Awsome gems and mineral thread

[Tiedyemafia]

Me and my girlfriend are rock hounds(fucking hippies) but here are some very unique stones only found in 2 places in the world. Post some of your awsome finds or collections please!

 

[Spiritofspice]

I like your tekites.

Tekites are a very powerful stone.

 

[Tiedyemafia]

No tekites.
Those are pyrite concretions. they call them boji stones. Super cool though.
I have some the size of a tennis ball. They are magnetic. And have a "male" and "female". The females are the ones you don't see pyrite cubes coming out of and obviously the male's do.

They also explode if you throw them in the fire!

 

[Spiritofspice]

The thing that looks like a apricot pip is a tekite stone.
If you clean the black stuff off sometimes there is a nice green gem inside.

 

[Tiedyemafia]

Nope just a boji they are iron pyrite concretions. The insides sometimes have sulphur and in rare occasions fossils

 

[Hashketchum]

This is what I have at the moment but I have ankther parcel in route with another 6 or 7 variety.

 

[Ulim]

Stönes

 

[Tiedyemafia]

What is the bluish one?
The one in the back.

 

[Diazin]

I thought those first two stones to be grand canyon's limestones, Tyedyemafia. Where did you get those from?

I had one of those blue stone Hashketchum, they seem to oxide and get that rusty orange tone whenever you crack them up. I dont know its name though.

 

[Tiedyemafia]

They come from the smokey hill Basin. They are pyrite and iron. My GF found me one yesterday that is 1 cube but with rounded sides. I'll post a picture in a bitmap

 

[Hashketchum]

Its blue kyanite.
I get small parcels from a few people online, and they have a stand at a local flea market. I just got these 2 as a gift yesterday from a good friend of mine before I went to see Umphreys.
African sunstone and some quartz.

 

[Spiritofspice]

There is a piece of Persian pottery that I found in Australia in the desert.
No body professionally wants to talk about it

 

[Hashketchum]

Updated shot of my collection
The gems contains some faceted gems

 

[Koornut]

Some stone tools from Australian aborigines.
All are stained with dry blood from use.

There is a piece of Persian pottery that I found in Australia in the desert.
No body professionally wants to talk about it

The small triangle stone was used to slice open the male urethra.
The round stone still has yellow powder used for body painting.

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Be super cautious about those stone tools mate, from what I understand (state dependent) it's super illegal to possess any artefacts without consent from the elders of the particular tribe where it was found.