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Another angle of my Gypsum crystals... this is such a good angle!

Quartz crystal heated naturally in the earth by radiation to give it it's black color. Now there are times where it is heat treated by man with radiation. In that case though, the smoky quartz will eventually turn back to regular quartz.

Most agate's have small shards of quartz as you can see inbetween the milky agate and the amethyst. The intersting thing is how the amethyst shards grew within the agate.

This specimen is man treated but nonetheless beautiful. It is regular clear quartz fuzed/coted with pure gold to give it is passion blue aura. These pieces are transparent still.

This gypsum is a fine stone to my collection. For all of you who don't know what gypsum is.... does Selenite ring a bell?! Well that's just another name for it ^_^. This specimin is rly special to me because of how the shards grow.... almost in a halfmoon shape. It's rly transparent and ironically very fluorescent, it glows blue in the dark =] Though it's a third the size of a soda can, it's very unique.