Category: Mineral Showcase

  • Quartz clusters

    Quartz clusters

    Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal with a hardness of 7.  Its crystal system is hexagonal (trigonal), and it is among the most abundant of [...]

     
  • Citrine

    Citrine

    Citrine is a silicon dioxide mineral (a member of the quartz family), with a hardness of 7.  Its crystal system is trigonal and its yellow [...]

     
  • Amber

    Amber

    Colombian copal (amber) is a type of resin produced from plant sap from tropical legume and araucarian trees (conifers indigenous today to South America).  The term [...]

     
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  • Garnet

    Garnet

    Garnet is a gemstone found in a variety of colors.  Most varieties, but not all, are aluminum silicates and their hardness varies from 6.5 to [...]

     
  • Laser Quartz

    Laser Quartz

    Laser Quartz is the name given to a form of Quartz points which are naturally long and tapered towards the termination, which has small faces. [...]

     
  • Selenite

    Selenite

    Selenite is a hydrous calcium sulfate with a hardness of 2.  Selenite is a form of gypsum.  Its crystals are typically tabular, with striations running [...]

     
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  • Pyrite

    Pyrite

    The mineral Pyrite, or iron pyrite, is an iron sulfide with the formula FeS2. Pyrite is the most common of the sulfide minerals. This mineral’s [...]

     
  • Rutile

    Rutile

    Rutile is a titanium oxide crystal with a hardness of 6 to 6.5.  The crystals it forms are tetragonal, usually prismatic, and are often long [...]

     
  • Laser Quartz with inclusions

    Laser Quartz with inclusions
     
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  • Morganite

    Morganite

    Morganite, also known as “pink beryl”, “rose beryl”, “pink emerald”, and “cesian (or caesian) beryl”, is a rare light pink to rose-colored gem-quality variety of [...]

     
  • Heliodor

    Heliodor

    Heliodor is a  yellow variety of beryl, a beryllium aluminum silicate mineral with a hardness of 7.5 to 8.  Its crystal system is hexagonal (trigonal) [...]

     
  • Tourmaline

    Tourmaline

    Tourmaline is a complex aluminum boroscilicate with a hardness of 7 to 7.5.  Its crystal pattern is hexagonal (trigonal) with primatic crystals and stirations running [...]

     
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  • Topaz

    Topaz

    Topaz is an aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide crystal with a hardness of 8.  Its crystal structure is orthorhombic, and it frequently forms prismatic crystals.  The [...]

     
  • Vivianite

    Vivianite

    Vivianite is a hydrous iron phosphate with a hardness of 1.5 to 2.  Its crystal system is monoclinic.  Vivianite was named after J. G. Vivian. [...]

     
  • Amethysts Kenya

    Amethysts Kenya

    Amethyst, a member of the quartz family, has a trigonal crystal system and a hardness of 7.  Its color is derived from the combination of [...]

     
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  • Faden Quartz

    Faden Quartz

    Quartz is a silicon dioxide crystal with a hardness of 7.  Its crystal system is hexagonal (trigonal), and it is among the most abundant of [...]

     
  • Aquamarine

    Aquamarine

    Aquamarine is a blue or blue-green variety of beryl, a beryllium aluminum silicate mineral with a hrdness of 7.5 to 8.  Its crystal system is [...]

     
  • Ametrine

    Ametrine

    Ametrine is a combination of amethyst and citrine in the same stone.  It is a member of the quartz family with a hardness of 7 and [...]

     
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  • Smokey Alligator Quartz

    Smokey Alligator Quartz

    Smokey alligator quartz (elestial quartz) is quartz with natural terminations all over the faces and body of a layered or etched crystal.  It is a [...]

     
 
 
 
 
 
 

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