Tag: Minerals

Giant Amethysts from my Travels

This week’s theme from Sunday Stills is #Amethyst and I took the challenge quite literally, reminded of the giants I’ve seen in my travels. I saw two of the largest Amethyst geodes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. They… Continue Reading “Giant Amethysts from my Travels”

Quartz, Minerals, Rocks, and Other Gems

Who can keep them all straight? I’ll start with the largest hunk of quartz I’ve ever seen, an 8,000-pound slab from Arkansas, newly obtained by the Smithsonian. “Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the Earth’s crust. As a mineral name, quartz… Continue Reading “Quartz, Minerals, Rocks, and Other Gems”