ITT: Show off the good shit in your mineral collection and identify

C'mon man, that isn't even a metal

could be nephrite though, does it scratch?

I want to say the green is actually Jade

Purple is amethyst
black is obsidian

Weird one, ummmmm Alexandrite?

Opal

Its green calcite m8. Looks nothing like serpentine.

purple just looks like a dyed geode.

That one looks like milk quartz in hematite

We finally got a winrar

which rock lets me invade ppls dreams

Opal m8

i knew an old woman in the hills named Opal. she had the best dirty stories

Jet, Flurorite,
some blue shit, some yellow shit, Amethyst

Alexandrite isnt even a mineral m8

sweet

well neat collection man

show me your dankest geode

Granite, but only if you stick it in your brain. Bash your head on a granite countertop until it starts working.

can remember the exact name but it has carrot in it somewhere

chalcanthite

i was gonna guess opal too

Geodes are just rock formations with cavities like this one. It prolly cost me around $150

ya but gemstones are cool tho

Any britfags here? I'd like to start a collection but don't know where to begin. Any tips on how to start off and places to buy minerals?

Just got this at bestcrystals.com 30 bucks!!!

mineralbro has made my day

stick it in your ass for $30

Yeah, okay.

Another winrar. Sulfate

Kek

Calcite, i'm gonna guess that the orange top is specifically Aragonite

Cool rocks dude

Rolling for trips to make him do it

Heres my biggest quartz. It weighs bout 50 lbs and costed like $50. And i just stanbed myself trying to take this picture.

Did someone say Minerals?

They're MINERALS, Marie

They're not rocks, they're minerals.

youtu.be/xyhZcEY5PCQ

If you guys haven't seen this documentary yet, put it on your watchlist. Talks about how minerals were crucial for abiogenesis. A month ago I didn't give a shit about minerals.

JESUS CHRIST MARIE THEY'RE MINERALS

Yessir. Heres a hard guess.

Pyrite, quartz, and some other weird stuff in there

I've been waiting for a good time to post this!

amethyst
green and orange calcite
aquamarine or blue topaz ( hard to tell whether its hexagonal from this angle)
as for the black one, you said it was a mineral so it isn't obsidian, conchoidal fracture but opaque so not smoky quartz, ah hell you probably think obsidian is a mineral so that's my guess

Black: obsidian or some variant of volcanic rock
Green: fluorite
Blue: quartz that was dyed blue
Yellow: calcite
Purple: amethyst

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easy
dolomite, chalcopyrite, pyrite on matrix

Isn't that stuff poisonous?

Wonder what this is

Jesus, what awful displays, a whole load of junk dumped together with some quality pieces

nice palasite man

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celestite?

there sure are some nice rocks in this thread.

Whoever set this lot up knows fuck all about displaying items, its like a fucking yard sale

I got pinecones and shells too. I have a bigger shell but cant find it. It costs bout $800-1000 nowadays.

Is the base made of Fluorite or is it still Calcite?

What's junk about any of that stuff?

Gypsum

Minerals, Marie.

No. I bet Hank knows.

Couple of coin forgeries, and the fossil fish are utterly common, then you have a $50000 meteorite, yeh wonderful display

Damn you good. Next one.

earth, fire, wind, water, heart

Yes and its all over my hands now too

You got the amethyst, orange & green calcite correct. The blue one (isn't meth) has an easy cleavage to identify.

Also, the black one is light and glossy,

Found this under my shed.
I'm pretty sure it's rare and valuable.

Corundum

Ohhh coins, minerals, crystals and fossils... I bet the collection's owner is FASCINATING

Pirates eye
Orange c elite
Lava rock
Amethyst
Granite

Don't be shitty, it's coal

According to google image search, its a rock

Oh fuck me is the black one Chert? Goddamn silica minerals

Mom's dildo

lol no

also easy, thats tourmaline

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Black rock, yellow rock, blue rock, purple rock, green rock

I did it are you proud of me?

some decent stuff, just stuck in there makes it look like a whole pile of shit

Is this more your style?

massive sulfur, and gosh I don't know some sort of copper sulfate?

Guess that was easy. Next one

Kek

Better dump those stories OP
This user got em all

opal, have

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No, thats just a load of small items stored in boxes, its not written up, not for display, its a hoard, not a collection

flint

Interesting 'hobby'. Never thought about collecting minerals. How do you obtain them?

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non precious opal

It's all hand cut from raw.

Chert?

crack rock with crystallized red vines

chert faggot next

emerald or amazonite, amethyst, citrine, lapis? or sapphire and maybe ruby.. hard to tell

Asshole, they're all polished

I wanna get a large quartz crystal and grind it into a perfectly smooth dildo

You dissect rocks and separate their core componets

its soo nice to see someone who knows minerals here

Lol okay. GL faggots.

Here, its dangerous to go alone, take this,

my fucking Bismuth

Eat a dick, it's olivine

What is this I have OP it's not an Emerald

wot u mean?

Top left is treacle, the rest are sugar..
Keep your stories tit mince..

quartz with chlorite inclusions

that angle sucks ass
is that fluorite?

