ITT: Show off the good shit in your mineral collection and identify
I'll dump my best stories if you guys can correctly determine all five of these minerals
Coal, Emerald, Sapphire, Gold, Amythest
sorry I suck
Topaz,peridot,Amythist i think thats 2 of them
>>705545694
>>705545694
Purple is amethyst
Blue is sea glass
Black is a rock formed from lava
Orange is calcite
Green is calcite.
>>705545694
>>705546570
My turn. From my collection.
>>705546798
And another. This one is easy to guess.
>>705546798
diamond
>>705546911
teeth
green looks like serpentinite.
>>705546968
>>705546913
You guess suck at guessing
>>705546913
C'mon man, that isn't even a metal
>>705546970
could be nephrite though, does it scratch?
>>705545694
I want to say the green is actually Jade
Purple is amethyst
black is obsidian
>>705546798
Weird one, ummmmm Alexandrite?
>>705546911
Opal
>>705546970
Its green calcite m8. Looks nothing like serpentine.
>>705545694
purple just looks like a dyed geode.
>>705546911
That one looks like milk quartz in hematite
>>705547603
We finally got a winrar
which rock lets me invade ppls dreams
>>705547631
Opal m8
>>705546911
i knew an old woman in the hills named Opal. she had the best dirty stories
>>705545694
Jet, Flurorite,
some blue shit, some yellow shit, Amethyst
>>705547534
Alexandrite isnt even a mineral m8
>>705547761
sweet
well neat collection man
show me your dankest geode
>>705547745
Granite, but only if you stick it in your brain. Bash your head on a granite countertop until it starts working.
>>705546798
can remember the exact name but it has carrot in it somewhere
>>705547123
chalcanthite
>>705546911
i was gonna guess opal too
>>705548054
Geodes are just rock formations with cavities like this one. It prolly cost me around $150
>>705548046
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!!!
>>705548349
mineralbro has made my day
>>705548497
stick it in your ass for $30
>>705548597
Yeah, okay.
>>705548163
Another winrar. Sulfate
>>705548597
Kek
>>705546798
Calcite, i'm gonna guess that the orange top is specifically Aragonite
>>705545694
Cool rocks dude
>>705548597
Rolling for trips to make him do it
>>705548497
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?
>>705549116
They're MINERALS, Marie
>>705549116
They're not rocks, they're minerals.
https://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.
>>705549116
JESUS CHRIST MARIE THEY'RE MINERALS
>>705548965
Yessir. Heres a hard guess.
>>705549536
Pyrite, quartz, and some other weird stuff in there
![20160926_200906[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/A2X0Fzn.jpg "20160926_200906[1].jpg")
I've been waiting for a good time to post this!
>>705545694
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
>>705545694
Black: obsidian or some variant of volcanic rock
Green: fluorite
Blue: quartz that was dyed blue
Yellow: calcite
Purple: amethyst
![20160926_200850[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/tetg0YO.jpg "20160926_200850[1].jpg")
>>705549601
>>705549536
easy
dolomite, chalcopyrite, pyrite on matrix
>>705547123
Isn't that stuff poisonous?
Wonder what this is
>>705549601
>>705549699
Jesus, what awful displays, a whole load of junk dumped together with some quality pieces
>>705549699
nice palasite man
>>705549858
celestite?
there sure are some nice rocks in this thread.
>>705549699
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.
>>705549536
Is the base made of Fluorite or is it still Calcite?
>>705549880
What's junk about any of that stuff?
>>705549858
Gypsum
>>705549963
Minerals, Marie.
>>705549951
No. I bet Hank knows.
>>705550084
Couple of coin forgeries, and the fossil fish are utterly common, then you have a $50000 meteorite, yeh wonderful display
>>705549826
Damn you good. Next one.
>>705545694
earth, fire, wind, water, heart
>>705549836
Yes and its all over my hands now too
>>705546570
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.
