Rare Minerals Earth

08/10/2025

Red beryl from the Searle Canyon Mine, Juab County, Utah 🇺🇸
Weighing just 0.85 carats, this crystal shows razor-sharp hexagonal form, lustrous faces, and a clearly defined parallel twin. Its vivid magenta-red hue represents the highest echelon of colour seen from this rare locality — intense yet bright, with excellent internal clarity for its size.

Formed in gas cavities within topaz rhyolite, red beryl occurs under such specific conditions that gem-quality crystals are rarer than diamond.

06/10/2025

It looks radioactive, but it’s completely natural. 💜💛
This is Ametrine — a rare quartz that formed with both amethyst and natural yellow quartz in a single crystal.
The pattern you see isn’t man-made; it’s the crystal’s growth map, frozen millions of years ago when tiny shifts in temperature and chemistry caused iron inside to change state again and again.

Only one mine on Earth produces Ametrine — the Anahí Mine in Bolivia. Each slice reveals that same triangular, radiation-like zoning that collectors recognise instantly.

Cut and polished for clarity, untouched for colour — nature did the artwork.

05/10/2025

Be honest — what did you think this was at first glance?


A) Fluorite
B) Aquamarine
C) Salt

This is natural blue halite from Tuzluca, Eastern Turkey — formed in ancient salt caverns worked since the Urartian Empire, more than 2,000 years ago.
The colour comes from radiation changing the crystal structure, not from dye or impurity.

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03/10/2025

Known as the gem of the sun, peridot has been treasured for over three thousand years. Ancient Egyptians believed it carried the warmth of the sun itself, protecting its wearer and bringing confidence.

Cleopatra is thought to have adorned herself in peridot, mistaking it for emerald — a reminder that true beauty doesn’t need a label to shine.

These crystals, mined by hand in Supat Gali, carry that same golden-green glow. Bright, gemmy, alive with light. A quiet kind of brilliance — impossible to forget.

26/09/2025

Some people collect thumbnails. Others collect fridge-magnet quartz. Then there are those who only deal in chunks.

This 18.1g Paprok blue-cap tourmaline isn’t shy about it — dense indigo core, neon cap, and the kind of presence you just don’t get under 5 grams.

Not cuttable, not subtle — just unapologetically a collector’s piece. Available for purchase, but hurry, this won’t stick around!

23/09/2025

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Quartz and amethyst are everywhere… but these 10 crystals are in a league of their own 👇

1. Hiddenite (North Carolina, USA)
Green chromium-bearing spodumene, first discovered in North Carolina. Far rarer than kunzite, with only a handful of sources worldwide.

2. Red Beryl (Utah, USA)
Up to 150,000 times rarer than diamond, this vivid red beryl occurs only in Utah’s Wah Wah Mountains.

3. Painite (Mogok, Myanmar)
Once the world’s rarest mineral — only 3 specimens were known for decades. Mogok remains the only source of collectible crystals.

4. Dioptase
Emerald-green copper silicate, famed for its colour and fragility. Found in a few deposits in Namibia, the DRC, and Kazakhstan.

5. Moldavite (Czech Republic)
A green tektite from a single meteor impact ~15 million years ago. Exclusive to southern Germany and the Czech Republic.

6. Libyan Desert Glass (Sahara)
29-million-year-old impact glass, unique to the eastern Sahara. Ancient Egyptians set it into Tutankhamun’s pectoral scarab.

7. Ametrine (Bolivia)
Quartz with purple and golden zones from iron oxidation, found only at Bolivia’s Anahí Mine.

8. Black Opal (Lightning Ridge, Australia)
The rarest and most stable opal. Its dark body tone makes colours vivid, and Lightning Ridge is the premium source.

9. Yellow Prehnite (Wave Hill, Australia)
A vivid yellow variety found only at Wave Hill. Exceptionally rare and scarcely seen outside Australia.

10. Rutile on Hematite (Novo Horizonte, Brazil)
Golden rutile sprays radiating across metallic hematite plates, a rare formation unique to Novo Horizonte.

01/09/2025

Here we have a series of beautiful Okorusu Fluorite’s from Namibia, showing off their phantoms and zoning in all its glory. Fluorite from this mine is magical to me. What features do you look for in fluorite specimens? #フローライト #フローライト原石 #萤石 #флюорит

17/06/2025

That awkward moment when you’re repping some high grade Celestite from Madagascar and nobody seems interested 😂😂. I think their future owners are playing hard to get 😜

In order from left to right, these 14 gorgeous geodes for sale are:

C1 – 767g – 11.86 x 9.38 x 5.97cm
C2 – 1.107kg – 11.02 x 9.83 x 6.25cm
C3 – 905g – 11.57 x 11.14 x 6.16cm
C4 – 932g – 11.60 x 10.53 x 8.14cm
C5 – 856g – 11.39 x 9.88 x 4.50cm
C6 – 1.953kg – 15.6 x 12.1 x 6.93cm
C7 – 2.299kg – approx. 16 x 14 x 8.5cm
C8 – 1.384kg – 14.07 x 11.3 x 5.14cm
C9 – 1.715kg – 13.04 x 9.21 x 8.17cm
C10 – 2.576kg – 14.07 x 12.27 x 10.67cm
C11 – 3.354kg – 15.21 x 13.85 x 11.53cm
C12 – 4.590kg – approx. 21 x 14 x 11cm
C13 – 3.126kg – 15.96 x 13.25 x 8.91cm
C14 – 2.434kg – 15.11 x 12.86 x 7cm

16/06/2025

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15/06/2025

Next up - some more beautiful phantoms and zoning piece of fluorite from the Okorusu Mine in Namibia

17/05/2025

12/05/2025

Stunning from Likasi, DRC. I have a large selection available at competitive pricing! I am very knowledgeable on this mineral type. Many of my specimens in stock have gorgeous inclusions. Get yours while you can! Check out my Etsy shop, link in bio. CAN DO A BETTER PRICE OFF ETSY!