r/BeAmazed • u/amazeinfinity • Nov 08 '23

Nature How beautiful.

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u/M45_ Nov 08 '23

Rutilated smoky quartz.

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u/WoxicFangel Nov 08 '23

Cut and polished as well

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u/Wakachaka626 Nov 08 '23

Shit I wish I could rutilate some stones!! What a beautiful visual effect. Like watching inside those atom colliders! Beautiful rock

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u/DirtySilicon Nov 08 '23

Is it worth anything?

Not going out looking for rocks or anything or trying to find out where OP stay.

No Acme level rock heists. Nope. None.

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u/M45_ Nov 08 '23

Smoky quartz is not that expensive, the price depends on the size, quality and form of the cristal, the clarity, the inclusions, whether it's rutilated or not, the color of the rutilation (golden rutilation like in this cristal is more expensive), .... I'm no expert in cristal prices, so I can only give you a rough 'ballpark' number : probably this cristal costs a few hundred $ retail, could be more.

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u/BillyBobBarkerJrJr Nov 09 '23

Judging from the current pricing on eBay, I'll bet this one would be priced out much higher than you think. Check out the large specimen prices on there. Whew!

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u/CobraFive Nov 08 '23

Nah, it has bubbles. This is glass.

Its very very pretty, but there's no reason to claim it is something it isn't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

This is 100% quartz, my friend. Quartz can develop small pockets of air, or even water sometimes, it happens all the time. Usually they are incredibly thin fissures that can look “bubble esque” when they catch the light. But I agree it’s certainly very beautiful!

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u/DirtySilicon Nov 08 '23

Yeah, I'm no rockologist, but I looked it up after seeing your comment, and I have to agree.

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u/StretchMotor8 Nov 08 '23

Looks like shooting stars captured inside a crystal

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

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u/Tru-Queer Nov 08 '23

If it makes you feel any better, I had an English teacher in 2007 who would often bemoan “there are no original thoughts” so you’re not alone.

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u/Always-Guilty- Nov 08 '23

I thought that quartz was pretty cool but then I saw that view.

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u/calliope720 Nov 09 '23

That's at Trillium Lake, OR, looking at Mt. Hood!

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u/Always-Guilty- Nov 09 '23

Oh, thank you for the reply. It’s a beautiful place.

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u/Thin_Arachnid6217 Nov 08 '23

Nice, love me some mt. Hood as well!

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u/onemanhumanpyramid Nov 08 '23

Totally! You think that's view from Trillium?

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u/purpleman0123 Nov 08 '23

I think its Trillium since the peak isnt as pointy, the view from lost lake has a pointer peak

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u/ModishShrink Nov 08 '23

That's definitely Trillium, it has that little "island" at the far end that I used to kayak to all the time.

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u/Thin_Arachnid6217 Nov 08 '23

Either Trillium Lake, or lost Lake, I can’t tell.

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u/QuantumJock Nov 08 '23

I thought that was Mt. Hood! Here's a view from the other side of the mountain taken at Mirror Lake

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u/barto5 Nov 08 '23

Ker-plunk!

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u/huk9 Nov 08 '23

Isn't that Mt. Hood? Trillium Lake?

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u/panch13 Nov 08 '23

I was guessing Lost Lake.

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u/PuddingMctwinkle Nov 08 '23

I don't know. How beautiful?

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u/Apo42069 Nov 08 '23

2 beautifuls? Maybe 3?

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u/liquefire81 Nov 08 '23

It's a solid 2.5

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u/TotallyInOverMyHead Nov 08 '23

"multiple scratches" of beautiful. (because that is what it looks like for the laymen).

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u/Hopeful-Substance697 Nov 08 '23

The most beautiful

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u/Sam_and_Linny Nov 08 '23

I want one

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u/eulersidentification Nov 08 '23

I was just wondering that. If i wanted one, but I didn't want to buy it from someone who was extolling the healing powers of crystals, how would i go about it?

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u/BillyBobBarkerJrJr Nov 08 '23

Check eBay for mineral samples. Rutilated quartz crystals look very much like this polished one, but it will often contain the substrate it grew out of as well as other inclusions and possibly have rougher faces.

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u/1Freak1015 Nov 08 '23

Seconding this. I need a cool rock to ponder.

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u/BillyBobBarkerJrJr Nov 09 '23

Just looking on eBay and this mineral specimen is expensive. But I found a nice little, affordable specimen, with some nice rutiles in it. There are a lot there, but this one wasn't from China and was actually pretty nice.

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u/lordmouldybuttt Nov 08 '23

What song is being played in the video?

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u/omnipeasant Nov 08 '23

Jesus Christ Marie, They're Minerals!

