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Covellite

Covellite is a very rare, copper sulfide mineral with vibrant irridescense that was first discovered in italy by Niccolo Covelli in 1832. It has since been found in only a handful of other locations, with some of the very best specimens ever produced having come from a small mine in rural montana, U.S.A. it is quite valuable, and is considered a great collector’s piece. It is also extremely soft, at only a 1.5 to 2 on the MOH’s scale.

Color: deep purple-navy blue

Name: Covellite

Family: copper sulfides

Moh: 1.5 - 2

Occurrence: italy, brazil, Montana

Mcch: hexagonal rosette

Rarity: rare
Australite

Australite

Australites are rare tektites found only in Australia and Tasmania. Indigenous Australians termed australites ooga ("staring eyes"), and they were used as sacred objects or as cutting tools. Europeans found out about Australites in 1857, when explorer Thomas Mitchell gave naturalist Charles Darwin a mysteriously shaped piece of natural black glass. Darwin thought that australites were of volcanic origin due to their similarity to obsidian, volcanic glass!

Name: Australite

Family: None, (Natural Glass)

MOH: 5-6

MCCH: none (Tektite)

Occurrence: Australia, Tasmania

Rarity: Rare

Color: Black
Cathedral agate

One of the most popular of Mexico’s plume agates, Cathedral agate is known for its intense shades of pink, red, and yellow, often forming in large plumes within the agate! It was first discovered there around 1975, and is one of the first plume agates to come out of Mexico alongside Bird of Paradise! As of 2022 it is still fairly common!

Color: red, pink, yellow

Name: Cathedral agate

Family: agate/quartz

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: Mexico

Mcch: veinular

Rarity: uncommon
Freedom jasper

One of the multiple green jasper and petrified wood varieties of Mcdermitt, Nevada, Freedom jasper can be defined by it’s more colorful appearance, as well as being a picture jasper rather than a porcelain jasper like Ellipso, or a solid green like larrsonite. Like its siblings, it is a jasper replaced with petrified wood!

Color: green, brown, clay blue

Name: freedom jasper, caldera paint jasper

Family: jasper/petrified wood

M.o.h: 7

Occurrence: US (NV)

Mcch: massive

Rarity: rare
Blue john fluorite

One of the earliest examples of a mineral used as an ornemental decoration in Europe, dating back to around 1400, blue john is a variety of banded purple, blue, and yellow fluorite that was discovered by midevial anglo-saxxons in a cliffside in england! It was carved into ornamental vases, chalices, and bowls, where it held things such as spices, medicine, and alcohol! There is still material in the caves today, although mining is no longer permitted.

Color: Blue, yellow, purple

Name: blue john, blue john stone

Family: Fluorite

M.o.h:  4

Occurrence: England

Mcch: Cubic

Rarity: rare
Actinolite

Actinolite

First discovered in Italy in 1794, actinolite is an amphibole silicate mineral. It gets its name from the greek word ‘’Aktina’’ meaning ‘’ray’’ to it’s radiating fibrous crystalline form. Actinolite is used in making ornamental jewellery and is/was also a very important source of industrial asbestos used in home building materials before we knew it was dangerous!

Color: black, dark green

Moh: 5-6

Family: amphibole sillicates

Rarity: uncommon

Occurrence: Taiwan, China, US

Mcch: radial
Afghanite

Afghanite

Afghanite is a very rare hydrous sodium, potassium, calcium, chloride, sulfate, carbonate alumino-silicate mineral. As you can clearly see, it’s a very complex mineral with an even more unusual crystal structure. It can occur in long prismatic crystals, double-terminated as bipyramid crystals, or as crusts coating a matrix. This mineral ranges in color from light sky blue to a dark navy, but can also be seen as colorless and transparent. Afghanite was first discovered in 1968 by R. Giraud, F. Cesbron, and P. Bariand. They named it after the country they found it in, Afghanistan!

Name: Afghanite

Family: alumino-sillicates

MOH: 6

MCCH: Hexagonal

Occurrence: Afghanistan, Tajikistan

Rarity: rare

Color: deep blue
Biggs jasper

Biggs jasper was first discovered around 1960 at the bottom of a creek near the small town of biggs junction, Oregon. Much of the stone was gathered and collected in the mid 1960’s when workers building state route 97 took pieces from roadcuts. And by the early 70’s it was introduced to the international gem market, where it has stayed very popular ever since!

Color: black, brown, gray

Name: Biggs jasper

Family: quartz/jasper

M.o.h:  7.5

Occurrence: oregon/washington

Mcch: massive

Rarity: rare
Campbellite

Discovered and named for the Campbell turquoise mine, Cochise county, Arizona in 1975, Campellite is a very rare unique mixed copper mineral which includes mohawkite, copper, chrysocolla, malachite, quartz, and others! Since it’s discovery in ‘75, no new finds have been made, and it is a prized american lapidary stone among turquoise and gem silica!

Color: copper, red, blue, gold

Name: Campbellite

Family: Multiple

Moh: 6.5-7

Occurrence: US (AZ)

Mcch: Breccicated

Rarity: Very rare
Brandberg Amethyst

Perhaps the most famous African Amethyst, brandberg amethyst gets its name from its place of origin. These crystals are only found in the Brandberg area surrounding the Goboboseb Mountains in Namibia, Africa. This is known to be the world’s oldest desert area with barely any water supply. The miners digging in this area have to bring their food, water, and supplies to sustain themselves for weeks through the digging process. Originally, the brandberg amethyst was found on the surface of the earth. However, with many years of mining on the earth’s surface, miners now have to dig deeper into the soil to search for more reserves of this beautiful gem! It was discovered around 1960, and can sometimes contain enhydros!

