Crystals
Posts about crystals
Beautiful Collectible Kentucky Agate
Located in east-central near the town of Irvine is Knob’s Region, a “u” shaped arc extending for nearly 230 miles that is…
What Do Bastille Day and Crystallography Have in Common?
July 14, celebrated every year in France as Bastille Day, commemorates the storming and seizure of the notorious medieval armory, fortress, and…
Curious, Glittering Goldstone: Mineral, Crystal, Something Else Altogether?
Goldstone. You know it, that gorgeous with a glittering star field that comes in blue, red, green or purple. It’s used for…
The Uncertain Future of Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth
Poor Afghanistan. It is the country that never seems to catch a break. Remote, poor, land-locked, and yet highly strategic because of…
Gorgeous Yellow Brucite Crystal
Brucite is the mineral form of magnesium hydroxide named in 1824 by François Sulpice Beudant for its discoverer, American minerologist and chemist Archibald…
Beautiful Green Dioptase / Schöne grüne Dioptase / 美しい緑の翠銅鉱
Beautiful Green Dioptase Dioptase is an unusual mineral that is highly desired for its intense Emerald green color. It is a copper…
Beautiful Bejeweled Amethyst’s History as an Art Medium
The February birthstone is amethyst. A form of non-fluorescing hard stone quartz whose typically purple shading comes from irradiation of iron or…
Short Crystal: Quartz and the Fossilized Bird
A recent study in Frontiers in Earth Science reveals that researchers discovered quartz crystals in the stomach of a bird that lived…
This Week’s Mineral Spotlight: Gorgeous Green Malachite
If the mineral is green and gorgeous there is a good chance it’s malachite. Like its copper cousins Turquoise, Azurite, and Chrysocolla,…
This Week’s Mineral Spotlight: Beautiful Blue Sodalite
Sodalite is a gorgeous mineral that occurs in igneous rock. Sodalite’s distinctive color ranges from royal blue to light blue and white, and is oftentimes confused with lazurite and lazulite. It’s name derives from the sodium content of the mineral. It is sometimes fluorescent, usually when the material is grayer and paler in color. …