#zeolite
My favorite bedside companion.. this mega #Apophyllite I picked up a few years ago.
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#crystalcommunity #zeolite #sacredspace #crystalenergy #healingstonesandcrystals #zenspace #seaox (at Elizaville, New York)
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Hey, wanna see a Cool Rock?
Here’s an interesting piece from my collection. This awesome specimen is mordenite on stilbite! The fluffy puffball-looking formations are mordenite, and the peach-colored crystals they’re growing on are stilbite. They’re both part of the zeolite group of minerals.
The mordenite in this piece is especially cool! Mordenite can form in all kinds of different crystal habits, like asbestos-like fibers or needle-like acicular sprays. But these weird puffballs are my favorite form of mordenite. They look soft and fluffy, like cotton balls or little puffball mushrooms. But these formations are actually more like spikeballs. They’re hard, solid rock!
Poke poke… nope, not fluffy at all. It feels completely solid and has a rough, spiky texture. Can you believe a rock could just form in nature that way? What a cool and unusual rock!
One of my spot cleaning guns lost pressure somehow, and now it’s stuck on what seems to be the perfect strength to clean harder zeolites and other specimens in the field! I brought a battery along on my recent trip, and I’m probably gonna take it everywhere now. Check this stilbite as found, which I figured was decomposed beyond recognition. Just a few passes with the gun turned it into an absolute stunner on its bed of heulandite, with wild bicoloration and ample size and terminations. Included are a few videos of field cleaning heulandite and a lovely chocolate honey calcite found with @unearthed.minerals over the weekend.
#stilbite #heulandite #crystals #rockhounding #washington #cleaning #zeolite #zeolites #mineral #minerals #crystal #rock #rocks #specimen #geology #quartz #spray #calcite (at Spray Park Trail)
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Rocks and views from a couple days camping around the Gifford Pinchot with @unearthed.minerals. Featuring Mt. Adams, various creeks and rivers, and a whole heck bunch of heulandite. More photo dumps to come
#rocks #crystals #rockhounding #washington #minerals #zeolite #quartz #pnw #rock #crystal #mtadams #wilderness #pockets #mining #mineral #agate #agates #silica #geology (at Dark Divide)
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Sampling of all the sick golden calcite on clear chabazite that @unearthed.minerals led us to a few months back. This stuff is endlessly aesthetic, and looks amazing under magnification and UV light. Very fun to photograph, but I neglected to really clean these before I documented them. The best of this stuff can now be seen at @carneliancoffee, but I’ll be sure to post more of it this week
#rocks #crystals #rockhounding #oregon #geology #agate #rock #agates #crystal #quartz #mineral #minerals #specimen #pnw #calcite #chabazite #zeolite #zeolites #quarry (at Rainier, Oregon)
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Tried to capture every angle of this incredibly dope calcite (?) formation on stilbite, as well as other calcites and associated zeolites in this final group of shots of this material from my last few posts. Hard to photograph, but super cool little diamond in the rough.
#rock #rocks #silica #rockhounding #oregon #rockhound #geology #agate #agates #quartz #crystal #crystals #calcite #zeolite #zeolites #mineral #minerals #collection #earth #geo #nature #pnw #collecting #microminerals #pacificnorthwest #mining #digging #clackamascounty #willametteriver #hydratedsilica (at Carnelian Coffee)
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Here’s some of the crazy little pockets of zeolites and calcite from the same host rock as my last post. I especially love the clusters of single, clear stilbite crystals against the stark black background of druzy covered matrix. I’m not sure what all the other zeolites are, but I heard thompsonite and likely scolecite and/or mordenite are present, among others. Spot shown to me by @pnw_rocktography, dug with him and @unearthed.minerals many weeks ago
#rock #rocks #silica #rockhounding #oregon #rockhound #geology #crystal #crystals #calcite #zeolite #zeolites #mineral #minerals #collection #earth #geo #nature #pnw #pacificnorthwest #mining #digging #thompsonite #stilbite #scolecite #mordenite #hydratedsilica #micromineral #clackamascounty (at Carnelian Coffee)
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Golden stilbite and associated clay minerals from a local Clackamas County spot along the Willamette River collected months ago with @pnw_rocktography and @unearthed.minerals. These pockets are nice, but the really cool and scary looking material comes in smaller pockets in the same host rock, as this stuff is riddled with wildly varying formations, minerals and colors. I’ll post them here imminently as I play catch up on the last few collecting trips.
#rock #rocks #silica #rockhounding #oregon #rockhound #geology #agate #agates #quartz #crystal #crystals #calcite #zeolite #zeolites #mineral #minerals #collection #earth #geo #nature #pnw #pacificnorthwest #mining #digging #stilbite #smectite #clay #clackamascounty #willametteriver (at New Era Computers)
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Finally, a post about the chabazite: this fantastic combo of calcite on chabazite features large, clear pseudo-cubic crystals with deceptively smooth faces, nearly all of which actually have incredible etching and patterns, many even visible to the naked eye. This first shot is through a handheld loupe, but @pnw_rocktography has taken some really excellent micro shots which you can see on his feed and on @unearthed.minerals. I just love the look of this stuff, and I’m hoping they went to find more today while I recover from my booster shot yesterday. A few of these shots are of a particular crystal lined void, the intact remains of which produced a chabazite tunnel that is just so sick.
#rocks #crystals #rockhounding #oregon #geology #agate #rock #agates #crystal #quartz #mineral #minerals #specimen #pnw #silica
#chabazite #calcite #zeolite #zeolites #columbiacounty (at Chabahil)
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Rainer calcite, crystal faces edition: all the crystal faces on these combos have really cool textures, which resemble melting record keeper formations on the calcite. The majority also have interior fracturing which, because of calcite’s perfect cleavage, makes it look like dogtooth phantoms inside each crystal. For all I know, they could actually be phantoms, but since they reflect rainbows depending on the angle you view them at, I assume it’s internal fractures. Someone please drop some knowledge here!
#rocks #crystals #rockhounding #oregon #geology #agate #rock #agates #crystal #quartz #mineral #minerals #specimen #pnw #chabazite #zeolite #zeolites #columbiacounty #calcite #silica #micro #thumbnails #thumbnail (at South Tabor)
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Oh the excitement!!!! We are thrilled to debut a beautiful combination of specimens, & the only pocket of them in this amount, quality & configuration in some cases, that we have ever had! These are Cleavelandite, Muscovite, Quartz & Zeolites from Brazil !!!
They will debut March 26 & 27th at 4pm MDT
Have fun swiping through the photo shoot that showcases a few of these pieces. We will be posting a few videos in our stories this week as well. Some piece are quite large like the 12.25 kilo piece sitting in my lap!
All our Live Sales benefits small Rescues who help animals in their community. Please give a follow to @hoffmeyeranimal who is located in FL & will receive a donation that will help with the severe Kitten Season that is so difficult in the South.
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We truly hope you enjoy these. I honestly want every piece!!!
The cats love them too!
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#cleavelandite #muscovite #zeolite #quartz #mineralspecimen #minerals #crystalcluster #largecrystals #livesale #gingercat #crystalcommunity #mineralsofig #crystalsofinstagram #mineralsofinstagram #tourmaline #crystalline #crystallive #lovecrystals #debut #livecrystalsale #loveminerals #lovecrystals #shareyourheart #handsofspirit (at Hands of Spirit Gallery)
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