Typically when you think rocks and cool minerals, your mind will gravitate toward a beautiful diamond, or maybe even a brightly colored gemstone.
There are a lot, and I mean a lot of less common minerals and rocks you probably had no clue actually existed. So what are minerals?? Basically, minerals are defined as solid, inorganic, naturally occurring substances with a definite chemical formula and general structure.
Check out these 28 amazing minerals and stones that you’ll have a hard time believing are from planet earth.
1. Luz Opal With Galaxy Inside
2. Sunset Fire Opal
Photo Credit: Jeff Schultz
3. A Malachite Rock
4. Lightning Ridge Black Opal
5. Opal Fossil
6. The ‘Empress Of Uruguay’
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7. Ocean Inside Of An Opal
Photo Credit: Inna Gem
8. Fluorite
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9. Bismuth
Photo Credit: bismuthcrystal.com
10. Titanium Quartz
11. Rose Quartz Geode
12. Chrysocolla In Malachite
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13. Azurite
Photo Credit: crystalvaults.com
14. Scolecite
15. Watermelon Tourmaline
Photo Credit: Igor Schwartzmann
16. Burmese Tourmaline
Photo Credit: Jeffrey Hunt
17. Bismuth
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18. Realgar On Calcite
19. Cobalto Calcite
20. Uvarovite
Photo Credit: R. Tanaka
21. Combination Of Fluorite, Quartz and Pyrite
Photo Credit: minfind.com
22. Crocoite
23. Rhodochrosite
24. Rhodochrosite
25. Botswana Agate
Photo Credit: MarijaUnkind
26. Alexandrite
Photo Credit: Kata Kéri
27. Opalised Ammonite
Photo Credit: Vena Cava
28. Moss Agate
29. Carnelian
Photo Credit: Bokkenpoot
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