Found these rocks in the hood, worth anything?

most anything blue in nature is poisonous

>and blueberries are purple so don't start that shit

Wouldn't it be dangerous to go alone with that? I thought that stuff was slightly radioactive.

do you like my pet frog

it also dissolves in water, so its safer with it

Chlorite? actinolite

>hood
>david hoffman

protip if you want people to ID your mineral/rock don't fucking polish it. It obfuscates key aspects that are used to identify the mineral composition.

i'm mentally retarded when it comes to ro--i mean, minerals.

how do i obtain and identify them

What about lapis lazuli?

apophyllite?

all pyrite inclusions are poisonous

what's nice about lapis is that it polishes very solid, so you'd have to crack off a chunk and eat it for there to be any issue, as opposed to something like a sulfur crystal that's going to powder as it's handled

>my english sucks, i am sorry

You can obtain them from the internet if you are made of money and a dummy, go to a rock and gem show to get talked down to and fucked over or you can just go outside and see what you see. I found a bunch of chrysocolla while hiking one time.

I bought it on eBay for $5 no one local can tell me what it is was listed as a loose emerald but I can't tell if it's real

LOL so fucking true on all points, have some Bismuth friend

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I can tell you right now, its not emerald

No, no, you were very informative. I'll look more into that. Thank you

laughably low activity. It wasn't known to be radioactive for many years because it is so weak.

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that's closer to a jade than emerald for sure

Requesting pics

ebay for those lacking geology knowledge or proximity to a rock shop. Otherwise check out abandoned mines for gangue minerals and such. There are some specialty shops/businesses I paid $20 bucks for a bucket of gravel and sand from a guy who owns a nice piece of property and panned for sapphires in Montana and got s few gems out of it. It has come in handy when I set them in earrings for my GF and shit.

to learn minerals you have to take several geology courses. It isn't a skill you can learn on your own, many minerals are tricky and IDing like we are here on the internet is difficult cause we can't do physical tests on the minerals.

RIP
Yessir

Was sold to me as a Brazilian emerald

im calling bullshit, fluorite has cleavage

Very true, geology is a difficult hobby, there are plenty of minerals that look similar. Not to mention the difficulty in identifying individual characteristics can be hell, especially when it comes to a polished collection.

Question, how did you differentiate the Saphire from everything else? I'd imagine that it would take a tremendous amount of time if you had to eyeball dirty minerals.

Its got more chance of being a brazillian cunt shave than a emerald

What's this?

that is why I thought the angle sucked ass like he was hiding it

copper pyrite probably

This was a bit, I gave most of it away.

saphire is easy to identify under any conditions it's the stuff that doesn't exist

Damn, how'bout that resolution?

Also, I don't even remotely recognize this one, but maybe euxenite?

It is fluorite . It has a very brittle tenacity.

looks like malachite

Plus the whote streaks in it is a dead giveaway. And it turns in to flakes and powder if you crush it with your hands

The most exciting thing I have is a somewhat big piece of dolomite

Gravimetric sorting my man. Corondum has Higher specific gravity and we were using screens. so you gently pop the screen up and down slightly underwater, then gently rock it back and forth while rotating your grip all around the sides. then you take the screen out of the water and in one smooth motion flip it. upside down onto a flat surface. If you didn't fuck up the corondum should be in the center on the bottom. The were teal sapphires due to trace Titanium but I also got a ruby too.

Check out my plutonium rock I just got, guy who sold it to me told me it's super rare!

Looks like a double loop whorl

I know the black is obsidian and the purple is amethyst. I don't know anything else, though.

Youre close to getting it

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Galena faggot next

Man, are you freakin' blind? That's a rock.

Nice rocks, cunt.

>gently rock it back and forth while rotating your grip all around the sides

Now I have a boner.

I found this in my breakfast, is it rare?

But what does that have to do with my plutonium m8?

Black isn't obsidian, though I will agree that the shot isn't really focused on that one.

Well, you don't have plutonium.That's just an image you got off of the internet.

Rekt.

Nope m8

probably a tektite

Haha, I can see the cuts you've been getting on your hand since you started showing us your collection.

Nigga is that a trilobite?
Did you buy a trilobite?
Do you have a dinosaur pillbug made from rocks?

sphalerite?

Nah
This guy almost got it

Yes thanks, its a Phacops Rana (african Var.), its called George

I meant this guy.

>rock formations
jesus christ marie, they're minerals. not rocks

Shit nigga

A whole line of breakfasts you've got time for.

Named after Chicken George, from Roots.

Yes, its a nigger

Lulz

I would kill over that Katanga Cross. Got any more pics of it?

youtube.com/watch?v=43pM0CwByhY

soundcloud.com/pigeonsodomy

How is this relevant to the thread?

gitcho animals outta dis thread dis b 4 minerals only no animals no vegetables jus minerals k?

pic related mah collection

argentite? It is obviously a sulfide mineral... MVT deposit?

kek

See? This guy knows how to contribute
And I still can't guess
Somebody help me out?

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calcite

Its gadolinite bros. One more and im done

mah nigga

>gadolinite
pft nigga you think we are gonna guess an REE mineral. get the fuck out

Mehth

quartz

sea salt

anhydrite

That's an activated almond.

Some kind of geode. Looks to have quartz in it.

You coulda said Ytterbite and i woulda said yes

Heres the back side

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ankerite just kidding you can't see the Ca:Mg:Fe ratios, but dolomite?

kek

pft bullshit still for the same reason. If you cant distinguish it in the field we sure as shit can't distinguish it in handsample

the trigonal crystal habit gave it away

botryoidal ________
>fill in the blank
it could really be lots of things but the crystals make me suspect calcite

calcite or dolomite

Let's just say it's "hard-to-obtanium" and call it a night.

nope :)

All of these are leverites, as in leave-her-right there

wtf is this amateur hour

the internet (^: ebay is loaded just watch out for the scammerz LEL

Lol i showed you the back side i thought itd be a dead giveaway after.
See

Well, what do I have to loose? I know that this is a rock, but I'll say it anyways. Conglomerate

chalcedony druzy