The earth we live on has a lot to wonder, and the following natural minerals are fascinating with their mysterious and beautiful shapes.
The uranium in jade drop stone makes it glow under ultraviolet light
Trilobite fossils collected from a construction site in southwestern Ohio
A vibrant cluster of watermelon tourmalines from Minas Herias, Brazil
Flawless golden topaz on iron ore
China Tongshan azurite and malachite
"Grape" chalcedony, from Indonesia!
Cut an amethyst hole
These agates contain natural water from millions of years ago.
Onyx coral fossils (small flowers)
Dragon Scale Calcite clusters from Missouri that look like something straight out of Game of Thrones!
This magical iris was found in agate from Mainz and cut into the shape of an eyeball. Don't worry, it's just between my fingers ✌
Natural gold veins on quartz. Photographed at the Texas Museum of Natural Science.
Huge gypsum desert rose clusters from Tunisia!
Red fox agate from Pantagonia.
This flame opal
Azurite "Sun" from the Australian matrix!
Gogottes, sandstone condensates from France, resemble abstract sculptures
This incredible Congo malachite that looks like a brain!
Romantic sculpture--- Mother Nature from the smithsonite mine in Greece, Natural History Museum in Paris.
This stone looks like socks.
This huge cluster of titanium quartz
The little gold man pans for silver on a piece of purple crystal (silver powder on the surface)
Sodalite rock, glowing under ultraviolet light.
A cabochon gemstone made from a mineralized dinosaur bone.
Super close-up of Ocean Stone's most famous feature sphere.
Foraminifera-filled sandy beaches from Turkey
Garnet, tourmaline, sapphire and spinel
185 million years ago pyrite mineralized ammonite.
Moss agate that looks like there is a small forest inside
This beautiful rainbow fluorite slab
Malachite, azurite and silica malachite (on basalt) at different alteration stages. From the Morenci mine in Arizona.
Huge and gorgeous watermelon tourmaline slices from Brazil!
Not many people think of hematite as a crystal, but here are some gorgeous grape-like hematite from California!
Natural unique lithium amethyst crystal - Afghanistan.
Ammonites in marble
Spherical hematite in quartz
Turkish Agate.
Congratulations, you found the prismatic fragment
Moon-shaped Larima stone
Looks like a painting of Australian Boulder Opal. Nature is beautiful!
A very rare double diamond, where one diamond moves freely inside the other!
A piece of Esquel meteorite. This type of meteorite comes from an ancient asteroid billions of years ago. The metal is the iron/nickel core material, and the crystal is olivine from the Earth's mantle region.
Iris agate takes on such a beautiful color in the sun!
Strange small stones were found on the lake
Ammonite opal in the drill core.
Beautiful Ethiopian opal ✨
"Watermelon" tourmaline butterfly
A stalactite malachite crystal covered with quartz flakes found in Arizona.
Mica-containing sodalite from Russia. It looks amazing under ultraviolet light!
From the outer space of this world - the Mexican blue fluorite cluster!