Color: smoky lilac, purple, lavender

Name: Brandberg Amethyst

Family: Amethyst

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: Namibia

Mcch: prismatic

Rarity: rare
Chrysopal

Chrysopal is a fairly rare mint green variety of Common opal mixed with Chrysoprase that is currently exclusivley found in the desert country of Kazakhstan. It often forms in long Veins like Chrysoprase, and can contain beautiful black or brown Manganese Dendrites trapped inside as well! It has not been found elsewhere as of 2021!

Color: Mint green - aqua blue

Name: Chrysopal

Family: Quartz (Chalcedony) Opal

Moh: 6.5-7

Occurrence: Kazakhstan

Mcch: Veinular

Rarity: Rare
Ancestralite

Ancestralite

Ancestralite was developed in the deep segments of the Earth core. Ancestralite is featured with shimmery and spotted specifications. It indicates that this crystal experienced many other processes in the core of Earth. It is a form of banded Hematite with red jasper, and is only found in Brazil!

Name: Ancestralite, banded Hematite

Family: Hematite Pseudomorphs

MOH: 6.5-7

MCCH: Pseudomorphic

Occurrence: Brazil

Rarity: Uncommon

Color: Silver, Red
Enargite

Thought to have been discovered sometime around 1850, Enargite is a rare, copper arsenate gemstone which usually forms in metallic grey colors, but rarely, and valuabley, it can form with pink coloration, making it a potential gemstone! It get’s it name from the greek word ‘’ Enarges’’ meaning ‘’obvious’’ or ‘’visible’’ in reference to it’s metallic sheen and habit!

Color: gray, black, pink, brown

Moh: 3

Family: copper arsenates

Rarity: rare

Occurrence: Chile, Peru, US (MT,CO,UT)

Mcch: tabular
Eilat stone

Often called the national treasure of Israel, Eilat stone is a heterogeneous mixture of several secondary copper minerals. These include malachite, azurite, turquoise, and chrysocolla. Eilat stone was also the first stone in the history of humankind people learnt how to extract copper from. And copper was highly valued in those far away times. Money received from mineral sales were sufficient to build the first-ever temple in Jerusalem. At the same time, unique jewellery items made of this stone were kept only in treasure houses of the King!

Color: blue, green, teal

Name: Eilat stone

Family: Copper Carbonates

M.o.h:  4-4.5

Occurrence: Israel

Mcch: Veinular

Rarity: Rare
Cady plume agate

An extremely rare, old stock plume agate that was, for a long time, the best of North America's plume agate, Cady plume was discovered by hikers in California’s Mojave desert in the early 1950’s. It is known for its beautiful cranberry red base color complemented by red, pink, and white plumes! As of 2022, it is very difficult to gather as it is largely mined out!

Color:  red, mauve, white

Name: cady plume

Family: quartz/agate

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: US (CA)

Mcch: veinular

Rarity: very rare
Cornetite

Also discovered in 1916, Cornetite was found on the other side of the world, in a small, but famous mine named the star of the congo, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, only a handful of other mines nearby have produced the very rare, very deep blue gemstone! Making it an exclusive stone.

Color: dark blue

Moh: 4.5

Family: copper phosphates

Rarity: very rare

Occurrence: DRC

Mcch: druze
Chabazite

A fairly ancient stone with an unknown discoveror or discovery date, Chabazite is one of 20 stones listed in the famous ‘’Perri Lithos’’ a poem written about the value and virtues of minerals in ancient greece, inscribed to Orpheous, legendary leader of the orphic church! It is a Zeolite mineral, and is most common in India.

Color: colorless, yellow, orange

Moh: 4-5

Family: zeolites

Rarity: uncommon

Occurrence: India, Iceland, US (OR),(NJ),(AZ)

Mcch: trigonal
Clinoclase

Clinoclase is a fairly rare copper arsenate mineral prized for it’s teal color first documented from a small mine in Cornwall, England, in 1830 by an unknown discoveror. It can form in prismatic and botryoidal masses, and is rarely seen in collections.

Color: blue

Moh: 2.5-3

Family: copper arsenates

Rarity: rare

Occurrence: worldwide

Mcch: prismatic
Apatite

Discovered in 1860 in Germany, apatite is a strange stone. Apatite is one of the only natural materials on earth which could theoretically store nuclear waste, due to it’s detoxifying nature, and if that was not weird enough, it is also used to fertilize crops! But it doesn't end there, even the places it is found are pretty bizarre, including hydrothermal vents, tooth enamel, and other biologically and geologically improbable places. It is truly a bizarre, but beautiful stone! It has even been found in moon rock!

FACTOIDS

Toxic - if swallowed
El sueco agate

Found on the titular El Sueco ranch in Mexico, El Sueco agates are a rare variety of one of Mexico’s many agates, they are found in a weathered deposit, and often contain tightly banded patterns of lavender, pink, yellow, and orange. They can also occasionally contain dendrites and sagenite plumes! They were some of the first of Mexicos famous banded agates to appear as well, appearing on the market first around 1958!

Color: yellow, orange, lavender, pink

Name: El Sueco agate

Family: agate/quartz

M.o.h:   7

Occurrence: Mexico

Mcch: nodular

Rarity: rare
Beetroot stone

Beetroot stone is an exceedingly rare variety of mauve, banded Stromatolite that is only found in Glousestershire, UK! The stone is believed to be about 165 million years old, and is famous for its striking resemblance to a bright pink Beetroot vegetable! Only England could name a gemstone after a veggie I suppose!

Name: Beetroot stone

Family: stromatolites

MOH: 4.5-5

MCCH: massive

Occurrence: UK

Rarity: rare

Color: Mauve - dusty pink
Amboy Jasper

Amboy Jasper

Amboy Jasper is a rare variety of orange and yellow plume agate which is only found in one place, Amboy, California! It is very seldomly seen in collections, due to having been almost entirely mined out upon it’s discovery.

