Category: Mineral Showcase
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Laser Quartz with inclusions
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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 [...]
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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) [...]
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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 is an aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide crystal with a hardness of 8. Its crystal structure is orthorhombic, and it frequently forms prismatic crystals. The [...]
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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. [...]
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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
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 (elestial quartz) is quartz with natural terminations all over the faces and body of a layered or etched crystal. It is a [...]
