Here’s yet another set of blue minerals to vote on Kyanite vs

Sodalite.

weekly favs

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1. Particoloured tourmaline known as a moorhead (Elba, Italy). Height of crystal 30 mm.
2. Cross section of a particoloured tourmaline (Sri Lanka). Diameter 105 mm.
3. Cut of particoloured tourmaline (Madagascar). Diameter 12 mm.
4. Cut tourmalines. Top: dravite (Madagascar); center: verdilites (Brazil); bottom: dark dravite (Sri Lanka).

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Here’s our second on for the day:

Borax vs

Gypsum.

Benetoite

Pics from a museum i went to :p

This is watermelon tourmaline from Colorado 🇺🇸 Feel free to like, comment, share, follow ☮️❤️😃 Visit our Etsy shop to view our selection. Here’s the link:

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Iridescent Goethite on Quartz
San Valentin Mine (San Valentin Open Pit)
Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Union, Murcia, Spain
28x19x14mm

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This is chalcedony from Brazil 🇧🇷 Feel free to like, comment, share, follow ☮️❤️😃 Visit our Etsy shop to view our selection. Here’s the link:

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A continuation of this motif on a cutoff of the same stone. The green astral.

Available as a pendant

DAY 3: Iron Oxides

Our next competitors are Magnetite

and Hematite.

Which one would you like to see move on?

P.S. I forgot I could make polls on here so you can go vote on the first 2 as well!

I sorted selected stones from my flint collection by colours. All are gathered in 2025-2026 in my hometown in Poland

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Ceramic Raw Material for tiles and sanitarywares, Ceramic India

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This is vanadinite from Morocco 🇲🇦 Feel free to like, comment, share, follow ☮️❤️😃 Visit our Etsy shop to view our selection. Here’s the link:

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packing my rock and memento collection in preparation to move

,,Sunny,, lamprophyllite in the rock. Deposit: the mountain Kedykvyrpakhk. Murmansk region Lovozersky district. Russia