Name: Amboy jasper

Family: quartz/jasper

MOH: 7

MCCH: veinular

Occurrence: US (CA)

Rarity: Rare

Color: red, yellow, orange
Astorite

Astorite

A beautiful, almost floral combination of 3 famous pink minerals, rhodonite, pink quartz, and rhodochrosite, Astorite is a unique and petite gem found only in the rocky mountains of Colorado! The stone was actually named after the famous owner of it’s mine, John Jacob Astor the 4th, the richest man to go down on the legendary R.M.S Titanic in 1912! The mine is also notably located at over 10,000 feet in the air!

Name: Astorite

Family: rhodonite, quartz, rhodochrosite

MOH: 6.5-7

MCCH: Concretious

Occurrence: US (CO)

Rarity: Uncommon

Color: pink, white
Dendritic Opal

Dendritic Opals were first discovered in Australia in the 19th century and very quickly became prized gems among the royalty of Europe, which, in turn, made them popular with everyone else. Due to this popularity, Australia very quickly grew in the mining industry area of the world market, and Dendritic Opal, along with other types of more precious opals, soon became a major source of economic growth for the country. People loved the way the gems captured the light, and many took great stock in the mysterious, snowy auras they held. It can also be found in the northwestern US, and parts of europe.

Color: white- cream w/ black dots

Name: dendritic opal

Family: opal

Moh: 3.5

Occurrence: worldwide

Mcch: massive

Rarity: uncommon
Ancylite

Ancylite

Discovered in 1899 in the narsarsuk pegmatite in western greenland, Ancylite is a rare light pink or colorless strontium carbonate mineral. It was named for the Greek word ‘’aunkiovik’’ meaning ‘’curved’’ in reference to it’s crystal habit!

Color: pale pink, colorless

Moh: 4-4.5

Family: strontium carbonates

Rarity: very rare

Occurrence: Greenland

Mcch: dipyramidal
Alacranite

Alacranite

Alacranite is a rare, fiery red arsenic sulfide mineral which was first discovered in Russia in the mid 1970’s. It has since also been found in the alacran mine in Chile, for which it would later be properly named. It is very similar to cinnabar and realgar, and like them, is also fairly poisonous, and should be handled with some caution!

Color: orange-bright red

Moh: 1.5

Family: arsenic sulfides

Rarity: rare

Occurrence: Russia, Chile

Mcch: prismatic
Carnelian

Carnelian has been a prized stone amongst collectors and jewelers alike for thousands of years, due to it being a common, yet gorgeous stone. First used in bead jewelry as early as the neolithic period, carnelian was widley used as a decorative stone in art and culture around the world. It one was one of the 12 stones in the high priest's breastplate, and likewise is stated to be one of the stones used in the kingdom of heaven. During Roman times, it was used to form wax seals, this can also be observed in western asiatic history. It is a very popular stone, and is found worldwide!

Color: orange-red

Name: carnelian

Family: quartz/chalcedony

Moh: 7

Occurrence: worldwide

Mcch: massive/botroydial

Rarity: common
Dalmatian jasper

Dalmatian jasper, better known as Dalmatian stone, is typically found and mined in Chihuahua, Mexico. The distinctive gemstone was named "Dalmatian" due to its likeness of the "fire engine" dog. This opaque, white spotted with brown and black will make people turn around and look back when they walk past you. Though the stone is naturally a white to beige hue with dark spots. It is often dyed deep, vibrant colors and sold in gift shops.

Color: cream with black dots

Name: Dalmation Jasper

Family: quartz/jasper

Moh: 7

Occurrence:

Mcch: massive

Rarity: common
Aquaprase

Aquaprase

A mysterious new gem that only recently surfaced onto the market in 2018, Aquaprase is a brilliant teal variety of gem chalcedony, much like that of the famous Gem silica! All we really know about the stone's origins is that it was discovered in mudflats in Africa, the owner seems to want to keep this stone's story a secret, but why?...

Name: Aquaprase

Family: quartz, chalcedony

MOH: 7

MCCH: veinular

Occurrence: Africa

Rarity: rare

Color: Teal-Aqua green
Chudobaite

One of the many ultra rare minerals discovered in the famous Tsumeb mine in north Namibia, Chudobaite is a pink or green hydrated phosphate crystal which was discovered at the Tsumeb mine in 1960 and Named for Karl Franz Johann Chudoba, a german minerologist. Since then, the best known secimens have actually been found in the mountains of Chile!

Color: pink, green

Moh: 2.5-3

Family: phosphates

Rarity: very rare

Occurrence: Chile, Namibia, Morocco

Mcch: triclinic
Baumstarkite

Discovered in 2007 in Peru, Baumstarkite is a very rare metallic black mineral very closley related to miargyrite. It forms in black metallic mounds of spherical agragates, and as of 2021, only comes from one mine in Peru.

Color: metallic black

Moh: 5.5

Family: miargyrite

Rarity: very rare

Occurrence: Peru

Mcch: agragatel
Dumortierite

A deep blue aluminum silicate quartz, Dumortierite was discovered in France in 1881 by french mineralogist M.F. Gonnard, who named it after the french palentologist Eugene Dumortier. It is found throughout the world, but perhaps the most famous is a material from Brazil that forms as deep blue needle sprays inside of clear quartz, making it look like a bursting firework!

Name: Dumortierite, Blue quartz

Family: Quartz

MOH: 7

MCCH: Massive

Occurrence: Worldwide, notably brazil

Rarity: Common

Color: mid blue, black, purple (very rarely)
Eclogite

Possibly one of Earth’s most bizarre minerals, Eclogite is an uncommon, unusually dense form of Metamorphic rock. The stone was discovered jutting out of the ground in tectonic scars in south africa in the 1800’s. It is also a geologically significant stone because it is formed only by conditions typically found in the mantle or the lowermost part of thickened crust. Eclogites are helpful in elucidating patterns and processes of plate tectonics because many represent the crustal rocks that were subjected to depths in excess of 35 km and then returned to the surface!  How this occurred is unknown, but it likely occured over 500 million years ago!

