20 Most Beautiful Minerals And Stones in the World

[CrawlingChaos]

32. Those pyrite cubes are such a trip

Looks like you have some amazing specimens of precise intersecting cubes. I'm sure you never get tired of looking at them - they are so cool! And the antimonite is unbelievably gorgeous. The way you've displayed the silver and gold together is quite striking.

Yes there are amazing specimens coming out of China. For instance one of my favorite minerals is azurite (I can just get lost in that incredible ultra-blue) and I was used to seeing expensive pieces the size of a fingertip - and then at some point, these big amazing chunks from China started to become available at low prices. Not sure if that's still the case but it was certainly mind-blowing at first.

Some favorite pieces of mine I acquired on Ebay from people who just found them. For something like $10 a super-nice guy sent me a box of the most beautiful botryoidal druzy I've ever seen that he was finding somewhere near his home in the Smokey Mountains. It's so beautifully formed and it's outer later of fine crystals makes it looks like it's been dusted with some kind of magical sugar. It's crazy what I paid for it.

Thanks for sharing some of your collection - I enjoyed seeing it.