- Favorite mineral photos
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Goethite after pyrite, Utah
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Blue fluorite, China
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Copper "sword", Kazakhstan
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Mockingbird Mine, California
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Johachidolite, a calcium aluminum borate, from Burma. Per Rob Lavinsky, "this specimen is an incredible rarity."
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Polished slab, Bisbee, Arizona
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Chrysocolla and tyrolite, Santa Rosa-Huantajaya District, Chile
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Covellite, Butte District, Montana
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Pyrite, Leonard Mine, Butte
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Copper, Ray Mine, AZ
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Spinel-twinned gold on "wire", Eagle's Nest Mine, CA
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Old Ibex mine, Leadville. 19th century specimen!
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Mockingbird Mine, CA
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Very fine old Mother Lode crystalline-gold specimen. Sold in the 1950s for $65; more recently for $12,500.
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Bonanza gold ore, Sleeper Mine NV
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Crocoite, Dundas, Tasmania
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Azurite stalactite xsec, Royal Ontario Museum
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Sweet Home mine, Alma, Colorado
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Iridescent specular hematite (!), Royal Ontario Museum
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Tanzanite, rough + faceted
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Schoepite-Curite-Uraninite, huge old Shinkolobwe specimen. Detail, click for original
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Opal in matrix, probably Australia
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CuOx-cemented breccia, Morenci
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Classic old Bisbee (Czar shaft)
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Opalized belemnite, Coober Pedy
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Kosmochlor jade, Burma