Color: green, pink/orange

Name: Eclogite

Family: Metamorphic rocks

M.o.h:    3.5-4

Occurrence: China

Mcch: Massive

Rarity: Rare
Carletonite

A very strange, rare, and geometrically precise mineral, carletonite is a Phyllosillicate mineral that is easily distinguishable due to it’s clear exterior, with a vivid, electric blue, color zoned core! Carletonite is only found in a single place on earth since its discovery in 1969, mont-saint hillaire, Quebec, Canada! It is named after the carelton university of Canada, by it’s discoveror who was a professor there.

Color: colorless with colorzoned blue core

Name: Carletonite

Family: phyllosilicates

M.o.h:  4-4.5

Occurrence: Canada

Mcch: cubic

Rarity: very rare
Ellensburg agate

Considered to be one of the rarest agates in perhaps the world, Ellensburg blue agate is a very rare, cornflower blue chalcedony that was first discovered in the fields of local farmers in the Washington town of Ellensburg while plowing their fields in the early 1900’s. Since then, it has become sort of a phenomenon for local rockhounds to try to find the elusive agate!

Color: Cornflower blue

Moh: 7

Family: Quartz, Agate

Rarity: very rare

Occurrence: US (WA)

Mcch: nodular
Campylite

Campylite

Named for the Greek word ‘’Kampylos’’ meaning ‘’bent barrel’’ Campylite is a rare orange variety of the lead arsenate mineral Mimetite. It occurs in the upper lead deposits through the oxidation of galena or cerussite. The main deposits are Příbram in Bohemia and Dry Gill, Caldbeck Fells, near Wigton, Cumbria, England.

Color: orange

Moh: 3.5-4

Family: Mimetite

Rarity: rare

Occurrence: Thailand, Australia, Italy

Mcch: Hexagonal
Aqualite

Aqualite

Apatite in quartz, or Aqualite is an uncommon mixed mineral that was discovered in the famously mineralogically rich Brazillian state of Minas Gerais in the late 2000’s. It is prized by collectors, especially larger pieces with fully intact apatite crystals situated on the quartz matrix!

Name: Aqualite, Aqua quartz

Family: apatite, quartz

MOH: 6.5-7

MCCH: concretious

Occurrence: Brazil, Australia

Rarity: uncommon

Color: blue/white
Caramel opal

Caramel opal is a rare, beige to cocoa brown variety of common opal which is only found in the royal queen opal mine, a public mine near the oregon/Nevada border in the US. As stated, you can actually go to the mine and mine it yourself for a small fee if you really want to! It is also sometimes called root beer opal!

Color: beige-cinnamon brown

Name: Caramel opal

Family: Opal

Moh: 6-6.5

Occurrence: US (OR)

Mcch: None (Mineraloid)

Rarity: Rare
Apache Tear

Apache tear

Apache tears are small, translucent obsidian nodules found throughout the western United states, however, there is an interesting legend surrounding how the stone got it’s eerie name… the name ‘’apache tear’’ comes from a legend of the native American apache tribe: about 75 apache natives and the U.S cavalry fought on a mountain overlooking what is now superior, Arizona in the 1870’s. Facing defeat, The apache’s rode their horses over the cliff to avoid being killed by the Americans, in order to avoid dishonor. The families of the deceased apaches cried so hard over their loss, that their tears turned to obsidian upon hitting the ground.

Color: black

Name: apache tear

Family: obsidian

M.o.h:  5

Occurrence: southwestern US

Mcch: nodular

Rarity: uncommon
Alunite

Alunite

Alunite is a common sulfate mineral that can be found just about anywhere. Recently, in China, in Henan province, an assortment of ceramic objects and jars were found, dating back 2000 years. In one of the jars, a mixture of alunite and potassium nitrate was found. The mixture was then thought to be a "mixture of immortality" mentioned in ancient Chinese texts. Obviously, this does not appear to have succeeded :(

Name: Alunite, desert rose

Family: Sulfates

MOH: 3.5-4

MCCH: Fibrous

Occurrence: Worldwide

Rarity: Common

Color: brown, orange, tan, white
John Ortiz

**John Ortiz** (born May 23, 1968) is an American actor and artistic director/co-founder of the LAByrinth Theater Company. He portrays Joe Sandoval in ABC's Promised Land.

## Biography

He is of Puerto Rican origin and was born and raised in Brooklyn's Bushwick area. In the 1993 film *Carlito's Way,* John made his film debut as Al Pacino's young cousin Guajiro. He has since appeared in over 30 films, including *El Cantante* and *Take the Lead.*

## External links

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Epidote

Epidote is an olive green, tourmaline - like gem that was first documented in 1801 in pakistan. It is actually a group of minerals scientifically speaking however, with gems like zoisite, clinohumite, and unakite all being members of the family, epidote is usually reserved for gem quality green pieces.

Color:olive green

Name: Epidote

Family: Epidote subgroup

Moh: 5-5.5

Occurrence: worldwide

Mcch: prismatic

Rarity: uncommon-rare
Bird's eye jasper

Yet another ‘’jasper’’ (it is, in fact, a Rhyolite) Bird’s eye jasper is a beautiful variety of orbicular rhyolite which was first discovered in Chihuahua, Mexico, in the late 1960’s by local ranchers. It is a coveted jewelry and lapidary material for its tough nature, and beautiful, multi shaped and colored orbs! It gets its name from the eye of the local roadrunner, which its eyes closely resemble the orbs in the rhyolite!

Color: brown, red, beige, white, cream

Name: bird’s eye jasper

Family: rhyolite

M.o.h: 7

Occurrence: Mexico

Mcch: massive

Rarity: uncommon
Demantoid

First discovered in the late 1890’s in Russia, demantoid is a rare, vibrant lime green garnet. The stone was a favorite of the russian tsars, and was mined in Russia up until 1917 at the collapse of the Russian revolution. It began to be mined again in the late 80’s however, after the fall of the soviet union. Today it is a very desirable stone, and one of the few species of green garnet.

Color: Bright green

Name: Demantoid

Family: Garnet

Moh: 6.5

Occurrence:

Mcch: prismatic

Rarity: rare
Fire opal

Fire opal is a rare, deep orange to red variety of opal that is only found in mexico. The deep red-orange hues are complimented by a play of green, orange, blue, and yellow colors! The opal was first discovered in 1832, and mining operations began almost immediately. The mine is still open today, and mexico officially named it their national gemstone in 1965! Opal in general is the birthstone of october, so it is a very diverse birthstone.

Color:Orange-red w/multi flashes

Name: Fire Opal

Family: opal

Moh: 5-5.6

Occurrence: Mexico

Mcch: nodular

Rarity: rare
Cornubite

First discovered somewhat recently in Cornwall, England in 1958 by an unknown discoverer, cornubite is a rare, secondary copper arsenate which gets it’s name from the medieval region of ‘’Cornubia’’ which is now modern day Cornwall. It is very rare to see in cut gems, as naturally terminated crystals rarely exceed a few millimeters or so.

Color: green

Moh: 4

Family: copper arsenates

Rarity: rare

Occurrence: US, (UT,NV,NM) England, Congo

Mcch: pinacoidal
Bull canyon agate

One of the more well known of north america’s many fabled plume agate varieties, Bull canyon agate, which hails from its namesake of bull canyon, a desert gorge in washoe county, Nevada, near the California border, is a clear chalcedony with beautiful golden plumes within it! It was discovered in the 1970’s, and like many agate varieties, has largely been depleted since then!

Color: colorless with golden plumes

Name: bull canyon agate

Family: agate/quartz

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: US (NV)

Mcch: seam

Rarity: rare
Butterscotch opal

Found largely in lake county, Oregon, but also found in neighboring states like Idaho, and Washington, Butterscotch opal is a somewhat rare mix of yellow jasper, petrified wood, and common opal. It is a fairly popular lapidary material, and is desired for its butterscotch or peanut brittle-like appearance, hence the name!

Color: yellowish brown-orange

Name: Butterscotch opal

Family: Opal/Jasper/petrified wood

M.o.h:  6.5

Occurrence: US (OR,WA,ID) Turkey, Indonesia

Mcch: amorphous

Rarity: uncommon
Brucite

Brucite is an interesting mineral that doesnt get nearly the amount of recognition it deserves. It was discovered here in the USA in 1834 in New jersey! However, the most colorful, deep yellow brucite today comes from Pakistan! most brucite is actually blue, with the pakistani yellow being a new discovery!

Color: lemon yellow

Name: Brucite

Family: Magnesium Hydroxide

MOH: 2.5

Occurrence: USA, Pakistan

MCCH: prismatic

Rarity: uncommon
Desert rose

Formed in the arid, salty deserts of the middle east, desert roses are an uncommon formation of selenite, or gypsum that often takes on a rose like appearance due to weathering. The desert rose is often associated with the desert, and the middle east, and has becomeso beloved that the national museum of Qatar was painstakingly built to resemble one, using over 200 chisled slabs of concrete, and taking an impressive 8 years to construct!

Color: beige-cream white

Name: gypsum/selenite rose

Family: gypsum, selenite, barite

Moh: 2.5-3

Occurrence: middle east

Mcch: unique

Rarity: uncommon
Forest fire plume agate

A new discovery from central idaho in 2019, forest fire plume agate is a variety of seam plume agate distinct for its tightly banded red and white agate, with a center of plumes in the middle. Not much else is known about the stone, but lapidary artists seem to have already gotten their hands on it!

Color: red, pink, white, grey

Name: forest fire plume agate

Family: agate/quartz

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: US (ID)

Mcch: veinular

Rarity: very rare
Azumar

Azumar

Discovered in Sandstone shelfs in the deserts of Arizona only back in 2013, Azumar is a rare, unique mix of Quartz, clay, and chrysocolla. The stone also sometimes contains sprays of beautiful chatoyant white stibnite within it’s base! As of 2021, it is native and unique to the beautiful state of Arizona!

Name: Azumar, Sky blue quartz

Family: Quartz/chalcedony

MOH: 7

MCCH: massive

Occurrence: US (AZ)

Rarity: rare

Color: light blue, white, gray
Aztec Lace Agate

Aztec Lace Agate

This agate was mined out in the 1960s, so it is now extremely rare and difficult to find. It is considered one of the best seam agates ever found on Earth.  The deepness of the purple color can vary, as can the amount of banding and other structure.  One unusual thing about this agate is that if it is stored in sunlight, the deepness of the color will fade. It is only found in Durango, Mexico!

Name: Aztec agate, Royal Aztec Agate

Family: Quartz/Agate

MOH: 7

MCCH: Nodular

Occurrence: Mexico

Rarity: Rare

Color: Lavender, white, pink
Cheetah agate

Cheetah agate is a fairly new addition to the agate family. Discovered by pure chance in 2015 by mine workers of a blue apatite mine in rural Brazil, this beautiful agate got it’s name due to it’s deep dandelion yellow base color, which is complimented by beautiful deep brown manganese dendrites! Which gives it the appearance of a cheetah.

Color: deep yellow with brown dendrites

Name: Cheetah agate

Family: agate/quartz

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: Brazil

Mcch: massive

Rarity: rare
Burro creek agate

Burro Creek is located North West of Wickenburg Arizona near the Bagdad mine. TThis site hosts a wide variety of cutting materials but is best known for it's Pastelite and it's Purple agate. I have a spot there that has a vivid translucent Purple Agate with Gold colored Inclusions!

