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Home Minerals List Our Policies Shipping Dendritic Moss Opal Rainbow Obsidian “The various colors of obsidian are a result of several factors. Clear varieties of obsidian contain very few opaque impurities or microscopic mineral crystals. Red or brown obsidian generally results from tiny crystals or inclusions of hematite or limonite (iron oxide). Abundant, microscopic crystals…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Gold Sheen Obsidian Gold Sheen Obsidian…The various colors of obsidian are a result of several factors. Clear varieties of obsidian contain very few opaque impurities or microscopic mineral crystals. Red or brown obsidian generally results from tiny crystals or inclusions of hematite or limonite (iron oxide). Abundant, microscopic crystals…

Home Minerals List Our Policies Shipping Dendritic Moss Opal North Carolina Minerals North Carolina Minerals…We have spent the last 7 years (since 2013) learning, exploring, finding and acquiring specimens of the rocks and minerals that North Carolina is famous for. To appreciate the Western North Carolina mountains’ rich mineral history, one must become acquainted with…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Wonderstone We collected several buckets of Nevada Wonderstone a few years ago from Wonderstone Mountains A&B near Fallon, NV Some rocks themselves are highly prized by collectors. An example is “Wonderstone” (rock that is naturally stained with picturesque bands of red and orange iron oxide and hydroxide). In Nevada,…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Mystery Rocks From time to time we procure a box of rocks and minerals with no identification or locale indicated. Most of these we are able to determine what minerals and where they are from. Sometimes we run across some that we cannot specifically identify the minerals or the…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Morion Quartz Morion quartz is naturally formed dark brown to black quartz, created from exposure to natural radiation, and is a sister to smoky quartz. Frequently black quartz is recreated by irradiating quartz in commercial settings. While similar physical results occur, the crystals have a much different feel. Item…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Brecciated Mookaite This is another new find from the outback of Western Australia. It occurs near Mooka Station in the Kennedy Ranges about 100 miles inland from the coastal town of Carnarvon. This geologically interesting rock is actually a brecciated radiolarite. Radiolarite or radiolarian chert is a high silica…

Home Minerals List Our Policies Shipping Dendritic Moss Opal Molybdenite Molybdenite, also known as “Moly Ore”, is a mineral of molybdenum disulfide. It is a very soft metallic mineral. It can be easily confused with graphite, but not with many other minerals. Graphite is a darker black-silver color and has a black-gray to brown-gray streak.…

Home Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Rock Cycle Minerals of France Minerals of France include Bournonite a sulfosalt mineral species, trithioantimoniate of lead and copper. It was named to honor French mineralogist and crystallographer Jacques Louis de Bournon. Bournonite is found in hydrothermal veins of medium temperatures in localities in England, Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania,…

Rosasite and Mimetite Rosasite is a carbonate mineral with minor potential for use as a zinc and copper ore. Chemically, it is a copper zinc carbonate hydroxide with a copper to zinc ratio of 3:2, occurring in the secondary oxidation zone of copper- zinc deposits. It was originally discovered in 1908 in the Rosas mine…