mineralmondays Tag Posts Index

A Night At The Ueno Museum

A friend and fellow mineral dealer is in town for the annual Tokyo Gem and Mineral show. On Tuesday he and suggested to me that we visit the National Museum of Nature

Mineral Mondays #71 - Tourmaline The Most Colorful Gemstone

If you love colorful gemstones there is no better contender than tourmaline. I spent the weekend out at a mine and the following day at a collector/dealer's house

Boulder Sunday, Boulders of Fluorite Oh My!

There are many a secret spot in the mountains and deserts still holding treasure, you just have to know the right people or do some serious researching to find those

Firday's Rock! - Bar Magnetite W/Siderite and Apatite - Possibly Martite

Update - I was blogging on a mineral site about this and a guy from Australia said this may be Martite (hematite after magnetite pseudomorph). I won't know for sure

Friday's Rock! - Bumble Bee Jasper

A miner that I am dealing with has a ton of this material, literally. He deals in tonnage, not pounds. When I was over at his place the other week I decided to pick

Boulder Sunday - Haystack Mountain

Littered with thousands of boulders, Haystack Mountain is an awesome rockhounding spot just outside of Lone Pine, CA.  The mountain sits a few hundred feet

Fridays's Rock ~ Red Jasper

Once before, I posted a stone that I thought might be jasper but wasn't sure - it was. Today's stone is one that, for years, I thought might be a red agate. It's

Friday's Rock ~ Jasper?

It has always been easy for me to pick up pretty stones, but as much as I want to know what they are, I have trouble identifying them. I look at this and guess agate

Mineral Monday's 46 - Two Gem Shows In 1 day

This past weekend I went to two gem shows in Southern California, the Victor Valley Gem & Mineral Society's Tailgate and The CFMS Annual Show. Both shows offer

Friday's Rock! Citrine

This is an awesome piece of citrine I picked up out in Quartzite, AZ. Citrine is a variety of quartz. The yellow to orange to red color comes from iron inclusions

Friday's Rock ~ Quartz

As the most abundant and widely distributed mineral on the earth's surface, of course there is quartz in my collection. I particularly like white quartz. On stoney

Mineral Mondays - Green Copper Turquoise

This is green copper turquoise, a bit of an oxymoron really, like jumbo shrimp or working vacation. How can turquoise be green? But we're talking about the stone

Friday's Rock! Cerasite aka Sakura Ishi aka Cherry Blossom Stone

Life comes at you fast living in Tokyo. My wife and I were going on a date night last Saturday, but we were having a hard time deciding where to actually go in a

Friday's Rock! Amazonite

Quartzite strikes again! I picked this beauty up while digging through a pile of amazonite.  Most of the material was all broken up, but somehow this specimen

Friday Rocks |#9

Friday rocks! Thanks to @nat-expressions, who initiated the tag #fridaysrock we share pictures and information about our rocks and minerals. Feel free to join any

Mineral Mondays #5: Pentagonite

Pentagonite Pentagonite is a rare silicate mineral sought after by collectors. While it is widely known amongst mineral collectors & dealers, it is not known