Name: Burro creek agate

Family: quartz, agate

MOH: 7

MCCH: veinular/breccicated

Occurrence: US (AZ)

Rarity: rare

Color: gold, lavender, beige, pink
Coffee bean jasper

One of the oldest known jaspers, coffee bean jasper has been prized by northern africans for millenia. First observed carved into talismans and arrowheads used by the ancient Egyptians, who whispered it to be an arrowhead of love as well as protection. To this day it can be found in scattered chunks and veins across the sahara desert!

Color: brown, mauve, tan, cream

Name: Coffee bean jasper

Family: jasper

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: Egypt

Mcch: massive

Rarity: rare
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Flowering Onyx

Flowering Tube onyx is an incredibly unique stone that is very ornate with flowering patterns, as well as colorful banding and beautiful orbs in rich autumn colors. Though it is not a typical onyx, as most are quartz-based material, the Flowering Tube onyx is much more of a stalactite — where it is mostly calcite. This material was originally found by Robert Steele in Juab County, Utah in the 1960s. His son, Brandon, has since taken over the claim but still, limited supplies have been available!

Color: brown, honey orange

Name: flower Onyx, flowering tube Onyx

Family: calcite

Moh: 6-6.5

Occurrence: US (UT)

Mcch: Veinular

Rarity: Rare
Datolite

Datolite is a fairly uncommon mineral that was discovered in Norway in the 18th century. It is well known and valued for its very high quality, very attractive crystals which are usually colorless, but can occasionally also be pink or yellow due to copper inclusions of copper ore!

Name: Datolite

Family: Calcium-hydroxide neosillicates

MOH: 5.5

MCCH: Prismatic

Occurrence: Norway, Mexico, US (MI)

Rarity: Uncommon

Color: colorless-pink
Chelyabinskite

Remember back in 2013 when we momentarily thought a cataclysmic event happened when a meteorite exploded over eastern russia? Causing a massive shockwave that shattered windows and triggered car alarms? Well that was the Chelyabinsk meteor, and the source of its fragments sold by Russian markets and shop owners known as Chelyabinksite!

Color: tan

Name: Chelyabinskite

Family: iron ores

M.o.h: 5

Occurrence: Russia

Mcch: weathered massive

Rarity: very rare
Carey Plume agate

one of the arguabley most iconic and famous agates of the united states, carey plume agate was one of the first ever modern lapidary prize agates to come onto the seen after a family in prineville, oregon, known as the careys, for whom the stone was named, found it while fossicking in early 1951. immediatley, they staked a claim and debuted the gem at rock shows, where lapidarists from around the country began drooling over its strawberry red wisps of plumes and dendrites! even today, it is a highly coveted gem, and one of americas most iconic!
Arojadite

One of the most recent garnet discoveries, arrojadite is a member of the andradite subgroup of garnets, discovered in 1925 in Canada's frozen and desolate Yukon territory. It was named in honor of brazilian engineer miguel arrojado. Arrojadite is only found in gem quality crystals in two places on earth, the Yukon in Canada, and Bahia, Brazil!

Color: green, yellow, brown

Name: arrojadite

Family: garnet

M.o.h:  5-5.5

Occurrence: Canada, Brazil

Mcch: monoclinic

Rarity: very rare
Amulet stone

Amulet Stone

Amulet stone is a rare variety of agate thunderegg which was discovered in the late 2000’s at the base of the Australian volcano of Mt. Hays. It is also sometimes called mt hay thunderegg after it’s location of origin. It is believed they formed after being ejected during a high pressure eruption some several million years ago!

Color: tan, brown, beige, orange

Moh: 7

Family: quartz, agate

Rarity: rare

Occurrence: Australia

Mcch: amorphous
Botryogen

Botryogen is a rare Magnesium sulfate mineral which was first reported as coming from the Falu mine in Sweden in 1828. It can form in several crystal habits including prismatic, botryoidal, and even radial. It was named after the Greek word ‘’Botrys’’ meaning ‘’bunch of grapes’’ alluding to it’s botryoidal form!

Color: red-orange

Moh: 2-2.5

Family: magnesium sulfates

Rarity: very rare

Occurrence: worldwide in small deposits

Mcch: prismatic-botryoidal
Forsterite

A fairly rare variety of olivine, which includes peridot, Forsterite is known for it’s clear or orange gemstones, and was first discovered in 1824 in Campania, Italy. It was named by it’s discoverer over his late friend, English mineral collector Adolarius Forster! (maybe someday i'll have a gem named after me?)

Color: colorless, orange, yellow

Moh: 7

Family: olivine

Rarity: uncommon

Occurrence: worldwide

Mcch: dipyramidal
Flamingo agate

Royal Flamingo Agate comes from a secret location in Nevada.  Royal Flamingo Agate is very much like another secret area find of the past, Howerdite Rattlesnake Jasper. The patterns of this new rough are somewhat smaller with no pattterns of the Rattlesnake that gave the other find its name. This new stuff is harder with less soft areas but just like the old secret find, this new one is said to be small, so there is a limited supply.

Color: pink, orange, brown, yellow

Name: Flamingo agate/Rattlesnake Jasper

Family: quartz/agate

M.o.h: 7

Occurrence: US (NV)

Mcch: Breccia

Rarity: Rare
Eclipsite

Discovered in 2017 at the famous Rainbow lattice mine, a mine known for producing world class sunstone specimens in Australia, Eclipsite is a natural combination stone of beige moonstone, and rainbow sunstone! It’s name comes from the word ‘’eclipse’’ a solar event when interstellar bodies line up to create a shadow effect!

