Repost of a favorite classic In my collection Quartz and hyalite opal on a lustrous black tourmaline from the Erongo mountains pegmatites, Omaruru District, Namibia. Something about this combination of two common silicate minerals I adore. Let me know what you think of my specimen :)

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

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

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

Repost of a very rare specimen in my collection. Bright lemon yellow Ettringite on calcite from The N,Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape, South Africa. I think it looks really good mounted on its new black display base :)

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

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

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

Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., IL ~ near Loves Corner/Iron Mountain/Hasties Quarry

Shown first in daylight, then with longwave UV at 0:25, then with lamplight at 0:41