A small plastic display box with a silvery mineral. There is a label on the back that says Arsenopyrite on Commingtonite, Lincoln County, Montana.
bought a rude rock from the local gem show.
#hevrocks #mineralcollection #arsenopyrite #cummingtonite
A plate of benotoite and neptunite on natrolite. The benitoite glows blue under shortwave UV light.
A desk in regular light, showing the benitoite/neptunite specimen on a desk. A cheap long/shortwave UV light is hung above from a string. It is hung from one of the loft bed mattress supports.
Shortwave UV photo I took versus the rig I came up with to take the photo. 💀 #benitoite #mineralcollection #hevrocks #fluorescence #uvphotography
Benitoite and neptunite on a white matrix. The specimen is about 5 inches wide.
A large, almost heart shaped specimen of dioptase. It's massive at about 7 inches wide.
An australian opal that shimmers vivid greens on one side and a little bit of blue and purple on the other. It's about 5 inches wide.
Several small uv reactive mineral specimens. They are (presumed) uranium glass, alexandrite (only weakly UV reactive), mangano axinite, hackmanite, and hyalite opal.
Just got back home from tucson! I got a lot of cool stuff while I was there. #benitoite #neptunite #dioptase #opal #uraniumglass #manganoaxinite #alexandrite #hackmanite #hyaliteopal #mineralcollection #minerals #hevrocks
A specimen of crocidolite sitting on a black sheet of paper. It is mostly solid but you can see fibers coming off the side of the specimen.
A small rock with yellow specks of carnotite dusting its surface. It’s sitting in a black box on a black sheet of paper.
A white rock (possibly quartz) with small areas of native silver dotting its surface. The rock is sitting on a piece of black paper.
A large rock with small pink crystals dotting its surface.
Some recent additions to my rock collection. Crocidolite aka blue asbestos, carnotite (radioactive), native silver, and raspberry grossular garnet. #hevrocks
Silvery metallic Skutterudite contained in a plastic box. It's sitting on a shelf between a Dolomite/Cinnabar specimen and a boxed Orpiment.
A small Hackmanite specimen sits on a paper that describes it. Both are housed in a white paper box.
The same hackmanite as in the previous image, but it glows bright orange under longwave UV light.
Why do heavy metals make some of the neatest rocks/crystals?
Skutterudite (cobalt/arsenic) and Hackmanite (a form of Sodalite, which is firey under UV light).
I might need to make a feed for all my rock posting. #hevrocks
