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

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 :)

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!

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.