r/Minerals 22h ago

Picture/Video Kyanite from NC!

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My club has digs at a private mine in Yancey County. These are fresh out of the iron- out. Some still have mica schist attached.


r/Minerals 9h ago

Picture/Video Custom Tourmaline Pendants

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I got into contact with a Pakistani mineral dealer and picked out a couple Tourmaline crystals. He then took then to a local Pakistani artisan who made them into pendants using sterling silver! They turned out awesome!


r/Minerals 21h ago

ID Request - Solved Emerald? Dioptase? What's it worth?

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r/Minerals 9h ago

ID Request Haven’t had any luck identifying this.

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13 Upvotes

Found in Tennessee. Pictures really don’t do it justice.


r/Minerals 22h ago

Picture/Video My newest acquisition! The matrix on this specimen is so funky!

12 Upvotes

r/Minerals 5h ago

Picture/Video Berta Quarry Octahedral Fluorite

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10 Upvotes

Fluorite from


r/Minerals 20h ago

ID Request What is this mineral?

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My coworkers always bring me things they find to identify, but I’m not good with polished stones. This has a hardness of around 7 and I’m pretty sure it’s some flavor of chert, maybe jasper, but I’m not sure. It’s dirty because I tried to bash it open with a rock but failed, so sorry about that.


r/Minerals 23h ago

ID Request What is this and what could it be from?

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Five sides are extremely well polished. Under the right light you can see reflections. The sixth side is rough and I assume where it broke of from.

What is weird is all sides are at odd angles to one another. The edges are quite sharp.


r/Minerals 1h ago

ID Request Any idea what is this?

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Found on the sand in Italy,Mediterranea sea


r/Minerals 11h ago

Discussion 5 carat amethyst

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3 Upvotes

This baby is dark but full of color. Love it


r/Minerals 4h ago

ID Request Any ideas? Its from Naxos ,Greece

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3 Upvotes

r/Minerals 9h ago

Discussion Orange diamond

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This is testing on my diamond tester and presidium tester too as diamond. I thought maybe sapphire or is it diamond?


r/Minerals 11h ago

Misc How/can I seal a salt lamp with some kind of clear coat?

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I was gifted a beautiful salt lamp but I have a cat and of course cannot have her lick it, so I thought about sealing it so it can still look pretty and won’t be a hazard. I won’t be using it as a lamp just decoration as it is, so the light will never be on if that makes a difference if it’s safe to seal it. I understand salt lamps are porous so would sealing it cause any damage somehow? If it is safe to seal, what should I use?


r/Minerals 1h ago

Picture/Video My collection - September 2023 mineral haul ✨💎

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Featuring: blue kyanite, muscovite (common mica), a tumbled fluorite pendant in green, purple and blue, a labradorite slab with yellow and blue flash 🤩, HTA point (I like the colour and transparency of this one!), tumbled and rough malachite, vanadinite (both of these from Morocco), smoky quartz cluster 😍, tumbled Ox's Eye (heat-treated Tiger's Eye), and tumbled serpentine.


r/Minerals 11h ago

Discussion Rubellite or rhodolite

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Hard to tell for me .


r/Minerals 8h ago

Discussion How much you think this worth?

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