Color: beige-orange w/ rainbow inclusions

Moh: 6-6.5

Family: Moonstone/sunstone

Rarity: rare

Occurrence: Australia

Mcch: monoclinic
Belomorite

A newly discovered moonstone variety, Belomorite, named after the white sea of Russia, was discovered in northern Karelia in late 2018. The stone has a tan to peach base color, but can display vibrant light blue to orange audularenscense in the right light!

Name: Belomorite, Russian moonstone

Family: Moonstone

MOH: 6

MCCH: massive

Occurrence: Russia

Rarity: rare

Color: tan w/ blue flash
Apophyllite

Apophyllite is an uncommon, clear to occasionally green or blue mineral found almost exclusively in India, the stone was discovered around the year 1800 in northern kashmir, india. It was not until the late 1960’s that the stone made its way onto the commercial market, and since then it has become a stone that is widley associated with India, as well as Hinduism and spirituality.

Color: mint green, colorless, blue

Name: apophyllite

Family: apophyllite

M.o.h:  4.5-5

Occurrence: India

Mcch: prismatic

Rarity: rare
Ernstite

Discovered on a remote Namibian farm in the Erongo region in 1970 by it’s owner, Ernstite is a rare Vanadium phosphate mineral. Rarely seen in larger crystals, it is often reserved as a collectors gem, and is almost never cut into gemstones. It was named after German professor Karl Theodore Ernst!

Color: colorless - amber

Moh: 3-3.5

Family: vanadium phosphates

Rarity: rare

Occurrence: Namibia, Brazil

Mcch: radial
Random Person

>  "*i will no longer have pants in 2 hits*"
>
> ― ItsRandomPerson while in friendly battle with Flamigiri

Random Person (ItsRandomPerson) is a player and character on the TWOWSMP.

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* Netherite
* Nether Gold
* Emerald

## Early Life

>  "*you're going to touch every centimeter of my village*"
>
> ― ItsRandomPerson while speaking to Finn

Very possessive over his things, Random is known for having barely legal items and doing not so legal trading that make others wary of him. Such examples include Potion of Hypercadus, entrusted by Nonexistential during the Dawthon arc, and Crystals of Efface, which he had found in The End while banished. Having built his residence, Random now seeks to obtain and collect everything that is known to exist. Luckily, he is very forgetful and does not bode well under heavy pressure and stress.

## Where It All Went Downhill

Ever since the resolution of the Dawthon Arc, he has grown restless. What may seem to be an innocent collection, could manipulate his sense of greed and destroy him mentally.

## Resolution

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Azurite

Azurite’s name comes from the stone’s azure blue color. It is most typically used for ornamental, or jewelry objects, and in the ancient world it was the main source of blue pigments, alongside the closely related lapis lazuli. It was highly valued for that  blue color, as painters used it in their artwork to create vivid blue colors. Azurite is still used as an ornamental stone today! Azurite has long been associated with statues and art pieces, and is even rumoured to be one of the stones decorating Atlantis!

Color: deep blue

Name: Azurite

Family: carbonate minerals

M.o.h:  3.5-4

Occurrence: europe and western north america.

Mcch: massive/stalactitic

Rarity: uncommon

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Blue topaz

The birthstone of November and one of the rarer varieties of topaz, blue topaz is, as its name would suggest, the blue variety of topaz. Most blue topaz is very light blue when it comes out of the ground, often even lighter than aquamarine, and a lot of blue topaz sold in jewelry has been heat treated!

Color: pale blue

Name: blue topaz

Family: Topaz

M.o.h:  8

Occurrence: India, Pakistan, Afganhistan, US, Brazil

Mcch: prismatic

Rarity: rare
Avalonite

Avalonite

Discovered in Eastern Washington state in 1994 by a local rockhound, William T Conn. Avalonite is a rare variety of Thulite mixed with green Hornblende that forms in banded layers near washington pass in okanogan county, Washington! If you are willing to make the drive, it can be mined yourself!

Color: green, light pink

Moh: 6-6.5

Family: Thulite, hornblende

Rarity: very rare

Occurrence: US (WA)

Mcch: granular
Binghamite

Mining in the area uncovered deposits of the stone, but since mining operations were discontinued in the area many years ago the stone has become fairly rare and is sought after by lapidarists and gem collectors. The stone has areas that are highly chatoyant similar to pietersite or tiger's eye. It is a variety of quartz with fibers of goethite or hematite usually in colors of red, gold, and black. The highest quality binghamite compares with top pietersite for color and chatoyancy. When the stone's pattern is arranged in parallel bands it is called silkstone. Binghamite shows crystal growth in all directions. It is named after William Bingham, a lapidarist, who discovered it in 1936.

Name: Binghamite, Silkstone

Family: quartz/agate

MOH: 6.5-7

MCCH: Breccicated

Occurrence: US (MN)

Rarity: very rare

Color: red, orange, grey, black
Calamity jasper

A recent discovery from oregon around 2020, Calamity jasper is a variety of classic jasper, with pastel hues of orange, brown, red, yellow, and green. It was discovered near burns in central Oregon. Due to it’s recent discovery, it is still widely available!

Color: red, orange, yellow, green

Name: Calamity Jasper

Family: jasper

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: US (OR)

Mcch: massive

Rarity: uncommon
Chlorite quartz

Chlroite included quartz is a semi rare variety of clear quartz that contains impurities of iron and other minerals. Also sometimes called ‘’garden’’ quartz, or shaman quartz due to it’s plant-like appearence, it is found almost entirely in Brazil, and has been a popular piece to collect for decades!

Color:green,red,gray,brown

Name: garden quartz

Family: quartz

Moh: 7

Occurrence: Brazil

Mcch: prismatic

Rarity: uncommon
Ajoite

Ajoite

Although worthless on its own, Ajoite becomes perhaps one of the most desirable forms of quartz when it pairs with the mineral! First discovered in Arizona in the early 1910’s, A miner was awestruck after unearthing quartz crystals with electric blue flames under the surface! These flames were in fact Ajoite phantoms, and the stone has since become an exceedingly popular, (and rare) collectors stone!

