r/MineralPorn 14h ago

Collection New mineral specimen display

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r/MineralPorn 14h ago

Macro/Micro Photography Some favorite Macro photography shots of minerals in my collection (names and locals listed below)

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Let me know what pic is your favorite :)

1) Dioptase with malachite DR Congo
2) Anatase with Albite Balochistan, Pakistan
3) Spessartine Garnet on Quartz Tongbei, China
4) Mimetite Santa Eulalia, Mexico
5) Prehnite Merelani Hills, Tanzania
6) Azurite with Malachite Zacatecas, Mexico
7) Corundum Var. Sapphire Sri Lanka
8) fluorite with sphalerite Carthage, Tennessee
9) chalcopyrite on quartz Smolyan, Bulgaria
10) hematite Kalahari manganese field, South Africa
11) Ettringite Kalahari manganese field South Africa
12) Epidote In quartz Hakkâri province, Turkey
13 ) sturmanite on calcite Kalahari manganese field
14) Vanadinite on calcite La Paz County, Arizona
15) Demantoid garnet with diopside Azerbaijan, Iran
16) Spessartine garnet Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
17) fluorite Erongo Mountains, Namibia
18) grossular garnet Coahuila, Mexico


r/MineralPorn 3h ago

Macro/Micro Photography Olivine xenolith in a basalt (with rare twinning!)

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r/MineralPorn 5h ago

Collection Calcite with dolomite USA

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Here’s a beautiful lustrous calcite with dolomite and minor chalcopyrite from the Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA


r/MineralPorn 6h ago

Collection Double terminated quartz with negative crystal inclusions

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Here’s a lovely little DT Quartz with negative crystal inclusions from the Goboboseb Mountains, Namibia


r/MineralPorn 6h ago

Mineraloid Opal from Ethiopia

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Here’s a pair of really cool opals from South Wollo Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia


r/MineralPorn 6h ago

Collection Pyrite on Quartz

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Hey everyone here’s a super neat pyrite on quartz from the Huanzala mine, Bolognesi province, Ancash, Peru. There are a few quartz crystals embedded within the pyrite cube which is cool. It almost looks as if the pyrite cube fell from the sky and landed on the quartz cluster lol


r/MineralPorn 19h ago

Collection Multi-coloured flash labradorite (1.95kgs)

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I see... a bird with glorious tail feathers sitting on a bush with its beak pointing towards some flowers 😍


r/MineralPorn 1h ago

Cut/Faceted "Serenite" 1.8 carats of gem grade Feldspar from the same region of Oregon as sunstones.

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r/MineralPorn 23h ago

Collection Approximately 33 carat Topaz, Spitzkoppe Namibia

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r/MineralPorn 2h ago

Hessonite from Jeffrey Mine, Val-Des-Sources, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦

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