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Blueberry Fluorite on Quartz - Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia

Beautiful large specimens of “blueberry” fluorite on quarts from the Fe-Sn deposit of the Huanggang Mine, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China. One specimen even contains cubic fluorite which then has a layer of blue fluorite which has grown on top!

u/RubysHealingCrystals — 17 hours ago
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Aquamarine specimen from India

Got this aquamarine crystal with a pleasant blue-green tone.

What do you guys think about pieces like this as specimens?

u/Iq13_ — 15 hours ago
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Sweet Manitoba Sphalerite🧡

Estate find from a few years ago, this Sphalerite is so transparent😍

u/MajorMinerals — 12 hours ago
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Dugway geobed Gems

Took a rather WILD TRIP out to the Dugways here in utah, had no idea we were in for 50 miles of off road but my fiance and I pulled off a most Epic Dig!!!!! This is just 1 piece out of 2 buckets Full... Most were cut On Site..

u/Appropriate-Cut-2710 — 22 hours ago
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Norwegian Eclogite Rough to Slabs

Nice day outside so I fired up my new saw! These should polish up nicely, though I'm tempted to stabilize at least one batch to see the results since it's quite crumbly.

The red/pink is almandine-pyrope garnet and the green is omphacite, but eclogite can also contain kyanite, quartz, rutile, phenakite, and microscopic diamonds as these were formed from basalt forced deep beneath the earth's crust as a result of the collision that formed the Scandinavian Mountains, and were then violently exhumed through tectonic activity, preserving the rocky matrix of crystals that developed under geologically intense pressure instead of slowly transforming them into serpentinite or common schist.

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 — 14 hours ago
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