”Mineral” is not the first thing to come to mind when you hear the word “beauty,” and that‘s a pity because they look so, so pretty. This selection of some of the most beautiful minerals and stones in the world will be a feast for your eyes.
A mineral is a «naturally occurring substance that is solid and inorganic representable by a chemical formula, and has an ordered atomic structure.» Rocks, unlike minerals, don’t have a specific chemical composition, and can be made of both minerals or non-minerals. Although there are over 4,900 known types of minerals, the ones here are just the most beautiful ones that we and our readers could find.
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#1 Sunset Fire Opal
#2 Luz Opal With Galaxy Inside
#3 Ocean Inside An Opal
#4 Bismuth
#5 Lightning Ridge Black Opal
#6 Opal Fossil
#7 Worlds Biggest Amethyst Geode – The ‘empress Of Uruguay’
#8 Rose Quartz Geode
#9 Fluorite
#10 Burmese Tourmaline
#11 Titanium Quartz
#12 Scolecite
#13 Chrysocolla In Malachite
#14 Watermelon Tourmaline
#15 Azurite
#16 Bismuth
#17 Rhodochrosite
#18 Uvarovite
#19 Realgar On Calcite
#20 Crocoite
#21 Fluorite/quartz/pyrite Combination
#22 Cobaltocalcite
#23 Tourmaline On Quartz With Lepidolite And Cleavelandite
#24 Rhodochrosite
#25 Crocoite
#26 Botswana Agate
#27 Alexandrite
#28 Blue Agate Geode
#29 A Heart Of Flesh And Blood ; Carneole
#30 Purple Geode Druzy Stone
#31 1.8 Mm Multicolor Rutile Crystal
#32 #26 Obsidian
#33 Gold (dragon) On Quartz
#34 Phantom In Amethyst
#35 Crystals (xenotime, Zircon) Arranged In A Radiating Polished Slice Of Rock — Chrysanthemumstone
#36 Labradorite
#37 Wulfenite
#38 Opalised Ammonite
#39 Beautiful Raw Emerald
#40 Amazing Fukang Meteorite
#41 Peacock Coal — Mcadoo, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
#42 Cuprite, Congo
#43 Honey Calcite Glowing Through Fluorite
#44 Peruvian Blue Opal
#45 Lion Fish
#46 Colusite & Sphalerite
#47 Fire Agate
#48 Wulfenite (pbmoo4) Crystal
#49 Azurite And Malachite
#50 Cyanotrichite — Arizona
#51 Iceland Spar Calcite Crystal
#52 Pink Quartz Geode
#53 Smaragd
#54 Azurite & Malachite On Smokey Quartz Point With ‘record Keeper’ Markings
#55 Chalsedoon
56 Ammolite; Opalized Ammonite Fossil
#57 Aigue-marine
#58 Cuprite — Bisbee, Az
#59 Euchlorine — Russia
#60 Esquel Pallasite Meteorite — Only Comes From Space
#61 Sunny Blue Sky, Ceylon Sapphire
#62 Olivine
#63 Astrophyllite
#64 Insect Inclusion Baltic Amber
#65 Tourmaline
#66 Acantithe Coated By Chalcopyrite On White Quartz And Rock
#67 Native Silver — British Columbia
#68 Labradorit
#69 John’s Rock’s
#70 Manganite — South Africa
#71 Rainbow Lattice Sunstone — Australia
#72 Iridescent Mass
#73 Spectrolite (a Variety Of Labradorite Found Only In Finland)
#74 Acanthite Coated By Chalcopyrite And Silver Wires
#75 Calcite -romania
#76 A Better Snap Of The Labradorite
#77 Raw Amber
#78 Beautiful Rocks From Rubyfall Georgia
#79 Leopards Labradorite
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