Blog tagged as mineral identification
A short introduction to Australian Henbury Meteorites
These are intersting specimens we sourced from Shandong, China. They are smokey quartz crystals with elongate plagioclase crytals on a pink granite matrix. There is also a small amount of epidote crystals.
The crystals shape on this amethyst looks very unusual. Our Geologist George investigates why. Learn about crystals with a geologist!
Learn about a mine direct mineral specimen. This amazing lodolite calcite crystals with fluorite from Guizhou, China
A quick chat about Aegirine, felsdapr and amphibole minerals
Explore this incredible El Hammom mineral specimen, with calcite crystals, pyrite and more!
George investigates and unusual fracter in a jasper crystal sphere. Geologist at work!
For about a year now we've been seeing "sphalerite" generators, towers, spheres and cubes. But what are they really?
A short video about cobaltian calcite to add to a crystal and mineral education series
We're noticing that a lot of the terms for the different Citrine products/stones are being used interchangably, so we'd thought we would clarify how *we* are using the terms. Many of these are trade names as opposed to geological names, so there is some inconsistency in the market.
