“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 pretty. This selection of the world’s most beautiful minerals and stones 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 and non-minerals. Although there are over 4,900 known types of minerals, the ones here are just the most beautiful ones that our readers and we could find.
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01. Sunset Fire Opal
02. Luz Opal With Galaxy Inside
03. Bismuth
04. Ocean Inside An Opal
05. World’s Biggest Amethyst Geode – The ’empress Of Uruguay.’
06. Rose Quartz Geode
07. Lightning Ridge Black Opal
08. Fluorite
09. Opal Fossil
10. Burmese Tourmaline
11. Scolecite
12. Chrysocolla In Malachite
13. Watermelon Tourmaline
14. Azurite
15. Titanium Quartz
16. Rhodochrosite
17. Bismuth
18. Realgar On Calcite
19. Uvarovite
20. Fluorite/Quartz/Pyrite Combination
21. Crocoite
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. Beautiful Raw Emerald
32. Phantom In Amethyst
33. Honey Calcite Glowing Through Fluorite
34. Obsidian
35. LionFish
36. Wulfenite
37. 1.8 mm Multicolor Rutile Crystal
38. Cuprite, Congo
39. Azurite And Malachite
40. Iceland Spar Calcite Crystal
41. Azurite & Malachite On Smokey Quartz Point With ‘Record Keeper’ Markings
42. Colusite & Sphalerite
43. Gold (Dragon) On Quartz
44. Pink Quartz Geode
45. Wulfenite (pbmoo4) Crystal
46. Labradorite
47. Crystals (Xenotime, Zircon) Arranged In A Radiating Polished Slice Of Rock – Chrysanthemum Stone
48. Fire Agate
49. Peacock Coal – Mcadoo, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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