mineral
January 12, 2023
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. …
February 10, 2022
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,…
May 28, 2021
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…
March 21, 2021
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…
January 26, 2021
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,…