>>705550353
Corundum
>>705550009
Ohhh coins, minerals, crystals and fossils... I bet the collection's owner is FASCINATING
>>705545694
Pirates eye
Orange c elite
Lava rock
Amethyst
Granite
>>705549627
Don't be shitty, it's coal
>>705550544
According to google image search, its a rock
>>705550496
Oh fuck me is the black one Chert? Goddamn silica minerals
>>705549858
Mom's dildo
>>705550549
lol no
>>705550353
also easy, thats tourmaline
>>705550694
Black rock, yellow rock, blue rock, purple rock, green rock
I did it are you proud of me?
>>705550582
some decent stuff, just stuck in there makes it look like a whole pile of shit
![20160926_201948[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ApIFxur.jpg "20160926_201948[1].jpg")
>>705550307
Is this more your style?
>>705550466
massive sulfur, and gosh I don't know some sort of copper sulfate?
>>705550877
Guess that was easy. Next one
Kek
>>705550998
>>705545694
Better dump those stories OP
This anon got em all
>>705551070
opal, have
![20160926_202152[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/24mZwGc.jpg "20160926_202152[1].jpg")
>>705551021
>>705551021
No, thats just a load of small items stored in boxes, its not written up, not for display, its a hoard, not a collection
>>705551070
flint
Interesting 'hobby'. Never thought about collecting minerals. How do you obtain them?
![20160926_202214[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/N92JNkh.jpg "20160926_202214[1].jpg")
>>705551187
>>705551070
non precious opal
>>705551189
It's all hand cut from raw.
>>705551070
Chert?
>>705550353
crack rock with crystallized red vines
>>705551070
chert faggot next
>>705545694
emerald or amazonite, amethyst, citrine, lapis? or sapphire and maybe ruby.. hard to tell
>>705551021
Asshole, they're all polished
I wanna get a large quartz crystal and grind it into a perfectly smooth dildo
>>705551274
You dissect rocks and separate their core componets
>>705549826
its soo nice to see someone who knows minerals here
>>705551567
>>705551671
Lol okay. GL faggots.
Here, its dangerous to go alone, take this,
my fucking Bismuth
>>705551887
Eat a dick, it's olivine
>>705545694
What is this I have OP it's not an Emerald
![20160926_203054[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ZheM7dH.jpg "20160926_203054[1].jpg")
>>705551718
wot u mean?
>>705545694
Top left is treacle, the rest are sugar..
Keep your stories tit mince..
>>705551887
>>705551887
quartz with chlorite inclusions
>>705551887
that angle sucks ass
is that fluorite?
Found these rocks in the hood, worth anything?
>>705549836
most anything blue in nature is poisonous
>and blueberries are purple so don't start that shit
>>705551982
Wouldn't it be dangerous to go alone with that? I thought that stuff was slightly radioactive.
do you like my pet frog
>>705552214
it also dissolves in water, so its safer with it
>>705551887
Chlorite? actinolite
>>705552157
>hood
>david hoffman
>>705552029
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
>>705552165
What about lapis lazuli?
>>705551887
apophyllite?
>>705552559
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
>>705552553
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.
>>705552467
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
>>705553017
LOL so fucking true on all points, have some Bismuth friend
>>705553175
I can tell you right now, its not emerald
>>705552808
No, no, you were very informative. I'll look more into that. Thank you
>>705552214
laughably low activity. It wasn't known to be radioactive for many years because it is so weak.
>>705553175
that's closer to a jade than emerald for sure
>>705553017
Requesting pics
>>705552553
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.
>>705552657
>>705552360
>>705552023
>>705552099
RIP
>>705552156
Yessir
>>705553502
Was sold to me as a Brazilian emerald
>>705552156
im calling bullshit, fluorite has cleavage
>>705553675
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.
>>705553897
Its got more chance of being a brazillian cunt shave than a emerald
>>705545694
What's this?
