizations because of its bold blue color.
Here is some zebra jasper. Supposedly it has some metaphysical properties to make you more motivated. I just like how colorful and swirly it looks when it is polished.
Here is some ocean jasper from Madagascar with quite a variety of different colors.
We ended up buying a fossil and a couple other minerals while it down poured outside. After talking with the shop owner it turns out all this stuff was brought to Galena from Arizona where we had just been last month lol.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)