Obelisk of Ocean Jasper with a AA battery for scale.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJ Jasper is an aggregate rock typically of quartz or chalcedony. This leads what we call rocks Jasper to be an extraordinary variety of shapes, colors, and patterns. This particular specimen is known as Ocean Jasper. #Jasper, #Mineral

I noticed a suspicious lack of comments on this picture....

Picture of Lace Obsidian. Translucent glass with black stripes indicating slight impurities.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforI Igneous rocks, one of the three main classifications of rocks, form when magma cools into solid rock such as granite, pumice, basalt and #Obsidian. This lace obsidian sample highlights the multiple minerals present in rocks with black impurities in a translucent piece.

Several, land of the lusteous made me take 3D animated shows more seriously and made me love another 3d show girls band cry. Twelve Kingdoms made me start reading light novels because i wanted more information on the world. Wolf Children made me start paying attention to anime movies in General.

Picture of Amethyst displaying a concentric habit.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforH A habit is the tendency for specimens to grow into characteristic shapes. This can be due to the molecular composition as well as environmental factors. This #Amethyst shows a concentric habit where a circular ring formed around a center point. #minerals #crystals

I love this style for them!

Definitely an Ice mushroom ;)

Specimen of goldstone with a facet removed for use in jewelry.

The dark discoloration present is the reason this piece was not fully cut for jewelery.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforG Goldstone is a cool manmade mineral created from mixing silica, copper oxide, and other metals. Once it is fully mixed it is sealed from the air slowly cooled to allow cooper crystals to form. The better the crystallization the better sparkle you get.
#goldstone

Awesome piece!

Geode placed on a table with placemats. The geode shows coarse light blue celestine crystals with a very fine outer shell.

Celestine (SrSO4), is a worldwide mineral found in small quantities. This mineral is commonly used for its high strontium content in fireworks and various metals such as aluminum to reduce oxidation during processing.
#crystals, #minerals, #celestine, #celestite

Photo of purple fluorite clusters

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforF Fluorite (CaF₂), A common crystal found locally in Illinois (its the state mineral). It comes in a variety of vibrant colors such as Red, Yellow, Blue, Purple, and green due to other elements. Pure flourite is clear.
#crystals, #minerals, #fluorite

Its crazy how slag looks like blue glass. I have some slag from Sweden here!

Ai art was described this way to me, imagine you are a button pusher who wants to make decisions, but are not creative enough for everything. Ai art allows button pushers to get their way without ever needing to think or be creative. If AI keeps going, we may lose alot more then we gain.

I am curious if the negativity around art ai will impact possible game evaluation ai that can assist designers with balancing the game more. I remember that this was a talking point until the same networking models were applied to art and lit side of things.

Pictured near the middle is an air bubble trapped in a fluid channel.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforE Enhydrite crystals occur minerals form around watery deposits and trap them inside its molecular structure. While many crystals can be enhydros, quartz's clear properties allow for much easier viewing of trapped liquid.
#Enhydro, #crystals, #minerals, #Herkimer, #quartz

We get some really nice refractions from our door in the morning apparently.

Tanzanite engagement ring with diamonds

The florescent effect proves that this is not a lab grown diamond, but does not mean the two that do not glow are lab grown.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforD
Diamonds (C), are the hardest mineral currently known and can be lab grown without any imperfections. The imperfections of natural diamonds allow for florescent qualities that are processed out of any lab diamonds.
#Rings, #minerals, #crystals, #diamonds

No worries:)

Im trying to do a mineral, or geology related term beginning with each letter. Certain weeks are much harder then others. I for example. :)

Im a week behind apparently, not much in minerals that begin with D though that can be dangerous.

Optical Calcite on its entry in Simon and Schuster's guide yo rocks and minerals book.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforC
Calcite, CaCO3, is a mineral with a birefringence (double refraction) property with clear calcite. Light becomes polarized and split into two images. When viewing through a polarized lense, one image will disappear.
#crystals, #minerals, #calcite

I was completely unsure who was on yet. Thanks for sharing!

Managed to clean and get my lead samples enclosed before our little one found them! Im probably going to make a post about the schalenblende, but i now wonder why a galena worry stone was a good idea...
#crystals, #minerals, #display

Swedish blue (or Bergslagen) is a man made stone generated from Swedish Iron production over 300 years ago. It looks very similar to volcanic glass in appearance and feel. It gets its blue green color from elements of copper.
#minerals, #crystals, #manmade

One of the few times the manmade crystal is the mane image of an element, but still very common to see in collections.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforB
Bismuth (Bi) is surprisingly dense (86% the density of lead!). Raw bismuth is typically a silver white color when processed, but will display prominent cleavages and colors when carefully heated and cooled.
#bismuth, #crystals, #minerals

Leaded crystal is created when lead is used instead of calcium to create potash glass. The result of adding lead makes it both easier to cut the glass as well as making it much shiner with greater prism effects, also glows blue under UV
#crystals, #lead, #glass

That stone has very little brown and black streaks for Rhodonite

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforA
Astrophyllite occurs in alkaline igneous rocks in fissures and cavities. Due to its low hardness of 3, it is not normally used in jewelry despite its striking appearance.
#astrophyllite, #crystals, #minerals

How else am i supposed to get my daily doses of uranium and lead?

I hate glossy photos :). This is my preferred display angle for this specimen

Rear view, the swirls arent as impressive but still very pretty

Charoite (K(CA,NA)₂SI₄O₁₀(OH,F)*H₂O), is a rare silicate material named after the russian word chary, meaning magic or charms as it was thought to be a fake due to its vibrant purple swirls. Also due to the Potassium in the structure, it is radioactive!
#crystals, #minerals, #charoite