Collection of the prettiest minerals and stones in the world

Gemstones are treasured throughout time for their stunning visual qualities and value and have always been precious and expensive commodities. Some stunning beautiful stones and minerals in this selection we’ve never seen before, which look like there’re galaxies, oceans and skies inside.

Sunset Fire Opal （A kind of translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color）

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Luz Opal With Galaxy Inside

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Bismuth （A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically)

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Ocean Inside An Opal

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Worlds Biggest Amethyst Geode ( A hollow rock or nodule with the cavity usually lined with crystals) – The ‘Empress Of Uruguay’

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Lightning Ridge Blue Opal

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Opal Fossil

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Fluorite (A soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light, also is the chief source of fluorine)

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Rose Quartz Geode

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Burmese Tourmaline (A mineral that is a complex borosilicate and hydroxide of aluminum containing iron and magnesium and calcium and lithium and sodium; it is usually black but occurs in transparent colored forms that are used as gemstones)

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Scolecite (A white zeolite mineral consisting of hydrated calcium aluminium silicate in groups of radiating monoclinic crystals)

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Chrysocolla (A hydrated copper silicate mineral) In Malachite (A green or blue mineral used as an ore of copper)

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Titanium Quartz

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Azurite (Blue carbonate of copper)

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Watermelon Tourmaline

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Rhodochrosite (A mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese)

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Bismuth

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Realgar (A rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide and is an important ore of arsenic) on Calcite (A common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone)

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Uvarovite ( An emerald-green garnet found in chromium deposits, consists of calcium chromium silicate)

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Fluorite/quartz/pyrite Combination

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Crocoite (A rare orange secondary mineral consisting of lead chromate in monoclinic crystalline form)

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Cobaltocalcite

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Tourmaline On Quartz With Lepidolite And Cleavelandite

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Rhodochrosite (A mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese)

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Crocoite (A mineral consisting of lead chromate, crystallizing in the monoclinic crystal system)

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