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Home Minerals List Our Policies Shipping Dendritic Moss Opal Halite “Every year, attractive specimens of HALITE (a.k.a. SALT!) are collected at the famous Searles Lake locality, in Trona, California. Some years the color is white, and other years it is pink, depending on the inclusions in the halite. The pink color is due to the…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Minerals from Germany Item # SIDQ09161264Siderite and Quartz from the Meiseberg Mine Here’s an excellent Old Stock display specimen of Siderite and Quartz from the Meiseberg Mine, Neudorf, Harzgerode mining district, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This specimen procured from a mineral dealer near Hildesheim, Germany. This specimen was previously in…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Geodes There are conflicting views about how geodes form, but most geologists agree that they begin as bubbles, sometimes in submarine limestone sediments, sometimes in a lava flow. Occasionally they form around the body of a sea creature on the ocean floor. Over time, the bubble is cast in…

Home Minerals List Our Policies Shipping Dendritic Moss Opal Pyrope Garnet var. Rhodolite from North Carolina Rhodolite is a variety of rose-pink to red mineral Pyrope, a species in the garnet group. It is found in the Cowee Valley gemstone locality in Macon County, Western North Carolina, situated near the Town of Franklin, NC. The…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Erythrite Erythrite is a magenta deep red colored mineral. Its distinctive color is caused by its cobalt content. Erythrite is a secondary hydrated cobalt arsenate mineral. Large crystals on specimens are very uncommon. Individual crystals are normally elongated, thin and bladed with a distinct angled termination. Crystals are often…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Epidote This is a superb Old Stock display of Epidote elongated crystals that came from Capelinha, in the Jequitinhonha valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This specimen is from our personal collection. Epidote is an outstanding display mineral. The most desirable form of this mineral is one with the elongated crystals.…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Wave Dolomite This is a wonderfully patterned rare stone known as Wave Dolomite, Rolling Hills Dolomite, or Desert Sandstorm . This stone was discovered years earlier in a small pocket in Mexico and another small pocket has now been found again. It is a stone that is in high…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Dioptase Dioptase or “Green Gold” as it is often called is second only to the Emerald in producing the finest shades, depth and clarity of natural green minerals ever found. Dioptase will always hold a preferred place in any quality mineral collection. It is difficult to photograph Dioptase crystals…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Diopside Diopside is a silicate mineral that is usually light green to dark green, but it is occasionally found in blue, brown, colorless, white or grey. It may form crystals that are short prismatic crystals, or it may form granular, columnar or massive crystals. Diopside is an important rock…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Dinosaur Bone Dinosaur Bone Slabs. Agatized dinosaur bone occurs from permineralization, a process whereby minerals rich in silicon dioxide fill the spaces within and between the cellular structures of the bone. Agatized fossilized dinosaur bones are petrified with silica or quartz crystals which gives them their colorful, glassy appearance.…