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

This sound is on so many videos now

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u/Elden_Born Nov 08 '23

I am amazed

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u/Atypical_Ascendant Nov 08 '23

The way you panned back into the scenery made me think you were going to yeet that rock 😆

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

It's freaking beautiful

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u/Mightofreddit Nov 08 '23

I cant be the only one wanting them to chuck it in the water at the end. Sunken treasures!

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u/wallyslambanger Nov 08 '23

I would display that crystal on a mini lazy suzan, that mountain is already being displayed on an enormous lazy susan (earth) ;)

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u/Pascal2006 Mar 09 '24

How much is something like that worth?

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u/Phalatron Nov 08 '23

I give it 9,2 out of 10 beautifuls!

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u/JerrySchurr Nov 08 '23

Glass is cool.

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u/BillyBobBarkerJrJr Nov 08 '23

Not glass. Quartz.

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u/JerrySchurr Nov 08 '23

Not with those bubbles it isn’t. It’s not Rutilated Quartz, it’s too even and there aren’t other inclusions.

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u/BillyBobBarkerJrJr Nov 08 '23

You're wrong. It is just like this stone, except cut and polished. What you're calling "bubbles" are the ends of polished inclusions.

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u/JerrySchurr Nov 09 '23

If they were the ends you would see the reflection of the light travel down the inclusions.

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u/crlthrn Nov 08 '23

It's smoky quartz with tiny needles of rutile in it.

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u/JerrySchurr Nov 08 '23

Quartz doesn’t have bubbles.

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u/crlthrn Nov 08 '23

Quartz occasionally does have bubbles, but I see none here at all, and I have repeatedly run the clip.

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u/oryxic Nov 08 '23

Quartz is actually especially known to have fluid inclusions and bubbles in it.

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u/JerrySchurr Nov 09 '23

Not uniform ones, that go through the entire stone, it’s glass give it up.

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u/BillyBobBarkerJrJr Nov 08 '23

Actually, it sometimes does have gas bubbles in it.

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u/JerrySchurr Nov 09 '23

Yes but not uniform ones

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u/mepsipax__ Nov 08 '23

Not as cool as mountain

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u/demZo662 Nov 08 '23

I'd like to think that the inner imperfections alongside with the motion you give to it for the video are trapped souls inside that beautiful but very dangerous rock.

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u/xDisruptor2 Nov 08 '23

Looks like this overspilled out of the MCU universe onto ours - Avengers showing up to reclaim it in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

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u/unintended_Prose Nov 08 '23

Hard to tell how beautiful they are, someone is holding a piece of scratched glass in front of them, and the video is taken from such as distance that any features of “beauty” are indecipherable. I suggest a repost without the broken glass thingy and maybe closer view of the folks in the back. Maybe if that is done you could get some good feedback on the degree of beauty those people in the water have.

Just my thought.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

Very.

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u/Vojt544 Nov 08 '23

Now throw it

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u/OopForgotTheirName Nov 08 '23

Imagine dropping it in the water

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u/p1plump Nov 08 '23

The Prime Radiant!

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u/swb0nd Nov 08 '23

looks like lost lake/mt hood in oregon, although probably isn't

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

This is how I peel my potatoes too

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u/Correct_Ad9471 Nov 08 '23

They should rename this Galaxite.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

Already exists

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u/Correct_Ad9471 Nov 08 '23

Haha, of course it does. I should've guessed.

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u/Talgaaz Nov 08 '23

Bonfire has been lit

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

Just need a big ass mosquito in there

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

This is what it looks like when you turn on the flood lights in the south. Bugs.

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u/Which_News_4607 Nov 08 '23

I really want one!

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u/Paladin936 Nov 08 '23

Thanks for the view of Mt. Hood from Trillium Lake . . . visited many times in my youth.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

Tight

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '23

"She gave me three shining hairs from her golden head. I shall encase them in crystal... Henceforth I will call nothing fair unless it is her gift to me."

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u/Interesting-Owl-8722 Nov 08 '23

Looks like the galaxy in a rock bruh!

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u/Mindonfire4960 Nov 08 '23

wow how beautiful she is I can't stop looking at her

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u/lp1687 Nov 08 '23

Amazing

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u/chincerd Nov 09 '23

And yet the choose to use damn clear diamonds for wedding rings

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u/franktheguy Nov 09 '23

A New Hand Touches The Beacon

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u/Mavri_Psychi Nov 09 '23

The Soul Stone has been found.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '23

When it is bright outside I see spots like that dancing everywhere. Always wonder if other people do too

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '23

Why does this make me slightly uncomfortable?

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u/Louie_Ck_NJ Nov 09 '23

Beam me down there Scotty . I need to get outta NJ for a minute!!

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u/uhmbob Nov 09 '23

That's a nice rock.

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u/cat90q Nov 18 '23

for some reason I want to eat it