MooneyFineMineral

*Ways To Help The Channel* Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK MFMotMC: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/products/mooney-fine-mineral-of-the-month-club As I was helping my parents to clean out their old house I found a 1996 Smithsonian Crystal Growing Kit in my closet and it still had a couple of packets left from when I was a kid! So I'm going to grow these crystals for your amusement and then show you how you can grow your own with some items you may already have, or can get, for just a few dollars. This is a great experiment to do with your children to show them how many of our every day items have to mined. And how crystals can grow!

This video is all about the little things that might help a gem and mineral collector to justify paying high prices for a world class specimen. Gems, minerals, crystals, and fossils all have tremendous factors that determine prices. Let's talk about that!

Agate, jasper, chalcedony, and chert are all varieties of micro-crystalline quartz. Quartz is the crystal form of silicon dioxide. However each of these minerals are scientifically a little different...but also sometimes the same! We'll discuss those differences and more today! We'll also discuss what causes fluorescence (a phenomenon that can happen with some of these minerals) as well! *Ways To Help The Channel* Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK MFMotMC: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/products/mooney-fine-mineral-of-the-month-club

Can you tell what type of crystal or color will be inside of a geode before opening it? Unfortunately not! You will not be able to tell what crystals are inside of a geode until it's opened. You can make an educated guess based on locality and some context clues. For instance if I see a Las Trancas geode I can pretty well expect blue chalcedony and quartz of various varieties HOWEVER I have cracked exactly two pink quartz geodes from there. So... #geodes #crystals #gems #nature #geology #enhydro #water #science

This is a Las Trancas Geode and you can find several sizes on the website in my channel bio! Sometimes they have sparkly crystals like this. Sometimes they have dainty, weird crystals! But you'll probably enjoy the experience! Geodes are fun! By the way this one is highly fluorescent under a long wave ultraviolet light (365nm). This particular geode has dainty little quartz growths that are coatings a beautiful blue chalcedony. #geodes #crystals #gems #nature #rocks #minerals #science

This is a re-upload and fixed version of a video I did a few weeks ago after being allowed access to a gem, mineral, fossil, and crystal collection that started being put together over 50 years ago! None of these pieces are available, like I said, private collection. However a mislabeled fossil was pointed out to me and I felt the need to take down the video and fix it. While I was at it, I decided to redo the text graphics as well as track down the scientific names for some of the fossils that had been left a little ambiguous. I hope that you enjoy seeing wonderful amethyst crystals, fluorite you simply won't find anymore, aquamarine, amazonite and more! *Ways To Help The Channel* Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK MFMotMC: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/products/mooney-fine-mineral-of-the-month-club

*Ways To Help The Channel* Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK MFMotMC: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/products/mooney-fine-mineral-of-the-month-club Bismuth is an element bearing number 83 on the periodic table of elements. It's widely believed to be a transitional metal and bismuth is WONDERFUL. It has a tremendous amount of industrial applications due to it's stability, low melting point, low conductivity, and low toxicity. You can also grow really cool crystals from it. So let's talk about why you don't see natural bismuth crystals very many places, and how people make the crystals you do see.

Rock Bottom News for July 16, 2023 - A large and rather rare 450,000 year old mammoth tusk was recently found in a quarry near Cambridgeshire, England (roughly 75 miles north of London). You can find the full article here: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/fos... Want more Rock Bottom News (Yes I hate myself for that one as well), check out the links below: Website: http://mooneyfinemineral.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/mooneyfinemineral Discord Server: https://discord.gg/fbWpvnDXuK E-mail: j.m@mooneyfinemineral.com Mineral of the Month Club: https://mooneyfinemineral.com/product...

About a year ago I cracked open a geode with water inside. People lost their minds! I eventually cracked two others and had the water put under a microscope. Here are most of the slides from that. The water is filled with a variety of silica minerals (mostly quartz), some calcite, and some iron oxide and hydroxide minerals. The slides are under various magnifications as well as various lenses and lighting (lots of polarized lighting shots). Regardless, these were just so much fun and I just wanted to share them somewhere! Anyway if you are interested in more you can find me at http://mooneyfinemineral.com - or at pretty much any other social media platform!

A short video overlooking the Grand Canyon via the South Shelf. Audio is: Consideration - Low Frequency Music - Chill Out Records Unfortunately some young men were being exceptionally vulgar nearby and the original audio will never see the light of day but I hope you all enjoy this.

A Druzy Mist Geode that is being cracked on camera for you! Be sure to check out my social media! www.facebook.com/mooneyfinemineral www.instagram.com/mooneyfinemineral And of course the website: www.mooneyfinemineral.com Thank you for watching!

Colemanite is an evaporate mineral from the Borax pits of the Boron California area! This is a fun, old stock specimen and don't forget to look for Mooney Fine Mineral on Facebook/Instagram/Parler!

Look at the dummy thiCC STRUCTURE on this piece. This specimen has gorgeous color and fantastic form. I left the iron staining on it instead of full on cleaning. If you like seeing fun mineral specimens find Mooney Fine Mineral on Instagram, Facebook, and even Parler!

An interesting Barium Sulfate crystal cluster that is snow white and was mined in Washington County, Missouri. Barite has tremendous industrial applications! It's used in oil exploration for it's high specific gravity (it's poured onto oil spouts or broken pipes to add some GIRTH to the oil and keep it from spraying everywhere). Barite is also used to make the barium drinks used before colonoscopies. Slightly less fun than oil spouts. Allegedly.

A classic Chihuahua state of Mexico crystal specimen. Probably mined in the early 1990s. Amethyst and Citrine are only delineated by their color. They are both silica dioxide crystals. The only difference is that Amethyst is purple and Citrine is yellow. Both gain their color from iron inclusions in the crystal structure. When they are both on the same specimen it usually comes from differing oxidation levels of the iron in the individual crystals!

This fun little multi-mineral specimen hails from the classic Chihuahua state of Mexico. The only difference between Amethyst and Citrine is the color. Amethyst is the purple variety of quartz and Citrine is the yellow/orange by definition!

A classic Chihuahua State of Mexico mineral specimen. This old stock material is just as timeless as the day it was first put on the market!

A wonderful specimen from the Viburnum Trend Mining District of Missouri. This specimen specifically comes from the Sweetwater Mine of Reynolds County, Missouri.

A beautiful and unique fossil coral specimen from Florida. To be agatized means to be replaced with agate, a translucent form of chalcedony!

Fluorite from the classic Naica Mexico Mining District. Fluorite is an important mineral as it has many industrial applications that affect our day to day lives. One of which being a flux for steal production! But most importantly, it's beautiful.

This lovely Amethyst specimen with Minor Pyrite hails from the Chihuahua State in Mexico and is unusually dark for the area. This is old stock material and was collected in the early 90s as far as I can tell.

This beautiful chalcedony hails from the classic Naica Mexico mining district. This piece could be considered agate as Chalcedony is delineated into two main categories: Agates and Jaspers. Agate being the more translucent Chalcedony and Jasper being the Opaque form.

This beautiful, vibrant, crystal comes from the classic Naica Mexico mining district. A stunning beauty.

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5 Hours of Gentle Rain of a Natural Spring. Taken on a lovely fall day in south central Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest.