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Popular Purple Minerals
Everybody loves the color purple, a color has an old association with royalty. The dye known Tyrian purple was a luxury item. …
What Kind Of Minerals and Crystals Can Be Found In Ohio?
Calcite and celestite crystals from Ohio If you live in Ohio and want to get rich finding Emeralds then forget it. Your…
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…
Organic Looking Moss Agate Use in Art
Moss agate is an un-banded (and therefore not a true) agate. It is a chalcedony with dendritic inclusions of other, typically green,…
Simply Brilliant – An Exceptional Collection of Fine Jewelry with Outstanding Stones and Crystals
The Cincinnati Art Museum has a new exhibit running through February 6th titled “Simply Brilliant: Artist-Jewelers of the 1960s and 1970s”. This…
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,…