>>705553952
that is why I thought the angle sucked ass like he was hiding it
>>705554211
copper pyrite probably
>>705553544
This was a bit, I gave most of it away.
>>705554147
saphire is easy to identify under any conditions it's the stuff that doesn't exist
>>705553699
Damn, how'bout that resolution?
Also, I don't even remotely recognize this one, but maybe euxenite?
>>705553952
>>705554228
It is fluorite . It has a very brittle tenacity.
>>705552029
looks like malachite
>>705554730
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
>>705554147
>>705554598
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!
>>705554211
Looks like a double loop whorl
>>705545694
I know the black is obsidian and the purple is amethyst. I don't know anything else, though.
>>705554636
Youre close to getting it
>>705555247
>>705553699
Galena faggot next
>>705554883
Man, are you freakin' blind? That's a rock.
Nice rocks, cunt.
>>705555215
>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?
>>705555432
But what does that have to do with my plutonium m8?
>>705555379
Black isn't obsidian, though I will agree that the shot isn't really focused on that one.
>>705555681
Well, you don't have plutonium.That's just an image you got off of the internet.
>>705555441
Nope m8
>>705555683
probably a tektite
>>705553699
Haha, I can see the cuts you've been getting on your hand since you started showing us your collection.
>>705552253
Nigga is that a trilobite?
Did you buy a trilobite?
Do you have a dinosaur pillbug made from rocks?
>>705553699
sphalerite?
>>705556123
Nah
>>705555981
This guy almost got it
>>705555981
Yes thanks, its a Phacops Rana (african Var.), its called George
>>705556310
>>705554636
I meant this guy.>>705556123
>>705548349
>rock formations
jesus christ marie, they're minerals. not rocks
>>705556398
Shit nigga
>>705555677
A whole line of breakfasts you've got time for.
>>705556525
Named after Chicken George, from Roots.
Yes, its a nigger
>>705556490
Lulz
>>705549699
I would kill over that Katanga Cross. Got any more pics of it?
>>705545694
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43pM0CwByhY
https://soundcloud.com/pigeonsodomy
>>705556702
How is this relevant to the thread?
![Coloured-chalk[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dwyxrtQ.jpg "Coloured-chalk[1].jpg")
>>705556702
gitcho animals outta dis thread dis b 4 minerals only no animals no vegetables jus minerals k?
pic related mah collection
>>705553699
argentite? It is obviously a sulfide mineral... MVT deposit?
>>705549243
kek
>>705556702
>>705556932
See? This guy knows how to contribute
And I still can't guess
>>705553699
Somebody help me out?
>>705556932
>>705556932
calcite
>>705553699
Its gadolinite bros. One more and im done
>>705557250
mah nigga
>>705557259
>gadolinite
pft nigga you think we are gonna guess an REE mineral. get the fuck out
>>705549858
Mehth
>>705557259
quartz
>>705557259
sea salt
>>705549858
anhydrite
>>705557259
That's an activated almond.
>>705557259
Some kind of geode. Looks to have quartz in it.
>>705557562
You coulda said Ytterbite and i woulda said yes
>>705557259
Heres the back side
>>705557259
ankerite just kidding you can't see the Ca:Mg:Fe ratios, but dolomite?
>>705556490
kek
>>705557906
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
>>705557556
the trigonal crystal habit gave it away
>>705558017
botryoidal ________
>fill in the blank
it could really be lots of things but the crystals make me suspect calcite
>>705558119
calcite or dolomite
>>705557259
Let's just say it's "hard-to-obtanium" and call it a night.
>>705559155
nope :)
>>705545694
All of these are leverites, as in leave-her-right there
wtf is this amateur hour
>>705548462
the internet (^: ebay is loaded just watch out for the scammerz LEL
>>705559807
Lol i showed you the back side i thought itd be a dead giveaway after.
See>>705558017
>>705560413
Well, what do I have to loose? I know that this is a rock, but I'll say it anyways. Conglomerate
>>705560844
chalcedony druzy
