The Amazing Beauty of Minerals

 

There are over 4,900 known mineral types in the world, each a unique chemical combination compressed and brought to perfection by the pressure in the Earth's crust. They come in an incredible variety of shapes and colores with some of them even having some extraordinarily properties. Some have a taste, some are immune to acid and some are even radioactive! Regardless they are all beautiful, stunning creations of nature that are just amazing to behold: Opal growth rings on tree fossils

Uvarovite

Fluorite

Kammererite

Hematite, Rutile, and Feldspar

Torbernite (radioactive)

Clinoclase

Vanadinite crystals on white Barite

Opal geode, closed and open

Blue Callaghanite on white Hydromagnesite

Silver Stibnite with Barite

Chalcanthite

Karpatite

Cacoxenite

Fluorite

Labradorite

Black Opal

Cuprosklodowskite (radioactive)

Fluorite

Bismuth

Opal

Tourmaline

Bayldonite

Osmium (the densest natural element)

Malachite

Emmonsite

Pallasite Meteorite

Boleite

Crocoit

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