Any mineral/rock/gemstone collectors, enthusiasts here?

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Bismuth is one of my favorites

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>>2054084
too edgy.

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fuck yeah, crocoite

>thinly veiled Steven Universe thread

>>2054661
By that logic /an/ would be a thinly veiled furry board.

>>2054084
I have a small chunk at home

I need a large cube of pyrite, like 2inches or more but I can never find any for sale

>you will never have a handful of pyropes

>>2054723
I know of some at my local rock shop.

they're expensive though. there's a broken 4" cube selling for $750. I've seen almost perfect 6" cubes go for over $10k.

>>2054770
They told me I could either buy a house or cubes

I'm leaning towards the cubes, I could quite happily spend £500 on a nice one

>>2054774
I don't think £500 will buy you a very nice one. Not here in the US anyways.

I've seen some great ones measuring over a foot back in the day. They came from a mine near where I live, and all the miners had some. But that mine closed down 20 years ago and those cubes are getting pretty hard to find.

there's also some smaller ones coming out of mexico I think.

>>2054087
Pretty. What is it?

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Recently bought this one to add to my growing collection

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>I love to sing-a about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a

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Bismuth

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rutilated quants

>>2055180
this bismuth is lab created right?

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fibrous malachite

>>2055241
It is, naturally it reacts with other elements so it won't give the same structure I believe

>>2054782
One day I will find one

I like Pyrite a lot. If I had my desktop with me I'd upload some good stufff.

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This is my current collection.

Still not sure if the bottom middle is chalcedony or some variant of quartz.

I find it amusing how oblivious I was to the fact that it's actually quite easy to find certain minerals and how common they are if you know where to look. I was going with my friend through some gravel my neighbor ordered for construction work, and among pebbles we found several types of quartz, and some aquamarine samples. I wish I had a decent camera for photos. Even said neighbor was fascinated when he saw it all, and joked how part of his house will have some crystals and gemstones embedded in his walls.

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posted this on /v/ earlier, it's satinspar (gypsum)

I really wish I lived in a place where I could go look for rocks, but the land is nothing but clay and silt over here.

Also bismuth is just a metal, not really a mineral. Lots of metals can be made to form crystals, it's just that you can melt bismuth on a stovetop so it's really easy to do it.

>>2057106
What is the mineral on the bottom left?

>>2057323

It's Chrysoprase.

>>2057362
Thank you, I asked since it looked similar to my favorite gemstone, the opal. I was surprised to find out that it is related.

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>>2054083
What is this rock?

>>2057424
looks like a coral. If it isn't a hornets' nest or something.

>>2057436
well i found it in the beach, dont know if coral but i looks great for aquarium, might test it

>>2057424
could be pumice, scoria, sponge, coral.

if it floats it's probably pumice or sponge. If it's rock and it floats it's pumice.

>>2057448
that's very likely what it is if you found it on the beach.

>>2057424

Holy shit, for a moment I thought that's a hornet's hive. Still looks beautiful.

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Hey guys, i found this slate rock and it has some sort of metallic mineral on it, any ideas what it is?

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>>2058220
Closer picture

>>2054943
fluorite

>>2058224
phyllite?

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Anyone got any idea what this is? Found it awhile back at grandma's place. I thought it's some form of chalcedony but wanted to make sure with you guys. Sorry if the colors make it seem more purplish than it really is; it's actually a mixture of black, dark purple and some small traces of dark red and blue.

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>>2058375

Another picture.

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>>2058375
>>2058376

Here are some photos with more accurate colors for identification.

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>>2058398

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>>2054084

>>2058375
no idea what it is, are you going to polish it up?

>>2059001

Gonna give it a shot later, still looking around to see if anyone can identify it.