29 Cool Minerals And Stones So Beautiful You’d Think They’re From An Alien Planet

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

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8. Fluorite

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9. Bismuth

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10. Titanium Quartz

11. Rose Quartz Geode

12. Chrysocolla In Malachite

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13. Azurite

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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

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22. Crocoite

23. Rhodochrosite

24. Rhodochrosite

25. Botswana Agate

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26. Alexandrite

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27. Opalised Ammonite

Photo Credit: Vena Cava

28. Tourmaline On Quartz With Lepidolite And Cleavelandite Accents

29. Carnelian

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