My minerals collection

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:01 pm

I'm interested by minerals and other gems,so I have a small collection of minerlas.
Currently I have 15 different minerals:
-amethyst
-tiger-eye
-pyrite
-rose quartz
-aragonite
-Desert Rose
-rock salt
-apatite
-carnelian
-fuchsia
-citrine
-calcite
-rauchquarz
-galena
-Celestine

(Sorry if I spell wrong some words,but this are totally different with words from my language.)

Here is images with my minerals:

The first is amethyst:

The tiger-eye look like tiger's eye:

The pyrite looks pretty cool:

Rose quartz is almost transparent:

My aragonite isn't very beautiful,but...

Desert Rose is called so because look like a rose and it is meet in desert zones.

Rock salt don't look like salt:

Apatite,my beautiful apatite...
Note:is blue but my camera don't see that just little.

Carnelian look like a candy:

Fuchsia is green but again my camera can't see the colour just little.

Galena; I don't know if i spell it right.

Citrine look like a piece of lemon.
Note:The yellow part of mineral is more yellow but my camera again...

Rauchquarz look like a diamond.

The photo of celestine isn't so good and my celestine is pretty boring.
First is mine and second is a photo from internet.

And the last is my cute calcite.

And now I want to show you the box where I keep the minerals:

I will post here a new mineral every week and when the first box is full I will how an image with that.

StinkerSquad01 · Post by **StinkerSquad01** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:03 pm

The pyrite doesn't seem right, it's fools gold, and that doesnt look gold at all.

StinkerSquad01 · Post by **StinkerSquad01** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:05 pm

NEVER MIND I LOOKED AT THE WRONG ONE! Galenea is spelled right.

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:06 pm

StinkerSquad01 wrote:The pyrite doesn't seem right, it's fools gold, and that doesnt look gold at all.

It look like gold just if is expose on the sun light.

StinkerSquad01 · Post by **StinkerSquad01** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:09 pm

StinkerSquad01 wrote:NEVER MIND I LOOKED AT THE WRONG ONE! Galena is spelled right.

Gah.
Great collection, I like rocks and minerals too.

I have a pyrite that is a cube. Also, I have a geode, flourite, agate (that looks really cool), and others.

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:12 pm

Maybe you will post your minerals too.

ben-09 · Post by **ben-09** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:44 pm

jozsefkoma wrote:Maybe you will post your minerals too.

Perhaps everyone could post thier minerals here.

boywhoflies · Post by **boywhoflies** » Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:32 pm

Those are amazing!

I have a small diamond or something. I don't know if it's fake but my mom says its not.

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:19 pm

I bought a new camera and I made a new photo of galena:

Tomorrow I will post the next mineral.

Edited by tyteen: Fixed spelling as requested

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:15 pm

New mineral!
Fluorine

I don't know why some mineral don't looks good in photos.
Maybe because they are shiny.
With flash all photos of minerals turn into a white light and without it don't looks good.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:39 pm

Try taking it without flashlight then?

I never liked flashlights much. They affect all my photos. I had to turn them off manually each time I turn on my camera, because it doesn't remember my flashlight settings.

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:03 pm

Thanks for suggestion.
I will do that tomorrow.

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:30 pm

Red jasper:
Photo#1

Photo#2

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:41 pm

I own 3 bismuth cubes. Camera's being mean so I had to steal someone else's picture.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RUBNYiOjQms/T ... al_big.jpg

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:32 pm

~xpr'd~ wrote:I own 3 bismuth cubes. Camera's being mean so I had to steal someone else's picture.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RUBNYiOjQms/T ... al_big.jpg

Wow!
Looks cool!

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:49 pm

Information about minerals:(info from my mind)
Red Jasper

Red Jasper is a variety of quartz cryptocrystalline called chalcedony, it's color is from impurities of hematite (iron oxide).

Informations about any jasper(not red):(info from wikipedia)

Jasper, a form of chalcedony,[1] is an opaque,[2] impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color. Blue is rare. This mineral breaks with a smooth surface, and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It can be highly polished and is used for vases, seals, and at one time for snuff boxes. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped or banded jasper. Jaspilite is a banded iron formation rock that often has distinctive bands of jasper. Jasper is basically chert which owes its red color to iron(III) inclusions. The specific gravity of jasper is typically 2.5 to 2.9.[3] The jasper is also a stone in the Jewish High Priest's breastplate, described in Exodus 28.

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:56 pm

Sorry I forgot to post it early.
But here is my chalcedony.

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:55 pm

This is my Labrador.
Is beautiful,isn't it?

StinkerSquad01 · Post by **StinkerSquad01** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:02 pm

Very pretty!

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:59 pm

My gypsum completed the first box of minerals.
Now I have 20 minerals.

boywhoflies · Post by **boywhoflies** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:40 pm

That just looks awesome!

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:47 pm

Finally I've got gold!
This isn't a gold stone,is just a very tight gold foil.
Because the gold foil is very sensible it is put in a glass container.

Tomorrow I will buy a new mineral.

Also I made some new better photos for some old minerals:

boywhoflies · Post by **boywhoflies** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:42 pm

Wait wait wait wait...
GOLD?

Awesome!