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Todays ROTD is Apophyllite and Stillibite. I've posted this pairing before, and it is one of my favorites. Apophyllite: clear and green crystals on the piece & the stillibite: cream colored crystals surrounding it. It's a fairly common pairing and relatively inexpensive for a new collector.

Fibrous still bite Jets above the large Crystal chunk of copper impregnated apophyllite, which is the light green coloration that you can see in the crystals there. Oblong and pointed from left to right, it is a stunning piece that shows the varied ways that Apophyllite crystals can grow as well as variations in stilibite

Rotating it about 30° shows the big chunky green apophyte Crystal near the top and you can see the additional apophike crystals coming down the center and to the left, which have clarity and almost no color. The thing I like the most about the piece is the fiberous stilibite that's growing around the green Crystal as well as the betroitol that you would normally see in a stillibite. it's a fascinating mixture of Crystal shapes and formation

Another 30° or 15° or so really shows how chunky this green crystal is it's a high contrast between the surrounding material and the top left you can see one of the clear apatholic crystals that exhibit almost gem quality clarity but are far too soft to be worked into gemstones

$This shot rotated to see the green Crystal from reverse shows stress fractures across the surface throughout the larger Green Piece and the white fibrous crystals of stilibite that are growing out of it$

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matsukichihp.bsky.socialMay 24, 2024 1:20am

サンリオコラボの時描いたやつ🐱 #ハイキュー#音駒

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yozuki--kyou49.bsky.socialMar 26, 2024 10:32pm

「冷静に慎重にな」 #イラスト#宝石の国#illustration

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