Titanium Coated Aura Quartz (Apple Aura Quartz)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with Metallic Vapor Deposition Coating
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Titanium Coated Aura Quartz (Apple Aura Quartz)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with Metallic Vapor Deposition Coating
Sandstone (with man-made markings)
Arenite (composed primarily of Quartz, SiO2)
Crackle Agate / Dyed Quartz
SiO2 (Silicon Dioxide)
Pet Rock (Man-made Quartzite or Granite Cobble)
Silicon dioxide (SiO2) mixture; commonly composed of Quartz, Feldspar, and Mica
Pet Rock (Quartzite/Sandstone River Rock)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) mixture
Blue Crackle Quartz (Dyed Quarzite)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with artificial dye
Citrine quartz crystal
Quartz, silicon dioxide (SiO₂); yellow variety commonly called citrine
Banded calcite crystal tower
Calcite (CaCO₃), likely honey or brown banded calcite
Biotite-bearing granite or granitic gneiss
Granite/granitic gneiss, chiefly quartz, feldspar, and biotite mica, with possible epidote or chlorite alteration
Green fluorite crystal
Fluorite (calcium fluoride, CaF₂)
Granite / Gneiss (Coarse-Grained Felsic Rock)
Granite (Quartz-Feldspar-Mica aggregate)
Painted River Pebble (likely Basalt or Greywacke)
Aphanitic Lithic Clast with Anthropogenic Pigment coating
Quartz Heart or Arrowhead Shape
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Smoky quartz crystal
Quartz, SiO₂; likely smoky quartz, possibly coated or included
Purple fluorite cluster
Fluorite (calcium fluoride, CaF₂)
N/A - Non-Geological Item
Amethyst crystal (likely quartz)
Quartz, crystalline silica (SiO₂), purple variety amethyst
Amethyst stalactite slice pendant
Amethyst (紫 quartz), SiO₂, with concentric quartz/chalcedony and likely agate banding
Amethyst-bearing quartz
Quartz, SiO₂, with purple amethyst zoning and likely white milky quartz
Aquamarine cabochon ring
Aquamarine, blue variety of beryl (Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈)
Likely polished garnet fragment
Garnet group, possibly almandine (Fe₃Al₂Si₃O₁₂)
Polished Morganite (pink beryl), possibly rose quartz
Beryl, Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈, colored by manganese; visual identification is uncertain because the image is blurred
Honey calcite crystal
Calcite (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃)
River Cobble (likely Basalt or Metagraywacke)
Non-specific water-worn lithic fragment
Bixbyite on Rhyolite
Bixbyite (Mn2+,Fe3+)2O3
Tumbled amethyst
Quartz, SiO₂; purple variety colored mainly by iron-related defects and irradiation
Painted Sandstone Cobble
Clastic Sedimentary Rock (Sandstone base)
Diamond (Princess Cut Faceted Gemstone)
Native Carbon (C)
Polished brecciated jasper
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂), commonly with hematite/goethite and iron-rich alteration minerals
Painted Sandstone
Sandstone (clastic sedimentary rock) with acrylic/artistic coating
Opalite
Synthetic glass / Opalized glass
Fossilized Ray Barb (Stinger) Fragment
Myliobatiformes indet. (Fossil stingray spine)
One Pound Coin (UK)
Nickel-Brass Alloy (Cu-Zn-Ni)
Weathered rhyolite or felsic volcanic rock
Rhyolite, commonly quartz–alkali feldspar–plagioclase with iron-oxide alteration
River Pebble Gravel
Hydrothermally modified Clastic Sediment (mainly Quartzite and Chert)
Not a geological specimen
N/A (man-made object)
Native Silver
Silver (elemental Ag)
Opalite
Man-made opalized glass
Mystic Topaz (Treated Quartz or Topaz)
Aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide [Al2SiO4(F,OH)2] with thin-film metallic coating
Titanium Aura Quartz (Aura Quartz)
Titanium-coated Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Asphalt Concrete
Bituminous conglomerate
Blue-green faceted gemstone, possibly glass or synthetic material
Not identifiable from the image; possible synthetic spinel or glass