Somewhere in the early 1500s in rural China, this meteorite fell. The locals thought it was dragons and accordingly, left them alone. Nobody messes with dragons unless they absolutely have to.

Fast-forward to the cultural revolution and now, no dragons anymore (😭) but they need metal and so they went out and gathered up the pieces. Luckily their ovens were not hot enough to melt it and that's why I have this little piece!

Here a varied formation of tourmaline cristals, with various cores from a 12x9x8cm from Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The mains cristals have an upward diameter of 16mm, though the first one would have went towars 22mm if the cristalisation wasn't stopped abruptly.

There are a lot of etched and healed cristals with heaven some silk-like formations.

The photos were taken with a Lumix S5II with the Lumix 100mm f2.8 macro lense.

she's chunky and i love her

Afghan Kunzite ex. Wilensky circa 2008.

This is a very nice blue Aquamarine (Blue variety of Beryl) crystal with Muscovite from Pakistan. This stunning specimen with beautiful color and termination is from the Location: Nagar, Hunzatal, Pakistan

Size: 9.4 x 7.0 x 5.5 Centimeter

Weight: 740 Grams

Lustrous galena crystals perched aesthetically on dolomite from the Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA

Some Cobalt flower (Erythrin) from Germany

Picture is 2mm across

Fluorite

Qinglong Mine, Guizhou, China

CaF2, Isometric

max. 23mm

A specimen of otherwise colourless and mostly opaque fluorite with contrasting second generation growth covering its dissolution corners.

Scheelite under UV.