Name: Ajoite, blue phantom quartz

Family: copper-alum sillicates

MOH: 1

MCCH: phantom

Occurrence: US (AZ), south africa

Rarity: rare

Color: electric blue
Csarite

Discovered in 2006 in an aluminum mine in turkey, Csarite is a rare, color changing, gem quality variety of Yellow-green diaspore! It is found in the ankara region near the Anatolia plateau, a geologic wonder of towering puffy sandstone boulders, and honeycomb hills! It has not been discovered elsewhere, and is very valuable amongst jewelers and collectors alike!

Color: dichroic green-yellow

Name: Csarite

Family: Diaspore

Moh: 6.5-7

Occurrence: Turkey

Mcch: Orthorhombic

Rarity: Very rare
Boley agate

One of the few, but beautiful agates of the great Plaines, Boley agate is a variety of breccicated, orange, red, and yellow jasper/agate found only in fields and creek beds around Okfuskee county, Oklahoma. It was discovered by local farmers in the 1960’s, who often cast them into debris piles as they blocked their farm equipment in their fields! It is named after the nearby town of Boley.

Color: orange, red, yellow, clear

Name: Boley agate

Family: Agate/jasper/quartz

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: US (OK)

Mcch: breccicated

Rarity: very rare
Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content. It is the world's main source of aluminium and gallium. Most Bauxite comes from Australia, Although recently Brazil, China, and especially India have begun to catch up!

Name: Bauxite, Bauxite ore

Family: Sedimentary stones

MOH: 1-3

MCCH: cryptocrystalline

Occurrence: Australia, Brazil, China, India

Rarity: Uncommon

Color: grey/brown
Ceruleite

Ceruleite is quite a rare gem variety of arsenate mineral found in Chile, Bolivia, and France. It is mostly found in Chile though, and it forms in very small radial crystals that are usually too small to be collected as specimens. Therefore, cut gemstones are very rare!

Color: Blue, Green

Name: Ceruleite

Family: Arsenates

Moh: 5-6

Occurrence: Chile, Bolivia, France

Mcch: Aggregates

Rarity: Very Rare
Calandria agate

There's a story of a woman named anatia, who tragically passed away in Mexico, who was said to have the singing voice of a Calandria bird. Whilst digging a grave for their mother, her children stumbled upon a beautiful new variety of banded agate! For which they named calandria in memory of her singing voice. Calandria agate has heavily mined since than, with many rockhounds now having a piece of anatia’s beautiful voice, forever preserved in stone!

Color: yellow, pink, orange, gray, purple

Name: Calandria agate

Family: agate/quartz

M.o.h:  7

Occurrence: Mexico

Mcch: nodular

Rarity: very rare
Boulder opal

Boulder opal is a very interesting variety of opal. Most opal is found in soft rock like sandstone, claystone, or limestone, but boulder opal is formedin ironstone, a much more hard and heavy material. The stone forms far underground in the australian outback, with whole dirt hills having been mined to get to it in the past! It was first discovered back in 1890 by miners from Blackhall, a nearby town. Today it is mined by many different means, and is very popular in jewelry!

Color: mint green, blue, violet, green

Name: Boulder Opal

Family: Opal

M.o.h:  3.5

Occurrence: Queensland, AU

Mcch: Veinular

Rarity: rare
Brazilianite

Brazilianite, named after it’s country of origin, Brazil, was discovered in minas gerais in 1945 by an unknown discoverer. It is prized for it’s lime green and lemon yellow colors, and well defined prismatic pyramidal crystals! and was only found in a single Brazilian mine until recently in the 1990’s! it is especially prized by collectors.

Color: lime green

Moh: 5.5

Family: phosphate minerals

Rarity: rare

Occurrence: Brazil, US, Rwanda

Mcch: prismatic
Crowley ridge agate

Found as river tumbled pebbles in the floodplains of the Mississippi river, Crowley ridge agate was first discovered at its namesake in northern Arkansas in the 1970’s. They can be found on the shores of the Mississipi in several states it crosses, including Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas!

Color: tan, yellow, beige

Name: crowley ridge agate

Family: agate/quartz

M.o.h:   7

Occurrence: US (AR,MS,MO,LA)

Mcch: Till

Rarity: rare
Candy opal

Candy opal is a fairly rare variety of a colorful striped semi precious gemstone and it is found in western Utah, in the Thomas Mountain Range near the city of Milford. It is also known as Bacon Opal! It is quite colorful, and is popular in local jewelry.

Color: Pink, red, white, yellow

Name: Candy Opal, Bacon opal

Family: Opal

Moh: 5.5-6.5

Occurrence: US (UT)

Mcch: none (Mineraloid)

Rarity: Rare
Colla wood

Discovered in 2012, colla wood is a very rare variety of petrified wood filled with seams of rich blue chrysocolla! The rare and beautiful stone was only found in a remote area near Zile, Turkey until 2019, when a brand new deposit was discovered thousands of miles away in Sumatra, indonesia!

Name: Colla wood

Family: Petrified wood,Chrysocolla

MOH: 6.5

MCCH: None (Organic)

Occurrence: Turkey, Indonesia

Rarity: Rare

Color: brown, blue, green
Andean Opal

Andean Opal

Andean, or Peruvian opal, is a rare variety of aqua blue common opal found exclusively in the Andes mountains of Peru. Because of this, it is also Peru’s national gemstone! It was believed by locals that they were an ethereal gift sent by Pachamama, an Incan goddess of earth and time! It also sometimes contains beautiful manganese dendrites!

Color: Aqua blue - teal

Name: Andean Opal, Peruvian Opal

Family: Opal

Moh: 5

Occurrence: Peru

MCCH: none

Rarity: rare

FACTOIDS

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