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Ah, yeah, that could be an issue. I don't really wear jewelry much and my collection is kept on shelves rather than in settings, but I do have one citrine (well, actually heat-treated amethyst, as is most "citrine" you'll find in shops) crystal pendant necklace that I found really cheap in a creepy little shop by the ocean and I couldn't resist. XD It still has its natural shape and it's not too poky. But of course, it's not geometrically "perfect" and I think that's what a lot of people expect of their gems and crystals, and why most of them are faceted. I just think their natural crystal structures are a lot more interesting and beautiful.
So...today I'll mention fluorite. I love fluorite. It comes in a nice variety of colors, forms cool cubic and octahedral crystals, and often fluoresces.
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Let's see, today I choose bornite! Which most of us common people refer to as peacock rock or peacock ore, so called due to its rather brilliant iridescent sheen after tarnishing.
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Why'd you stop collecting? Maybe you should drag your collection back out and admire it again; maybe you'd get back into it again. :P
Today's crystal: Galena
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I'm not even sure which gems and minerals occur naturally out here, or the best places to find them, not even out in rural nowhere where my family lives. I don't think I could be paid to part with my collection, though, and my mum wouldn't stand for it, either; she near went bats when she thought someone had stolen some of it (I may have some really good stones amongst my sparkly shinies, though I will admit most of it is worthless to anyone but me). If I were given the opportunity to go out gem hunting, though, I'd probably not even have to stop and think about it before saying yes, I still have a great love for shiny stones.
And since I'm posting again, another mineral! Mica, which has an astounding assortment of uses, and the composition of which is quite fascinating, in my opinion.
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Ulexite - has very neat optical properties due to its fibrous structure.
Aw, that's too bad. I hope you do get an opportunity to go gem hunting again soon! A series of moves has relegated much of my collection to boxes that have yet to be unpacked, but I just keep collecting new stuff so I still have shelves covered in rocks haha. I'm lucky to live in a place where I have access to many good collecting locales, but a good portion of my collection, especially the most impressive stuff, was purchased. I've found a lot of cool things myself, including fossils, quartz points, limb casts, calcite, agate, serpentinite, et al. but not everything can be found locally, of course. Your collection might be worth more than you think; nice mineral specimens can be quite expensive. In any case, it wouldn't be seen as worthless by others like yourself who can appreciate it! ^^
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Which brings me to two minerals today (or more properly, one mineral with two names)! Ruby and sapphire, which are both varieties of corundum! They're sometimes quite hard to tell apart before being worked (the biggest difference being a slight difference in hue when wet), and some varieties honestly don't look like much special (kinda like amorphous gray blobby rocks, really) unless you know what to look for (that usually being crystal shape). Sapphires come in all sorts of colors outside the typical blue; they also exhibit one of the highest hardness levels of natural minerals, trumped only by two others (and I'm sure you all can guess one of them c; ).
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That's so cool that your family is into rockhounding/prospecting together! I don't really know anyone else IRL who's too interested in it. Definitely not my family lol...as a kid, my parents took me on a dedicated rockhounding trip once after years of begging. We got a flat tire on a mountain road. They never took me again. =x