Exceptional specimen featuring a large Spessartine Garnet with smaller Spessartines on Albite! From the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan. Credit: Kevin Ward Visit Amazing Geologist for more. Looks like dessert!
Lustrous deep dark blue Azurite forming a number of parallel growth bladed crystal groups in an overall inter-formed group, from the Tsumeb Mine, Namibia.
Bismuth, a REAL heavy metal, (mostly) stable and non-toxic , with a half life of billion years, dude. This stuff is awesome. I'm definitely going to look into this Great link.
[photo] Rockhounds with a Large Quartz ClusterNow, here's Rockhounding at its finest! (Sorry, actually it was recovered by a quartz crystal operator in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas.