Hello all! In this video I have two spinel that kind of have me scratching my head. I think the red triangular spinel is a macle, and the pink one is a macle twinned with an octahedral spinel.
Sorry for poor video, my hands are a bit shakey and it wasn’t wanting to focus on my first couple of tries.
The last thing I want to do is misidentify anything that I have because it might be in someone else’s hands one day in the future.

Here’s a fantastic specimen from the Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. It features gem sphalerite on hydrothermal dissolution fluorite, as well as some clear calcite. I absolutely love when minerals form coatings on top of other minerals!

One of my favorite garnets I found at my uncle’s mining claims near the Rainbow Tungsten Skarn Deposit on Nelson Mountain, Fresno County, California. I’m not entirely sure whether this specimen is grossular or andradite, but I know it belongs to one of these two species. Given that it comes from a tungsten skarn deposit, your mainly going to find calcium-rich silicate minerals and other calcium-bearing minerals. So i know that the garnet belongs to the ugrandite solid-solution series. However, distinguishing whether its composition leans more toward andradite or grossular is difficult without chemical analysis. Regardless, it’s a very cool, well-formed euhedral garnet! Let me know if you like it :)

Wonderful 11-gram vanadium beryl crystal with excellent luster and a beautiful greenish-blue color from the Nasarawa Eggon pegmatites, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.

So so awesome to find your own cool stuffs!!

Has anyone seen one this cool??

The quartz at the beginning and the two polished stones at the end were free samples.

Wonderful aesthetic and contrast on this specimen of vanadinite on calcite from the Pure Potential Mine, La Paz County, Arizona, USA. It reminds me of Christmas lol

Beautiful, damage-free quartz crystal of decent size, accompanied by actinolite and chlorite within the crystal, from the Lapa Quartz Mine, Dhading District, Bagmati Pradesh, Nepal. 🇳🇵

Always love to make videos of moving bubbles in Crystals.

Morganite Crystal with 3 moving Bubbles along with many Stationery bubbles

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I prefer payments through Venmo. purchase protection, but I also accept many other forms!

I have a lot of other fossil and mineral specimens available.

I’m moving soon, so the less I have to pack the better! Sale prices until Oct 25th!! Last week of posting until I get moved and unpacked in November. More details in the comments! Give me a little time to get everything posted and reply.
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Hello! I have to let some of my personal collection go to help with life situations.

There are more photos on my account of each piece and I have a video I can send via pm if interested. You can also offer a price and we can discuss.

The hq smaller okorusu has two locality cards, and the Larkin's has one.

Please message me if interested. Thank you (:

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Hello, I recently purchased a fluorite specimen from an ebay seller located in China. It was sold to me for over $100USD.

I believe the matrix is a mic of ground-down quartz and binder that was used to form the fake rock base.

After I contacted the ebay seller about my concern and asked for a refund, the seller stated:

“This specimen is a classic blue ink fluorite from Xuancheng/Ningguo, Anhui. The white base is natural kaolin matrix, representing the original ore—no adhesive bonding. The fluorite in this deposit naturally exhibits a blue-to-green transition, with thicker crystal areas displaying rich ink-blue hues while thinner sections appear green. This color variation stems from inherent natural chromatic differences, not artificial staining.”

When viewing images on google regarding the fluorite from that mine, I don’t see any evidence of that being a legitimate base.

When viewing fluorite specimens for sale with Kaolinite or Kaolin, they look much more natural.

The top “white” layer is very thin and artificial looking.

Has anyone had any experience with fluorite from this mine or have opinions about it?

I was considering asking the seller to provide proof that it originated from the specified mine, any other ideas?

Thank you in advance!

Bright orange spessartine garnets on a complete smoky quartz crystal from Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Fujian Province, China. These beauties formed deep within granitic pegmatites about 80 million years ago