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The Turtle. Rounded botryoids of satiny-lustered, dark forest-green malachite. Shilu Mine, Yangchun Co., Guangdong Prov., China.

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Polished Natural java moss agate from Indonesia
Beatiful landscape
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A mammoth 568 carats “The Eternal Flame” is the largest and most significant black gem ever found. What makes it even rarer is its origin. The volcanic soils of coastal New South Wales, Australia are replete with bands of obsidian and quartz but only small finds of volcanic opal – nothing like the great inland fields of Lightning Ridge, Coober Pedy and Queensland.

Source: https://www.geologyin.com/2017/08/the-largest-and-most-significant-black.html

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Gemmy fluorite from China

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Olivenite crystals
Olivenite is a copper arsenate mineral and crystallizes in the monoclinic system. The piece shown in this photo has formed on Conichalcite. As the name suggests, it is of olive-green color, which varies in shade from yellow or brown, gray-green, grayish white or light green in transmitted light. More commonly, olivenite occurs as globular aggregates of acicular crystals, these fibrous forms often having a velvety luster; sometimes it is lamellar in structure, or soft and earthy.
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Originally posted by Archisorcerus Archisorcerus wrote:

Mexican fire Opal,looks like a sunset captured in stone. 289611434-556489829292787-8883285217725052849-n


this is stunning, but I'd like to see other pictures of it (with maybe less tricky lightning).

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^ Fire opals look so under strong light exposure. I wouldn't call it a "trick". I figure this is under natural sunlight.
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Beautiful amethyst crystal flowers, Uruguay.

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Named the Castle
Ajoite included Quartz w/
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Cooper, Hématite, Epidode, Chlorite and Kaolinite.
From Limpopo Province,
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Natural Rainbow Fluorite is just bands of different colours. Photo ©&amp;#65039; EmbodiedGems Fb-Bj-CQi-WAAAGt4-E
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This is Amazing Azurite & Malachite Sphere.
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This coffee table is absolutely beautiful! An Uruguayan Amethsyt Geode with Agate Banding, sitting on a modern, silver metal base and thick glass top.

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Natural Rhodochrosite's stalactite from Argentina (looks like a Watermelon)

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Lol, this looks like frozen blood orange. 

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Lol, this literally looks delicious!

Unique botryoidal fluorites packed together as a oval shape standing prominently on amethyst. Madhya Pradesh, India Photo: natures_goodz Fbqrx-Yo-Xo-AEz-Gcv
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At the rock show at the NC State Fairgrounds and saw a stone I had seen before on a video stream-Wild Fire Opal. Not sure if it qualifies as a gemstone, but it was an accidental find in Utah and was created by a volcanic vent being so filled with deposits that it was completely blocked off. Did npot get a photo, but found a photo online.< id="idg-io-safe-browsing-enabled" ="" oninit="true">


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Aragonite sprays flower. 306184216-5675979259112193-2180578314983236788-n
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Natural layered agate. Each layer was formed at different times. Probably due to earthquakes in the region, the lines are crooked. That's why the horizon line is crooked. Turkish Photo: menekse_bilal08 Fd-Cg-Az4-X0-AAdn53
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Octahedral Purple/Blue fluorite crystals From Jiangxi De 'an
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